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The Associated Press
The materials in the AP file were compiled by The Associated
Press. These materials may not be republished without the express
written consent of The Associated Press.
May 16, 1979, Wednesday, PM cycle
SECTION: Washington Dateline
LENGTH: 330 words
BYLINE: By JANET STAIHAR, Associated Press Writer
DATELINE: WASHINGTON
KEYWORD: Mental Health
BODY:
Congress is turning a sympathetic ear to President
Carter's new multi-million dollar proposal to improve the
nation's mental health care services.
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., said he welcome the
legislation and his Human Resources health subcommittee will
begin hearings May 24.
The chairman of the House Commerce health subcommittee, Henry
A. Waxman, D-Calif., is also planning hearings.
Kennedy said in a statement that, while "it is hard to predict
if the bill will pass this year,
I will do everything to make
that possible."
Waxman said he thinks the proposal will receive a
"sympathetic" hearing in his subcommittee, but he still wants to
look closely at the specific recommendatons.
Both Kennedy and Waxman praised first lady Rosalynn Carter,
at her husband's side as the proposal was announced Tuesday, for
her efforts in promoting mental health care advances. She is
expected to be the administration's chief lobbyist on Capitol
Hill for the measure.
In announcing the bill, Carter said 20 million to 32 million
Americans will need some form of mental halth services, and that
"substantial numbers of Americans" do not have access to high
quality care at reasonable cost.
Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Joseph A. Califano
Jr., said the bill's main aims are to:
Improve services for the 1.5 million chronically mentally
ill, moving as many as possible from large institutions to small
community facilities.
Grant money to link mental health programs to the health
care system as a whole. Califano said 54 percent of those who
seek help for mental problems go to general health
practititoners.
Improve services for the poor, minorities and many in rural
areas.
Califano said that although the bill would cost $99.1 million
the first year, spending would increase only about $70 million
because other, unrelated mental health programs have been
consolidated and their budgets reduced.
Copyright (c) 1979 The Washington Post
February 8, 1979, Thursday, Final Edition
SECTION: First Section; A2
LENGTH: 630 words
HEADLINE: A First Lady's Quiet Plea on the Hill
BYLINE: By Victor Cohn, Washington Post Staff Writer
BODY: Testifying on behalf of millions who could use
emotional help, Rosalynn Carter quietly told a Senate
subcommittee yesterday: "Everybody has a mental problem."
"All of us," said the First Lady, who has seen her own family
touched by marital discord, can be affected by emotional upsets
as the result of "marital problems
unemployment
drug abuse"
or other events.
And asked by Sen. Claiborne Pell (D-R.I.) if she thinks
Americans today face more stresses than they once did, she said:
"I'm sure there are stresses. I'm sure that my children have
more things to contend with than I had."
With her comments, the First Lady thus followed her own advice
to "people who have had a mental health problem" to "speak
out, " because it helps other people with problems feel "it's all
right," rather than feel a shameful stigma.
Her son Chip and daughter-in-law Caron announced last November
that they were separating and Mrs. Carter had said little about
her feelings until yesterday's admissions.
Making the first appearance by a First Lady before a
congressional body since Eleanor Roosevelt, Mrs. Carter spoke
softly and feelingly for the emotionally ill she herself has seen
and touched in her years working for them -- and in harder and
louder tones on the need for more money to attack the problem.
Senate health subcommittee Chairman Edward M. Kennedy,
agreeing fully with her aims, said that federal "funding for
basic research has grown impressively" since the early 1960s.
It was then, the Massachusetts Democrat noted, that his
brother, President John F. Kennedy, "called attention to the
non-system of mental health care."
"I have to take issue with you, Senator," on dollars for
research and prevention, Mrs. Carter replied. Unitl 1967, she
said, research funds did increase, but since then they have been
cut in half in real dollars by inflation.
Then she argued for the recommendations of the President's
Commission on Mental Health, of which she was de facto head.
She also gave the subcommittee a statement strongly defending
the additional monies allotted mental health in her husband's
otherwise austere fiscal 1980 budget, which either cuts or holds
level most other health programs.
Mental health programs would get $633 million in 1980, up
$59 million or 10.2 percent, from the 1979 figure. With money
already added to the 1979 budget, "this will make a total of more
than $100 million in new funds as a result" of the influence of
Mrs. Carter's commission, a federal health official reported.
No senator asked her how she felt about mental health
getting one of the few sizeable increases among all federal
programs.
But she said in her prepared statement, in a part she did not
read or touch on: "People often ask me how I justify pressing for
more funds for mental health when there are so many problems
facing the nation. It is easy for me to remind them that our
mental health problems are serious -- and that we have endured
years of neglect of the mentally ill -- and that no other problem
facing society touches so many families or leaves them so
vulnerable."
Among the mental health commission's 117 recommendations,
she saw three "main priorities":
Broadening the national network of community mental health
centers -- local treatment units -- into a "community mental
health system" with more capacity to help underserved
populations. This includes the chronically ill who are too often
"dumped" out of mental hospitals into communities unprepared to
support them.
Developing new ways to finance mental care, including private
and public insurance coverage.
Research into the still too little understood causes of mental
illness and retardation, and possible treatments.
GRAPHIC: Picture 1 & 2, Kennedy escorts Mrs. Carter to
subcommittee hearing, where she said that "all of us" can be
affected by emotional upsets. By James K. W. Atherton -- The
Washington Post
Copyright (c) 1979 The Washington Post
February 2, 1979, Friday, Final Edition
SECTION: First Section; On Capitol Hill; A4
LENGTH: 80 words
BYLINE: Richard L. Lyons
BODY:
The first trip to Capitol Hill by a First Lady as a
witness in nearly 40 years will be taken by Rosalynn Carter
Wednesday when she testifies before Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's
(D-Mass.) health subcommittee in support of increased
appropriations for federal mental health programs.
Eleanor Roosevelt testified on "Interstate Migration of
Destitute Citizens" (Okies) in 1940 and two years later on the
migration of people to work in war plants.
Copyright 1979 The New York Times Company:
Abstracts
The New York Times
BYLINE: BY MARJORIE HUNTER
SECTION: Page 1, Column 4
DATE: February 8, 1979, Thursday
ABSTRACT: Rosalynn Carter, as honorary chmn of President's
Council on Mental Health, pleads for mentally ill in
testimony before Senate Health and Scientific Research
subcommittee. Mrs Carter's appearance is first by President's
wife at committee hearing since Eleanor Roosevelt in '40's.
Subcommittee chmn Sen Edward M Kennedy praises Mrs Carter's
testimony. Mrs Carter calls efforts to 'remove the stigma' of
mental illness a major goal. Concedes that '80 budget has less
mental health outlays than commission had requested. Urges that
national mental health insurance program, if adopted, should
include mental health care, but declines to debate proposals
for such broad insurance. Rosalynn Carter photo (M).
SUBJECT: 308; ADVISORY BODIES; BUDGET; HEALTH INSURANCE;
INSURANCE; MENTAL HEALTH AND DISORDERS; GOVERNMENT
EXPENDITURES
ORGANIZATION: SENATE SUBCOMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND SCIENTIFIC
RESEARCH (HUMAN RESOUR; CONGRESS (RELATIONS WITH EXECUTIVE
BRANCH) ; EXECUTIVE-CONGRESSIONAL RELATIONS;
CONGRESSIONAL-EXECUTIVE RELATIONS; CONGRESSIONAL-PRESIDENTIAL
RELATIONS; PRESIDENTIAL-CONGRESSIONAL RELATIONS
NAME: CARTER, JIMMY (PRES) ; KENNEDY, EDWARD M (SEN) ; ROOSEVELT,
FRANKLIN DELANO (MRS) (1884-1962); CARTER, JIMMY (MRS) ; CARTER,
ROSALYNN
GEOPRAPHIC: UNITED STATES
GRAPHIC: Illustrations: Photograph
LENGTH: 119 words
C2
THE NEW YORK TIMES, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1978
Hers
Abigail McCarthy
P
EOPLE seem to be puzzled by Rosalynn
Carter. I grant that, if you follow her activi-
ties in press and media, there seem to be two
Rosalynns. In the past few days we have
read and heard of. the First Lady much in the mold of
her predecessors. She is going on a cross-country
tour to highlight volunteer efforts in urban areas;
she has written an article in a current woman's pub-
lication saying, among other things, that without
volunteers, "we'd be a nation without a soul." She
has been a gracious White House hostess to the King
of Morocco. She has been on television, poised and
pretty, faultlessly fending off loaded questions about
the religious cults.
But there is the other Rosalynn Carter, who seems
to exercise more power than any First Lady has ever
had before She attends Cabinet meetings. She has
visited heads of state and discussed substantive
issues with foreign ministers as her husband's repre-
sentative. She takes strong stands - publicly - in
defense of Administration policies, at one time ad-
monishing the press, at another urging an audience
to boycott industries which fail to follow the Presi-
dent's guidelines to fight inflation. People she has
been thought to find disloyal have disappeared from
staff.
And she takes surprising initiative. It was her idea.
1 one national correspondent when he asked
W.
: President was inviting influential members
of the press to a series of informal. off-the-record din-
ners. "I was amazed at the candor of the discussion
over dinner." said one senior reporter. "and now that
you mention it. yes. she did join in not assertively
because she's ladylike. you know but strongly. and
Montageby Michelle Horwitz
on the most sensitive policy issues.'
For some reason people seem to find the Idea of
this second Rosalynn surprising. I don't really see
why. She seems to me very much the Rosalynn she
Rosalynn Carter is a product of a
promised to be during her husband's Presidential
campaign: And she seems true to the strong strain in
American culture which produced her.
strong strain in American culture
I first met Rosalynn Carter in 1976. when one of my
editors thought it would be Interesting if I had a
series of "conversations with" the wives of the candi-
dates running in the primaries. It was during the
New Hampshire primary that we met at La Guardia
which Rosalynn Carter sprang. "Sometimes," a
whelming extended family in a narrow community
Airport for breakfast and a long talk before we had to
character in that novel said, "I think we always live
- she quite naturally went to work at her husband's
catch noon planes sHe to Atlanta, I to Washington.
where we're born. This I think is true of the Carters,
side in the family business. She also fostered his
It struck me then that there were two things different
and especially of Rosalynn. She is of the rural small-
ambition. because it was hers too - and the convic-
about her. She campaigned alone in areas where her
town South, a South poor too much of its history. a
tion that theirs was a destiny outside Plains.
husband was yet to go "to make him known. I talk
South of hardworking people welded together by a
In that environment Rosalynn became a very pri-
issues," she said. "Jimmy trusts me absolutely for
kind of cultural isolation, forged in character by a
vate person, I think, inwardly keeping herself to her
that. (Evidently he still does.)
Bible Christianity of personal morality. a South in
self. In a place where "everyone knows you" privacy
The other was that she had a working wife's con-
which people are very clear about their identity. The
and reserve are maintained by a charm of manner
cept of the women's movement. Others had said
Vein of Iron is what binds a family together and to its
extended to everyone, but intimacy is kept for the
"equal pay for equal work": she said it thinking of
forebears - the power to do what she deems neces-
very few. Jimmy Carter is sometimes effusive and
Southern women leaving factories in the early mom-
sary for her own.
unguarded; Rosalynn. never. Her eye and her heart
ing to face a day of taking care of families after
Her gentleness of manner. combined with assur-
are single. She knows her goal: she centers on her
working all night. But she was uncomprehending
ance and determination. are characteristic of the
husband's welfare. If there is a dark side to that, it
about the feminists who stress personal fulfillment. I
breed of women who helped defeated men rebuild a
lies in its intensity. She has a sonse of reality rooted
think she still is the concept is foreign to her.
region. Hers is a South "where everybody knows
in the concrete. alert to dangers, attuned to her hus-
"I had one like that the other day." she said to me
you" and where women - liberated from the more
band's needs. When he was plunged into depression
of such a feminist. "She couldn't understand how I
confining aspect of household and child care either
by an electoral defeat. his sister, Ruth. brought him
could do this for a man.you know - all this work and
by close-knit families or domestic help - are tradi-
religious experience, but Rosalynn gave him Amy
I was not the candidate myself! There'll be plenty of
tionally full participants in family business and com-
Her security lies in the life they have shared and in
of
inities for me and I'll have my Identity if
munity projects. It is not a many-layered society.
the patriarcha) Christianity that sustains their mar-
Ji
is President."
Life revolves around the family and the church.
riage.
When I started to puzzle about the strength and
She knows her value like the virtuous woman of the
subdued passion of Rosalynn Carter which troubles
Old Testament who sets her hand to strong things so
people today, I was reminded of Ellen Glasgow's
When Rosalynn Carter went back, to Plains -
that her husband can sit "honorable in the gates." of
novel of the 30's. "Vein of Iron" - a very different
much against her will, because she had liked her life
that woman, the Bible said "The heart of her
story. but a story about the kind of Americans from
as a Navy officer's wife away from a rather over.
band trusted in her," and that is her power.
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The Associated Press
Associated Press.
November 21, 1978, AM cycle
Dozens of leading politicians and prominent people in the United States
issued unknowing endorsements of the cult leader who ordered the Guyana killings
and mass suicide.
The letters helped the cult get into Guyana and stay there.
Among those who sent letters of praise to the cult leader, the Rev. Jim
Jones, were first lady Rosalynn Carter and Vice President Walter Mondale.
Many of those quoted in the documents said they couldn't remember talking to
Jones, writing letters for him or making speeches about him or his church.
Jones, who also apparently committed suicide, used the references for himself
and his peoples Temple both to establish his colony in Guyana and then stave off
allegations of mistreatment and brutality.
The Guyanese government released the papers Monday, with shock still
reaistering over the deaths of Jones and more than 400 sect members in a
murder-suicide pact Saturday after the slayings of Rep. Leo Ryan, D-Calif., and
four others at a airstrip near the settlement.
Minister of State Christopher Nascimento said he didn't want to embarrass any
of the purported letter writers but Guyana wanted to show why it had permitted
the Peoples Temple to settle there.
The attack on Ryan's group and the mass suicide made it appear "we allowed a
bunch of crazies into Guyana." Nascimento said, "but in fact, the Rev. Jones
presented references of the highest caliber."
Jones wrote to Mrs. Carter on March 17, 1977, saying he had missed meeting
evanaclist Ruth Carter Stapleton, President Carter's sister, during her trip to
San Frncisco. He also said that after a trip to Cuba, he found the country was
"badly in need of the hospital equipment."
Mrs. Carter, in a handwritten note on White House stationery, wrote to Jones
on April 11, 1977, saying: "Dear Jim, Thank you for your letter. I enjoyed
being with you during the campaign - and do hope you can meet Ruth soon. Your
comments about Cuba are helpful. I hope your suggestion can be acted on the
near future. Sincerely, signed Roslynn Carter."
Asked about the note today, Mrs. Carter told reporters in Washington, "I just
saw him one time. He had written during the campaign and said he wanted to help
us, so when I went to San Francisco to open the Carter headquarters, he was
there."
=
She said the only exchange of letters with Jones she could recall was the one
made public Monday.
Mondale, who was not available for comment, is quoted in the excerpts as
saving.
"I
am
grateful
for
the work of the Peoples Temple Christian
Church in defending the First Amendment guarantees of freedom of the Press, in
managing the drug program and in running the ranch for handicapped children."
And Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Joseph Califano is quoted as
saying, "Your commitment and compassion, your humanitarian principles and your
interest in protecting individual liberty and freedom have made an outstanding
ontribution to furthering the cause of human dignity."
Califano's office said the secretary did not remember the letter and the
office could not find it in its files.
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1978 The Washington Post
October 6, 1978, Friday, Final Edition
HEADLINE: First Lady's Advice
BYLINE: By Donnie Radcliffe
Rosalynn Carter, confiding that "some of my best friends are presidents"
(but without mentioning any names), had some questions and answers for a new
president Wednesday night.
Some concerned what Carter termed "the personal life" of Copley News
Service's Marguerite Sullivan, being sworn in as the 50th president of the
Washington Press Club in ceremonies at the Sheraton-Carlton Hotel. They were
things, the first lady said, that are "very important" to being a president.
"For instance," inquired Carter in a role reversal that had 400 journalists
looking on while she conducted the questioning, "Do you have a brother?
"Will your daughter go to public school?
"Does your mother speak Swahili?
"will the rest of the family write books about you?"
Sullivan would almost certainly "learn a lot," Carter assured her, "and I'm
in a very good position to give you some advice." Which she promptly set about
doing:
Don't worry about polls - "but if you do don't admit it."
Don't hesitate to have an image made "lately this has worked wonders."
Don't evade important questions vital to the country, even if they are
difficult.
"For example," Carter elaborated, "Are you and Miss Lillian still locked in a
struggle for Jimmy's attention?
"What would you do if Amy married a Republican?
"Is it really possible for you to live a normal family life?"
Not only possible, said Carter, answering her own questions, but she and her
husband live one all the time. To prove it, she recounted how "Jimmy picks me
up at the airport in his helicopter when I come home from trips
sometimes
we entertain foreign visitors at our country retreat
we have a nice home
close to our offices.
and our children have friends in just like normal
children, or they can play with their bodyguards."
Joan Mondale shared receiving-line honors with Sullivan and Copley News'
publisher Helen Copley.
1978 The Washington Post
August 15, 1978, Tuesday, Final Edition
HEADLINE: East Wing Shake-Up;
Press Aide Anderson To Leave in East Wing Shake-Up;
Press Aide Anderson 'Not Asked to Stay'
BYLINE: By Donnie Radcliffe
Rosalynn Carter's deputy press secretary said yesterday she is resigning
from her $29,500-a-year job. But Ann Anderson, 42, also disclosed that the
position disappears in a major reorganization of the First Lady's East Wing
staff, and that she was not asked to stay.
Anderson, who came to the White House with the Carters, said the slot she
fills will be restructed to provide a new position in the scheduling and press
advance areas. The reshuffle is the first step in a more vigorous and visible
use of Mrs. Carter in the congressional election campaigns and her own public
projects, according to Mary Hoyt, press secretary to Mrs. Carter.
Under the plan, two new positions in scheduling and press advance will be
substituted for slots now held by Anderson and Mrs. Carter's appointments
secretary, Jane Fenderson. The latter, however, will shift into another new
position as coordinator evaluting the First Lady's communities projects. Mrs.
Carter's personal assistant, Madeline MacBean, will take over appointments
chores.
"There will be a lot more traveling, a lot more overtime and weekend work.
Even if it were something I felt qualified to do, it just seemed to me it was
the time to move," said Anderson.
She said she had not been offered a chance to stay on the staff, and that
under the proposed reorganization there was no area where her particular skills
and experience seemed to fit.
Mary Hoyt denied that Anderson's resignation from a job that is being
eliminated, in effect, amounted to being fired.
"That is not the case," said Hoyt. "Ann has known for some time about this
reorganization and this is just the logical time to do it. She is very good at
her speciality and I wouldn't dream of offering her a position as a scheduler.
She is going to find another job will all our support and help."
Hoyt said the entire East Wing staff of 18 will be geared to help Mrs. Carter
focus attention on her communities project, an effort that calls for private
rather than government initiative in solving problems of the elderly, the
unemployed and the mentally ill.
Hoyt said the First Lady expects to devote three days each week to social and
ceremonial duties and two days to public projects. One of those days almost
certainly will take her out of town. She has already set aside a dozen days in
September and October to campaign for Congressional candidates. After the
November elections, she is planning a cross-country tour focusing on her
projects. That schedule already extends into 1979.
Hoyt said President Carter's recently-hired image builder Jerry Rafshoon "had
nothing to do" with the reshuffling of Mrs. Carter's staff.
"Ever since the President's Commission on Mental Health delivered its report,
Mrs. Carter has been planning her future activities. The reorganization is the
results of hours and hours of planning."
Anderson's departure from Mrs. Carter's staff is the second in as many months
d at least the seventh since the Carter's moved into the White House. Barbara
inebeck, press ad-extensive travels prevented her devoting as much time to her
rive-year-old son as she felt she should.
Heinebeck was the third and latest black to leave the staff. Christopher
ates, an information specialist in Hoyt's press office, went to the Agriculture
Department last year, as did Angla Corley, a former assistant to the director of
Mrs. Carter's projects, Cathy Cade.
Others who have left Mrs. Carter's staff were Coates Redmon, former East Wing
writer; Rick Hutton, former Carter family appointments secretary, and Helen
Dougherty, former head of the First Lady's correspondence. Redmon left after
persistent rumors of unhappiness over disparity between West and East Wing pay
scales and Hutton and Dougherty due to personality clashes with members of Mrs.
Carter's staff.
Hoyt said her assistant, Faith Collins, will assume the title of deputy press
secretary along with some of Anderson's duties. Paul Costello, who took
Heinebeck's place, will become assistant press secretary, handling some press
advance work.
In the new scheduling office, Nancy Jordan, estranged wife of Carter aid
Hamilton Jordan, will work as a full-time volunteer. Hoyt said there are no
current plans to place here on the payroll.
Hoyt said Mrs. Carter approved the final organization plan and had been
involved in its development. There was no effort to coordinate the first lady's
communities project with members of President Carter's domestic staff, sometimes
thought to have neglected the effort. But Hoyt indicated that the new system
would offer better dialogue opportunities with the West Wing "because our
responsibilities here will be more defined."
