Word: billye
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Two Styrofoam swans, in full ostrich-feather plumage, floated serenely in the swimming pool, flanked by bouquets of roses and magnolia blossoms, at Billy Carter's place north of Plains. To the strains of the wedding march, Billy and his daughter Jana strode over a bridge built across the...
The President was there, with the First Lady and First Child. So were 1,000 or so other folks. In the background were the rolling farm land and pine forests of south Georgia. In the foreground was Billy's new and modest mansion, 19 long miles from Plains, a...
The White House press corps, by and large, was not. Cousin Hugh Carter, who had just published a gossipy little book called Cousin Beedie and Cousin Hot, which prompted Billy to describe Hugh as "a self-made son of a bitch," was in San Francisco. And where was Sister Gloria...
It didn't matter. Billy was in his element, reveling in himself, his nouveau wealth, his friends-good ole boys and all -and the members of his family about whom he still cares. Actually Billy cares about a lot of people and things, but he chooses, for reasons Freud...
From the isolated knoll on which his house is perched, one can scan the Georgia countryside. Billy wanted to be alone with his family when Plains became a place to see, and now he is. For the wedding, cars jammed the farm land below the house, and vans hauled guests...