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When it was over, both candidates received a standing ovation from the audience of reporters and League of Women Voters guests. Rosalynn Carter rushed up to kiss her husband. Ford got congratulations from Press Secretary Ron Nessen, later took a call from Betty Ford, who remained in Washington...
...loner. He is not a man with a large circle of intimate friends and advisers. Among the very few people in whom he places anything like total confidence are Jordan, Press Secretary Jody Powell, Media Adviser Gerald Rafshoon, Administrative Aide Greg Schneiders, unpaid Adviser Charles Kirbo and, of course, Rosalynn. On the issues, he reaches out for opinions and advice from a remarkably broad and diverse group of people. For example, his coterie of economists ranges from those on the fairly far left to the middling conservative; when they get together with Carter they present their differing views...
Iron Hand. Atlanta Therapist Jean Harsch cites Rosalynn Carter and Betty Talmadge as examples of strong women who can appear pretty and helpless. "The rest of the country," she says, "makes the mistake of seeing those as ingrained ways of being rather than learned skills." One Episcopal priest who has spent eight years in the South says he has never seen so many "brutally powerful women. They will say, 'Oh, don't say damn or I'll faint' and then castrate the man they're with...
...handwritten designation 22-A, is always kept locked. Only six persons have the key. Known as "the situation room," it resembles a combat-ready headquarters. The beige walls are decorated with charts, graphs and maps that reflect Carter's strategy. The barnstorming schedules for the candidate, his wife Rosalynn and their three sons and wives, plus Mondale and his wife, are traced by grease pencils on plastic sheets taped over three large maps of the U.S. Carter's itinerary is drawn in green, Mondale's in orange...
...better time when her mother took her to Central Park. "Say cheese," Rosalynn reminded Amy as she clambered up on the lap of a statue of Alice in Wonderland. On the way back to the hotel, she spotted a playground and asked Mom to stop. Then for a few carefree moments, while her long blonde hair flashed in the sunlight, she cavorted with other kids-mostly blacks, like her classmates in Plains-on the swings and slides...