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...right, said the President. If Zorinsky would provide a list of 250 Nebraskans, Carter would invite them to the White House for a briefing. Delighted, Zorinsky provided the names, and 190 Nebraskans showed up at the White House a week later, to be greeted at the door by Rosalynn Carter. She shook hands with each...
Jimmy Carter popped into the 2 ½-hour session for only five minutes. As he spoke, a helicopter settled on the South Lawn of the White House to whisk him and Rosalynn to Camp David for the week end; parts of his remarks were drowned out by the roar of the rotors. He urged the businessmen to support the Panama Canal treaty. Commented Eastern Air Lines Chairman Frank Borman, who would have hoped for more forthright pronouncements on energy: 'Tm all for the treaty." White House encounter sessions may be important in establishing communication between the Administration and business...
...heavily rewrote the final version, with advice from Wife Rosalynn. He repeatedly read the speech into a pocket tape recorder, rehearsed it with a TelePrompTer before an audience of close aides, and even took a rare afternoon nap on the day of delivery to avoid any signs of fatigue. As a result, he looked more rested and relaxed than in some weeks, and he was able carefully to moderate his singsong Southern cadence and stop stepping on his punch lines. In rehearsal the speech had taken barely 30 minutes to deliver; before national television it spun on for 47 minutes...
...Lady Bird Johnson was attending the service, so she too was invited. She asked to bring her daughter and son-in-law, Charles Robb, the new Lieutenant Governor of Virginia. With such an expected assemblage, Baker sent word to the White House that President Carter was welcome. He and Rosalynn accepted...
...Rosalynn did not join her husband for dinner with Khalid and Fahd because women in Saudi Arabia are excluded from affairs of state; she was the guest instead at a dinner given by Queen Sitta. The President, surrounded by hosts wearing kaffiyehs and burnooses, dined on fish and barbecued lamb in the Prince's palace...