Word: processor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Alone in Plains with Rosalynn, his word processor and his woodshop...
...life has centered on the book about his years in office, which he plans to call Keeping Faith. Each morning he wakes at 5, pours himself a glass of grapefruit juice and heads for his study. There, sitting in front of the keyboard of a white word processor, the ex-President works about eight hours a day. As the bright green letters appear on the screen, he speaks the words out loud. Around 7, he realizes that breakfast is near when he hears Amy practicing her violin down the hall...
Carter was eager to show his visitor the much prized white machine. "This is my place," he said, pointing toward the corner of the wood-paneled study, where he spends hours turning back and forth between the word processor and a desk that once belonged to his father. He refers to one of the remarkable diaries he kept so doggedly through his four years. Each evening, no matter how tired he was, he dictated his feelings-often blunt and troubled-into a tape recorder. Six thousand pages of transcripts, a historian's treasure, now fill dozens of black books...
...friend. Like her husband, she is immersed in writing a book, an autobiography that reaches back to her early days in Plains. At first she was terrified by the project. Now she spends a good deal of time clicking out the story of her life on a white word processor...
...visitor prepared to leave, Jimmy Carter headed back to his word processor. The house was still silent and dark. He began rewriting a section of the book that describes his closest aides. Some who had read the draft had told him that it was much too soft on them. Engrossed in the work, he pushed himself well past his usual 10:30 bedtime. Day after day, he applied to the book the same drive and ruthless self-discipline he had brought to the presidency. Back home in Plains, he worked as if his very survival as a man depended...