Hoyt, who has been the target of criticism in some media circles for her
handling of Mrs. Carter's public presence, said the reorganization "will give me
a better chance to be more responsible to the press because a lot of my
ordination efforts will be handled in a different way. "
Anderson worked with Hoyt at the Peace Corps in the mid-1960s and again in
the Muskie presidential campaign. She was a reporter at the Nashville
Tenenssean when she met her husband, author Patrick Anderson, a former Carter
speechwriter. They have two children.
She dismissed any hint of a rift. "Mary Hoyt and I are friends. I always
enjoyed working with her."
RAPHIC: Picture, Ann Anderson, by Tom Allen - The Washington Post
Copyright (c) 1978 The Washington Post
June 25, 1978, Sunday, Final Edition
SECTION: Style; K1
LENGTH: 5340 words
HEADLINE: Have You Heard What They're Not Saying About Rosalynn?;
The First Lady, in Search of an Image; Rosalynn Carter, Seeking
an Image; Why Aren't They Talking About Her?; If She's Not the
New Eleanor Roosevelt, Who Is She?
BYLINE: By Sally Quinn
BODY:
"Jimmy." Please unleash Rosalynn! She has a great
grasp, an ability to humanize and she can bring attention to a
program. Why is she in the background when she can be in the
forefront?"
Liz Carpenter's fantasy plea to Jimmy Carter.
SHE SAT PERFECTLY still at the head table waiting to be
introduced. Only her fingers, twisting back and forth, and her
occasional gulps of water indicated her nervousness.
In her pale peach Calvin Klein shirtwaist, she looked elegant
and delicate, a pretty matron any old-fashioned gentleman would
want to protect.
She did not look like the top adviser to the president of the
United States, the most powerful woman in the world, the first
woman vice president, all of which she was touted as being back
when Plains first moved to Pennsylvania Avenue.
She didn't act like a great power broker either.
She stood to address the National Press Club of Washington
last week, the first first lady to do so since Eleanor Roosevelt
40 years ago.
"Today," she began in her whispery southern voice, "I'm not
nearly as nervous as the first time I came here with Jimmy and he
announced he was running for the presidency."
The purpose of the speech, according to her press secretary,
Mary Hoyt, was to present Rosalynn Carter's philosophy of the
role of a first lady and to explain what special project she
hoped to embrace in her years in the White House.
But the speech, which was written, as most of her speeches
are, by Hoyt with Rosalynn Carter's corrections and additions,
seemed to many in attendance vague and unstructured. She talked
about the traditional social role of the first lady, about her
own interests in mental health, the elderly and how she hoped
to encourage "the caring people" to serve on committees and
programs "even in the most prosaic ways."
Rosalynn Carter seemed uncomfortable, her delivery hesitant.
She stumbled over an occasioinal word, lost her place and was
noticeably relieved when the speech was over.
Then an amazing grace overtook her.
As she took questions from the audience for the next half
hour, a different woman emerged. A bright, relaxed competent
woman, funny and disarming.
The audience was allowed a rare glimpse of the real first
lady, not the "steel magnolia" of instant legend.
She giggled a lot, she told anecdotes, she made fun of
herself. She took a few mischievous digs at the press and she
handled the questions, some of them quite idiotic, with style and
wit.
At one point she was asked if there was any time for President
and Mrs. Carter to just sit back and enjoy themselves.
"I hope so," she answered. "We do enjoy weekends at Camp
David. We take our briefcases
" and she paused, looked
shyly out at the audience, giggled again
and confessed,
"but we don't ever open them. And we do enjoy evenings at home,
too. Jimmy, for the first four or five months, would go back to
the Oval Office after dinner. But he stopped that way last
spring and we do have evenings together with the family. We
swim, we watch movies and listen to Amy play her violin." Another
giggle. "It's a family. We enjoy it."
The disarmed audience gave her a hearty round of applause.
Finally, when someone asked her whether dancing with members
of the press at the White House was different from dancing with
real people, she paused for a moment, laughed and replied.
"Since so many people say the president and his wife are not real
people, I think we could get along beautifully."
Rosalynn Carter has a problem. Her image. She doesn't have
one. The question is: Why?
Speculation about why is a major topic around Washington both
among worried Carter staffers and seasoned first lady watchers.
And there isn't anybody who doesn't have an opinion on where it's
all going wrong.
The answer, based on dozens of interviews with those both in
and out of the administration has to do with the fact that
Rosalynn Carter was falsely advertised to begin with as a
powerful political influence over her husband. It has to do with
her own lack of clarity about the nature of her role. It has to
do with the disdainful attitude of some of the president's own
staff toward her side of the White House (the East Wing), with
the ineffectuality of her own staff and the lack of cooperation
between the East and West Wings And finally, it has to do with
the obvious problems of being, still, a stranger in another town.
In the simplest terms, the problem seems to be this: Rosalynn
Carter sees her role in the White Hose as assisting the
president, rather than just assuming the role of first lady.
Despite repeated denials from Carter staffers and friends that
there is no White House attempt to "package" Rosalynn Carter,
she is, nevertheless, being packaged.
During the campaign, as a political morsel for the vocal
feminist contingent in the Carter camp, Carter and "the boys"
(Hamilton Jordan and Jody Powell) decided that Mrs. Carter should
be presented as a tough, strong, firm, independent woman rather
than the shy, natural, soft woman she is. They portrayed her to
the press and the public as the first working first lady, the
most powerful and influential adviser to the president, the first
woman vice president, as it were, the next Eleanor Roosevelt.
They informed the public that she would hold regular press
conferences like the president, that she would take on
substantive projects of her own and see them through. They were
trying to package her.
And they're still doing it. As late as three weeks ago
members of Carter's staff fed a story to The New York Times
saying that she was "even more influential than Eleanor
Roosevelt."
Carter's staff put Rosalynn Carter in that position. And
Rosalynn Carter, of course, trying to help out and do the
right thing, went along with it. She tried to act serious, tough
and determined, like the steel magnolia image that had been sold,
when, in fact, she was a wife and mother dedicated to her family,
only unsure of herself as a politican.
What have not been promoted are the natural, spontaneous
aspects of her personality that were so effective during the
campaign and the other day at the National Press Club.
As a result, most of the time she ends up looking like a cold,
humorless robot instead of what she really is.
Partly because her "toughness" has been misinterpreted. What
toughness can be found in her character is simply her natural
fierce protectiveness of her family against any outside threat,
including those to her husband's political career. Her Influence
Probably one of the most puzzling aspects of Rosalynn
Carter's role as first lady to the public is the original
promotion of her, which promised a much more influential role.
Well, it just ain't SO. According to many who have worked
closely with the president, Rosaylnn Carter has exactly as much
influence on Jimmy Carter as the average married woman has on her
husband. Which is not to be sneezed at, but hardly to be feared.
And, as has often been pointed out, why should she? It was,
after all, her husband who was elected.
"I am disappointed in her altogether," says feminist Gloria
Steinem. "I try to be reasonable because of the initial
comparison with Eleanor Roosevelt. That made the problem. She
has a lot in common with Patricia Nixon. That determination that
people are out there trying to get us so we're going to stick
together and see it through. She's very thin-skinned, like the
Nixons.
"I don't know a single reporter in Washington who feels they
know Rosalynn," says NBC producer and People magazine
correspondent Clare Crawford. "She's all but disappeared from
the face of the earth. In an attempt to prove that she is not a
housewife but that she is Jimmy's intellectual equal, she now has
the newsworthiness of the undersecretary of commerce."
"Rosalynn wants to do what she's supposed to do," says a White
House correspondent who has covered the Carters for several
years. "In this case she doesn't know what she's supposed to do
and nobody will tell her.
"Jimmy," he says, "does what he damn well pleases. She
occasionally sprinkles his mind with a little wisdom that makes
sense. And Rosalynn thinks that's just fine. Her influence,
whatever, it may be, is impressionistic. Theirs is no different
from any other Southern marriage. It's my opinion she doesn't
have much impact on him politically. However, the kind of woman
and the nest she builds certainly does."
One former staffer feels that, as in most marriages where the
man has all the power, the woman feels free to criticize him
while he is very careful to by supportive and encouraging of her
little projects.
"She criticizes Jimmy all the time," says this person. "It's
become almost a cliche. But he's very supportive of her. Almost
worshipful. She can do no wrong. It would have to be a major
blunder on her part for him to criticize her."
The White House often points to the weekly luncheons Rosalynn
Carterr has with the president in the Oval Office as an example
of her influence on the president.
However, Rosalynn Carter's own explanation of her weekly
meetings with her husband, more than anything else, substantiates
a growing feeling that she is not the most powerful, or
influential adviser the president has. On the contrary, she is
hardly one at all.
In her speech at the National Press Club she said, "When Jimmy
and I first came to Washington, every night I was trying to sneak
in a question - or ask him about something a decision had to be
made about. And it just didn't work that way. Evey time he got
relaxed, I would spring some big decision at him. Finally, she
said, he suggested that she come to have lunch with him once a
week like Vice President Mondale. "It's a very important meeting
to me," she said.
There is one area in which Rosalynn Carter does have
influence over the president and that is the one area in which
she is somewhat knowledgeable, mental health. Having worked on
it in Georgia and having been honorary chairman in the Mental
Health Commission this past year, she is in a position to
advise. For instance, HEW had recommended that the Community
Health Program be funded a certain amount of money and OMB
refused the request. HEW appealed and got nowhere. Then,
through Tom Bryant, chairman of the President's Commission on
Mental Health, and a close adviser of Rosalynn Carter's she
got in the act, called OMB head McIntire over. She overruled
him. He changed his decision after he met with her.
She has now gotten a commitment of $500 million to supplement
the Mental Health Report by appealing to her husband. Her
Role
One reason why Rosalynn Carter has made so little impact and
has such a fuzzy image is that she has taken on one project after
another, then dropped it and gone on to something else. The only
one she has concentrated on is mental health and even that
has fizzled out since the Mental Health Report was issued
earlier this spring.
One former staffer has this to say. "If you choose mental
health as your talisman then you've got to go with it; it's too
heavy a subject to speak out, and then drop it."
"My experience with the mental health commission is that the
story got out in an interesting way," says Tom Bryant. "It had a
whale of an impact on the mental-health community. But I don't
think that the public is overly aware of Rosalynn's involvement.
Mental health is not a sexy topic. Rosalynn is a very
complicated. She sees herself more involved with her husband
across the board, but I think her strongest suit is mental
health. Those are building blocks, and if done right, in two or
three years people can say, "That lady had impact.'
"I don't know why it's so difficult for people to expect this
stereotype approach that she should have one project,' says Mary
Hoyt. "That a single project is an image. She has many interests
and they all fit neatly together. But it isn't easy. People are
frustrated because they all want her to have a slogan, a title, a
name for a project. But it's broader and deeper than that. I
don't know if she ever even thinks about it (the fuzziness of her
image).
"She has been doing many fragmented projects. Now she's going
to try to turn people on across the country to help each other.
That seems like a neat, understandable thing to us here because
we've been talking to her about it."
"But how do you make that effective?" Hoyt rolls her eyes and
throws her hands up in the air in an air of resignation. "It
will, well, EVOLVE. Maybe that's not a nice way to discuss a
role, But that's the way it is."
"Rosalynn has the same problem as the president," says a
person who has worked closely with Rosalynn Carter for a long
time, both in Georgia and in the White House.
"They themselves are kind of fuzzy about what they are all
about. So it's hard to present them in a clear positive way; she
is interested in a lot of things, she never really goes through
with them. It's like projectus interruptus."
"The reason Rosalynn loses interest in her projects is because
everything she does in her life is for Jimmy, trying to make him
look good. If you don't have the passive yourself to see the job
through then it doesn't get done. She is deeply passionate about
one thing. Her husband."
Gloria Steinem says, "She never appears to say anything
separate from him. More than any other president's wife I have
seen there is no independent thought or phrasing separate from
his."
Someone who has occasionally sat in on Rosalynn Carter's
staff meetings says that no matter what she is talking about she
always prefaces her remarks with "Jimmey thinks and Jimmey feels
and Jimmey says" as though she is simply parroting what he tells
her to do. "It gets on your nerves," says this staffer.
"I don't think that she should worry about her image too
much," says Barry Jagoda, Carter's media man. "But she should
set out to do what she and her husband think she should do. To
be as strong and effective as possible."
Rosalynn Carter is beginning to be unfavorably compared with
other first ladies, many of whom, whether or not they had an
impact, at least had a clear image.
Jackie Kennedy was known for her chic, her taste, her style
and her redecoration of the White House.
Lady Bird Johnson had beautification. Patricia Nixon, though
hardly dynamic, chose volunteerism and struck with it, projecting
the role of housewife and helpmate. Betty Ford was known for her
candor, her courage in coping with her breast cancer, her
outspoken support for ERA. But when one mentions the name of
Rosalynn Carter, many people draw a blank.
Now she is even being unfavorably compared to the wife of the
vice president, normally a figure in Washington with not so high
a profile at all.
Joan Mondale is more identifiable than Rosalynn Carter.
And, too, she has chosen as her press secretary-adviser, Bess
Abell, who worked for Lady Bird Johnson and knows the town, and
Joan Mondale has listened to her advice.
"Joan Mondale," says someone who has worked closely with
Rosalynn Carter and observed Mondale as well, "is a creature of
this city and so is Bess. She knows where to press the levers.
She doesn't do things halfway. She's not trying to create an
image as much as she is trying to do a job. She has chosen one
thing, the arts, and stuck with it. And she's created her own
identity, which is totally separate from Fritz. Yet by doing so
she has been a true asset to him, rather than just a helpmate."
"Lady Bird Johnson," says former Johnson stafer who worked
intimately with her and knows Rosalynn Carter fairly well, too,
"fairly of all chose two pros. Liz Carpenter and Bess Abell, and
she listened to them. Secondly, she chose a project,
beautification, that was specific, clear, easily understandable
and that people could relate to."
"At no time, says a former East Wing staffer, "was anything
dramatic attempted to underscore her projects, and if you do them
in a spotty was there will be a limited amount of coverage. The
whole world is hardly waiting for Rosalynn's next pronouncement
on mental health the way they were for Betty Ford's next
remarks for instance."
"You've got to have a base or a concept to work with, a
direction," says Sheila Weidenfeld, Betty Ford's former press
secretary.
"Let's face it, says Mary Hoyt, "what Rosalynn is doing is an
extension of the president."
But that can sometimes produce meager results. According to
one former staffer, Rosalynn Carter's South American trip had
little impact because South American leaders treated "her exactly
as they would any wife of an Amercian persident": politely and
nothing more, with some macho types reportedly grumpy that the
president himself had not come.
"I'm no expert on what the role of the first lady should be,"
says Bob Strauss, Carter's special counsel on inflation and
Washington expert. "But there are several things I do know about
with respect to Rosalynn Carter. She can do just about
anything she sets out to do, very well and very effectively.
She's an able, wise and talented person. There are very subtle
and not so subtle areas where she plays a significant role. But
I would agree that there is a larger role she could play on the
national scene." The West Wing
Both inside the immediate White House staff and outside, tales
of woe on the image front were rifle, even among those most
powerful in the government, even those who are pro the president
and the first lady. Not one person out of more than 30
interviewed failed to recognize that there was a serious problem
not only with Rosalynn Carter's image but with the president's
as well. As usual, nobody wants to be quoted on the record.
Their jobs depend on it.
From the interviews, the following picture emerges:
One of the reasons why Rosalynn Carter has not made much of
an impact as first lady is a lack of coodination with and support
from the West Wing of the White House, the president's domain,
whose press operation is run by Jody Powell. Partly this is
because "the boys" Jody and Hamilton Jordan, have never had a
great rapport with Rosalynn Carter. Partly because they don't
get along withe her staff, partly because they have not been
directed by the president to get involved and partly becasue
there is so much infighting and indecision going on in Powell's
press office that they don't have time. But the main reason is
that Carter himself is something less than a liberated man. He
basically sees his wife as wife, mother, hostess. Nor have
Powell and Jordan been known for their advanced attitudes about
women.
None of them appears to realize that the East Wing of the
White House, the first lady's side, is or could be a very
important asset to them and the president. Powell is so
frustrated in his dealings with Mary Hoyt that he has hinted
several times recently that he believes that she will be fired.
He has even gone so far as to suggest that he would like to see a
man in that job becuase he would be easier to relate to.
The West Wing is apparently disgusted with the whole East Wing
operation. Jody Powell is upset that Jerry Rafshoon, Carter's
media man during the campaign, will be coming to the White House
next week as head of communications. The two have never gotten
along and Powell is afraid Rafshoon will usurp some of his power.
Already Barry Jagoda has begun answering to Rafshoon rather than
Powell, and Rosalynn Carter has expressed a hope that Rafshoon
will be able to solve the image problem where Powell could not.
"I think," says a Carter intimate who is very close to
Rafshoom, "that Jerry will be able to give Rosalynn and her staff
direction, in terms of her role. He is the only one who can do
it. She trusts him entirely.
Rafshoon himself, aware of the delicacy of his situation,
could not be reached for comment under any circumstances.
Jody Powell refused to comment, as well.
"The relationship between Rosalynn's staff and Jimmy's staff,
particularly Jody and Ham, is hate. Hate. Kill. Kill," says
one former staffer with a wry laugh. "It's sad because it always
seemed to me that Mary wanted Jody's good will and advice."
Mary is an uptown sophisticated lady. The fellows are put off
by this. She looks so fixed up. These guys are not used to
that.
"
"The East and West Wings have got to be coordinated,' says a
Carter administration type who has been around Washington for
years and has worked with Rosalynn Carter, Hoyt and Powell.
"Everybody has got to be singing out of the same hymn book. Then
you can say. 'This month we're pushing health insurance' or
'This is get tough with the Russians months.' Otherwise the
picture of the government does not come into focus."
"The problem," says a White House television reporter, "is
Carter. He is not a totally liberated person. He wants Rosalynn
to be active but he wants her to fill a certain role and no more.
He wants to be proud of the little woman."
A powerful woman White House correspondent says, "Women don't
play an important role in the policy-making in the Carter
administration. The West Wing has never wanted to have anything
to do with the first lady. They treat the East Wing with
disdain. The impact of women is not strongly felt in a Georgia
White House."
"Jody and Hamilton do not get along terribly well with
Rosalynn," says a White House correspondent who has covered the
Carters for several years. "Their primary motivation with her is
to keep her pleased, to avoid making her unhappy at the risk of
World War III. Otherwise she could make their lives miserable.
But they don't feel that way about Mary Hoyt or the rest of the
staff. They just don't pay any attention to them.
"I think Rosalynn Carter came in with tremendous potential
and the desire of Americans to see her be a very visible,
hard-working, precedent-breaking first lady," says Liz Carpenter,
former press secretary to Lady Bird Johnson when LBJ wass
President.
"If some timid soul in the West Wing, some underling, has the
idea that America's first ladies must be consigned to the
background, let them read the history and know that the ones
whowere substantive were those whose deeds were sometimes
shocking, sometimes consciousness-raising, always courageous. We
need Rosalynn Carter out rallying for us every hour of the
day."
And Hoyt says, "Maybe now that Rafshoon is coming there will
be more cooperation than there has been. There really has been
very little. The East Wing
" Rosalynn Carter works harder than any first lady I have
known and she's very serious," says UPI White House bureau chief
Helen Thomas. "But communicating what she's done is where the
breakdown is. I don't think it's her style to dramatize or
capture the limelight. But she's very dedicated. She's just not
projecting. Why? That's the $64,000 question."
"I have a view that the press people working for Rosalynn are
virtually worthless," says a male staffer in Carter's press
operation.
"It's ridiculos that such a spectacular woman as Rosalynn has
such a limp image. But every time we send an idea over the
transom they 'eeeek' like they're seen a mouse. Press people can
be obstaclee and Mary is a tremendous obstacle. She is political
and frightened and she's always looking over her shoulder. She
never seizes an opportunity. She's mistrustful of everyone. In
my view that whole operation could be the greatest possible
resource for the president, and it's not. The first family is
the greatest resource we have. I just told Jody I couldn't work
with her or the staff and he said, 'I know what you mean.'
However I sense that Rosalynn really trusts Mary Hoyt. So to
some extent it's an attack on Rosalynn because, of her choice of
Mary."
"I think we've been too separate from the West Wing," is all
Hoyt will say, guardedly, not wanting to seem too critical. "So
some of us go to the weekly staff meetings over there. I think
this new Carter reorganization will be helpful."
"There's never been anybody who worked harder, was more
compassionate and understanding," says Rick Hutto, Rosalynn
Carter's former appointments secretary who quit last fall, "but
she never had her own staff really, until the general campaign,
and I thinkher staff would understand her more if they'd been
with her as long as the president's has."
A Carter staffer who has worked closely with Rosalynn Carter
on mental health as well as other issues says simply. "If
the mental health program doesn't work for Rosalynn then I
would blame it on Mary. Mary puts up a wall around Rosalynn that
is hard to penetrate. It bests me what her motivation is. But
Mary Hoyt writes Rosalynn's mental health speeches as well as
her others and often doesn't even ask the experts for advice or
outside help. I know of several occassions when she has been
offered material and never used it. What Mary uses as her
resources I don't know. It's not my job to tell her what she
should or shouldn't write."
