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That kind of involvement requires a special temperament Occasionally photographers are a little crazy, and almost always they are obsessed. Often too they are pushy and, by some stan-lards, obnoxious. Freelancer Matthew Naythons was so upset by the conduct of his colleagues during Rosalynn Carter's 1979 visit to refugee camps in Thailand that he simply abandoned the assignment. "The conduct of the photographers was morally reprehensible, he recalls with anger. "They were literally trampling dying babies to get better shots." Frequently, however, they are also brave and daring, in an old-fashioned way that is rare nowadays...
Another who got the full Reagan treatment was Nebraska Democrat Edward Zorinsky. He has been wooed before. Back in 1978, when the Panama Canal Treaty was in the works, Jimmy Carter invited Zorinsky and 190 of his fellow Nebraskans to the White House for a briefing, had Rosalynn Carter call Zorinsky's wife, had Ambassador Sol Linowitz play tennis with the Senator (Linowitz lost), and invited both Zorinskys to a state dinner for Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito...
...restore the city's Victorian district, tenanted mainly by the poor, elderly and black. It was slow going until McNulty and Partners went to work, championing the project, bringing in TV reporters and, at one point in 1978, even luring an approving First Lady Rosalynn Carter to town. During her visit, the Ford Foundation announced a loan of $750,000. The ballyhoo also convinced the black community that gentrification was not just for the gentry...
Whispering her thoughts to a fellow passenger, Rosalynn Carter expressed genuine surprise at how nice Nixon was. Henry Kissinger decided again what a terrible shame it was that Ford had not been reelected. Sol Linowitz worried that if he dozed off, great events might happen at his side and he would never know...
...later the U.S. would have to deal with the Palestine Liberation Organization, as the search for Middle East peace resumed in the wake of Sadat's death. Jody Powell found himself running the Xerox machine as in days of yore. And some travelers thought they saw in Rosalynn's eyes a longing for the old grandeur. So it went, on the most remarkable jet journey of our time...