Word: buttons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Press Secretary Jody Powell's house. Then, in what amounted to a last fling as First Family, the President and Rosalynn flew aboard Air Force One to New Orleans for the Sugar Bowl, which pitted Carter's favorite, the University of Georgia, against Notre Dame. Wearing a button that proclaimed WE'RE NO. 1, the Carters stopped off at Atlanta to pick up some 20 old friends and guests for the game, including Georgia Governor George Busbee, former Budget Director Bert Lance, Lawyer Charles Kirbo, Sportsman and Communications Magnate Ted Turner and former Attorney General Griffin Bell...
...best scriptwriter couldn't have produced a funnier character than Gerald R. Ford. There he stood, simian-like in profile, first skidding down the steps of Air Force One into the waiting arms of the Secret Service and then, in the ongoing battle against inflation donning a big red button with the letters WIN embossed in white. And who can forget Ford's classic performance in the debate with a onetime peanut farmer, when in the century's greatest diplomatic coup he simultaneously liberated Poland and lost an election...
...campaign involves the distribution of 2000 SOS buttons, with the slogan "Safety in Numbers." Elizabeth Einaudi '83, chairman of SOS, said yesterday she hopes students will be more likely to "Walk with someone who is wearing a button...
Einaudi said the button distribution will begin next week. In addition, SOS will hang "Safety in Numbers" posters in libraries, Einaudi said. SOS will promote the poster locations as places where students can assemble before walking home, she added...
...Button praised the "openness" and the "honesty" of the two groups collaborating on the report and expressed optimism for the "progressive" reforms proposed...