Word: rosalynn
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...Truman Balcony, Rosalynn and Jimmy Carter sit, hands touching, side by side in their sturdy Georgia-made rocking chairs, like generations of Southern couples on countless porches of a summer evening. The twilight air is heavy, but the Carters, relaxing in blue jeans and sports clothes after the day's work, seem not to notice. "I like this balcony," muses the President, looking beyond the green sweep of the South Lawn and the Softball game in progress on the Ellipse to the great monuments to Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln. "I often come out here...
...Rosalynn interrupts with a chuckle: "One night I was tired and half asleep when I heard some comings and goings. Amy came into the bedroom, and I asked her who it was. She said, 'It's the King.' It was King Hussein-Jimmy had taken him to see Amy in her room. She was propped up in bed reading a book." But one White House visitor, former Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin, when asked by the President whether he would like to drop in on Amy, displayed foolhardy courage. "No thanks," he said, thereby not improving the atmosphere...
...magic show. Guests Bert Lance, Tip O'Neill, Mark Hatfield and James Sehlesinger munched hot dogs and hamburgers, enjoying various attractions: a clutch of clowns, an old-fashioned calliope and the Washington Redskins playing volleyball. The high spot of the party came when Jimmy, Wife Rosalynn and Amy deftly do-si-doed with the Dixie Liners. Sweating profusely but smiling nonstop, Jimmy padded about in Wallabees and issued a presidential directive: "Y'all have a good time...
...Rosalynn Carter may have disconcerted her somewhat formal South American hosts by speaking so casually on her recent tour of what "Jimmy" thought and what "Jimmy" meant to do. When "Jimmy" was in London for the economic summit, he went out of his way to get on a first-name basis with a difficult character named "Helmut." But West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, with chilly punctilio, insisted on calling Carter "Mr. President." Tass, the Soviet news agency, would have none of the amiable diminutive either; in the course of attacking his human rights policy, Tass has haughtily referred to Rosalynn...
...detached and dignified that the novel lacks fire. Her gentility dulls the effectiveness of a potentially enlivening technique: the difficult one of mixing real Washington characters with fictional ones. Such household names as Ed Muskie, Hubert Humphrey, Henry Jackson, Lady Bird Johnson, Judy Agnew, Betty Ford Rosalynn Carter- and Gene McCarthy -move fleetingly through the story. All are portrayed in flattering terms...