Word: rosalynn
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...even want to hear--not just at Harvard but across the country. For weeks after the address--especially in the Midwestern heartland where indignant, patriotic feathers are most easily ruffled--the editorial pages of the big-city dailies and small-town weeklies alike over-flowed with letters. Most supported Rosalynn Carter's response to the Solzhenitsyn speech, an earnest argument on the evening news that America is still strong and wholesome as ever...
...crowds during his well-publicized trips home. So the President grinned his way along jammed sidewalks for the mandatory stops at various local stores. Jimmy also had to pay a visit to Cousin Hugh Carter, whose tattletale book about the family has dismayed several of its members. He and Rosalynn both accepted embraces from their cousin to avoid any fresh newspaper speculation about a family rift...
...Carters' arrival in the mountains of the West was thus a bracing change, even though an editorial in the Idaho Statesman complained peevishly that the President was more interested in the state's wilderness than in its people. It was true, though, that the First Family?Jimmy, Rosalynn, Amy, Chip and Jack?soon became about as isolated as a modern First Family can get. Climbing aboard an 8-ft. by 20-ft. wooden-floored rubber raft, they set out for a threeday, 71-mile ride down the utterly uninhabited Middle Fork of the Salmon River. To be sure, Secret Service...
...instance, Rafshoon arranged for live network coverage of it back in the U.S. After returning home, Carter held his first evening news conference in order to capture much of TV's prime-time audience. In the near future, Rafshoon plans a few televised presidential interviews. Carter and Rosalynn, meanwhile, have been holding intimate dinners at the White House for news executives, to give them a better feel for his personality and goals...
...wishes were honored. At his muted, dignified open-air requiem Mass in St. Peter's Square there was no ornate catafalque. The ceremony had a certain grandeur nonetheless, flowing from those who came to pay homage: the more than 100,000 worshipers and the dignitaries from 104 nations, including Rosalynn Carter from the U.S., U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim and hosts of high government officials and diplomats. Leaders of the "separated brethren" also attended, led by retired Archbishop of Canterbury A. Michael Ramsey. A folio of the four Gospels lay open on the plain coffin as Carlo Cardinal Confalonieri...