"We have Kathy Cade who is the director of projects and issues
and she does general research," says Hoyt about Rosalynn
Carter's speeches. "Then, if we need specific research on
something like mental heath we'll ask Tom Bryant.
Since Coates Redmon quit as speech-writer, Hoyt has been
writing all of Rosalynn Carter's speeches. A West Wing press
staffer has said that Rafshoon's top priority will be to find a
speechwriter for Rosalynn.
"During the campaign when Mrs Carter was talking about issues
and about her husband, she almost always spoke extemporaneously,"
says Hoyt, "and I think she's at her best when she's
extemporaneous.
"But she feels more secure with a text. It's rare though that
she's given a speech she doesn't change herself. She deviates a
great deal.
"There are so many political points that could be made by the
family," says a former staffer who admires Rosalynn Carter.
"But nobody knows anything about them, especially the human side
of Rosalynn. People don't even hear about her natural
spontaneous side. They don't hear about when she walks into a
staff meeting and asks 'Que Pasa?' after her Spanish lesson, or
how she runs around upstairs in the family quarters in blue jeans
and a campaign T-shirt, how she makes fun of herself playing the
violin and jokes about how Amy says she is so awful at it,
missing notes all the time. They don't tell about how she
finished playing tennis one day and just jumped into the White
House pool with all her tennis clothes on."
"Mary's whole attitude is don't rock the boat, don't make
major blunders and you'll survive. But maybe Rosalynn is telling
her this, saying I want no profile, I don't want to be in the
paper all the time. But I doubt it."
"I do feel, says another former staffer of the first lady's,
"that Rosalynn is not being presented as well as she could be
But Mary does her job well. It's difficult to get a handle on
Rosalynn. And she's not accessible to her staff, except for
Madeline Macbean, her personal assistant who came with her from
Georgia. When I needed her I could get her but you couldn't just
sit around and chat."
"I think Mrs. Carter defies packaging," says Hoyt. "We spend
a lot of time around here responding to this first lady. Which
is different. She likes what she is doing. And she can't
understand why people aren't more interested in her mental
health projects.
"People have drifted away from it," admits Hoyt. "But if it's
dull to sit in a meeting for eight hours and listen to the
problems of the mentally ill, so be it. It's not dramatic. But
I don't know who decreed that everything a first fady does has to
be dramatic." Washington
There are those who feel that one of the reasons that
Rosalynn Carter, and Jimmy Carter for that matter, have had such
image problems, found it so hard to get their message across, is
that they and most of their staff are just not familiar with
Washington, with the jargon, the mores, the attitudes and, most
importantly, the people. And they still don't understand the
press.
"She's a very determined, very intelligent, politically caring
lady," says Rosalynn Carter's former speech writer, Coates
Redmon, who quit in disillusion six months ago. "So the question
is this. If you want to have an impact and you have a big staff
behind you and a president who is supportive, how could you not
have an impact?
"It may be that here are these people coming here cold, having
been here three times in their lives and they move into the power
house. There's a freak-out potential. There must be a sense of
disorientation that may account for the way she deals with her
issues.
"Washington is an overpowering place. It takes years to know
your way around. But time is skipping by. My feeling is that
Joan Mondale's advantage over Rosalynn is that she has a total
understanding of her environment. That's got to matter."
"Look at Joan Mondale, for instance," says one Carter staffer,
"she knows everybody, she can walk into a room and call people by
their names. She knows how things work, where the bodies are
buried. She knows the totems and taboos. That's got to give her
a confidence the Carters have never had."
"Rosalynn has not had many of the experiences and the exposure
of Washington that she had in Georgia," says Peter Bourne, the
president's special assistant for health issues. "She had
flexibility as a governor's wife to pick up and do what she
wanted to do. It's incredibly hard to do anything spontaneously
from the White House because you set everything in motion. But
she just doesn't get much publicity here and I don't know why.
"They're both very naive in this respect," says a former
staffer. "They believe that they're right with God. And if what
they're doing is right everything will work out for the best.
But the problem is that things don't work that way in the real
world."
Someone who has known both Carters "since before it was even
chic to go to Plains," and is now a member, though distant, of
the administration, said he had finally figured out what it was
that has bothered him when he has been around Rosalynn Carter,
particularly at Washington functions.
"I see a look in Rosalynn's eyes," he says, "that you see in
foreigners who don't speak English very well. They find
themselves involved in a slangy conversation and they begin to
nod and smile and laugh very animatedly and suddenly you realize
that they don't understand half of what is being said. That's the
feeling you get with Rosalynn. You begin to realize that she's
over her head."
About a month ago, Rosalynn Carter was the guest speaker at
a gathering of the Foundations Council at the Shoreham Americana
Hotel.
She was even more nervous than she was at the National Press
Club.
However, at one point she broke away from her rather turgid
text to talk about a visit she had just made to a local halfway
house. Again she came alive and the audience immediately warmed
to her.
During this spontaneous moment, she remarked that there was
such a spirit of cooperation in Washington and with a certain
innocent amazement at her own influence, confided to the audience
that "I don't believe that I've asked one single person to help
me and been turned down."
The audience howled with laughter and it was moments before
she understood why they were laughing.
But it didn't take her long.
Carefully and deliberately placed right up there in her speech
at the National Press Club was a line Rosalynn Carter used,
looking up confidently from her text and playing it for all it
was worth.
"I pick up the White House phone at any hour of the day or
night and frequently ask the advice and counsel of experts in any
field, " she told them, this time with a conscious innocence in
her voice. "I do it often
" Pause for effect
"And
nobody ever turns me down. "
Once again the audience laughed with delight as the first lady
stood beaming, obviously at ease, for once, with the pleasures of
power.
GRAPHIC: Illustration, no caption, by Vint Lawrence for The
Washington Post; Picture 1, "At one point she was asked if there
was any time for President and Mrs Carter to just sit back and
enjoy themselves. 'I hope so,' she answered. "; Picture 2,
Rosalynn Carter paints at D.C. General Hospital. AP
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DATELINE: WASHINGTON
KEYWORD: Rosalynn- Mental Health
BODY:
Rosalynn Carter announced on Thursday an $18 million
demonstration housing program for the chronically mentally ill.
Mrs. Carter, honorary chairwoman of the president's Commission
on Mental Health, unveiled the plan at a joint appearance
with Patricia Roberts Harris, secretary of Housing and Urban
Development.
Under the program, states may submit plans showing how the
money could be used to help the mentally ill live in the
community after they are released from mental institutions.
"Through this program we can break the stifling struggle which
chronically mentally ill live in the community after they are
released from mental institutions.
"Through this program we can break the stifling struggle which
chronically mentally ill persons are confronted with when they
are released from the imprisoning conditions of mental
institutions," Mrs. Carter said.
PEOPLE OF THE WEEK®
Some Surprises as First Lad
It turns out that Rosalynn Carter isn't "the steel magnolia"
"I've read that I've tried to be like
that people were expecting. Underneath: a woman who has a
Eleanor Roosevelt, but that's absolutely
clear sense of mission but whose husband comes first.
false," says Rosalynn. "She was a great
person, but I've never ever tried to
pattern what I do after what she did.
If Jimmy Carter remains a mystery to
ble designed to focus attention on needs
I've been doing the things I think are
millions of Americans, his wife Rosalynn
of the elderly.
important, and I've not tried to copy
has developed into something of a sur-
Returned to the political stump to
anybody."
prise herself.
speak for Democratic candidates. Her
The First Lady's next major project
After nearly a year in the White
most recent outings have been to sup-
will be an effort to build what she calls
House, Rosalynn has demonstrated that
port gubernatorial nominees in New Jer-
"a more caring society." Explains Rosa.
she will be an activist First Lady-but
sey and Virginia. Although she has
lynn: "It applies to neighborhoods.
not the reincarnation of Eleanor Roose-
pretty much conquered a profound shy-
cities, rural areas. Growing up in Plains,
velt that many expected.
ness that hampered her early in her
when there was illness or trouble, peo-
During the 1976 election campaign,
husband's political career, she remains
ple cared and let you know it and helped
Carter's wife was popularly depicted as
nervous about public ap-
the "steel magnolia" woman who
pearances and still goes
cloaked great shrewdness and determi-
into the ladies' room to
nation with a facade of Southern charm,
rehearse before she deliv-
the real power behind the throne. But
ers a speech.
while her influence in the Oval Office
Entertained more
still is believed to be considerable, she
than a dozen foreign lead-
wields that power so subtly and private-
ers at state dinners. At the
ly that the impact is hard to measure.
Carter White House, no
The real Rosalynn Carter is a First
hard liquor is served, only
Lady who carries out a demanding
wine. In contrast to par-
schedule of official duties and personal
ties given by Gerald Ford,
commitments but who takes great pains
there is no dancing into
to stay in step with her husband in both
the wee hours of the
his official and family roles.
morning. There is an-
As Rosalynn puts it: "We co-ordinate. I
other difference, too: At
wouldn't go out and plan something
official welcoming cere-
rash."
monies, Rosalynn and the
On the road. On the Carters' planned
wife of the visiting digni-
world tour, whenever it takes place, the
tary now share the re-
President's wife will have her own itin-
viewing stand instead of
erary at each stop. She will meet with
following previous proto-
top health officials, receive briefings on
col and being relegated to
the status of women in the various coun-
a place in the crowd.
Presiding at a public hearing on mental health, Rosalynn
tries and then prepare a report on the
The stark contrast be-
Carter devotes time to a subject she believes is crucial.
sessions for the President.
tween the First Lady's
Such low-key methods are typical of
subdued style and the take-charge atti-
out during a crisis. I want to start work-
Rosalynn's approach-a quiet style care-
tude that many people had expected has
ing on a program of getting people
fully designed to get things done with-
led to criticism of her effectiveness. That
working together in communities and
out embarrassing or overshadowing her
came out early when Rosalynn's first
caring more about each other."
husband. In this fashion, since Inaugura-
major overseas trip, a tour of seven Ca-
Rosalynn's official day usually begins
tion Day she has:
ribbean and Latin-American nations last
at about 9:15 a.m. in her East Wing
Traveled to 12 American cities and
June, was derided in advance. Some po-
office of the White House, where she has
nine foreign countries as an official rep-
litical analysts expressed doubts as to
a 17-member staff. She spends part of
resentative of the President. Most re-
whether Latin officials concerned with
each day attending to private correspon-
cently, she toured the Texas-Mexico
"machismo" would pay any attention to
dence, reading the same news summary
border on November 3 with Carmen
a woman.
sent to the President, arranging the
Romano de López Portillo, wife of Mexi-
"I think I can give them some sense of
White House social calendar, consider-
co's President, and visited New Orleans.
Jimmy-some sense of his feeling to-
ing invitations for personal appearances.
Become closely involved in the
ward the world and his foreign policy,"
working on her favorite projects of men-
President's Commission on Mental
she countered. Most observers agreed
tal health and the elderly, and scanning
Health, of which she is honorary chair-
after the trip that she had done precisely
summaries of the 2,000 or so letters she
man. She has called discrimination
that, and gave her generally high marks
receives weekly.
against the mentally ill "a national dis-
for the journey.
The First Lady often writes comments
grace" and pledged "an all-out personal
But the First Lady has made no at-
in the margins of staff reports, signing
drive to help create a new national phi-
tempt to emulate Eleanor Roosevelt,
them simply "R." Memos from the Presi-
losophy about mental health and to help
who toured coal mines, slums and war
dent come addressed to "Ros." She al-
bring mental illness out of the closet."
zones while her husband held the White
ways refers to her husband as "Jimmy.
Sponsored a White House round ta-
House.
never as "the President."
40
U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT, Nov. 14. 1977
a Style of Her Own
presidential retreat in the Maryland
mountains. There, she changes into blue
jeans for walks in the woods and enjoys
swims in the heated outdoor pool. Even-
ings are spent bowling with Amy, read-
ing in front of the fire and watching
movies.
Life with Jimmy. The First Lady has
learned to laugh at news reports of how
she exercises influence over the Presi-
dent. One myth she knocks down: that
she can change Carter's assessment of a
world leader with a few choice words of
her own.
Says Rosalynn: "Jimmy and I argue
and debate the issues all the time-what
is happening and are we going about it
in the right way. We are very close
together philosophically. We do have
differences, but it's usually when I don't
understand something or when he
doesn't understand how I feel."
In fact, the evidence is that the Car-
ters disagree on very little. And when
they do differ, she will be the last one to
let anyone know about it.
A close friend explains: "She thinks
that to go into detail on issues they
Meeting foreign dignitaries is a key role for the First Lady, here with
discuss is like telling the world what
wife of Mexican President López Portillo in Juárez November 3.
they talk about when they go to bed at
night. She is a traditional woman in
Aides describe Rosalynn as
Outside the office, Rosalynn keeps up
many ways."
"highly discreet" in everything
her Spanish lessons and shares a violin
Traditional or not, Rosalynn Carter
she does-a quality she demands
class with daughter Amy. She also still
clearly is one President's wife who insists
of her own staff. Pet peeves: peo-
balances the family checkbook and has
on following her own instincts in how to
ple who are late or who fail to get
the final sign-off on the couple's income-
play the role of the nation's First Lady.
directly to the point in conversa-
tax return.
tion-exactly the things that an-
Like her husband, Rosalynn has fallen
This article was prepared by Asso-
noy her husband.
in love with Camp David, the secluded
ciate Editor Patricia Avery.
Efforts of the President's wife
on behalf of the equal-rights
dment probably reflect, as much as
ther activity, how she operates.
telephone and letter, Rosalynn has
cted dozens of legislators in States
dering the amendment. But when
by reporters whom the First Lady
ached, her press secretary replied:
really believes she can destroy her
liveness if she goes to the public.
hinks it should be done privately."
salynn's sense of privacy redoubles
it comes to her family life out of
view. She makes certain that
is no breach in rigid security that
Is the Carters' "off duty" hours.
friends and staff members say
the ntimate relationship existing
President and his wife of 31
is obvious to everyone. "You can't
round them and not know how
they are," says one White House
DON STEFFEN
"They have antennae-like abil-
Helping out on the campaign trail is something the President's wife learned to do for her
know what the other is feeling."
husband. Now she is widely sought to lend a hand to other Democratic candidates.
& WORLD REPORT, Nov. 14, 1977
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May 20, 1977, Friday, Final Edition
HEADLINE: First Lady's Breakfast
BYLINE: By Donnie Radcliffe
Rosalynn Carter, who with her husband has spent the spring getting
acquainted with Washington's influential, made a pilgrimage yesterday to yet
another bastion of power, the 700-member Congressional Club.
The occasion was the annual First Lady's Breakfast, a tradition almost as old
as the 69-year-old club and an event a President's wife dare not miss if she
knows what's good for the President (as John Kennedy did in 1963 when he
substituted for his wife, Jacequeline).
I'm really overwhelmed," Rosalynn Carter told the record crowd of 1,000 at
the Shorham Americana which included spouses of the Vice President, Supreme
Court Justices, the Cabinet, U.S. senators and representatives and actress
Elizabeth Taylor, who in her remote corner of the room was as besieged by
autograph-hounds as the First Lady.
Taylor's reservation, through her hostess, Jermaine Magnuson of Washington,
had reached the committee late and cost her a "choice" table, according to
cochairman Mae Guyer of Ohio.
And compared to her White House predecessors, Rosalynn Carter's acceptance
had taken longer than Guyer thought customary. "She's not been a congressional
wife, so she doesn't know anything about the club," said Guyer, who told of
calling the White House in January "several times
We were getting anxious
to hear."
The hotel's Regency Ballroom was decorated with paper versions of Georgia's
state flower, the Cherokee rose, against a bright green-and-white color scheme.
"Carter campaign colors," the First Lady noted with satisfaction.
Introduced by club president Doris McClory of Illinois, the First Lady
presented checks for $500 each to the D.C. Chapter of Recordings for the Blind
and the Mental Health Program of the District. In return, she received a
needlepoint rendition of the White House, a serenade by singer Tony Bennett and
protection from inquiring reporters at a pre-breakfast VIP reception.
In 1974, reporters attending the reception questioned then-First Lady Pat
Nixon about Watergate and, according to Guyer, "We were very embarrassed about
that." Since then, the press has been barred from the reception in an effort to
protect the First Lady from being "put on the spot."
Yesterday's breakfast, at $12.50 a ticket, cost $2.50 less than in 1976 and
was made possible because "We had a little extra left over from last year," said
Guyer. "We don't expect to make money."
GRAPHIC: Picture, First Lady Rosalynn Carter with Doris McClory and Joan
Mondale at yesterday's breakfast held for Carter by the Congressional Club. By
Harry Naltchayan - The Washington Post
The Washington Post
May 11, 1977, Wednesday, Final Edition
HEADLINE: Rosalynn Carter Takes Up Cause of Nation's 22 Million Elderly
BYLINE: By Donnie Radcliffe, Washington Post Staff Writer
Rosalynn Carter, who a month ago launched a program to focus attention on
the nation's mentally disabled, yesterday began an effort to help with the
problems of the nation's 22 million elderly.
"A society that cares is the most important thing," the President's wife said
yesterday, concluding the first of what she sees as a series of White House
round-table discussions on problems of the aging. "I know if we work together
we can do something worthwhile," she said.
Using much the same procedure she did a month ago with members of the
President's Committee on Mental Retardation, she sought recommendations from 23
experts on aging on such questions as mandatory retirement, health care, housing
and nutritional needs.
She not only got them - in five-minutes bursts, carefully clocked by an aide
seated behind her - but some others she may not have anticipated.
"There is a need at the highest levels of government for a prominent,
national advocate of the elderly to stimulate greater national awareness of
their problems," said Bert Seldman, director of the AFL-CIO's Department of
Social Security.
He proposed that she expand upon the task she had undertaken by setting up
the meeting and that she become, in effect, "a national ombudsman" for the 22
million Americans over 65.
Rep. Claude Pepper (D-Fla.), chairman of the House Select Committee on Aging,
saw the advocacy role from another perspective.
"For too long the elderly have suffered the indignity of a confused and
confusing bureaucracy, the indignity of mandatory retirement, the indignity of a
system which favors costly and often needless institutionalization, the
indignity of nursing homes which are too often tinderboxes and the indignity of
stereotypes which distate that to be old is to be feeble-minded and worthless,"
said Pepper, at 76 teh senior among his fellow conferees and therefore first to
commence the discussions.
He invited the First Lady to put pressure on his congressional colleagues "to
bring legislation (benefiting the elderly) to the floor out of committee where
it reclines." "You are suggesting that I lobby the Congress?" She asked Pepper,
who had told her that as committee chairman he would "welcome" her counsel. "I'm
willing to do that. I do understand how important the programs are," she said.
Later, the First Lady expressed satisfaction that the discussion had "been a
start," although she said there had been no way to invite everyone concerned
with topics under discussion.
"From this I'll get a focus on what to do," she said, adding that she had no
time limit because "I've got four years
I wanted to start now, but the
goals are long-range."
1977 The Washington Post
April 19, 1977, Tuesday, Final Edition
HEADLINE: Mrs. Carter Begins Fulfilling Her Pledge;
Launches Campaign to Aid Elderly, Mentally Disabled
BYLINE: By Donnie Radcliffe, Washington Post Staff Writer
husband's position and a determination the White House will be "a place that
people can turn to for help, Rosalynn Carter set out yesterday to focus
attention on two fields of particular concerned to her - the elderly and the
mentally disabled - and the problems unique to each.
It was her first major move toward keeping some campaign promises of her own.
In a mid-morning address to 1,100 delegates to the 27th Annual Conference of
the National Council on Aging, the First Lady announced a May 10 "roundtable"
discussion" on the aging at the White House, which she called "a first step" in
her campaign pledge "to help personally."
Reading excerpts from four of the 3,060 letters she receives weekly on such
subjects, she said their elderly authors represented old people everywhere who
"struggle to stay warm, have decent clothes, decent clothes food to eat, try to
pay their bills and not be a burden to anybody."
She told of inviting representatives and experts from 17 lay and professional
groups "to discuss the problems and also to seek solutions. I know there are
many programs already for the elderly but the concern I have is that these
programs do not reach the people they are supposed to reach."
She said she will seek greater coordination through "an agenda for channeling
information about valid programs. I am determined that the White House will be
place that people can turn to for help. I am determined that the White House
will be open and available for help."
Later, at the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, she participated
in a meeting of the President's Committee on Mental Retardation, exhorting its
25 members to provide specific recommendations that could provide a basis for
legislation her husband may propose.
She wanted recommendations on how to help families of the mentally retarded
through programs similar to those offered families of alcoholics. She called
for suggestions on training professionals to work with those families, ways to
dispel the stigma of retardation and illness, and ideas on educating the public
to "understanding and acceptance."
She had a word of advice, while she was at it. Knowing from experience that
"if you give Jimmy specific, brief, understandable recommendations,' the
likelihood of results was better than if he is presented "reams" of text.
She wanted some answers herself, she indicated during presentations by heads
of the committee's seven task forces.
"It distresses me to see funds cut, she told Dr. Cecil B. Jacobson, head of
research and prevention. "I don't think we had enough in the first place.
"I don't think that's the major problem," Jacobson replied. "I think the
major problem is in applying what we already know.'
Eunice Kennedy Shriver, a special guest at the session, said later that
Rosalynn Carter had made "a good point but she didn't get a very good answer.
