Word: rosalynn
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Ambassador Rosalynn...
...childish idea of sending Rosalynn Carter as a major diplomatic spokesman of the U.S. not only shows what Latin America really means to the Carter Administration, but also constitutes an insult to its governments. There would not be any difference if they decided to send Amy instead...
...State Department they sometimes refer privately to Carter as "the missionary." His conduct-his human rights pronouncements, his visions of global disarmament, his policy of dispensing aid and arms according to his measure of the rectitude of various societies-sometimes does seem more emotional than practical. Add to that Rosalynn's and Secretary Cyrus Vance's Latin American entreaties on human rights and U.N. Ambassador Andy Young's thunder against white governments, past and present, and there are days when it seems we are getting nothing so much as a sermon...
...Rosalynn clearly established the point that her husband is determined to make the encouragement of human rights a key part of his foreign policy despite the danger of exacerbating relations with some countries. In Recife, Brazil, Rosalynn met with two American missionaries-the Rev. Lawrence Rosebaugh, 42, a Roman Catholic priest, and Thomas Tapuano, 24, a Mennonite worker-who had been jailed on trumped-up charges and mistreated for four days. "I have listened to their experience," she said later, "and I sympathize with them." She added, as she had at all her stops, "I have a personal message...
...impressionism. Behind his chair is Childe Hassam's Flag Day, and to his right another Hassam, Old House at Easthampton. Near the door, Niagara Falls plunges silently, a swirl of delicate blues and pinks in an oil by John Twachtman. Fronting the desk is a huge painting of Rosalynn and Amy from the days in the Georgia statehouse, simple, almost ethereal...