Word: rafshooning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...risk, he prepared himself with special care. He spent a whole afternoon reviewing the fine points of U.S. policy on Iran with National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski and Secretary of State Vance and fielding practice questions?about 25 in all ? thrown at him by aides. Former Imagemaker Jerry Rafshoon rehearsed Carter on the brief speech that would open the news conference...
...public version of Curran's report (a fuller version, with transcripts of testimony before the grand jury in Atlanta, remains sealed) demonstrates beyond serious challenge that no family or loan funds were siphoned into Carter's 1976 presidential campaign. More narrowly, it finds that Presidential Adman Gerald Rafshoon did not borrow from any bank in 1976 to keep Carter's media campaign alive, as some press reports had alleged. But less persuasive is Curran's conclusion that no banking or conspiracy laws were violated by the eccentric loan arrangements between Carter's warehouse and Lance...
...Gerald Rafshoon, the President's image maker, explaining why Carter's popularity has diminished: "I've done...
...Beacon Hill and in Georgetown. When in Washington, he spends most of his working and leisure hours with Carter's Georgians. Indeed, when three of them separated from their wives, the men temporarily moved in with him: first Chief of Staff Hamilton Jordan, then Image Maker Gerald Rafshoon and finally Presidential Assistant Tim Kraft. Says Caddell with a laugh: "The President told me that I was running a halfway house for transients to and from marriage." Caddell's few relaxations include voracious reading, from bestselling novels to heavy political treatises, whipping around town in his gold-colored Mercedes...
...that speech, as well as follow-up addresses the next day in Kansas City and Detroit, Carter earned good reviews for his newly assertive style of delivery. He was helped here by coaching from Image-Maker Gerald Rafshoon. Before Carter's Sunday night speech, he went to Rafshoon's quarters in the Executive Office Building to learn how to move his arms and clench his fist to show forcefulness. After the lesson, Carter ran through the speech and watched a videotaped replay, then practiced again, until he and Rafshoon were satisfied...