In fact, less than $2 million, goes into research on prematurity
Research
and reproductive biology are important for prevention (of mental retardation)
but nobody is really very interested."
HEW Secretary Joseph A. Califano Jr., however, was hopeful that "the next few
ars are going to mean to the handicapped and retarded some turmoil but the
kind of progress the blacks made in 1960."
As for Rosalynn Carter, Califano, who is automatically chairman of the
committee, which was established in 1966, was equally optimistic.
"It may be the best thing that's happened in this area isn't the direct
election of Jimmy Carter," he said, "but the indirect election of Rosalynn
Carter. "
GRAPHIC: Picture, HEW Secretary Califano joins the First Lady at meeting of
President's Committee on Mental Retardation. By Ellsworth Davis - The
1977 The Washington Post
ost
April 6, 1977, Wednesday, Final Edition
EADLINE: A Low-Key Debut Appearance by the First Lady
BYLINE: By Donnie Radcliffe
Some in the crowd had waited 45 minutes in the rain and considered themselves
lucky, at that. The 600 tickets to Rosalynn Carter's debut appearance
yesterday before the 2,200 member Woman's National Democratic Club had been
snapped for four weeks earlier like the proverbial hotcakes.
"It was very important for me to see her, said a drenched but smiling Ann
Robbins, struggling to get out of her rain-soaked coat. "The last time was at a
campaign tea and then we had to give the tickets awat to anyone to come."
But by the time Robbins reached Carter, wearing her Inaugural turquoise wool
dress as she stood between WNDC President Mary Lou Friedman and special events
chairman Gerry Komer, all the things she had planned to tell the First Lady were
lost in pure and simple awe. "I could only think to say 'I'm deeply moved,'
said Robbins, "and then I promptly went back (to the dining room) and spilled
punch all over me."
It was that kind of a day in that strictly partisan crowd for whom
superlatives would come easy, criticism difficult. Advance billing of
Rosalynn Carter's maiden address to the group (many of whom could remember
only too vividly one of her activist predecessors, Eleanor Roosevelt) had left
little doubt that it would be important. Said the April edition of The WNDC
News: "Our newest Honorary President will make what is expected to be a major
statement on plans for mental health care."
Instead, "I feel like I'm campaigning again," Carter began, looking out upon
a sea of faces eager for a glimpse and hint of where her programs on mental
health and the elderly will be headed in the months ahead. "One thing I've had
adjust to is that my influence, no matter what I say, goes across the
Country," she said, paraphrasing to some ears her oft-repeated campaign
statement of how as governor's wife, she began to realize how influential she
could be.
Rather that be specific about her own programs, she solicited support from
her audience on those of Jimmy Carter. Warning of "great and powerful forces of
opposition" to his forthcoming energy policy, and "concern" for his human rights
stand, she said "the point is that to succeed we need your help - it's your
responsibility as mush as ours."
Later, after she had gone, taking with her the club's third annual Democratic
Woman of the year award that included not just a citation but a specially
designed scarf by Alexandria dress shop owner Frankie Welch, enthusiasm was
polite and warm. Even so, there seemed to be an undercurrent of
disappointment.
"She was very good to review for us the projects she shares with the
President," said Mary Lou Friedman.
"What could she say? She couldn't say anything about policy?" asked Florence
Donahue. "She was asking people to stand up for what we believe in."
"I loved her," said Sue Groth who saw nothing new in Carter's description of
her own programs but thought that, too, all right because "I wouldn't have
wanted her to make up something."
Another prominent Democrat, accustomed to the specifics the Club's biweekly
featured luncheon speakers traditionally adhere to, suggested the occasion's
"set-up" may have proved inhibiting for the First Lady.
Said a club spokesperson who had been under the impression thta Carter's
ech would be newsworthy: "Apparently some decision was made later that she
uld hold off now and simply voice her interest." 1977 The Washington Post
April 5, 1977, Tuesday, Final Edition
HEADLINE: A Different Kind of Tea
BYLINE: By Donnie Radcliffe
Rosalynn Carter turned a White House tea for Jihan Sadat of Egypt into an
open forum yesterday, leading the discussion by a half dozen experts in their
fields on a variety of social problems confronting both the United States and
Egypt.
At the end, proving perhaps that Rosalynn Carter might be able to leave the
"party" out of a White House tea but never Jimmy Carter out of a White House
concert turned up to hear 11-year-old pianist Ana-maria Vera. He sat between to
two First Ladies, holding Mrs. Carter's hand much of the time, to hear the young
artist perform a recital of selections from Chopin and Scarlatti.
"I have all kinds of favorites (musical artists). They change everyday.
Today you're my favorite," he told the youndster, who gave her first recital at
age 5 and most recently appeared as guest soloist with Arthur Fielder at the
Kennedy Center.
If it was a highly successful ending it had also been a disarmingly informal
guests were seated in a semi-circle in the Blue Room behind small tables with
namecards prominently dispalyed.
"Your interests and my interests are the same," she told Egypts' First Lady,
hesitating slightly over how to address her. (Am I supposed to say 'Madame'?
asked Carter. "Just call me Jihan, replied the visitor).
For 45 minutes, men and women prominent in the area of women's rights, the
andicapped, medical research and teharts brought the two women up to date on
advances in their respective fields.
John Sharon, president of Children's Hospital National Medical Center, told
of work to develop a vaccine to cure an infant bone disease which he said he
understood afflicts 30 per cent of the children in Egypt.
Dr. Estelle Ramey, Georgetown University endocrinologist and a leading
feminist, told of three particular areas where she has been active: opening up
medical schools to more women, providing science scholarships to women and
assisting centers for "beaten wives".
"Beaten?" asked Jihan Sadat, herself a leading feminist.
Ramey's explanation, that they were often economically deprived women who had
no place to go expect for the few centers in some regions of the country, drew 1
further questioning from Sadat.
"How do you help, by giving money or by teaching handicrats? Why don't you
let them depends on themselves by teaching them something?"
The problem was somewhat more complex, Ramey said, explaining how some
battered wives "feel they may deserve to eb beaten - there is no sense of self
at all. And the tragedty is that their sons probably grow up to beat their own
wives."
It was a subject that visibly affected Sadat, who suggested a counseing
program for the husband, as well, similar, she indicated, to a program in Egypt
where "we bring the husband in and in a very kind way teach him how to be kind."
Ramey replied that in the United States two problems prevailed, one
concerning the urgency of "emergency" aspects, the other "social services.' " "The
children of those families often have a very high incidence of mental disorders,
rom neuroses to psychoses."
But it was Dr. Henry Viscardi, chairman of the White House Conference on
Handicapped Individuals, whose work may have been of greatest interest to Sadat,
nown for her efforts on behalf of the handicapped. Born without legs and a
elf-described "charity patient" until age 7, he told of never being able to
stand until he was 23, when he was first fitted with artificial legs.
"In any other land, I might never have been able to be a learned man," he
said. "Your interest, Jihan, is appreciated. A man without limbs who sits in
Cairo has the same aspirations that I do."
Sadat responded, proposing exchange visits between the handicapped of both
countries - "If that is possible I would be very well pleased," she said. It
was an idea Rosalynn Carter quickly endorsed as "something else I'm doing - an
exchange program between our states and foreign countries. I think it is a
great idea to include handicapped individuals in that exchange."
Later, when the discussions had ended, Carter told her guests, who also
included Joan Mondale, the National Gallery of Art's J. Carter Brown and Dr.
Esin Atil, curator of Islamic Art at the Freer Gallery, that it was "the kind of
tea I like - I feel I learned something and I feel that she (Mrs. Sadat)
learned, too. "
In the morning, Carter met briefly with a group of Asian leaders touring the
United States under sponsorship of the League of Women Voters' Overseas
Education Fund.
Sitting with them in the White House Library, she suddenly found herself
being lobbied - against removal of U.S. troops in Korea and for passage of a
congressional bill that would provide authorization for $5.2 billion to three
international lending institutions.
"The Communists are all around us," said Somsri Kantamala of Thailand's
Ministry of Interior, in urging U.S. presence in Korea. "We need American moral
support. We can fight by ourselves, but we think of you as being the big
rother of the free world."
The First Lady listened politely, said the views of her guests were helpful
but gave no indication of her personal opinions.
"We didn't expect this, " Kantamala said later of the exchange, "so I took
this opportunity to say what I think."
Said Press Secretary Mary Hoyt later, "Mrs. Carter would appreciate that kind
of forthrightness. It takes it out of purely coffee talk and makes it something
meaningful."
CORRECTION-DATE: April 6, 1977, Wednesday, Final Edition
AvoiD
CORRECTION:
Children's Hospital National Medical Center is working to develop a vaccine
to cure infant diarrhea, not bone disease, as reported in yesterday's editions.
The Post regrets the error.
GRAPHIC: Picture, Jihan Sadat of Egypt arriving for tea with Rosalynn Carter.
By Ellsworth Davis - The Washington Post
1977 The Washington Post
March 25, 1977, Friday, Final Edition
HEADLINE: First Lady Shops in New York
BYLINE: By Donnie Radcliffe
They were singing the First Lady's praises yesterday along New York's Seventh
Avenue, the same place where only two months before they had been voicing some
doubts about her 6-year-old Inaugural Ball gown, in particular, and her fashion
taste, in general.
Rosalynn Carter, you see, had just bought her spring and summer wardrobe.
It was like music to the ears of the hard-pressed International Ladies money
in the bank to at least four New York design houses.
In six hours on Wednesday, the First Lady had bought a couple of coats, again
that many suits, several daytime dresses and at least two gowns for evening.
And if she caught some designers by surprise - "The White House called just
hours before she arrived," said a spokesman for designer Jerry Silverman - the
ILGWU had been prepared.
In fact, the ILGWU's president, Sol Chaikin, during what a spokesman called
"just a friendly visit" to President Carter on March 15, set the trip in motion
when he expressed the hope that Rosalynn Carter might like to visit Seventh
Avenue sometime.
"That's where it all began," according to Evelyn DuBrow, the ILGWU's
legislative director, who, with executive vice president Wilbur Daniels and
assistant president Gus Tyler, was waiting for the First Lady Wednesday when she
arrived at Silverman's showrooms.
Chaikin, himself, couldn't join them since he was hospitalized for minor
Surgery but his wife represented him, accompanying Rosalyn Carter, her
sister-in-law Ruth Carter Stapleton and the First Lady's personal assistant,
Madeline MacBean, on their swift fashion rounds.
Badly hit by what DuBrow called "the penetration of imports - 89 per cent of
the garments sold in the United States today are imports,' the ILGWU has been
losing members steadily as domestic production has dropped.
"We wanted to indicate," DuBrow said of Rosalynn Carter's Wednesday visit,
"that we were encouraging Americans everywhere to buy union-made clothing."
Said a spokesman for Sol Chaikin yesterday in New York: "It (the Carter
visit) was a tremendous boost for the industry."
It was also a tremendous boost (if not necessarily in money, certainly in
publicity) for some individual designers. At Silverman where the First Lady
made selections "right off the rack, according to sales manager Eli Lehman, she
ordered several articles in the imitation suede fabric, Ultra-suede,
(three-piece suit, coat and jumper), plus a pencil-striped suit with crepe de
chine shirt.
At Dominic Rompoilo, who designed her Inaugural wardrobe and also added a
wrap to update her ball gown, she selected six items. Among them were an
all-white matte jersey floor-length dress and coat, a long "Rosalynn green"
matte jersey gown, a linen jumper in banana yellow, a cotton apricot and
white-striped daytime dress and another in "peanut" and white.
At Abe Schrader, she chose a navy-blue coat, aqua dress and four-piece navy
linen suit with vest.
She also looked at sketches at Kasper.
"She knows pretty well what she wants and what she likes," said Rompollo.
From Seventh Avenue came indications of a welcome truce. Said Halston, who
only two months ago had accused the Carters of accomplishing "a real putdown" of
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emissang for the fashion industry
he fashion industry by their low-key treatment: "I think it was very gracious
nd very nice of Mrs. Carter to go to Seventh Avenue and be supportive of our
industry."
Equally positive was 1976 Coty Award-winning Mary McFadden, who called it
"important" that the First Lady had made the visit.
GRAPHIC: Pictures 1 and 2, First Lady Rosalyn Carter went shopping along New
York's Seventh Avenue to buy her spring and summer wardrobe. Her purchases
included a pinstriped suit and white crepe dress from Jerry Silverman.
ROSALYNN'S AGENDA
IN THE WHITE HOUSE
By Kandy Stroud
She has no mandate, no prescribed
with Jimmy in the family dining room
powers. and only a limited budget for
and a half-hour at 4:30 to do home-
staff. Yet just two months after mov-
ing into the White House, Rosalynn
work or play with Amy, she sometimes
leaves her office as late as 6:30. Conse-
Carter, 49, is convinced that she can
quently, there are evenings when she
"make a difference." is she puts it:
"I just know when Jimmy was Gover-
goes straight from work to the theater
in her office clothes. One night, when
nor there were 50 many things I could
the President decided at the last min-
do that I worried about my priorities.
ute to go see Hal Holbrook in "Mark
You know, If I was doing the most
Twain Tonight!" at the Kennedy
important thing. I feel the same way
"My philosophy is that you do what you have to do."
Center, Rosalynn sat in the Presiden-
about this. There's no end to what I
can do in the White House."
tial box in: the beige Ultrasuede
Jumper and navy blouse she had been
Her agenda in the White House re-
flects her own personal temperament,
Roosevelt was "the Assistant
things done. She thinks she has powers
wearing all day.
which was formed in an all-work-little-
President," Rosalynn Carter could also
and does not think they come from
If the Carters are home for the
play girlhood in Georgia, as well as
have an impact on the making of
evening. Rosalynn takes her batter-
the feminist temper of the times. If
tional policy, advising on her hus-
Mrs. Carter has already displayed
ed black Samsonite attaché case
her first breathless weeks in the White
band's programs as well as advocating
her considerable powers. Largely hid-
back to the family quarters and
House are any clue, she may become
her own, sometimes sitting in on Cabi-
den from public view, she has estab-
works until the President finishes
the most activist First Lady since
net meetings and pushing legislation
lished an arduous daily routine. She
in the Oval Office. They retire about
Eleanor Roosevelt, whose public years
she supports.
usually spends eight hours at her
11 P.M. Even dinners are working ses-
she has thoroughly studied. Rosalynn
"I think she inherently understands
Chippendale mahogany kneehole desk
sions. One evening. Zbigniew Brze-
has taken as her special interest the
she's in a position where she can elec-
surrounded by fresh flowers, four "in"
zinski, White House adviser on nation-
needs of the people she believes are
trify people and generate excitement,"
and "out" boxes and Amy's pink-and-
a) security, came over for a light sup-
"underserved" by Government, espe-
says Mary King. an old Carter friend
blue gingham "tooth-fairy pillow,"
per to brief the Carter family and some
claily the mentally and emotionally III,
who is now deputy director of AC-
which she has tucked on an empty
staff members. Rosalynn found It so
and the cause of human rights-espe-
TION, the Government's volunteer
bookshelf in her yellow- and-apricot
fascinating she told friends she
cially women's rights. Just as Mrs.
agency. "She wants to do something
East Wing office. Starting at 9:30 A.M.,
thought it was too bad the discussion
national in impact and realizes she's in
she makes telephone calls to gather
couldn't have been on public televi-
a position to use that Influence to do
information from experts In the field
sion.
Kandy Stroud, who has been cover-
good. She has never said this, but I
of mental health, has meetings with
Tuesday and Thursday mornings,
ing the Carter family for the past year,
have always felt that in her heart she
her staff, answers heaps of mail, and
she presides over a 45-minute staff
adapted this article from a chapter of
believes the Lord has put her in a
lobbies for the Equal Rights Amend-
meeting in her conference room around
her new book, "How Jimmy Won."
unique situation where she could get
ment. Allowing a half-hour for lunch
a highly polished oval table, sur-
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1
rounded by green leather chairs Staff-
"She'll
do
what
she
member
from
voted for the amendment, it passed,
ers claim she guides those meetings
of Georgia," the President predicts.
Earth, Minn. "She is interested in
26-24, and Rosalynn was credited with
decisively, making speedy decisions.
"She probed to see how she could be
prisoners who receive inadequate men-
breaking the tie.
"She knows exactly what she wants,"
of service to the people. She involved
tal care," said Mrs. Schotzko later.
The White House received 50 critical
says Ann Anderson, her deputy press
herself in programs to combat alcohol-
"And she said, because she's from a
phone calls and Townsend was
secretary. She goes around the table
ism and drug abuse.
She took the
rural area, she wants to see more
plagued with hate mail, but Rosalynn
eliciting opinions and information
initiative in mental retardation. She'd
facilities
in rural communities
persisted in her low-key telephone
from her team of 16 women and two
come to me and say, This is what we
Less than two weeks later, with
campaign. She and Jimmy both phoned
men, and sometimes gales of laughter
need to do.' Then she'd come back
Rosalynn standing by his side, Carter
several North Carolina legislators urg-
can be heard pealing down the red.
to me with a description of what was
signed an executive order creating the
ing them to/vote for the E.R.A. there,
carpeted halls. "It's really nice to
necessary. And that's what we imple-
President's Commission on Mental
but with less success. The amendment
work with her," says one staff mem-
mented. It was innovative and work-
Health. The commission is charged
was defeated on March 1.
ber who, like many others, calls her
able." Asked if he would try to silence
with trying to identify the nation's
After another surge of critical calls
"Rosalynn." "She's businesslike, but
Rosalynn if she were as outspoken as
mental health needs. It will assess the
and some anti-E.R.A. picketing in front
very. informal. I looked up from my
Betty Ford, he smiled, "If I did, it
quality of existing services, estimate
of the White House, Mrs. Carter
desk one morning and she was just
probably wouldn't do any good."
the nation's mental-health needs over
stopped announcing all her activities
standing there.
IL she wants
Like Eleanor Roosevelt, who traveled
the next quarter-century and try to.
on behalf of the E.R.A. Nevertheless,
something, she'll just walk right down
widely, Rosalynn plans to serve as rov.
identify what research the Government
she ordered her projects director, Kathy
the hall instead of phoning."
ing ambassador for her husband. She
should support in both the prevention
Cade, to meet with representatives
Most afternoons, she is plagued with
has already stood in for him at the in-
and treatment of mental illness and
from ERAmerica, a coalition of 120
meetings-with the budget office, with
auguration of President José López
men'al retardation.
groups supporting ratification, as well
the legal counsel, with the chief usher,
Portillo of Mexico and is expected to
Dr. Thomas Bryant; a friend of the
as Senator Bayh, Mary Brooks of the
Rex Scouten, and the housekeeping
fly to Latin America to promote some
Carler's who has been president of the
League of Women Voters. Roz Baker
staff, with her son Chip about his
cultural and student exchange pro--
Drug-Abuse Council since 1971, was
of the National Education Association.
projects.-with-her-project-planners:
grams. Rosalynn also intends to take a
appointed executive director. (Ironical-
and Presidential aides Midge Costanza
Rosalynn occasionally works on Satur-
half-dozen trips within the United
ly, Rosalynn could not be designated
and Mark Siegel. to discuss strategy
days, too. On one weekend, she spent
States in the next three months to
chairman because Presidents are
for passage of the E.R.A. The Presi-
the day at a mental-health conference
visit hospitals and nursing homes and
prohibited from appointing close rela-
dent and Mrs. Carter are said to be
and managed to have lunch with the
attend mental-health hearings.
tives to civilian positions. "So," said
quietly reassessing their ratification
wife of a friend who had been hospital-
Rosalynn Carter's first priority,
Rosalynn with a twinkle, "I am going
strategy and may go beyond the per-
ized. She's no time-waster.
clearly, is improving the delivery of
to be a very active honorary chairper-
sonal, last-minute lobbying of the
She has also embarked on a program
mental-health services in this country.
son.") She promised to work on the
past two months. For the moment,
of extracurricular studies. From 9
Her first week in the White House was
commission every week in its offices
however, Mrs. Carter plars to limit
until noon on Tuesdays, Wednesdays
herself to phone calls.
and Fridays, she takes Spanish lessons
in the solarium, to become fluent for
several Latin American trips she plans
After only two months in the White House, the
Rosalynn Carter has already identi-
to take during the next four years.
'steel magnolia' with the soft drawl promises
fied but not yet acted on her third
And every Tuesday night at 7 P.M.,
and fourth priorities: help for the
she and her husband take a refresher
speed-reading course so they can cope
to be the most active First Lady in decades.
aging and encouragement of "volun-
teerism." She plans to meet later this
with the mountains of reading that
spring with Ellen Sulzberger Straus,
confront them daily.
founder of Call to Action, a national
If she has found plenty to do as
citizen complaint service, and will prob-
First Lady, Rosalynn has at least been
spent discussing her plan for the Pres-
in the Executive Office Building. She
ably become involved with ACTION. the
relieved of one wifely duty. For 25
ident's Commission on Mental Health
will attend mental-health hearings
volunteer Government agency that en-
years. she sprang out of bed at dawn
with Dr. Peter Bourne, a special assist-
around the country and help to raise
compasses the Peace Corps, VISTA,
and fixed her husband a hearty break-
ant to the President and close friend
private money to supplement the com-
and Foster Grandparents. "The volun-
fast-coffee, grits, eggs. toast, juice.
of the family. She asked him to find
mission's small budget.
teerism Rosalynn is talking about is
But Jimmy discovered recently that he
out how Presidential commissions
simple citizen participation," explains
has little time for breakfast and.
were formed and which ones had been
Rosalynn's second priority in the
Mrs. Straus. "She's interested in peo.
what's more, does not really like it.
successful in the past. She also wanted
White House is passage of the Equal
ple joining together to bring about
"He has just orange Juice," she says.
