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...gubernatorial elections, it would have been, in Las Vegas parlance, a push. In Virginia, Carter was counting on Henry Howell to take a state that Carter himself could not win last year. Howell, who often invoked his friendship with the President, failed too. In New Jersey, where Jimmy and Rosalynn spoke up for Governor Brendan Byrne's reelection, their efforts were rewarded. But both elections, as expected, were decided mostly by the candidates' personalities and local issues...
...week of how quickly TV can move his world. When he left the podium after his Thursday press conference, he told reporters clustered around him that he planned to spend Christmas in Plains. He had just learned about that decision, he said, from a TV talk show on which Rosalynn appeared...
...polls has narrowed, both candidates have imported big-name backers across state lines?including, in Bateman's case, the peripatetic Liz Taylor. The same day that Rosalynn Carter was saying, "Brendan, we need you," in southern New Jersey, former President Gerald Ford appeared upstate in Morris County. Still the same old Jerry, he told the crowd: "I'm glad to be here to help you get Ray Bateman elected Governor of Michigan." To which Bateman responded, "Thank you, but I'm having enough trouble in New Jersey...
William W. Weide, president of Fleetwood Enterprises, Inc., of Riverside, Calif., a maker of mobile homes, is disturbed by the prominence of Carter's family: "I don't know where he ever thought he got a mandate from the American people to have Rosalynn Carter handle the South American issue and Lillian Carter handle other issues." Many executives are disturbed by Carter's reliance on the advice of a close-knit Georgia Mafia. Says Thomas Sampson, managing partner in the Boston office of Arthur Andersen & Co., the accounting firm, and a New England fund raiser for Carter...
Mary Hoyt, Rosalynn Carter's assistant, is quite firm in her conviction that not a single martini has been mixed in the White House since the Carters arrived. It was Rosalynn, after all, who said out loud that she really enjoyed seeing "people kind of squirm" because there was no liquor served in the White House...