Word: rosalynn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last of a series of White House meetings he and his advisers have held for some 1,000 of his 1,982 delegates. Last week's group of 400 encouraged him more than he did them. "We want Jimmy! We want Jimmy!" they shouted as Carter and Rosalynn, smiling broadly, entered the East Room. "You've got me!" answered Carter, whereupon New York's Hazel Dukes shouted: "And we're going to keep you for four more years!" Chanted the audience: "Four more years, four more years!" Referring to the rules fight, Carter derided attempts...
...Rosalynn left the room, Carter turned back to his aides. "That's the one thing I won't stand for--allowing inexperienced people to take part in delicate foreign policy negotiations just because they happen to be related to the president...
...president finished speaking, his wife Rosalynn entered the room. "Well, Jimmy, I'm off on the road to Morocco now. I just want to get this straight--I'm suppose to offer them 100 fighter planes if they'll take Billy permanently...
...including almost certainly the Attorney General, the President's counsel and the President's National Security Adviser. The select group of Senators may go off to the White House to grill the President himself, who has pledged to cooperate, and the questioning may also include his wife Rosalynn. But their most withering inquiries will be aimed at a babble-prone, 43-year-old country boy who would be unworthy of such lavish attention except for one fact over which he has no control: he is the President's brother...
Wives have also demonstrated the unique usefulness of family by serving as excellent emissaries and advisers-Eleanor Roosevelt, Lady Bird Johnson and Rosalynn Carter come to mind...