Bourne to arrange an inspection trip
Rights Amendment. Although she
social change outside the pay system
"In fact, he told me during the cam-
to the National Institute of Health in
did not publicly work for the E.R.A.
and she wants to provide the leader-
paign that he enjoyed his mornings
Bethesda, Md., so she could study what
in Georgia except to wear an "E.R.A.-
ship. Rosalynn, I think, wants to em-
so much more because he didn't have
research was being done. "She wants
YES" button, she's now actively cam-
phasize that programs can work if
to eat the big breakfast I used to fix
to help those who cannot either afford
paigning for passage of the amend-
implemented by people helping people.
for him. I wish I had known that 25
mental health or those who are in re-
ment, as is the President.
Like her husband, she wants to see
years ago."
mote areas where services are not
"She'll speak softly and carry a big
that people really care about each
available." explains Bourne. "She is
stick," says Mary Hoyt, her press sec.
other again. We've lost that."
also worried about adolescents who
retary. Two days before the Inaugura-
As First Lady of Georgia, Rosalynn'
are usually reluctant to go to a place
tion, Jan. 18, Rosalynn learned that
did a great deal of volunteer work in
called a 'mental-health center.' She
the Indiana State Senate was tied, 25.
the mental-health field, and she will
wants to see mental-health services
25, on the E.R.A. On the advice of Sen:
attempt to revitalize the "service"
available in the marketplace."
ator Birch Bayh, she phoned W. Wayne
concept nationally. She feels very
A few days later, on Feb. 5, Rosa.
Townsend, an Indiana State Senator
strongly about it, as she explained to
lynn quietly slipped out of the White
who had supported the amendment but
an audience in Bakesfield, Calif., last
House to attend a board meeting of
now seemed to be wavering. Rosalynn
October: "Aside from doing everything
t Is, of course,
the National Association for Mental
was not the first Carter to lobby
possible provide programs for
Rosalynn Carter's special working
Health in Artington, Va. The meeting
Townsend; Carter's daughter-in-law
people who are seriously ill, I want to
partnership with her husband that will
was completely closed to the press;
had been dispatched to Indiana two
do everything humanly possible to
define her role and determine her ef.
not even a pool reporter was permitted
weeks before to talk to him. "There
help create a more caring society so
fectiveness as First Lady. But she also
inside. "She wanted to be here like
was no high pressure," Townsendgre-
that we can begin to counter the pain-
comes to the White House with con-
the rest of us," one board member
calls. Rosalynn was "very sweet land
ful loneliness and sense of helpless-
fidence, experience and some definite
said. "She didn't make a speech
pleasant. She talked about
Judy
ness which has engulfed too many of
plans. She clearly plans to be the guid-
or anything. She Just listened and took
Langford's trip out here to lobby for
our people."
ing force behind the new President's
notes and voted on the issues." After
E.R.A. and other things, and she said
The public is already familiar with
Commission on Mental Health, to lobby
the meeting. Rosalynn lingered to talk
she hoped I'd vote for the amendment.
Mrs. Carter's public self. the no-non-
for the Equal Rights Amendment, to
to the other participants. She dis-
Of course, she didn't convince me; I
sense, 1950's housewife with the circle
encourage more volunteering among
cussed the concept of what she calls
was planning to vote for it anyway."
pin, drip-dry suits and short per-
Americans and help for the aging.
"the underserved" with Judy Schotzko,
That afternoon, when Townsend
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lesbianism-or bisexuality, as they prefer to call it
the faculty, not only reclaimed the power lost to
For the average student at Sarah Lawrence-
issue
has
be.
the men but subjected the campus to a far more
bright. privileged, with a view of life shaped by a
extra charge with
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manent wave. They feel they
wouldn't believe her a few
understand this woman of
years ago; she was painfully
clear purpose. deep religious
withdrawn." says Lehman
faith and accomplishment. She
Franklin. a friend of the Car-
is, of course, all of these
ters from Statesville, Ga. Her
things, but she's much more
life has been a series of strug.
complex.
gles, overcoming poverty, her
There's the "steel-magno-
own introversion, her small-
Lia," a tough, shrewd power-
town background. "My phi-
behind-the-throne, ambitious
losophy Is that you do what
both for herself and her hus-
you have to do," she has said:
band. And there's the woman
and her life attests to that
of the soft drawl. shy, yet
credo. It's a story of personal
overtly affectionate, a giggler
growth and a strong marriage.
who allows herself to weep
It began when Jimmy decid-
overed
publicly if the occasion merits
ed to leave the Navy and re-
great umes of Rioja.
it. She has a great deal of
turn to Plains to take over
ams most celebrated wine
Southern charm, but she can
the family peanut business
1100 For great vintages
also be blunt with reporters,
after his father died in 1953.
values look for
blast her mother-in-law or
Rosalynn had resisted the
scream with rage when Jimmy
move. After a dreary child-
many brands of Rioja
turns up the music too loud.
hood in Plains, spent looking
your dealers shell
"She may be soft-spoken, but
after her three siblings while
ur best value
people tend to underestimate
her mother worked, Rosalynn
ne wines today
her." explains Jody Powell.
was enjoying the glamour of
"If you've ever been on the
a naval officer's life: the
opposite side in a dispute.
travel, the independence, her
This seal is
you've made a very serious
distance from a domineering
the guarantee of
mistake."
mother and mother-in-law.
an authentic Rioja.
What is surprising. for
She now sees the return to
someone who seems so com-
Plains differently: "I think the
1111 Minge MIRKS
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fortable in most social situa-
relationship [with Jimmy]
sington Avenue You York " 10021
tions, is that Rosalynn Carter
really started when we re-
is basically a loner. She has
turned to Plains," she says.
few intimate women friends
She became an integral part
with the exception of her
of the family business, and,
childhood chum, Ruth Staple-
for the first time in their mar-
ton. Carter's evangelist sister:
riage, felt indispensable, need-
Edna Langford, the mother of
ed and involved: "As the busi-
her daughter-in-law. Judy: and
ness developed, Jimmy would
Madeline MacBean. her as-
come to me and say. 'Does
sistant. "I've never had time
this work: should we continue
for friends." Rosalynn told
to do this in the business
me. "I've always worked too
Are we making any money on
hard. Besides. I never was one
that?' And 1 could advise
for coffee klatches
Jim-
him."
my Carter is her best friend.
At the same time, she is
Author James Dickey says
seen as a self-contained,
of Southern women. "They're
basically happy woman with
very loving and very affection-
a very stable personality. "She
ate but they really think their
is the most put-together wom-
men are dependent upon
an I know," says Mary Hoyt.
them. If their man is brilliant,
"She knows exactly who she
they think he's brilliant be-
is and what she wants."
cause they've helped him be
As there is little artificial
brilliant. Basically they think
about Rosalynn Carter.
their men are weak and could
neither is there much room for
never have gotten anywhere
levity or leisure. During the
without their help."
campaign, she spent more
To some extent. Rosalynn
than in Florida,
seems to have felt this way
but never paused for a swim
about Jummy's political car
or sunbath (she's allergic to
reer. She recalls when he was
sun, pollen, dust, dogs-
elected for the first time, as
"everything"). She isn't inter-
a State Senator, in Georgia
ested in most forms of exer-
in 1962. "I had to manage the
cise, but instead tries to
business three months a year
maintain her vigor by swal-
when Jimmy was away in the
lowing multi-vitamins. She
State Legislature. And I felt
Breakfront!
has never smoked and drinks
very, very important, because
only occasionally, usually a
he couldn't have done it at
black. In antique white. Or in
glass of wine, which is all
all if 1 hadn't managed the
she serves at White House
business."
with chinoiserie. They're all
of elegant furniture. Come
dinners.
Nor does she give Jimmy
and hours.
Rosalynn Carter was not
the entire credit for winning
Cosmetics (
always the self-confident po-
his gubernatorial race in 1970.
accepted am
litical wife she is today. "You
He decided, in that campsign,
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that he needed her to 80 out
before Christmas' Instead."
and campaign for him, despite
Even after her husband left
her painful shyness. And she
the Governor's office In 1974,
did, stumping the state with
Rosalynn continued to attend
the entire family. To her way
meetings of the National
of thinking, she and her fami-
Association for Mental
ly were an integral part of
Health. She was appointed a
his victory. "We've always
member of its board last June.
worked together on every-
Most friends agree that
thing. And we've always had
Jimmy's running for President
a tremendous sense of accom-
was what stretched Rosa-
plishment, like when Jimmy
lynn's capabilities and talents
got elected Governor.
to their fullest. Few could be-
It was not that Jimmy got
lieve the way retiring Rosa-
elected Governor. It was that
lynn set about campaigning.
we all did.
conquering her initial diffi-
Once Jimmy became Gover-
dençe with willpower and
nor, she was confronted with
some loving encouragement
a whole new set of problems
from Jimmy. With her deter-
-running a million-dollar
mination to see her husband
mansion, directing a staff of
President, she searched out
14, entertaining for hundreds
hardhats on construction proj.
put
of people every week. But she
ects, canvassed restaurant
also realized she could use.
and airport waiting rooms for
white stag
D.
kitchens, senior-citizen homes
her platform as Governor's
wife to accomplish things she
votes. She never let a hand
wanted. She immediately
go by. She campaigned alone.
into play
made mental health her main
maintaining the same back.
priority, perhaps because she
breaking schedule as her hus-
knew two members of Car-
band, beginning with 4:30
today!
A.M. factory shift changes
B.
ter's family who had been in-
stitutionalized for mental
and often ending at midnight.
problems.
She became a seasoned
politician, steady and unflap-
She had also been struck,
pable. Last fall, appearing
while campaigning in the
on "Meet the Press." a TV
gubernatorial race, by the fre-
show that has broken lesser
quent questions people kept
mortals, Rosalynn fielded a
directing at her: "What will
barrage of questions on Car-
he [Carter] do to help me with
ter's issues, his ethnic purity
my retarded son if he's elect.
gaffe, and his statements in
ed Governor?" or "I have a
the Playboy Interview with
child with an emotional prob-
the aplomb of Scarlett O'Hara.
lem. Where can I get help for
Afterward, Senator Fritz Hol-
him?" Rosalynn recalls asking
lings of South Carolina com-
her husband about It one
mented to a friend that it was
night: "Jimmy, why do they
"the best political perform-
tell me all about their prob-
ance under fire that I've ever
lems?" she wondered. "Be-
seen." She was equally Im-
cause," he said, "you might
pressive narrating Aaron Cop-
be the only person they ever
land's "A Lincoln Portrait"
see who may be close to some-
last fall before an audience of
Pick your playing partners from this brisk bright
body who can help them."
2,000 in Washington's Con-
new collection of sportives. Everything in blue ribbon,
As Georgia's First Lady,
stitution Hall, with Leonard
sun yellow and white wash easy-care polyester-
Rosalynn not only attended
Bernstein. conducting a full
cotton.
mental-health hearings all
symphony orchestra. Rosa-
over the state and helped to
lynn had read neither the
A. The ring-sleeve fee. Yellow or blue with white
spearhead the opening of 136
score nor the text until dress
S.M.L. 16.00.
Name
new mental health centers,
rehearsal but though her
B. The D ring-waist skirt with deep hip pockets.
Address
but she also worked as an
knees were quaking. she
6 to 18. 24.00.
ordinary volunteer at the
never missed a downbeat.
City/Stat
Georgia Regional Hospital in
Making her way through a
C. The short sleeved print shirt. Blue or yellow
Apt
Atlanta, selling candy in the
sea of accolades afterward,
with white. 6 to 16. 16.00.
Account
gift shop, giving shampoos,
she whispered to me, "Can
D. The pullover blouson with drawstring. 6 to 16. 28.00.
Charge
visiting patients on the wards
you believe I did that?"
E. The classic pants. 6 to 18. 18.00.
and making follow-up calls to
Rosalynn also enjoyed her
Mot and
F. The Rugby fee. White with blue or yellow. SML 16.00.
patients who had been re.
community
reputation as Carter's per-
sonal campaign adviser. "I
G. The fly-front culotte skirt. elastic back. 6 to 18. 22.00.
175 Wise
leased. "She never thought of
10022 Dep
herself as something special,"
have very strong opinions
Plaza 2 Misses' Sportswear, 2nd Roor. New York
New vork
recalls a fellow volunteer.
about everything. And I
Bergan Co.
"She'd do anything for pa-
always let Jimmy know how
and all fashion branches.
Hash Mead
Garden Ce
tlents." She even played touch
I feel," she says. The doesn't
White Stog is a division of Wamaco
Short Hills
football with them. "There was
always react well to every-
only one thing I couldn't get
thing. But there are very few
her to do," says Barbara
things Jimmy decides that we
Sugarman, Georgia's Direc-
don't talk about." Carter ad-
tor of Volunteer Services.
mits this himself. "She oper-
unshine and
"She had learned the hula in
ates independently from me.
vrap coat by
Hawali and really knew how
She helps form my post-
nese Arnel"
to do it, so I asked her to per-
tions because she has a sensi-
blooming
hein the sun!
form for the talent show one
tive way of understanding
nest you,
year, but she talked Jimmy
what other people feel. Also,
into reading Twas the night
she is able to get a much more
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Before you buy
frank and unbiased expression
a fine print, read the
of criticism from people than
I can. They can approach
fineprint.
Rosalynn and say, 'I-think
Jimmy ought to do this,' or,
'He's hurting himself when he
Chances are, you own or have been
fails to do this.' So in every
thinking of buying one or more fine
possible way she's a full part.
prints. For enjoyment. For investment.
ner or better
Or for both.
The fierce devotion between
You may dabble in prints of the
deeply involved. You may be interested in
them is rather unusual for a
the masters of old of contemporary artists
couple who've been married
In any case, there's one and only
for 30 years. They hold hands
one publication for you.
constantly, even in church, sit
The Print Collector's Newsletter, the
with their knees touching,
illustrated. every-other-month newsletter
think nothing of kissing in
that covers all the fascinating facen of
the art and acquisition of prints. Twenty
public. His feeling for her was
four pages devoted to background.
never more evident than the
analysis, review and information that you'll find intriguing " well "
morning after the third debate
invaluable. Even il you invest A modest amount in prints. you may "
last fall when the two of
well discover how to get the most for your money. In pleasure " well as
them made a Joint appearance
in value.
in Virginia. Rosalynn had
Wouldn't you like to read the most up-to-the-minute news from the
been traveling all over the
thriving international print market? Articles hv and about leading
curators, scholars. dealer, collectors, publishers and the artists,
country for the past several
themselves? Wouldn't you like to know which American printinakers
weeks lionizing Jimmy Carter.
are being bought right now by discerning European collectors What the
On the stump. Rosalynn
experts say about traditional techniques and materials compared to
always gave the speech her
mudern procedures? How to care for fine prints? What's been staten of
all. but that morning was dif.
faked and how to watch for them? What's happening today that will
ferent. She was showing off
affect the value of your prints tomorrow?
The Print Collector's Newsletter has it all, including such
for Jimmy, who had never
continuing features as:
heard the speech before but
Print prices from auctions throughout the world. organized by
was paying no attention. He
artists 60 you can check on those who interest you.
was going over notes with a
Full coverage for the collector of photography
man sitting next to him.
Forthcoming auction dates and places.
"I've known him all my
New prints, multiples. portfolios, livres de luxe. and the
life," she said. Suddenly
appropriate subscription data.
Major print acquisitions by the museums of the world
Jimmy looked up.
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"I think his background is
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he's a farmer, he's worked for
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has never had any hint of
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scandal in his business or per.
sonal life." Tears were begin-
weather report.
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Zip
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ning to trickle down Carter's
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face. He brushed them away
and, as she finished, sprang
Slide into it. Zip it up. Sash it, and you're off! This is a
to the lectern to thank her.
jacket you live in because it's easy and casual. With deep
kissing her and squeezing her
pockets, shirt cuffs and a hood, it's of 50% Fortrel"
so hard he lifted her off the
polyester and 50% cotton and Zepel* treated against
rain and stain Style Kitty available in:
SHOE
ground "That's beautiful,' he
whispered. "Beautiful.
Colors: Grass Green, Red, White
HINON
Carter stepped up to the
Sizes: 6 to 14.
OF
microphone with his arm
Price: $45.00.
around Rosalynn. "How many
of you would like to have
Rosalynn as First Lady?" he
From the outerwear experts at Londontown Corporation,
asked. The crowd roared its
Londonlown Boulevard, (idersburg, MD. 21784.
approval. Carter's face radi.
ated contentment. "So would
1," he said.
In this, Jimmy Carter got
LORD & TAYLOR
FAMOLARE (201)
what he wanted. And in the
M te House, with her drive
All Stores
and closeness to Jimmy. Rosa.
Iyan is likely to get much of
what she wants, too.
The New York Times Magazine/March 20 1977
63
PHOTOCOPY
PRESERVATION
which
nas
branches
at
the
what was Katanga Province. These sol-
the project.
Pennsylvania and the University of
Democrats and 94 Republicans
diers, who we trained by white merce-
In an open letter "to the citizens of
Southern California, to have. been
retain the amendment.
naries, foug
;ainst United Nations
New York City" that appears as an ad.
part of the propose
thwest wing of
In the New York delegation. five
forces early Lile 1960's during an at-
vertisement on page 16 of today's
the museum, origin
scheduled
to
Republicans-Jack Kemp, Norman H.
Continued on Page 5, Column I
New York Times, the 68-year-old pub-
house galleries for Western European and
Lent, Donald J. Mitchell, William F,
lisher and former Ambassador to Britain
20th-century art. Mr. Annenberg had of-
Walsh and John W. Wydler-opposed re-
expressed misgivings over "a host of mis-
fered $20 million for construction and
peal. All New Jersey Representatives
Son of Mrs. Gandhi
conceptions" that he said had arisen
another $20 million to operate the center
voted for repeal and Ronald A. Sarasin,
since the project was announced last No.
over a 10-year period.
Republican, was the only Connecticut
Is Reported Unhurt
vember.
The center had been projected as a
member to oppose it.
"At this juncture." he declared, "unless
joining of a school of communications
In the major test vote in the Senate
in Shooting Attack
there is overwhelming approval by the
with a museum, a development that its
today. an amendment by Senator Byrd
trustees of the Metropolitan Museum of
proponents said would have far-reaching
was rejected; 45 to 28. It would have
1
implications for the educational role of
Art and those responsible in civic affairs
continued imports of Rhodesian chrome
By WILLIAM BORDERS
museums. It was to use films, television,
in New York City, I will drop the project
until the President could certify that all
Special to The New York Times
in relation to the Metropolitan Museum
Continued on Page 42, Column 4
Continued on Page 2, Column 3
NEW DELHI, Tuesday. March 15-San-
jay Gandhi, Prime Minister Indira
Gandhi's 30-year-old son, escaped injury
INSIDE
last night when shots were fired at his
Mrs. Carter Sees Role Widening
jeep during a campaign tour, the Govern-
ment-controlled news agency here report-
Changed Drug Law Sought
By JAMES T. WOOTEN
9
ed this morning.
The Carter Administration asked Con-
Mr. Gandhi's security guard returned
Special to The New York Thoes
gress to remove criminal penalties for
the fire, but the attackers managed to
WASHINGTON, March 14-About a
marijuana use and said it was exam-
escape under cover of darkness, the agen-
month ago. when someone asked Rosa-
ining its position on cocaine. Page 15.
:y said.
lynn Carter if she thought she could wield
Mr. Gandhi, who was one of his moth-
any real power as the honorary head of
Fannie Lou Hamer Dies
er's closest advisers during the year and
a Presidential commission, she responded
1 half of stern emergency rule in India.
Fannie Lou Hamer. a sharecropper on
haltingly, hesitantly. a bit uncertain of
S a controversial figure. Widely regarded
a Mississippi plantation who became
her words.
is a symbol of governmental excesses
a nationally known advocate of civil
"I think." she said. pausing to consider
n that period. he had himself become
rights, died at the age of 60. Page 40.
them carefully, "I think that if I want
in issue in the parliamentary election
to, I can-and I intend to."
campaign, with opposition candidates all
Financing for City U.
The moment passed quickly, but it may
over the country attacking him and the
Mayor Beame's office is planning to
have provided a casual benchmark for
influential role he has played, which they
shift the start of City University's fiscal
measuring the impact of life in the White
lescribe as "extraconstitutional."
year from January to April to help close
House on the President's soft-spoken
It was reported that three of the five
the city's budget deficit. Page 40.
wife.
shots that were fired at Mr. Gandhi hit
He had been in office not quite a month
About New York 34
Music
42.45
PRESERVATION
PHOTOCOPY
the side of the vehicle in which he was
that day, and the considerable weight and
riding, at the end of a day of campaigning
Books
35
Notes on People 31
Bridge
34
Obituaries
40
privilege of her own role seemed vague
in the rural area, 300 miles southeast of
Business
50-63
Op-Ed
37
to her, certainly not as clearly defined
here, from which he is seeking election
Crossword
35
Sports
46-50
as they appeared to be today when she
Editorials
36
Theaters
42-45
:0 Parliament.
