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Carter campaigns-and so does Rosalynn-to rouse the people
Meanwhile Rosalynn, who has been playing an increasingly significant political role at the White House, returned from a four-day swing through four states, where she repeatedly carried the message: "Jimmy's happy, he's healthy, he's confident and he's optimistic about the future." Perhaps so, but a Harris poll last week showed just how few Americans feel optimistic about Carter. Fully 71% of those interviewed agreed that the President "may well not have the basic competence...
...combination of fascination and dismay, they read his shifting pronouncements on energy, human rights and monetary policy. They were disturbed by his folksy style, his reliance on a rather young and unworldly circle of advisers from back home, and his insistence on pushing his family to the foreground. Rosalynn's role in White House decision making was unsettling, and Amy's tagging along on state visits seemed inappropriate...
...next day, Thursday, the " President, Rosalynn, Vice President Walter Mondale, Chief Aide Hamiloton Jordan, Press Secretary Jody Powell, Image Builder Gerald Rafshoon. Domestic Affairs Adviser Stuart Eizenstat and Pollster Patrick Caddell gathered around a table in the President's Aspen Lodge and drew up lists of people to invite to the summit. The lists were broken into broad headings?one was "religious and ethical leaders," later inevitably nicknamed "the God squad"?and organized day by day. Aides began phoning invitations Friday morning, and the first group, a hastily assembled collection of eight Governors, arrived for dinner that night. Eventually...
...Caddell. Caddell did call on the Fishers to inform them that the President himself would be there in an hour; he handed Bette Fisher $100 to buy refreshments. She rushed to a delicatessen about ten miles away and bought mounds of cold cuts and cole slaw, but Carter and Rosalynn, who accompanied him on both trips, declined to eat anything; they settled for lemonade. Ginny Porterfield had prepared coffee and sweet rolls for the visitor from Washington and friends and neighbors, including two doctors, some farmers, retired schoolteachers and widows. But she and the major had no idea that...