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Once the ceremony was history, Jimmy Carter went back to work-there is always something that needs doing in that office. He briefed congressional leaders, left instructions for his staff, then he jogged four miles around the big tent that was waiting for the party...
...another part of the tent, Mrs. Ezer Weizman, wife of the Israeli Minister of Defense, turned to Kissinger with tears in her eyes. "I never thought that I would live to see it," she said. Then she looked over to where her husband was introducing her son, severely wounded in the 1973 war, to the son of Anwar Sadat...
...refrigerator trucks were borrowed from the military, and so were two old but serviceable Sears, Roebuck fishing boats that were used to chill the white wine and champagne. Washington's Ridgewells Caterer provided gold ballroom chairs, creamcolored china with gold borders, cutlery, glasses, fingerbowls and napkins. The main tent, gay as springtime with its tangerine and yellow stripes, was longer than the White House itself. It and six smaller tents were rented for about $12,000 from a Maryland company...
...could argue that the money was not well spent: the party was as joyous as the occasion. Reports TIME White House Correspondent Christopher Ogden: "None of the warmth or festiveness was lost in the cavernous, 45-ft.-high tent, which somehow, perhaps because of the informal table hopping, seemed almost cozy. The candelabra on the tent poles created a romantic mood, almost like that of a college prom. It was comfortable, pleasant and fun, but not ostentatious...
Soprano Leontyne Price brought a hush to the crowd with Verdi's Pace, Pace, Mio Dio, and then the guests began to file slowly out of the tent. Like a contented preacher, White House Aide Hamilton Jordan stood at the exit, shaking hands and clasping shoulders. "Begin for President," he said, and the Israeli Premier embraced him. Inside the White House, where there was champagne and dancing, the Marine Band was playing Cole Porter's Well, Did You Evah! which ends with the line "What a swell party this...