Family/Style 32-33
Transportation
72
talked at length about her new world,
With the election scheduled for tomor-
Finance
50-63
TV and Radio 73-75
its possibilities, its problems and the new
row, yesterday was the last day of cam-
Going Out Guide 44
U.N. Events
8
Movies
42-45
Weather
72
style she has decreed for social events
baigning in the area, where Mr. Gandhi
News Summary and Index. Page 39
in the old mansion.
has been following an arduous schedule
"It's really kind of funny to me to see
YOU CAN run classified advertising nationally, Mendar
Continued on Page 10, Column 2
through Friday. Only 75 tents & Line added to the regular
people kind of squirm because we don't
The New York Times
rate. Call (212) OX 5-3311 for information. -Adve.
serve liquor in the White House," she
ADOPTED persons thinking of secking out your natural
CALL THIS TOLL-FREE NUMBER TO ORDER HOME
Rosalynn Carter during Interview
arents Read Twice Born: Memoirs of an Adopted Daughter
DELIVERY OF THE NEW NEW YORK TIMES-800-325-
", Betty Jean Lifton first. Now a Penguin paperback Advt.
Continued on Page 26, Column 1
at the White House yesterday.
6400. It's a lot more than the news-Advi.
26
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NEW YORK TIMES. TUESDAY. MARCH 15. 1977
MRS. CARTER SEES
The 4
Of
HER ROLE WIDENING
Continued From Page I
said In an Interview in her office In the
East Wing. "I kind of enjoy it. It doesn't
bother me at all.
"I don't object to anybody drinking.
They can drink if they want to, but if
I don't want to serve liquor in the White
House, I don't have to do it, and I don't
want to do it."
Painfully shy when Mr. Carter first ran
for public office seat in the Georgia
Senate-15 years ago, the growth of his
wife's public personality has matched the
pace of his success. Similarly, her ease
with the arbitrary power of her position
CARACAS
seems to have increased at a rate equal
to his own-neither faster nor slower,
Just A
almost always in step.
"You learn from the things that you
VIASA
do and from the things that you see."
tours that spet
she said. And in the 53 days since the
Carters moved into the White House, she
retard the cost
has done and seen a great deal.
Rio and Bueno
"You can't believe how many things,"
cities in three
she said, recounting four state dinners
just 41/2 hours
and the press of a daily schedule that
ington and 31
includes other public appearances and
city of progres
such personal projects as her honorary
of the towering
chairmanship of the President's Commis-
eler's dream de
sion on Mental Health and a new program
the Paris of So
for the exchange of American and foreign
for internation
visitors.
United Press International
What doe
Stil, she said, when her husband fin-
Edward J. Thompson with his wife, Katherine, at their home In Clinton, Mass., yesterday
all three cities.
Ishes his term, she will be quite happy
to return to their rambling brick house
Aerolineas Ar:
PRESERVATION
PHOTOCOPY
on Woodland Drive in Plains, Ga., the
land cost of $2
village where they met and married near-
ly 31 years ago.
President to Stay Overnight With ypical Family'
Theirs has been a good relationship.
she said, built not only on sharing and
WASHINGTON, March 14 (UPI)-Presi-
is a lifelong resident of Clinton, a mill
"He is so busy at work, my husband
respect but on a mutual encouragement
dent Carter will stay at the home of an
town 35 miles northwest of Boston. of
has no time for political or social activi-
for individual achievement as well.
official of a beer distributing company
13,500 persons, mostly Democrats of Irish
lies,' she said.
Two Years of Travel
and his family in Clinton, Mass., after
descent.
"I'm not a fund raiser." said Mr.
VENEZUE
attending a town hall meeting there
"We're staunch Democrats," said Mrs.
Thompson. "That's what did it:"
For example, she said, when he asked
Wednesday night, the White House said
Thompson as she protested politely over
The Thompsons have five grandchil--
her to be the bookkeeper for the family's
today.
the telephone that she had. little time to
dren. Four of their eight children still
peanut business 23 years ago, "he just
talk because she wanted to get the house
live at home. Three are married. and one,
Rex Granum, White House deputy press
assumed-that I could do it." She went
Patrick, is a junior at Indiana University.
secretary, said that the host would be Ed-
ready for her guest.
on: "So, I would never say, 'I can't do
ward J. Thompson. He and his wife Kath-
this.' I did it, and it's just because he
erine, both Democrats, whom Mr. Carter
had confidence in me. He thought I could
has no yet met, were not active in his
do it and he-or he knew I could do
Presidential campaign.
it, and so I did it.
There have been reports the President
"I think that's how you develop confi-
planned to stay at the home of Eva Hes-
dence, because I decided that I could do
ter, Democratic national committeewom-
an who ran unsuccessfully against Lieut.
those books and I got to be a good book-
Gov. Thomas O'Neill Jr., son of the House
keeper. I almost got my C.P.A. license,
Speaker, but changed hosts after a pro-
but then Jimmy ran for Governor and
test from Mr. O'Neill.
I stopped keeping books."
Mr. Granum said that Mr. Thompson,
"We all knew that we would cam-
56 years old, was office manager for the
paign," she said, speaking of her three
Burke Distributing Company, a beer dis.
Un
assumed- that I could do it." She went
secretary, said that the host would be Ed-
ready for her guest.
on: "So, I would never say, 'I can't do
ward J. Thompson. He and his wife Kath-
this.' I did it, and it's just because he
erine, both Democrats, whom Mr. Carter
had confidence in me. He thought I could
has no yet met, were not active in his
do it and he-or he knew I could do
Presidential campaign.
it, and 50 I did it.
There have been reports the President
"I think that's how you develop confi-
planned to stay at the home of Eva Hes-
dence, because I decided that I could do
ter, Democratic national committeewom-
an who ran unsuccessfully against Lieut.
those books and I got to be a good book-
Gov. Thomas O'Neill Jr., son of the House
keeper. I almost got my C.P.A. license,
Speaker, but changed hosts after a pro-
but then Jimmy ran for Governor and
test from Mr. O'Neill.
I stopped keeping books."
Mr. Granum said that Mr. Thompson.
"We all knew that we would cam-
56 years old, was office manager for the
paign," she said, speaking of her three
Burke Distributing Company, a beer dis-
sons and herself. "You know, Jimmy
tributor in Randolph, Mass. He has a
never said, 'I want you to go do this
bachelor of science degree in accounting
and go we just-it was just an un-
from Bentley College in Boston.
The Thompsons are Roman Catholics
derstand that we would all do it.
and the parents of eight children. ranging
"And it was hard. yeah. I had to make
in age from 14 to 28. They are described
myself do that. I couldn't-I hated to
as a "typical family."
make speeches, but I think as you do
these things, you develop a confidence
'Average American Family'
and you learn."
CLINTON, Mass., March 14 (AP)-Mr.
After Mr. Carter's four years as Gover-
and Mrs. Edward J. Thompson were no-
nor of Georgia, from 1971 until 1975. his
tified yesterday that they had been se-
wife went back to Plains to what she
lected as hosts to Mr. Carter on his first
likes to call "my home and things."
"meet-the-people" trip since taking office
She stayed about six weeks before
in January.
beginning almost two years of constant
"Just the avareg American family."
travel as her husband's Presidential cam-
said Mr. Thompson who, like his wife
paign surrogate.
"But that's something-we always
criticism directed at Mr. Carter's use of
knew that when we got home, we would
the term "defensible orders" during the
be campaigning," she said.
recent visit of Prime Minister Yitzhak
As a result of her gypsy discipline-she
Rabin of Israel, Mrs. Carter took the same
once made appearances in seven cities
position that the President has taken.
in a single day--she acquired the experi-
"I'll tell you what Jimmy told me,"
ence and the knowledge of national prob-
she said. "I said, 'Jimmy, some people
lems and issues that is now useful to
say you talk first and think later.' And
her in discussing them with the President.
he said. 'They don't know how much I
"I argue and debate with Jimmy all
think.'
the time about the issues or the way I
"He just thinks that you need to be
see things, all about what he's doing."
open with the American people. That's
she said, but she declined to say precisely
what he said all during the campaign-
what they disagreed on.
that he thinks we've conducted our
doings in private. in secret, for too long.
For Those Who Need It
and that he thinks that people need to
It was difficult to ascertain in her con-
know what's going on. He thinks very,
versation today any possible point of con-
very carefully before he says any of those
tention between her and the President.
things.
PRESERVATION
From subject to subject, answer to an-
"But the reason people react is because
PHOTOCOPY
swer, her words, like her campaign
it's different and they don't-they think.
speeches, seemed echoes of her hus-
'Well, he must have slipped up and said
band's, rather nonideological but with a
that Kecause nobody's said that before."
certain sense of conservatism.
It's because it's different. But he doesn't
Addressing herself to the nation's wel.
slip up. He knows what he's saying."
fare system. for instance, Mrs. Carter
Mrs. Carter said she tried to "get Amy
said, "I can understand why people feel
off to school every day" before heading
the way they do about the Government
to her pleasant office on the second floor
taking our money for taxes and giving
of the East Wing of the White House.
it-you know, just throwing it away.
At times, she said, she picks up reading
Then, quickly, as her husband would.
material and returns to her desk in the
she added that of course there must be
residential quarters to work alone.
welfare for those who need it.
The President usually lunches in his
"Some way, we have to get it across
office. but the linner hour is a family
to the public that it can work, that there
affair with Amy. the 9-year-old. always
is a need for it and-and some way to
present. Two of the Carters' three sons.
cut down on the abuses of it," she said.
Chip and Jeff. and their wives are usually
She supports the recent increases in
there. 100.
salary for members of Congress, she <aid,
Except. of course. on those nights when
because-as the President has said-it
the State Dining Room is ablaze with
is "better to pay good men to serve 50
another dinner for another foreign digni-
that they will not have, or be tempted
tary who discovers that Rosalynn Smith
to accept, monies that they shou' in't
Carter has decided and declared that there
accept.'
shall be no liquor served in the White
Still. she added. using the contrapuntal
House.
shetoric $0 familiar in her husband's
But is there liquor upstairs, she was
speeches, "the ethics code must go along"
asked.
with the pay rise.
"Well." she said. smiling slightly. "a
Responding to a question about the
little bit."
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424600 CIS ACCESSION NUMBER: 84-H621-21 NUMBER OF ANALYTICS: 8
'ITLE: Federal Pay Equity Act of 1984, Part
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DATE: Additional PAGE (S) Testimony, p. 12-128.
WITNESSES: Barnes, Michael D. (Rep, D-Md), p. 12-20.; Mikulski, Barbara
A. (Rep, D-Md), p. 15-20.; Kaptur, Marcy (Rep, D-Ohio), p. 17-20.;
Hoyer, Steny H. (Rep, D-Md), p. 18-20.; Jackson, Jacqueline p. 21-24.;
Mondale, Joan A. both wives of former Pres candidates, p. 24-32.; Ter
Wisscha, Glennis member, Willmar Eight, p. 25-32.; Keyes, Martha former
Rep, Kans; spokesperson for former Pres candidate Hart, p. 32-37.; Reder,
Nancy chairperson, Natl Committee on Pay Equity, p. 69-82.; Brown,
Quincalee exec dir, Amer Assn of Univ Women, p. 77-82.; Koole, Florine
asst to exec vp, Communications Workers of Amer, p. 105-110.; Johnson,
Sonia candidate for Pres, Citizens Party, p. 110-113.; McCarthy, Leo T.
Lt Gov, Calif, p. 120-124.; Oberstar, James L. (Rep, D-Minn), p.
124-128.; Bates, Jim (Rep, D-Calif), p. 127-128.;
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DATE: Program Support PAGE Testimony.
WITNESSES: Mondale, Joan A. Chairperson, Fed Council on the Arts and
the Humanities, p. 2-6.; Segal, George sculptor, p. 6-8.; Benjamin, Lloyd
assoc art history prof, Univ of Ark, Little Rock, p. 8-14.;
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303184 CIS ACCESSION NUMBER: 80-H341-63 NUMBER OF ANALYTICS: 10
TITLE: Field Hearings on the Reauthorization of the National Foundation
for the Arts and the Humanities Act and the Museum Services Act.
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WITNESSES: Hudson, Joseph L., Jr. bd chm, J L Hudson Co; representing
Arts Commission of the City of Detroit, p. 232-233.; Mondale, Joan A.
Honorary Chairperson, Fed Council on the Arts and the Humanities, p.
233-235.; Murphy, Walter T. p. 235-248.; Dennard, Brazeal W. both
presenting Detroit Symphony Orchestra, p. 243-248.; DiChiera, David
pres, Opera Amer; member, exec committee, Amer Arts Alliance; pres and gen
dir, Mich Opera Theatre, p. 244-248.; Faxon, Jack State sen, Mich, p.
248-286.; Scott, E. Ray exec dir, Mich Council for the Arts, p. 256-286.;
Turk, Thomas L. pres, Mich Assn of Community Arts Agencies, p. 279-286.;
Eadie, John W. chm, Mich Council for the Humanities, p. 312-341.; Hutton,
Carroll M. educ dept, United Auto Workers, p. 324-341.;
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DATE: Feb. 7, 1980. PAGE (S) :p. 5-8.
WITNESSES: Mondale, Joan A. Honorary Chm, Fed Council on the Arts and
Humanities.;
Copyright (c) 1982 The Washington Post
December 17, 1982, Friday, Final Edition
SECTION: Style; Personalities; F4
LENGTH: 460 words
BYLINE: Eve M. Ferguson
KEYWORD: PERSON
BODY: Attorney Roy Cohn, a prosecutor of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were
executed in 1953 for giving the secret of the atom bomb to the Soviets, defended the
30-year-old case against them before a House Judiciary subcommittee yesterday.
The Rosenbergs' son, Michael Meeropol, asked the committee to investigate the case
on the grounds the anticommunist hysteria of the early 1950s, tagged "The McCarthy
Era" for Sen. Joseph McCarthy's anticommunism movement, made a fair trial impossible.
"No one blames a son for trying to vindicate a parent," said Cohn, who was chief
counsel for McCarthy's committee. "But his early childhood during the events makes him
about as helpful a witness as Patricia Nixon would about Watergate."
The subcommittee on criminal justice has not agreed to Meeropol's request, but called
five witnesses to testify about the case. Chairman John Conyers (D-Mich.) said they
would help the committee in consideration of a measure to reinstate the death penalty in
the federal criminal code.
Cohn's testimony got heated at times, particularly with Rep. George Crockett
(D-Mich.), who called the attorney McCarthy's "right-hand man as far as most of the
witch hunts were concerned."
Comedian Bob Hope checked into New York Hospital Wednesday for treatment of a
recurrent eye problem. The 79-year-old entertainer has been warned by doctors to slow
his pace, according to his publicist, Ken Kantor.
Kantor added, "But he says this won't stop him from accepting the invitation to
entertain the U.S Marines in Beirut during the Christmas holiday if his doctors permit
it."
Joan Mondale, wife of former vice president Walter Mondale, charged that President
"Reagan's appointees are hostile to the arts" and said in January's House and Garden
that when the administration couldn't keep Congress from voting arts funding, it froze
the money instead.
Mondale, former chairman for the Federal Council on Arts and Humanities, said,
"The greatest damage has come from the administration's not spending what Congress
has appropriated
Much of the money has been frozen; grants have been held back.
Since Richard Nixon impounded appropriated funds he did not want to spend, a law has
been passed requiring the executive to act upon Congress' decisions, but enforcing it is a
slow, awkward process."
In the same article, Andrew Heiskell, head of the President's Committee on the
Arts and Humanities, said, "The problem with federal funding is that it is not personal,
it turns into a conversation between auditors. I like the idea of a Des Moines business
supporting a Des Moines ballet company, of Des Moines citizens helping to raise money
for a local chamber music group, and then attending its performances."
GRAPHIC: Picture, Roy Cohn; by Harry Naltchayan
BETTY FORD
U.S. News & World Report
December 27, 1976 / January 3, 1977
SECTION: Pg. 63
HEADLINE: PHOTO REPORT; As The First Family Says Farewell To White House
BODY:
THE "NATURAL LOOK" of flowers and shrubs-that is the main effect achieved by
President Ford and the First Lady for their last Christmas in the Whites House.
For the Fords, the holiday season is a time for personal farewells to friends and to much of
official Washington.
Parties for members of Congress, reporters and children of diplomats are being
interspersed with private luncheons and dinners with old acquaintances. It's all part of a
nostalgic departure from the nation's highest office.
At the same time, the First Family made a special effort to turn the Executive Mansion into
a holiday treat for visitors. Special candlelight tours were arranged for the handicapped and
older citizens. Open house for the public at large was set for December 22-23.
In unveiling the White House Christmas tree, the First Lady announced that the
inspiration behind the Yuletide decorations was "the spirit of love that is Christmas." To
emphasize that very theme, she placed two turtledoves on the tree.
Simplicity is the hallmark of decorations that turned the White House into a bower of
greens and flowers. The centerpiece is a 20-foot balsam fir adorned with 2,500 handmade
flowers, including the official flower from each of the 50 States. Under the tree are
Bicentennial gifts from individual Americans.
Gone is the department-store look of some previous White House Christmases. In its place
are natural arrangements of holly, juniper, cedar, boxwood, bayberry, fern and spruce
arranged on tables, mantelpieces and wall sconces.
The Fords planned to spend the holiday skiing at Vail, Colo., with members of their family.
At a ball held for members of Congress before they left, President Ford told his former
colleagues that his 25 years in Congress were the happiest for him and Betty. "We missed
it,"
he said. "We miss it now."
GRAPHIC: President Ford with Boy Scout Keith Baker and Girl Scout Janice Sween after
lighting national Christmas tree near White House.
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Still candid
7/11/23
and caring
Fueled by her instinctive honesty,
Betty Ford stands by her mission
By Carl Sferrazza Anthony
hopes he will win the presidency.
But when he did make that run in
t was a quick, sweet spot in
1976, Betty Ford kept talking.
time, after Vietnam and
Americans want their first lady
Watergate, before AIDS and
to be both queen and commoner.
hostage-taking; there were
What made Ford particularly
successful was her connection to
mood rings, Bicentennial
everything and a summer's worth
her public. After she revealed that
she had breast cancer and the
of shark anxiety because of a
movie. One woman took the
press chronicled her mastectomy,
national stage for 30 months with
there were reports of thousands of
personal honesty, letting it all
women seeking checkups and
hang out from the White House
mammograms.
On "60 Minutes" she said that
window, the only first lady to go
to Studio 54, the famous '70s
she wouldn't be surprised if her
disco.
daughter had an affair. Asked how
Today, the streaked aubum
often she slept with her husband,
bubble is a short, softer blond. She
she quipped, "As often as
is model slim. Long gone are her
possible." Whether pondering if
signature '70s scarves. Betty Ford
her kids had smoked pot or
turned 75 on April 8, but there
mentioning that she'd once seen a
was no Diamond Jubilee gala.
psychiatrist, it was never public
With her husband's 80th birthday,
relations, just a casual chat one
their 45th anniversary and son
might have over the phone with a
Steve's marriage also this year, she
pal.
said she "put my foot down" and
Says Smithsonian Institution
stopped the former president's
political history curator Edith
plan for her large birthday dinner.
Mayo: "She helped restore the
"I remember when I thought 30
public's faith in the presidency as
was over the hill. Forty was harder
an institution by creating an
to address. By then, you've got to
atmosphere of honesty. Her
be an adult.
It's just one more
discussion of previously taboo
year in which every day is a
social issues helped defuse them.
celebration. I don't expect to stop
Sanctioning open discussion
doing anything."
removed the stigma so that
Americans could deal with such
Her fame today derives less from
topics realistically in their own
her life in the White House and
lives."
more from the Betty Ford Center,
Now, as when she was first lady,
an alcohol- and drug-treatment
people are conscious of her
facility that she helped found in
legend. At public events, the awe
1982 in Palm Springs, Calif.
and deference descends upon her.
Although she is interested in
But Ford always was aware of her
current political issues, the center
human failings, particularly
Betty Ford: "The center has my name
remains her priority.
alcoholism.
today derives less from
topics realistically in their own
her life in the White House and
lives.'
more from the Betty Ford Center,
Now, as when she was first lady,
an alcohol- and drug-treatment
people are CO ious of her
facility that she helped found in
legend. At public events, the awe
1982 in Palm Springs, Calif.
and deference descends upon her.
Although she is interested in
But Ford always was aware of her
current political issues, the center
human failings, particularly
Betty Ford: "The center
my
remains her priority.
alcoholism.
"The center has my name on it.
She reflects. "I realized how
I feel responsible that we have the
preoccupied I had been about
best programs that we can possibly
whether drinks would be served at
provide. It's not filled with rich
social events." She often attended
and famous celebrities paying a lot
three or four events a night with
of money.
It's a very moderate
alcohol served at all of them. If
cost to attend
and the
someone dropped by, a drink was
'Women have more
percentage of celebrities is
offered. "It wasn't to get high. It
probably only one-tenth of 1
was the times, the perception of
sexually related
percent."
alcohol as a vital social part of a
She cautiouly advises the famous
gathering." When her husband was
problems, often abuse,
who undergo treatment. "It's their
a congressman, he was gone so
more physical problems
right to talk about it, but we
frequently, she recalls, "I was
recommend they not say, 'I've
often alone." She would invite a
in relationship to their
been to Betty Ford and I'm fixed.'
neighbor in for a cocktail or have
alcoholism.'
