Word: rosalynn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Friday, Carter asked his staff to find a copy of John F. Kennedy's remarks following the abortive Bay of Pigs invasion. Indeed, the phrases he used in his broadcast five hours later were highly reminiscent of Kennedy's remarks after the earlier failure. At 3 a.m. Rosalynn Carter arrived home from campaigning in Texas to be with her husband...
...Idaho's caucuses last week-White House strategists noted that Kennedy scored heavily among Arizona's Hispanics. Similarly, in Pennsylvania, Kennedy's crowds of working-class whites and blacks were larger and more enthusiastic than the audiences that showed up for Carter's surrogates, principally Rosalynn and Vice President Walter Mondale...
...clearly worried as polls showed Carter slipping badly from his top-heavy lead of a few weeks earlier. They also showed a huge number of voters undecided. In addition to the frustration over the hostages in Iran, economic troubles loomed large. Jobless contruction contractors turned up at a Rosalynn Carter motorcade through Green Bay to wave signs that read WILL I EVER AFFORD A HOME? and SEND JIMMY BACK TO THE NUT FARM...
...says, has "all the leadership qualities that Jimmy Carter lacks." She is worried about heating her home this winter and about her kids being sent off to fight in the Persian Gulf. She is fed up with talk from the White House, tired of the man she labels "Mr. Rosalynn Carter...
Meanwhile, his forces are hardly inactive in New Hampshire. The White House has been shoveling federal funds into the state: $34 million for highway improvements, a $1.5 million loan guarantee to American Skate Factory in Berlin, an $850,000 housing grant to Nashua. White House surrogates-Rosalynn, Chip, Miss Lillian, Vice President Walter and Joan Mondale, Muriel Humphrey-have made New Hampshire a second home. But the biggest campaign boost of all would come from Iran. Jests a White House aide: "Do you think folks would yell 'partisan' if we flew the hostages back to Pease Air Force...