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...Humble. Rather than drag the whole group to remote Plains, Ga., Jimmy Carter instead deferentially flew up to the appropriately named town of Lovejoy, near Atlanta, braving heavy rains in a small Cessna 310. But Carter was far from a humble supplicant awed by his visitors. "Gentlemen," he told the legislators, "I want you to know that I'm going to be a good President. I have confidence in my own ability. I can run this nation." At another point in the private three-hour discussion, Carter declared: "I want no wars while I am President. I want...
...First Family may help push the roughing-it fashions into high gear. The President-elect clomps around Plains, Ga., in cowhide ankle boots, blue jeans and flannel shirt. Brother Billy breakfasted (on grits and Pabst) at the Best Western Motel in Americus, Ga., last week wearing denims and a blue plaid shirt opened to reveal his new, post-election T shirt emblazoned with REDNECK LOBBYIST. Of course, to them and many Americans the gear look is an old look, something they have been comfortably wearing for years...
Scrambler Phone. He also seemed very exuberant about some of the perquisites that go with his new job. When Gerald Ford dispatched a sleek Air Force 707 to Albany, Ga., to carry Carter on the 26-minute flight to St. Simons Island, the President-elect said boyishly: "That's what I've been waiting for." The aircraft had been used as one of several Air Force One presidential jets; it was the plane aboard which L.B.J. took the oath of office after John Kennedy's assassination in Dallas. Carter roamed the plane in a cardigan sweater...
...decided to test church policy. Apparently after hearing that Carter said he presumed blacks were eligible for membership, King informed the church that he would apply on Sunday, Oct. 31. He also told the press. Come Sunday, he traveled the 30 miles from his home town of Albany, Ga. (pop. 80,000), only to find the church door locked, services suspended, and the minister, the Rev. Bruce Edwards, awaiting him outside. As the TV cameras rolled, Edwards told King that the church deacons had decided to uphold a 1965 resolution prohibiting "Negroes and civil rights agitators" from joining the church...
...house. Copying machines are busily grinding out resumes for 2,200 or so soon-to-be-jobless Republican appointees. And the city's social climbers are agonizing over the possibility that they may lose out in the coming scramble for status. In myriad ways, the Carters of Plains, Ga., have the capital in a tizzy...