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...ghost. In quest of the Lincoln ghost, Amy and Classmate Claudia Sanchez, daughter of a Chilean embassy cook, spent a night in the huge Lincoln bed, while Mary Fitzpatrick, the reprieved prisoner who is Amy's nurse, slept on a pallet on the floor. And, grins Rosalynn, "of course they heard the ghost...
...White House has intimidated many occupants in the past, but not the Carters of Plains. Declares Rosalynn: "This is home." She adds: "What made it easy was that we were all together again." "All" is the eight of them-the senior Carters, Amy, Jeff and Wife Annette, Chip and Wife Caron and five-month-old James Earl Carter IV-the most extended family to dwell in the Executive mansion since the expansive days of the Franklin Roosevelts. On a recent Saturday night, the President and First Lady volunteered to baby-sit. "Jimmy pushed the baby around the South Lawn," Rosalynn...
...years. "I'm playing tennis," she beams. "I've never played before, so I'm just learning. But I really enjoy it. It's a time to be with Jimmy." After tennis one blistering day ("You get so hot you're wet all over"), Rosalynn cast off inhibition and jumped into the swimming pool, tennis dress and all. "It felt so good we've done it several times." But a lifetime of putting work above pleasure nudges her into a rationale for tennis: "I really need the exercise. And when you live where...
...Rosalynn's activities in her mental-health program and a dozen other projects led to a unique arrangement: a formally scheduled luncheon with the President once a week. "Every time Jimmy walked in, I had a question for him. I always tried to look for a good time to do it -but every time it was not a good time. So he said, 'Why don't you do like Fritz does? He and I have lunch every Monday, and he brings in all the questions he wants to discuss.'" So every Wednesday the First Lady...
Some might think that what makes living in the White House the good life is the Jacuzzi or the private movie theater. But what she really enjoys, Rosalynn insists, is the close family things. Relatives in the third-floor guest rooms. Holding hands around the dinner table as the President calls on someone to ask the blessing. Leisurely Saturday lunches at poolside with all the children. "You are kind of isolated from other people here," Rosalynn explains. "It draws the family closer. You're all in this situation together...