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Some 100,000 shivering people had thronged onto the lawn and into the makeshift bleachers. The Marine Band played the Navy Hymn in Carter's honor, and Walter Mondale was sworn in as Vice President by-at his own request -House Speaker Tip O'Neill. Then came Carter's turn. "Are you ready to take the oath of office?" Chief Justice Warren Burger asked him at precisely 12:03 p.m. No man had ever been readier. While Rosalynn held the family Bible, Carter placed his hand on it; in front of him was the Bible used...
During dinner, Betty sat on the floor, while her husband regaled the other guests-mostly photographers assigned to the White House-with a story about the night when he walked his golden retriever Liberty on the South Lawn at 3 a.m. and discovered that he was locked out. Wearing only a bathrobe and slippers, the President tried three entrances and, finding all of them locked, had resigned himself to spending the night in an entrance hall until a guard discovered him and saved his dignity...
...elegant estate in the nation's capital, houses a library of Byzantine studies--but it is also the site of 16 acres of a world-renowned formal garden. So when Harvard proposed last year to build an underground library addition, Pusey-style, beneath the estate's most graceful lawn, the University ran into determined opposition...
...campaign costs relatively little, consisting mainly of lawn signs, and door-to-door and telephone canvassing, but Toomey says the door-to-door work isn't as effective as it was when he started in politics more than 30 years...
...does not mean he fails to show emotion. On the day that Army I, the presidential helicopter, lifted Richard Nixon away from the White House for the last time, Ford had to struggle to maintain his composure while he watched from the end of the red carpet on the lawn. During the hearings before his confirmation as Vice President, Ford testified in effect that it would not be proper for him-if he became President-to pardon Nixon. When Ford did just that by granting the pardon, he ended his honeymoon with the American people. But he and Nixon...