Word: rosalynn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Plains, Ga., for Rosalynn Carter. Wives had initially not been invited, but Rosalynn felt so strongly about Sadat that the Carters said they would travel to Cairo on their own if there was no space for her. A seat for Rosalynn was set aside. There was also one for 14-year-old Sam Brown, of Liberty, S.C., who had written a touching letter to Sadat...
Among the members of the American delegation, in addition to the three former Presidents and Rosalynn Carter, were Haig, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick and Henry Kissinger. They paid courtesy calls on Mubarak and on the widowed Jehan Sadat. She also, of course, met with Begin, to whom she said: "It is very sad, but I am glad my husband died on his feet and not on his knees...
...item was tucked away in a breathless potpourri of gossip on page D1 of the Washington Post. Diana McClellan, whose trendy column "The Ear" was only into its second week after shifting from the defunct Washington Star, quoted unidentified "close pals" of Rosalynn Carter as saying that Blair House, where Ronald and Nancy Reagan had stayed in preInauguration visits to Washington, "was bugged" at that time. "At least one tattler in the Carter tribe," wrote McClellan, "has described listening in to the tape itself." The item concluded: "Stay tuned, uh, whoever's listening...
...distinctly unamused "listeners" were Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter. The former President's press secretary, Jody Powell, denounced the item as "unfounded and false" and demanded a retraction. So did the Carters' Washington lawyer, Terrence Adamson, who wrote to the Post that the article falsely leveled "a criminal charge" at the former President, and was "libelous." Even if the Post were to apologize, Adamson said, the Carters intended to sue the Post for libel and claim at least $1 million in damages...
There was yet another inning of sand-lot summetry, Plains, Ga.-style last week, when Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, 68, dropped in on former President Jimmy Carter, 56, and his wife Rosalynn, 54. There to greet his arrival was a crowd of some 1,500, many of them children in yarmulkes, shouting "Shalom!" Begin and Carter seemed outwardly cordial, despite past frustrations over their differences. Said Joel Arnon, Israeli consul general in Atlanta: "They are two strong personalities who both believe they have a direct line...