It's just the first kick in the pants
one at night when she watched
that you've got to do something
television. "Since we perceive
about your life and lifestyle. One
there to be an extra layer of
of our first patients said, 'I'm
expectation for the political wife,
going to get a tan and learn how
it was a stressful situation. Alcohol
to drink socially.' Well, you can
or drugs can be a release valve for
get the tan."
stress.
In the furor of Watergate, 20
Robert Johnston, a Washington
sought treatment at Long Beach
years ago, her husband, Gerald,
training specialist working with
Naval Hospital, her recovery
took an oath making him the only
substance-abuse programs says
"would have been much more
appointed vice president upon the
that within his field, Ford's 1978
difficult.
They had to learn
resignation of his predecessor,
admission of alcohol and
that they could no longer be co-
Spiro Agnew. Suddenly this self-
prescription-drug addiction was a
dependent in trying to help me,"
described "little person from
turning point.
Ford said.
Virginia" found herself a celebrity.
"She brought it into the
Her family ties remain strong.
"Just before Barbara Walters
mainstream, de-stigmatized it.
Son Michael is associate dean of
interviewed me, I said, 'Please
Young people who are alcoholic
students at Wake Forest
don't ask political questions.' The
may not remember her as first
University in Winston-Salem,
lights came on and her first
lady, but there are services
N.C.; Jack Ford owns a chain of
question was, 'What do you think
available to them that wouldn't be
informational kiosks and lives near
of the Supreme Court decision on
there were it not for Mrs. Ford."
San Diego; Steve Ford lives in
Roe vs. Wade?' [the ruling that
"She's the boss," says Betty Ford
Santa Monica, Calif., and is host
legalized abortion in 1973]. I said
Center president John T.
of the television program "Secret
I was positively glad the decision
Schwarzlose, who has worked with
Service"; Susan is a homemaker in
took abortion out of the
her since the center opened. "Her
Tulsa. Schwarzlose only half-jokes,
backwoods and into the hospital,
personality sets the standards and
"It's a good thing her family lives
where it belonged. From then on,
tone." Ford works, attends
some distance. The center is her
I probably established myself as
meetings and counsels many
focus."
rather outspoken. I try to be a
patients there. It remains one of
Recently, Ford's concern has
little more subtle these days. I
the country's lowest-cost facilities
focused on maintaining the
try.'
($8,000 for the 28-day stay)
standards of treatment, as many
Eight months later, her husband
because Ford "wants to make sure
insurance companies have
took an oath making him the only
the Cleveland cabdriver gets
eliminated or cut the length of
man to become president upon
treatment equal to the Beverly
coverage from the usual 21 to 28
the resignation of his predecessor.
Hills lawyer." Ten percent of the
days. "Five days is really detox. It
Fate spared her the national
patients are covered by a
becomes a revolving door. In six
campaign for the post, which still
"scholarship" she established.
months, you're back. In 14-day
forbids the wife from saying
"Mrs. Ford goes out and raises the
programs you can't cover in depth
exactly what she thinks if she
money so that the unemployed or
the emotional problems that are
uninsured can get help," says
involved. Treatment works at a
Schwarzlose.
high success rate
About 50
The coverage includes travel and
percent of the hospital patients
accommodations for someone
have an alcohol or drug-related
significant to a patient to
problem underlying a health
participate in a required family
problem-a broken leg, boating
program that Ford initiated. "It
accident, bad livers, digestive
shows them how to regain their
tracts, throat. The whole body is
own life and live, rather than
affected. With prevention and
being so involved in the patient's
moderate cost treatment, health
life,' Ford says. Without her own
care is more cost-effective."
family's group therapy while she
It is a point she lobbied at the
Betty Ford: "The center I
my name on it. I feel responsible that we have the best programs that we can."
White House.
around men, says Ford, and that
In March, Betty Ford went to
"didn't fit the problems women
see Hillary Clinton. It was a
encountered. A woman was
business meeting about how
supposed to drink but not have a
treatment can best be covered by
drinking problem
the one who
'Women have more
the health-care reform effort
looks after everyone else, the
sexually related
headed by the first lady. Ford
nurturing, caring backbone of the
found Clinton "courteous,
family. Women have more
problems, often abuse,
charming, able, attractive.
We
sexually related problems, often
met in her office and settled down,
abuse, more physical problems in
more physical problems
explaining what we're hoping she'll
relationship to their alcoholism.
in relationship to their
endorse when she takes health
They often start drinking later in
reform to the Hill. It was a
life, which telescopes it all
alcoholism.'
business meeting. She asks good
together quickly."
questions. She picked one of the
Not long after the center
most important and demanding
opened, Ford became sensitive to
roles she possibly could."
a new problem many drug users
Mayo sees a link between what
faced: AIDS. "We have HIV-
Ford said beginning in 1974 and
positive patients. We have
what Clinton does in 1993: "Her
everybody understand what it's
sought treatment at Long Beach
candid approach made it
about. We all have to." In 1985,
acceptable for subsequent first
when no president had yet talked
Naval Hospital, her recovery
ladies to speak openly on difficult
about, let alone lent his name to
"would have been much more
difficult
They had to learn
subjects confronting the American
AIDS projects, Betty Ford spoke
that they could no longer be co-
public in contemporary life. Mrs.
out. "I believed in it. It's very
Ford's support for women's rights
important. I had great concern for
dependent in trying to help me,"
and passage of the [Equal Rights
these people who were trying to
Ford said.
Amendment] made such advocacy
get recognition of the extent of the
Her family ties remain strong.
Son Michael is associate dean of
less shocking and paved the way
problem. If I could in any way, by
students at Wake Forest
for an openly activist first lady
being a part of it, help, it was the
University in Winston-Salem,
such a Hillary Clinton."
right thing to do. And I still do
N.C.; Jack Ford owns a chain of
"There are no longer any Little
support it." The first recipient of
AIDS Project L.A.'s
informational kiosks and lives near
Women,' Ford contends. The
"Commitment to Life" award in
San Diego; Steve Ford lives in
ERA, recently placed on the lowa
Santa Monica, Calif., and is host
ballot and defeated, was the
1985, she still appears at AIDS
of the television program "Secret
legislation Betty Ford lobbied for
fundraising walks. At the 1992
Republican National Convention,
Service"; Susan is a homemaker in
as first lady. She thinks such
Tulsa. Schwarzlose only half-jokes,
legislation "is still very viable"
Betty Ford was one of only a few
"It's a good thing her family lives
because "the glass ceiling is still
to wear a red ribbon, symbol of
AIDS awareness.
some distance. The center is her
there. It would be good for
Now Ford lives with one
focus."
women's rights to be protected by
Recently, Ford's concern has
the Constitution.
We're not at
standing commitment. Even when
focused on maintaining the
the point where there's
she's with her family in Colorado,
standards of treatment, as many
comparable pay for comparable
every month she returns to Palm
insurance companies have
work." Men are changing too, she
Springs, back to the center bearing
eliminated or cut the length of
says, "because of their wife being
her name, to speak to the patients,
in the workplace," and a young
people like her. "I'm just one
coverage from the usual 21 to 28
more woman who has had this
days. "Five days is really detox. It
man's "view of women will be
formed by what his mother is like.
problem," she opens her talk to
becomes a revolving door. In six
months, you're back. In 14-day
If she was an activist, he's likely to
the patients. "If during my
respect [that]."
treatment, I had been regarded as
programs you can't cover in depth
a first lady, I would not be here
the emotional problems that are
"We have quite a few women
today, doing well."
involved. Treatment works at a
now in the Cabinet to represent
high success rate.
About 50
the country," Ford says. "It's
percent of the hospital patients
progress. It's still not 50 percent,
have an alcohol or drug-related
the ratio of women to men."
problem underlying a health
At the Betty Ford Center, about
problem-a broken leg, boating
50 percent of the patients are
accident, bad livers, digestive
women and there is a special
racts, throat. The whole body is
program for just them. "Betty has
ffected. With prevention and
been so upfront about specific
noderate cost treatment, health
problem and stigmas attached to
are is more cost-effective."
women," Schwarzlose said.
It is a point she lobbied at the
Treatment originally was designed
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The 38th First Lady:
not a robot at all
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Forward
day
by day
The First Family shortly after Ford was sworn in: From
the left. John, Steven, Mrs. Ford. the President, Susan,
daughter-in-law Gayle and her husband. Michael.
to themselves. "Alone at Last!" she wrote in wist-
By Jane Howard
ful jest across the back of a snapshot of the two
of them, taken at Disney World in Florida just
Pretty surreal, all this. Look at them. He has the
after the Miami convention hall had rung with
hardest joh in the world. She is recovering from
shouts for "FOUR MORE YEARS!" of Richard
radical surgery for cancer. He will be 62 in July,
Nixon and Spiro Agnew.
she 57 in April, but there they are beaming on
On the night 14 months later when Gerald Ford
the balcony of their new house, like carefree
was named to replace Agnew, he asked a neighbor
juniors at a prom. Tennessee Ernie, also surnamed
to "see if you can get some food in Mommy's
Ford, is serenading them below. Television cameras
tummy." Mommy, whose lifelong dream all this
whir as he sings "Anniversary Waltz"-hardly
most assuredly was not, sighed and said, "Well,
a tune to make liberals hark back to the days
if they just wind me up and point me in the right
of Camelot, but an apt one all the same. Elizabeth
direction, I'll be there."
Bloomer married Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. 26 years
ago Oct. 15. and was a dancer before she ever
But she rallied. The way things turned out she
heard of him.
wasn't a robot at all. She was more like Cinderella.
More than three decades ago, she danced on the
Onstage again, after 26 years of wifely obscurity
stage of Carnegie Hall, in the troupe of the exalted
and motherly sacrifice, it was as if she were pick-
Martha Graham, but it's been a good while since
ing up where she left off when she said good-by
she has appeared in leotards. Now her style is
to Martha Graham. "It's her turn now, bless her
more ballroom: tangos and waltzes. When the
heart." said one of Mrs. Ford's friends, "and now
Prime Minister of Israel protested, as the music
that she doesn't have to worry about things like
began after a September state dinner in his honor,
whether the beds are made, she's loving it." After
that he didn't know how to dance, his hostess
a while, she even got used to the omnipresence of
reassured him: "That's all right, I used to teach
Secret Service agents, grim-faced companions
dance. I'll teach you now." She did, too.
charged with shielding her from all external harm.
Nobody thought she would take so readily to
Not cancer. though. Cancer was beyond them.
White House life, this 38th First Lady of the Land.
Two hours before Betty Ford checked into
She publicly hoped not long ago that her husband
Bethesda Naval Hospital, she had Mrs. Lyndon
would at last retire from Congress, so that they
Johnson and her daughters to tea so they could see
could have some long-postponed, nonpolitical time
the house they used to live in. They had no idea
where their hostess was going next. "We were
In the costime iii is clown.
stunned when we. found out," Lynda Robb said
Elizabeth Bloomer quarte rights.
Jane Howard. author of "A Different Woman
later. So was everybody else. The next morning's
who would other des become Mr. Gerald For
and "Please Touch A Guided Tour of the Human
announcement that Mrs. Ford's right breast had
poses with her 1935 graduating class
Potential." is a visiting lecturer at the lowa Writers
been found malignant and removed shook the na-
at the alla Travis Dance Studio
Workshop o/ the University of lowa.
tion as much as any event (Continued on Page 64)
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not the sort of wife who
Betty Ford
or Presidents, and further
tends to do that.
reckoned, when someone
"Jerry's a morning person,"
asked, that her children prob-
she said, "and I'm not at all,
Continued from Page 36
ably at some point must have
so sometimes I ask him if he'll
tried marijuana.
flick on the light just as he
since Watergate. "I was as-
face looked worn. The tendons
When Tennessee Ernie
leaves, to wake me up. When
tonished how much I cared,"
on her throat protruded. She
came to the line "Angels were
we moved in here and he did
wrote a male historian from
singing a hymn to your
that one morning. the light
looked for all the world like
lowa. "I was as shocked as
charms." the First Couple
he flicked on was a chan-
the most ordinary of women,
I'd earlier been by the Revela-
the sort you might find lined
kissed each other as if they
deher!" And she told how
tions, the Resignations and
up with a loaded cart at a
meant it. They need no work-
vexed she had been, just after
the Pardon."
supermarket's checkout coun-
shops in nonverbal communi-
they moved, not to find the
In less than two months,
ter, or bringing a stuffed toy
cation, these two. "Isn't it
atlas. "What do you mean it's
Betty Ford had unobtrusively
to the brand-new baby across
nice the way they touch each
in storage?" she recalled ask.
become a myth. "She seems
the street. In many ways. she
other?" asks a Congressman's
ing. "How can I get along
to have just what it takes,"
is ordinary, well-schooled in
widow who has known the
without an atlas and a
observed Marshall McLuhan,
the Midwestern arts of assuag.
Fords for decades. "They hold
globe?"
who is skilled at observing
ing and consoling. Her thank-
hands whether or not any-
On a coffee table were
such matters, "to make peo-
you notes are prompt and
body's looking. Their lutes
Celebrity Register - not a
ple feel at home in the world
heartfelt. Nice gestures come
are in tune." Not to say that
book she probably read much
again. Something about her
naturally. "I think I ought
there isn't occasional discord.
before she moved in-and an
makes us feel rooted and
to call Pat," she told one
"She gave me a hard time
issue of Town & Country. She
secure-a feeling we haven't
friend just before Nixon re.
about a couple of things," the
also had a copy of a book I
had in a while. And her cancer
signed, "to tell her we aren't
President told newsmen after
had written and sent. in
has been a catharsis for
all just waiting in the wings
one evening's visit to Bethes-
which she graciously asked for
everybody. Cancer isn't just
for them to move out."
da, "so she must be feeling
an autograph. Even more
a disease, you know: it's a
"Betty Ford was nice to
better."
graciously, she agreed to
speeded-up. hotted-up, inten-
me," recalls the ex-wife of
"I don't hesitate to tell him
fetch some White House sta-
sified form of life. Our life-
one controversial Senator,
when I disagree with some-
tionery and on it wish a
style creates the ideal climate
"when other people weren't.
thing he's done or said," Mrs.
happy 12th birthday to my
for it. All of us play Russian
Ford said, "unless he looks as
nephew, in a hand amateur
roulette with cancer, whether
if he's had a hard day. When
graphologists later pro.
we have it or not."
he looks that way, I wait.
nounced "conventional, but
"Maybe my having it," Mrs.
You get so you notice things
determined." (My nephew
Ford muses, "was a blessing
like that. A sense of timing
thought it was terrific.)
in disguise." Maybe so. If she
is pretty important if you love
Except for summer dance
achieved nothing else during
somebody." And there was
sessions at Bennington in
her husband's Administration,
the business about their bed.
Vermont, Betty Ford never
the light her trouble has shed
One bed. As soon as the Fords
went to college, but her mind
on a dark subject would be
moved into the White House,
is curious and well-informed.
contribution enough. The Can-
she let it slip that, contrary
When she and Mrs. Hale
cer Society had been one of
to custom, she and her hus-
Boggs accompanied their hus-
Betty Ford's causes before the
band meant to sleep, as they
bands on an official visit to
disease struck her. Causes
always had, not only in the
China, they insisted on having
have always meant more to
same room but under the
their own separate briefing
her than card-playing lunch-
same blanket. This morsel of
session "because we didn't
cons. No man in the 81st
homey news was generally
want to get it all second-hand
Congress had a more ener-
regarded as cheering, "but
from the men." Mrs Boggs
getically public-spirited wife
one woman wrote in," the
says, "or to arrive there and
than Jerry Ford. Her interests
First Lady laughed, "to say
have nothing to say but 'Oh,
ranged from the International
she thought It. was disgrace-
we just adore Chinese walls"
Club. not a favorite among
Betty Ford with doll.
ful!"
Betty was just fascinated
Midwesterners, to fashion
She was showing me
with everything."
shows. "Don't ever say no if
But she's not just nice." No.
around that very bedroom in
"Jerry's always turned to
you're asked to model in a
The merely nice bypass the
what one veteran Washing-
Betty for the sensitive point
style show." she once cau.
truth when it makes them of
tonian calls "the world's most
of view." an old friend says.
tioned another Republican
elegant railroad nat." Here
"Be's often said she was
anyone else edgy, and that's
wife. "because the Democrats
something Betty Ford doesn't
were the weights her husband
the smart one when it came
always pitch in. We must,
do. She never has. "I just
lifts to keep in shape, there
to politics because she sees
too." She knew a thing or two
the hated Exercycle he must
the forest instead of the
don't know how to lie," she
about Democrats Her social
now use in place of the swim-
trees." "She's no dummy,"
has told reporters. When the
life had centered on, but by
President promised "straight
ming pool they left behind in
adds another friend. "She's
no means been confined to.
Alexandria, there a picture of
smart enough to have raised
the elephant-filled living
talk among friends" in his
rooms of the Grand OM
inaugural address. he was
his mother as a young
four children to be a credit
speaking at least as much for
woman, there one of their
to them, and have a husband
Party's Chowder & Marching
only daughter, Susan, as a
who's still in love with her
Society. "I've often been
his wife, whose low-key
baby. Upstairs was the bil-
after all these years. In this
tempted to split my ticket."
candor quickly surpassed his
own. She was full of surprises,
liard room, from which the
day and age. 1 call that not
she said a while ago-not an
this kindly matron from
clonking noise had recently
only smart but practically
admission you'd expect from
Michigan. It turned out she
been muffled with a new rug.
brilliant."
the wife of the House Minor-
ity Leader.
supported the Equal Rights
("At first," she said, "we
In China, acupuncture rs.
Amendment, of all prickly
thought it might be Lincoln's
pecially interested Mrs Ford.
issues, and had been divorced,
ghost.") Downstairs, In plain
She figured it might help her
uring her televised
sight, was the Oval Office
and thought there might be a
neck A pinched neck nerve,
serenade. Mrs. Ford
where her husband was work-
time to abort (in cases of rape
before cancer. was her sev-
wore a convales-
and incest, say) as well as a
ing. "It's funny, but 1 see a
prest medical problem. 11 had
cent's bathrobe, She
lot more of him now than did
time in refrain from aborting
nagged for years, causing
was smiling. and her reddish
She saw no reason why
before we got here," she said.
chronic pain at the base of
have was well-coffed. but her
women shouldn't be priests
"I can call him whenever any-
her skull. There had been
thing important happens and
talk of surgery. but that talk
he'll come right up-but I'm
made her shudder. "The Inci-
sion would have to be made
WITH some reason. in the
through the mouth." she said,
PPP
and
decided
1.1
work
for
years when his children were
"and chances would only be
growing, Ford was "away
50-50. Acupuncture might be
beginning Mr. hard,
right much," as a family
much easier. In China, I
:1
1'.
friend tells it, obliged to go
watched eight different acu-
off 200 nights year to help
puncture operations, includ-
keep Republicans in Congress.
ing one for an ovarian cyst
"I like to travel, too," Mrs.
where the girl drank tea the
have been Ford
Ford says, "but not the way
whole time.
had to learn to become an
by birth. ("I know about all
Jerry does it. He feels he's
"Would you like some iced
icon.
the rumors that Gayle's prég.
got to go up and down as
tea now?" Try though Mrs.
nant," the First Lady says,
many times as the *airplane
Ford did to make this en-
here's a souvenir
"but those rumors are news
can stop." Even when he was
counter natural, it was uphill
T
shop at the corner of
in Gayle and Mike. Oh, well,
home. they were sometimes
work. You don't just drop in
F and 15th Streets in
I guess Julie and Tricia never
expected at official functions
at the White House. You first
Washington that still
had a moment's freedom from
as many as 14 nights in a
make a dozen or so logistical
features postcards of the
that sort of speculation,
row.
phone calls and then, when
Nixons - he grinning. she
either.") Was it Mike who
"But Betty's a good egg."
you arrive at the gates, you
tight-lipped-but it won't for
told how "Dad always taught
as a friend says. "It's fun to
are quizzed, all but X-rayed.
long. The icon machine works
us to be good stewards of our
razz her. The last place she'd
photographed, bedecked with
fast. Back on Crown View
bodies," or was it his brother
ever want to be is on a
a plastic badge and passed
Drive in Alexandria, the
John? Jack, as the second son
pedestal." At birthday parties
upstairs by a string of pert
Fords' former neighbors are
is called, is 22 and learning
in those days. there were joke
aides who probably mean to
already busy laminating their
to be a forester at the Univer-
presents. like funny bathing
be disarming, but who I kept
clippings of the peculiar time
sity of Utah. "He's a deep.
suits and the alarm clock Mrs.
thinking were going to thank
when Secret Service agents
thoughtful person." his
Ford once got, tied to a
me for flying TWA Spon-
and big-name newscasters
mother says, "who likes to
string, to twit her for her un-
taneous it isn't, not even in
the Ford Administration The
walked among them Crown
spend a whole day by himself
punctuality. There was that
Hotel Europa in Belfast is
View Drive. if it could some.
in the wilderness. All our
holiday at Disney World, after
how be shrunk and freeze-
children were brought up to
the convention, and a lot of
easier to get into, and the
dried, would make a perfect
think independently. the way
afternoons watching the
Vatican might be more cozy.
diorama for some future
I was myself."
