Word: mother
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...always fired up-but he never liked it; so when he got away to Annapolis, he wrote me right away: 'Dear Gloria, Please do not call me "Hot" and please do not write to me on lined notebook paper with pencil.' " That she and her mother laugh long at the memory is one more piece of the story they tell-a healthy piece. For anyone who sat out the parched family pieties of the Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon years, the sound of home laughter that laps all sides of Jimmy Carter comes as welcome as water...
...mainly does-or did in that company-is listen with a blowtorch intensity which makes most other brands of human attention seem dazed or bored. (And Rosalynn his wife shares the trait-an interest almost animal in strength and necessity, though her brand seems to come from her mother, Miss Allie Smith: a quiet, impressive lady with the broad, handsome, watchful face she's given her daughter.) Some watchers that night-all of them non-Southern-found the gaze a little ominous, even predatory: Are we being sized up for future consumption...
Born in Oak Grove, La., Marshall was sent at about the age of twelve to a Baptist orphanage in Jackson, Miss., along with his four younger brothers and sisters, after their mother died. At 15, he ran away and got a job making dentures in a dental factory. After a few months, he lied about his age to get into the Navy and served as a radioman in the Pacific during World...
Harris, 52, was raised in Mattoon, Ill. Her father was a railroad dining-car waiter, her mother a schoolteacher. She graduated summa cum laude from Howard University in 1945. Moving to Washington in 1949, she later married William Beasley Harris, now an administrative-law judge for the Federal Maritime Commission (they have no children). With her husband's encouragement, she completed George Washington University Law School in 1960. She was first in her class...
Jimmy Carter turned to Kreps after former IBM Vice President Jane Cahill Pfeiffer took herself out of the running for the job. But Kreps, a wryly humorous, soft-spoken mother of three, was on several transition-office lists, including those for Labor and the Council of Economic Advisers...