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Jimmy's wife Rosalynn was everywhere-from convention hall to caucus meetings to a black women's press conference. At a luncheon sponsored by a group of New York professional women, she explained that she had earned her husband's professional respect when she kept the books for the family peanut business. "Jimmy asked me 'How's this doing?' and 'How's that doing?' So I became an adviser...
...least ten years younger. In 14 months of campaigning, she covered 34 states and made almost as many speeches as Carter (she also still washes and irons Jimmy's shirts on weekends back home). Says a Carter aide: "Charming, persuasive, ambitious-put them all together and you have Rosalynn. She is, in fact, an extension of Jimmy...
Whenever Jimmy makes an important decision, he talks it over with Rosalynn. She often plays the part of devil's advocate. As she says self-deprecatingly: "He needs to know what people who are not as smart as he is think about things." Jimmy especially values her perception of people. If she approves of someone, he is in; if not, he is out. She clearly had a say in the vice-presidential decision...
Jimmy and Rosalynn go their separate ways on the campaign trail in order to reach as many people as possible. "I never worry about what I should have said, or if I don't look just right, or what I've got to do," she says. "I just give it my best and move...
...help in one cause or another. She is not reluctant to criticize Jimmy. The family, she insists, was never so impoverished during the Depression as he suggests in campaign oratory. She also thinks he talks too much about his religion, about never telling a lie, about loving Rosalynn more now than when he married her. "There was really nothing outstanding about Jimmy as a boy," she reflects. "He was a farm child like all other farm children. I never thought of him in politics...