Word: rosalynn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...called Rosalynn and she said 'Jimmy, you go talk to Cedras' wife...Mrs. Cedras was impressive, powerful and forceful. And attractive. She was him and very attractive." Jimmy Carter, describing a meeting with Haitian General Cedras' wife...
...life was aided by counseling when her son, at the age of six, was nearly killed in an automobile accident in 1989. In her Senate testimony, she noted how hard it is to get the head treated as well as the body. Plaintively, she recalled Rosalynn Carter's trip to the same committee asking for the same thing in 1979. "What is wrong," she asked, "if so little has changed in the intervening 14 years that we must repeat our pleas...
Some of the protests have been successful. Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter, a leading mental-health advocate, persuaded one North Carolina company to pull ads featuring cans of peanuts in straitjackets promoting a product line called Certifiably Nuts. One of her annual mental-health-policy symposiums at Emory University's Carter Center was devoted entirely to stigma issues. "We are all concerned about stigma," she says. "It holds back progress in the whole field...
...natural in a democracy for people to worry most about the influence they cannot see -- which helps explain the uproar when their worst suspicions are confirmed by what they do see. Some commentators went off like a cheap car alarm when Rosalynn Carter's fingers grazed the doorknob of the Cabinet room. Columnists conjured up Lady Macbeth when Nancy Reagan introduced policy-by- horoscope, or when she nudged her husband at a press conference on the hostages and urgently whispered, "Tell them you're doing the best...
...political pollsters regularly put Barbara Bush's public-approval rating in the 80s, some 30 points above her husband's. There have been no jealousies or catcalls such as those endured by fashionables Jackie Kennedy and Nancy Reagan. Barbara has been visible but never dominating, as Rosalynn Carter sometimes appeared to be. The old pols have always contended that a First Lady could harm but not help a President. Some Republican Party experts, though, believe that if Barbara were not on board, the President's standing would be lower than it is, his leadership less effective...