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...name, is tight-lipped about the nature of the protection, but allows that agents are assigned 24 hours a day, seven days a week, to guard Nixon (protection for his wife Pat was dropped last year at his request), Gerald and Betty Ford, Lady Bird Johnson and Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter (Amy is 17). The Secret Service grudgingly admits that the cost for protecting former Presidents and their families last year was $10.7 million...
Former First Ladies do not make a habit of returning to the White House, except, of course, in the tasteful form of a commissioned portrait. So it was that a painting of a soft, almost melancholy Rosalynn Carter, 57, quietly made its debut last week in the ground-floor corridor, where pictures of all the 20th century First Ladies are hung. Though the Carters left Washington in 1980, Rosalynn was too busy to pose for Artist George Augusta until September of last year. But the delay has not hurt. "She is still young, and she left before showing the effects...
...Rosalynn Carter. I am not Pat Nixon or Jackie Kennedy. Everybody does it differently. I discovered I would find it difficult to just sit here and not do anything except entertain. For me, having a goal is very important . . . I think you have to let a lot of things roll off your back; I was not able to do that in Sacramento or here at the beginning. But if you get a sureness about yourself and what you can do, you just go ahead...
Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter were a couple with shared goals, philosophies, values, tastes and, once a week, on the presidential schedule, a working lunch. Some say she should have been President because she was more realistic about the world than her husband was. There is little doubt that she was the President's No. 1 adviser, confidante and source of encouragement...
Richard Nixon's face on the wall has been upgraded with a new portrait by J. Anthony Wills, and Rosalynn Carter will soon join those ranks when her picture is hung. Calvin Coolidge, in oil, steadfastly watches over the Cabinet Room, although Reagan has yet to match him in number of surplus budgets (Coolidge had five) or tax cuts (three...