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Mondale was back from Europe, Young from Africa. Vance was home from Geneva but getting set to fly to Paris. Blumenthal was in Tokyo. Bergland was packing for the Far East. Rosalynn was off on a seven-nation swing through Latin America. The President was delivering his most comprehensive speech on foreign affairs, entertaining an important leader from abroad and holding a press conference at which all but four questions focused on foreign policy...
...supposed to be her first routine medical checkup as First Lady, but Rosalynn Carter learned some unpleasant news at Bethesda Naval Hospital: she had a suspicious lump in her breast. With characteristic directness, Rosalynn, 49, wanted an immediate answer as to how serious it was. Captain William Fouty, the surgeon who directed the removal of Betty Ford's cancerous right breast, ordered the lump removed, under a local anesthetic. The laboratory report showed the growth to be benign, and Rosalynn headed happily home. The next morning, word came that the First Lady was "in great spirits." She even took...
...before his address to Congress, President Carter huddled with his energy team in the White House Cabinet Room. Dressed in blue jeans and sipping ice water, Carter worried over each point in his message with Energy Aide James Schlesinger (TIME cover, April 4) and a handful of key staffers. Rosalynn stopped by to eye the text. "If I can understand it, everybody can," she explained later. "We changed a word here and there to be more easily understood." At 12:45 a.m., a weary President went off to work on the speech for another hour before going to bed. Schlesinger...
...willing to succumb to the hysterical group of women who go down to the statehouse screaming, 'Please don't make me equal!' " So successful was this kind of opposition in Florida that even last-minute telephone calls by Betty Ford, Vice President Walter Mondale, and Rosalynn and Jimmy Carter were of no avail. Florida's former Miss America, Anita Bryant, took time out from her campaign against gays to oppose the ERA; she was more successful than Valerie Harper, television's Rhoda, who campaigned...
...entire family is waiting for him in the cavernous West Sitting Hall: Rosalynn, wearing a red sweater, kissing the President as he enters; Amy, ready for bed in an ankle-length nightgown; the President's mother, Miss Lillian, whom the nation has come to think of as indefatigable, now using a wheelchair because of the arthritis in her legs; Rosalynn's mother; Sons Chip and Jeff and their wives. Like the President, the other members of the Carter clan seem tired. Chip is holding his six-week-old son James Earl Carter IV in his arms. The baby...