Word: training
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...octogenarian Uncle Alton's memory. While Rosalynn scrambled eggs and cheese, Jimmy fried the breakfast ham. Shortly before noon, he shut off the water and electricity, turned down the thermostat, and left the house in the care of a maid and the Secret Service. At the train depot, the Carters waved goodbye to the 18-car Peanut Special...
...high school classmate Virginia Williams in front of the white clapboard railroad depot. "And if you get in trouble, don't call me." Then Virginia, her husband Frank and 380 other Plains folk boarded the 18 red-blue-and-silver cars of the Peanut Special-an Amtrak train leased for fun and bound for glory. At exactly 1 p.m., as Jimmy stood in the windy 10° F. weather, waving a gloved hand and flashing the famous teeth, the Peanut Special began to pull away from Plains-the first passenger train to have made a stop there...
...travel agent for the Inaugural odyssey was Maxine Reese, who, while managing the Carter campaign headquarters in the Plains rail depot last June, had started arranging the bash. "Jimmy told me he was going to win, so I figured we had to hire a train to take Plains to Washington," said Maxine. Now she had the train-and an $85,000 bill from Amtrak. As she settled into her seat, the ample Maxine also had a bottle of Taittinger champagne, a "pair of thermal underwear that would stretch around a live oak tree," and a new lowcut, black Inaugural dress...
...Linda Moon, "Those Yankees will never believe simple names like ours. So for the Inauguration I'm going to be Dixie Belle Wells and you can be Magnolia Moon." Sam and Annie Taylor, a guitar-pickin' duo from Somerville, Ala., wandered from car to car as the train roared north toward Jimmy's new home. Sam had bought his first dark blue suit for the Inaugural Ball, and was singing his new composition, The Jimmy Carter Special ("When I was a young'un I heard Jimmy say,/ 'Sure as there's peanut butter...
...application for British naturalization. The elder (Humphrey Davis) is a doddering relict from World War I who embarks on an excruciatingly elongated, hilarious account of how he once secured a cherished ?5 note from Lloyd George. The younger (Jacob Brooke) then launches on a bravura monologue about a train journey across the map of the U.S. that contains every old movie cliche, engrained national myth, sentimental hyperbole and travel-brochure bait ever known to a British tourist, or to many an American for that matter. As Brooke masterfully delivers it, this becomes a manic poetic aria of cumulative exhilaration...