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...When Rosalynn was at his side, in between her repeated campaign forays to Iowa and New England, she continued to perform her extraordinary role as the President's most trusted adviser. Around the White House she is known as a "Brzezinski-liner" because she has long shared the security adviser's hawkish views, both on the Soviets and on the plight of the American captives in Tehran. She has warned that Soviet assurances of future cooperation should be mistrusted. She has also argued that persuasion has no effect on the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, and as far back as when...
...Carter took a break to watch the caucus results from Iowa on TV. At 9:30 p.m., Appointments Secretary Phillip Wise phoned to congratulate Carter on his overwhelming victory. The President and his wife were ecstatic. Said an aide: "You could practically hear him grinning from ear to ear." Rosalynn was even more emotional. Said another staffer: "She was so excited that she was just flying." Next morning, Carter greeted a top adviser with "the biggest smile that I've seen in a long time," but he quickly got back to the speech. When another aide raised the subject...
That warning of a U.S. boycott of the Moscow Games was followed last week by a potentially even more humiliating suggestion from Vice President Walter Mondale. Said he: "It is my personal belief that the Olympics ought to be held somewhere else." Rosalynn Carter, campaigning in Iowa, also said the Olympic site should be changed, and at week's end the State Department said American participation in the Olympics was "an open question...
...Rosalynn Carter, on her Christmas calculator from Husband Jimmy: "It was a complete surprise. I haven't used one since the peanut warehouse...
...trying to say, 'Look, world, nobody has seen the hostages. We don't know what is happening to them.' " Vice President Walter Mondale complained that "even prisoners of war are guaranteed certain standards of human treatment, but these standards are being dragged in the dirt." Rosalynn Carter voiced the same refrain in campaign appearances for her husband in Washington, New York City and Jackson, Miss., calling the captives "hostages of a mob and a government that have become one and the same." Secretary of State Cyrus Vance demanded that Iran permit neutral doctors to examine the hostages...