Word: breakfasts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...office of Deputy Treasury Secretary Robert Carswell. From 11 p.m. Thursday until 2 a.m. on Friday, the two worked on ways to speed the transfer of funds. Carswell was back in his office at 7 a.m., talked to Christopher by telephone, then rushed off to a 7:30 a.m. breakfast at the White House. There, in a meeting described by one participant as "unusually upbeat," the President approved an order to "preposition" some of the Iranian money...
...wife packed their personal belongings into cardboard boxes last week and prepared to leave the White House, their minds were on both the history-rich home they were departing from and the return to their native south Georgia. On one of their final days in the White House, over breakfast in the family dining room, they talked with TIME Washington Bureau Chief Robert Ajemian about the drastic change in their lives. Ajemian's report...
Jimmy Carter stood in the second-floor hallway waiting for his wife to join him for breakfast. It was eight o'clock, and, in his dark blue suit and polished brown shoes, he was ready for another long day of farewells to supporters. Carter had already been to the Oval Office for an hour of work. Now, back upstairs, he looked down the wide corridor and said in a soft voice: "We've enjoyed living in this house. It will be hard to leave it." Rosalynn Carter, wearing a white wool suit, came out of a nearby bedroom...
...breakfast table, Rosalynn listened carefully as her husband described what would be his daily schedule in Plains. She had been unenthusiastic in the past about going home. Her friends say that she will not last there, that eventually she will insist on moving to a place more stimulating. She talked of her plans to write a book and of her daughter Amy, who is being uprooted from a school she likes. The only friend Amy has kept up with in Plains is Billy Carter's daughter Mandy. "But she said she's looking forward to going back where...
...breakfast conversation turned to Ronald Reagan, and Carter was cautious about what he said. He has let his closest aides know he is afraid that Reagan will not engage himself enough in foreign policy. Their meeting in the Oval Office after the election unsettled Carter: he got little feedback from Reagan on a long checklist of international subjects and not a single question about Iran and the hostages. When Rosalynn observed that Reagan was gradually changing his positions, Carter, carefully buttering his toast, edged toward some franker views. "I predict he won't follow his campaign talk," he said...