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...First Baptist Church, which has about 50 blacks among its 950 members and was Harry Truman's church. Silver-haired Senior Minister Charles Trentham greeted the Carters with outstretched arms. Said he: "This church undergirds you and surrounds your family with prayers." Before the service, Jimmy and Rosalynn attended an adult Sunday-school class, where the teacher. Insurance Executive Fred Gregg, exclaimed, "Mr. President, you know this Bible real good-you help me out." Carter intends to do just that; he said he would like to teach the class once a month...
...White House, the family's chief discomfort was the 65° temperature. "The only warm place I can find upstairs is the kitchen," said Rosalynn. "I had to put one sweater over another." Amy slept in her warmest pajamas, and the dining-room fire was lighted for meals...
Following a post-Inauguration lunch in a Senate office, Carter walked with Rosalynn (and part of the way with Amy as well) down Pennsylvania Avenue, leading the Inaugural parade-a mile-and-a-half stroll on a crystalline but subfreezing day. Four years earlier, fruit and garbage had been thrown at the limousine that carried Nixon down the same avenue...
...Kennedy Center spectacular, Jimmy and Rosalynn stole the show, and from some pretty big names at that: John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Gregg and Cher Allman, Muhammad Ali, Paul Newman. At a State Department tea for Mexican First Lady Carmen de Lopez Portillo (a guest of Rosalynn, who had attended the López Portillo inauguration last December), Shirley MacLaine twitted an old friend. Said Shirley to Henry Kissinger as he jokingly tried to pencil her into his little black book: "I talked to you before you became powerful. That's when I dropped...
...morning. The choir sang the Battle Hymn of the Republic. Bishop William Cannon delivered some Methodist thunder. There was wisdom from the prophet Micah. Jimmy led the discussion about hope, humility and sacrifice. Archbishop John Roach closed the service with a touch of Roman Catholic poetry. Then Jimmy and Rosalynn walked hand in hand back home down the avenue...