Word: rosalynn
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...territorial meetings that were open to the public; 400 more had been appointed at large by an overseeing national commission. They were white, black, yellow, Hispanic and Indian?and four were Eskimo. They were rich, poor, radical, conservative, Democratic, Republican and politically noninvolved. Three Presidents' wives were guests: Rosalynn Carter, Betty Ford and Lady Bird Johnson. (Jackie Onassis turned down an invitation; Pat Nixon was ill.) One step removed from Houston, but hardly less actively involved, were the roughly 130,000 women who had participated in the long delegate-selection process leading up to the conference?part of America...
...side at the opening session in the Sam Houston Coliseum to promote the Equal Rights Amendment. "We don't look like bomb throwers, and we don't think like that either," said Lady Bird Johnson. Yet there they were: Lyndon Johnson's widow, Betty Ford and Rosalynn Carter...
Back at the White House, Rosalynn Carter spoke in terms that were generally upbeat, but critical of some particulars. "I do not necessarily agree with all of the recommendations," said she. "The ERA is important to me. My only reservation is that some of the more controversial issues have been mistakenly identified with the amendment. And these issues have absolutely no relevance to the ERA." Rosalynn did not specify those issues, though it would be safe to single out abortion and lesbian rights as two of the most prominent. Still, she said, "it was a historic meeting. We demonstrated that...
Women of all professions and persuasions descended on the city: feminists of the National Organization for Women (N.O.W.), compliant "total women," housewives, antiabortionists. In a remarkable scene, three wives of Presidents-Rosalynn Carter, Betty Ford and Lady Bird Johnson-paid homage to the women's movement at the opening session as delegates waved handkerchiefs and colored balloons. Feminist celebrities included Conference Chairwoman Abzug, Gloria Steinem, Betty Friedan and Susan B. Anthony II. On the other side of Houston, more than 15,000 women who opposed feminist goals gathered in a counterconference. Said Phyllis Schlafly, the Alton, Ill., housewife...
...Monthly at $20,000 before he was appointed Carter's top speechwriter; the latest raise put his gross up to $45,000. Says one former Carter staffer: "That is quite a salary to pay a speechwriter for a President who throws away prepared texts and ad-libs." Among Rosalynn Carter's aides, Social Secretary Gretchen Poston, 44, and Personal Assistant Madeline MacBean, 40, each earn $42,800-a bit plush for such fringe jobs...