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Alone in Plains with Rosalynn, his word processor and his woodshop...
Carter suddenly interrupted himself and pointed across the study to a large table, a lazy susan 5 ft. in diameter. He had designed and built the table, he said proudly, of longleaf pine, virgin timber cut 150 years ago for the home of Rosalynn's great-grandfather. Woodworking has become a Carter obsession. When he wants relief from his writing, he said, he moves to his nearby woodshop, a converted garage where he spends long periods alone chiseling out bowls and building benches and chairs, all his own designs. During the summer, he recalled, he often worked for hours...
...afternoon and Carter began looking for his wife. Rosalynn was in the kitchen, a red bandanna on her head, wearing white sneakers, a white pullover sweater and blue slacks. She looked fresh and trim, and he hugged her for a moment. The Carters eat every meal together and share the washing-up chores, do sit-ups before jogging and regularly view the evening news together. They have watched Reagan's press conferences, and Carter says he can quickly recognize what Reagan knows-and does not know. For the first six months after they returned to Plains, Rosalynn could...
...Rosalynn Carter said that it had been hard at first to decide what to do with the rest of their lives. She has made the huge adjustment. Occasionally she takes shopping trips to Atlanta or Washington with a friend. Like her husband, she is immersed in writing a book, an autobiography that reaches back to her early days in Plains. At first she was terrified by the project. Now she spends a good deal of time clicking out the story of her life on a white word processor...
...wings, Nancy strode onstage-in a veritable riot of pantaloons, yellow rubber boots, an aqua skirt with red and yellow flowers, a feathered boa and a floppy feathered hat. Only the third First Lady to tread the Gridiron boards, but the very first to sing-Betty Ford and Rosalynn Carter in years past had danced a few steps-Nancy gave the bandleader a confident nod, then in a clear and courageous voice delivered her own secondhand prose, written for the occasion by Sheila Tate, her press secretary, and White House Speechwriter Landon Parvin: "Even though they tell me that...