Superbowl with friends. "They
The simplest event on Betty
museum of suburbia. Only the
"I was the third child and
were over here to see the
Ford's schedule must now be
Virginia license plates in its
only girl. spoiled as perhaps
Dolphins cream the Vikings,"
orchestrated like an audience
driveways distinguish it from
we spoil Susan. Her broth-
recalls Barbara MacGregor,
with an emperor. In East
streets on the outskirts of
ers don't, though. They're
wife of the former Minnesota
Wing argot, even a quick
Houston or St. Paul or either
very protective. they want to
Congressman who managed
hello to a Salvation Army
Portland Its mortgages are
know what she's up to and
Nixon's 1972 campaign.
fashion luncheon in a Wash-
held by decent citizens who
with whom. Sometimes
"Jerry'd just as soon have
ington hotel ballroom becomes
seem now out of a John un-
thev've asked, 'Is she still
watched the game at home,
a "Drop-by," with mimeo-
dike nove! now one by Sin-
going out with that
but Betty wanted to come. Oh,
graphed instructions to be
clair Lewis They prefer
Susan, the most relaxed
we've all had some wonderful
gone over in a three-car
homemade cookies and even
White House daughter since
times. Don't you think she's
motorcade: "12:55, down 20
homemade ICE cubes to the
adorable?"
Caroline Kennedy, seems to
steps. Turn right. 12:58, re-
store-bought kind. and never
be taking the advice of Alice
Sometimes there were sor-
marks. Press opportunity.
wearv of telling how whole-
Roosevelt Longworth, who
ties, never for very long, to
1.03, conclude remarks 1:05.
some, natural and, most of
also moved in at age 17. Mrs
Caribbean beaches, and once
up the same 20 steps. De
part."
all. how normal a family they
Longworth sent Susan a mes.
to Hawaii. Always the family
lost when the Fords moved
sage to "just have a hell of
had its two-week Christmas
If she walks into such a
scene with her husband. a
away. The way they sav
a good time while you're
reunion at its condominium
"normal," it sounds exotic.
there."
in Vall. Colo. In the Fords'
hand plays "Hail to the
Chief." If she arrives alone,
The Fords do personify
Susan is. Apart from giving
case, the bromidic old joke
she must affect delight at the
that threatened species. the
up babysitting. which she
-"my wife likes the sea-
nuclear family. It is chic and
often did in Alexandria, she
shore and I like the moun-
opening strains of "Betty
Coed Has Lips of Red" or,
in some quarters thrilling to
leads as normal a high-school
tains so we compromise and
foretell the doom of such
in homage to the President's
senior's life as any 1600
go to the seashore' re-
alma mater, "Hail to the
families, but even Simone de
Pennsylvania Avenue resident
versed. That's not the way
Victors' The Fords are VIC.
Beauvoir, in all her wisdom,
could hope to, and will have
Betty Ford was raised. Her
tors. all right. without ever
cannot think how to replace
her class's senior prom at the
generation's credo was: If he
having fought a Presidential
them. While they last. they
White House. She denies that
likes the mountains, go to the
battle. One of her size 6
transfix and reassure us. To
the family's move has
mountains. If he's a politician
gowns will one day hang in
the televised adventures of
changed anybody. Mrs Ford,
and you don't much care for
the Smithsoman, along with
the Waltons. the Bunkers and
she said fondly toward the
politics, smile.
those of Dolley Madison,
the Louds, we now can add
end of one state dinner, is
Smile she did, but she also
Mary Todd Lincoln, Eleanor
those of the newly mythol.
"still the same old Mother."
ate and drank too much, gain-
Roosevelt and all the rest.
ogized Fords, about whom
Only briefly was Susan called
ing 20 pounds. Later, she diet-
Her name will automatically
no folksy bulletin is too
on to replace the First Lady
ed off not only those 20 but
topple Golda's or Coretta's
trivial to broadcast We crave,
at affairs of state. At one
another 10 as well, becoming
or Ethel's or one of the other
or some of us do, to hear how
white-tie reception during her
so thin that one alarmed friend
stand-bys from the next an-
Steve, that rascal. once
mother's convalescence, when
kept bringing over an Adelle
nual list of Most Admired
picked his mother up and
there were hundreds of diplo-
Davis potion called Pep-Up.
carried her all over the
Women.
matic hands to be shaken.
"Pep was what Betty needed,
"Kings and queens have at
Crown View house. a house
the girl stood gamely by her
all right," a neighbor remem-
ways focused people's feel-
which had no dining room.
father and shook them with
bers. "It must have been very
ings," says the anthropologist
and how he and his older.
such aplomb that a photog-
rough for her all those years.
Margaret Mead, "and since
brothers ("all male chan-
rapher remarked, "Susan,
with Jerry gone 50 much and
we're not very far from a
vinists." their mother sup-
you're wonderful!"
four kids pulling her in four
monarchy. the President's
poses) discolored their laun.
"That," said the President,
different directions. They had
wife, whoever she is. has little
dry by mixing jeans in with
"is the way she was brung
a housekeeper five days a
underwear. Those boys'
up."
(Continued on Page 86)
Steve, who is 18. wears
"Don't you take all the
-as bemusing a notion, to
the First Lady, as if the lad
had toyed with a career in
Some 01 the doctors were
haruspication. The morning
her own. The pinched, neck
doesn't go by but what Betty
nerve wouldn't go away. It
Ford spends at least 20 min-
kept her on tranquilizers and
utes studying that day's rec-
off the slopes at Vall. "I tried
ommended scriptural passage
skling with a whiplash collar
in a pamphlet called "For-
on, and It wasn't so bad there
on the mountain, where I al-
ward Day by Day." Most
mornings the passage is apt
ways had to be watching out
for icy slopes and moguls, but
enough. On Sept. 27, for ex-
the next day it would hurt
ample, the eve of her radical
terribly." Thinking the tension
mastectomy, the verse was
might be psychosomatic, she
"Thou has turned my laments
sought the help of a new kind
into dancing." The next day
it read "Be strong and take
of doctor.
"I saw my psychiatrist once
courage." But on Aug. 9,
a week, at the most, for a
when she became First Lady,
period of a year and a half.
the verse must have given her
I didn't lie on a couch or
pause. What it said, in the
anything like that, I'd just sit
prose of the Living Bible she
and talk, and it seemed to
prefers to the King James ver-
help, too. After all, if you
sion, was from Psalms 39:1:
have an abscessed tooth, you
"I will keep a muzzle on my
mouth." A muzzled mouth is
go to the dentist, don't you?
simply not her style.
This was during the time
when Jerry was away so
"That's what I've found
much, and I needed a sound-
most refreshing about her,"
ing board to talk to.
says Nancy Hanks, chairman
Somebody had to tell me
of the National Endowment
what that doctor did: that
of the Arts, who has been
I shouldn't just live for my
conferring with Mrs. Ford
husband and children but
about projects she might offi-
ought to do something for
cially support, particularly
myself, too."
those involving underprivi-
She tried. She signed up
leged and handicapped chil-
for modern-dance lessons and
dren. "Her approach is solid
did what she could to avoid
and very American, without
metaphorical moguls at home.
being in the least provincial.
When the children provoked
Her style is not to teach peo-
her, she mixed discipline
ple to love and revere Ameri-
with affection. "I tried to
can arts and crafts, but to
remember how, when I was
show them, by her own ex-
their age, I'd pull the same
ample, how important these
wool over my parents' eyes."
things are. And whenever 1
An ashtray-emptier by nature,
mention something she's not
she recalls "a sort of turning
well-versed in, like regional
point in my child-rearing phi-
differences in pottery. or
losophy when the boys were
weaving. she'll stop me and
little and ran their toy cars
say, 'Now just a minute, what
all over a favorite coffee table
in the world are those dif-
I didn't want scratched. I
ferences?' She's never for a
decided it wasn't worth it to
moment pretentious. What
worry over that you can
she thinks. she says."
always buy new furniture, but
Representative Shirley Chis.
you can't replace your chil-
holm, whom few would re-
dren."
gard as a likely soul sister
Not one for vivid syntax,
of the First Lady, commends
Mrs. Ford volunteers that her
Mrs. Ford for her candor, as
favorite tea, for all the efforts
do such disparate others as
of a brother to convert her to
Secretary of State Henry
more exotic brews, is Lipton's.
Kissinger, who says, "I like
Her favorite flower is the
her very much," and the
"Like carefree juniors at a prom": President and Mrs. Ford
Peace Rose, and the hymn
syndicated household hints
(top). celebrating their 26th wedding anniversary as she re-
that stirs her most is "The Bat-
columnist, Heloise. Heloise,
covers from a mastectomy, greet a Grand Ole Opry singer from
tle Hymn of the Republic,"
who gets hundreds of thou-
a White House balcony. Above. the couple walk down a hall-
especially when sung by the
sands of letters a year from
way in the Presidential suite ct Bethesda Naval Hospital short-
Mormon Tabernacle Choir. (A
housewives. reports that of
ly after Mrs. Ford underwert surgery.
number of the Fords' best
late her mail has included a
friends seem to be Latter-Day
deal of praise for the new
take issue with that. Margaret
been the last victim to regard
Saints.) Her own faith, low
President's wife. "The gals
Mead, not exactly one of
breast cancer as a shameful
church Episcopal with no
love the way she comes out
Heloise's "gals," welcomes
"social disease."
incense, runs deep and strong.
and says what she thinks.
the attention Mrs. Ford's
Knowing sympathy rushed
"I have a son who thought
They feel as if she's their
mastectomy has brought to
to Mrs. Ford from Marvella
he was an agnostic." she says
next-door neighbor. just one
what until recently was a fur.
Bayh, the Indiana Senator's
of the bunch. She doesn't
tive secret sorority. Jacque-
wife who had been crusading
seem a bit stuck-up. And she's
line Susanh, who wrote four
since her own masteciomy,
done a world of good being
best-selling novels in the 12
and from Alice Longworth.
so frank about her cancer."
years she lived after having
who before she turned 90,
Only the hopelessly genteel
the same operation. may have
cheerfully called herself the
promising. But a dance career
means total Immersion or
you can be sure that tomor-
doing for a five-minute ritual
nothing. Those gals who go
row plenty of cattlemen* in
of exercises to insure full mo-
to New York to dance seri-
places like Montana will dial
bility for her right arm and
ously have to forget about
202-456-1414 to register their
shoulder. "It's a stretching.
not to moe her news, nice
everything else. It must have
ire.
circling, lariat-type motion,"
though it wasn't.
been a huge decision for her
Answering such calls is
Mrs. Ford says. "Being right-
"That's the part that's just
to make."
one of the tasks of the First
handed probably makes things
thrilled her," says Mrs. Ford's
It must have indeed, with
Lady's staff of 28, a dedicated
easier, too." The pinched neck
good friend Peggy Whyte. "I
Martha Graham on one hand
lot who usually lunch, if at
nerve has given her no recent
talked to her when she was
encouraging her to stay, and
all, from vending machines in
trouble.
still in the hospital, and I've
Hortense Bloomer on the
the White House basement.
On weekends at Camp Da-
never heard her bubble so in
other saying what nice show.
Some of them plan state din-
vid, "a very relaxing spot
all the years I've known her.
ers and weddings other girls
ners, some keep schedules,
where it's almost impossible
To think that her misfortune
her age were having back in
some juggle the incessant
to think about work," she
is helping other women just
Michigan. Her mentor and her
pleas of the press. Nine work
goes for long walks with Lib-
makes her feel very beholden
mother didn't actually wage
full-time to answer her mail,
erty, the family's new golden
-she says she can really
an outright tug-of-war for
much of it, by necessity, with
retriever. She gave up plans
sense all those waves of pray-
young Betty's future, but they
form letters. "They think
to go with the President to
ers." Many or the prayers
might as well have. Mrs.
she's magic, they think she's
Japan, but both the seashore
have been secular, in the
Bloomer won, in any case,
Santa Claus," says Tom Mc-
and the mountains are on
form of what Betty Friedan
and her daughter came home,
Coy, who has been analyzing
their calendar for this month.
calls "the energy and power
in what must have been more
First Ladies' mail since the
They will go to Martinique to
of the women's movement.
a trudge than a pirouette.
days. of Mamie Eisenhower.
meet with the President of
She's done so much good for
Before long she had a wed-
"Sometimes they write to say
France and later, of course, to
the movement, speaking out
ding of her own, but not to
their child is dying, some-
Colorado for the traditional
as she has for things like the
Gerald Ford. The bride-
times just to say they wish
Christmas reunion.
Equal Rights Amendment, I
groom's name that time was
she'd drop by for coffee. Oh,
Every week she does more.
hope some of our strength
William Warren.
there are just all kinds of
"Betty had pizza and beer
can flow back to her."
"We've just giggled and
requests."
along with everyone else
Nobody opposes the E.R.A.
giggled about that," says
And all kinds of answers.
when she dropped by here the
more fervently than Phyllis
Nancy Howe, who seldom is
How nice that you're having
other day," an Alexandria
Schlafly, whose Illinois-based
far from the First Lady's side.
a rummage sale. Here is a
neighbor says, "and her face
campaign against the amend-
"When somebody wanted to
steel engraving of the White
looked radiant, but I thought
ment Mrs. Ford can certainly
know what the date of her
House for your auction. How
she seemed too thin." Dr.
have made no easier. "She
first wedding was, she
thoughtful of you to share
Lukash, however, isn't wor-
doesn't seem to realize." Mrs.
couldn't remember for the life
your original song (or poem)
ried; he reports that the First
Schlafly protests, "that if the
of her. That's how little it
with the Fords. Here is your
Lady's weight is holding
amendment were to pass,
mattered." That five-year
autographed picture, complete
steady between 105 and 110
we'd have coeducational wash-
marriage, such as it was,
with pawprint of Shan, the
pounds. "Oh, I clean my
rooms, and girls like her own
ended emotionally long before
First Cat of the Land. Happy
plate," she says. "I even man-
daughter would have to be
the divorce was official. "It
birthday. if you're 80 or older.
age-liver and onions, a favor-
drafted." But the First Lady
taught. me," says Mrs. Ford,
Happy anniversary, if you've
ite of Jerry's I'm not es-
realizes these facts very well.
"that there are some people
been together for at least 25
pecially fond of." At the No-
She and her personal assist-
you just can't change."
years. Mrs. Ford is pleased to
vember state dinner for the
ant, Nancy Howe, discuss
Resuming her maiden name,
hear that you share her views
Chancellor of Austria, she
them often. "They've had
she taught dance to handi-
interested that you don't)
finally corraled her husband
coed facilities in the Far East
capped and black children,
on abortion, or marijuana, or
upstairs from the dance floor
for years," Mrs. Howe says,
coordinated fashions for a
psychiatry, or the E.R.A.
at 1 A.M., "not because 1 was
"and rape is a lot less com-
Grand Rapids department
Lately, a task force of vol-
tired, but he was." At seven
mon there than it is in our
store called Herpolsheimer's,
unteers has helped mail out
the next morning, she was up
prudish societies."
and took up with the dazzling
thanks for some 50,000 mes-
for a meeting with her staff.
"And if men have to serve
-blond-bachelor-lawyer-and
sages wishing the First Lady
"I'm way behind in the
in the military," says Mrs.
former star center for Michi-
a quick recovery. These
work I've got to do, and there
Ford, "I don't see why women
gan's football team. Their
wishes, it would seem, are
are so many new people in
shouldn't too, the way they
wedding had to wait until
being granted. "She's had OC.
my life, I've been neglecting
do in Israel. Why. if this had
just before November. Jerry
casional transitory letdowns,
old- friends," Mrs. Ford says.
been an issue in my own
Ford was running for Con-
like all cancer patients." says
"When I retire, I'm going to
time, I'd probably have been
gress and wasn't sure how
Dr. William M. Lukash, the
lobby for a salary for First
the first to enlist."
voters might feel about his
White House physician, "but
Ladies, because it's much
She might have, at that. It
marrying a divorced ex-
I'm optimistic. Her surgery
more of a 24-hour job than
was scarcely less startling for
dancer.
was highly successful, and
anyone would guess." Diplo-
her to leave Grand Rapids to
she has a really 'up' attitude,
matically, she declines to say
go to New York and become
= First Ladies get a
an extraordinary determina-
which of her predecessors
a John Robert Powers model,
which she was for a while
A
lot of mail. Even
tion to carry on."
most inspire her, "because
those who just smile
"I feel great." Mrs. Ford
now that I realize what
and, worse yet, a dancer. If it
ornamentally and
said on the phone one recent
they've had to put up with, I
hadn't been for her mother,
keep out of the way can ex-
morning, and she sounded it.
have new respect and admira-
she might have made dance a
pect a couple of thousand let-
"Probably it helped that I
tion for every one of them."
lifelong career. Hedi Pope, in
ters in a routine week. They
stayed in the hospital a full
Nor will she ponder aloud
whose Alexandria modern
also
get
good
many
phone
two weeks, until the scans
about the business of being
dance studio Mrs. Ford en-
calls. Phones in the East Wing
were clear and I'd been
an icon. Whatever the public
rolled, says that "even having
don't ring, though, they
through all the tests. Jerry
may think, that's not how she
had four children, she was
chime. Their ladylike two-
was traveling then and didn't
sees herself. "I just hope to
still the best student in my
tone chime belies what, in
want me to leave Bethesda
leave my mark as a very
classes. I could see how she
Mrs Ford's case, can be
till he was back, and when I
human person interested in
might once have been very
angry urgency at the other
did come home, I wasn't even
America as a country and in
end. If today she says mildly
wearing a bandage."
its people particularly. I don't
that we all ought to fight in-
A chemotherapy regimen
feel that because I'm First
flation by eating less beef, or
obliges her to take four pills
Lady I'm any different from
buy cheaper cuts of it anyway.
each day one week out of
what I was before. It can hap-
every six. Three times every
pen to anyone. After all, it
day she stops whatever she's
has happened to anyone."
THE NEW YORK TIMES, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1974
Mrs. Ford Tells News Parley She' Busy and Happy
FORD PAY-RISE PLAN
approves a resol
the deferral, the
SCORED IN CONGRESS
would be killed.
By JOHN HERBERS
the conference with a statement
son A. Rockefelfer, who favored
Asked to describe her fam-
Representative
WASHINGTON, Sept. 4 (UPI)
Special to The Nety York Times
that she wanted to answer all
legalized abortion when he was
ily's dinner table conversations
Dulski, upstate N.
4-"I
Governor of New York. "De-
fight intensified today over
ocrat who is ch:
ASHINGTON, Sept.
the questions that had been
finitely Rockefeller," she re-
about granting amnesty to Viet-
President Ford's proposal to
House Civil Servi
have found it is a very busy
piling up about her views on
plied.
nam draft evaders and desert-
defer a raise for 3.5 million
issued a statem
life," Betty Ford said. "I'm very
life and what role she would be
Mrs. Ford was not flustered
ers-the President has come
Federal workers as part of the
the pay. postpone
happy. Everyone Has been so
playing in her husband's Ad-
by questions that are-invariably
out for conditional amnesty-
ministration.
battle against inflation.
"There are me
generous and warm."
asked of First. Ladies.
she said, "We. had a rather
She wore a gold dress with
The chairmen of the Senate
start. cutting cost
It was the kind of statement
Asked what women can 'do
open collar and scarf and sat
deep discussion, and points
to stop future wars, she said,
and House Civil Service Com-
priving governme
that First Ladies are expected
on a gold uphoistered chair
were made on all sides," but
"They can always entist.'
mittees, which ave jurisdiction
a single-ligit pa
to make after their first few
before, a mahogany table that
she Indicated that her husband
they fight doub
After the laughter died down
weeks in the White House. The
bore & small bouquet of multi-
had already made up his mind
over Government pay in-
tion," Mr. Dul
she added, "By becoming ac-
at that point.
creases, both announced their
called a committe
difference was that Mrs. Ford
colored flowers. She seemed a
tive in politics.
Asked how her family could
opposition to Mr. Ford's pro-
Sept. 19 to disc
was seated in the formal dining
little nervous as reporters
Surprised by Son
retain its "normality" in the
posal.
room under a large portrait of
asked such questions as "How
plan.
Asked if she agreed with the
White House, she said that she
Mr. Ford has urged a three-
Senator Gale
Lincoln, facing klieg lights and
would you liked to remem-
bered?"
statement by her 22-year-old
thought that would not be very
month delay in a 5.52 per cent
Wyoming Democ
150 reporters and photogra-
son Jack that he was "dis-
"In a very kind way." she
difficult, even though her hus-
pay rise for 1.3 million white
the Senate COI
phers, including a good portion
turbed" over the disclosuré that
band had made one change-he
collar workers and 2.2 million
vowed to fight
replied. "As a constructive wife
of the foreign press.
President Ford intended to run
of the President."
no longer prepares his own
military personnel. He said the
McGee said he
No one could remember when
in 1976, Mrs. Ford said, 'Y was
But she also let It be known
breakfast because of "the good
action would cut Federal
legislation to bio
a
President's wife had agreed
that she had no intention of
very surprised at my son's
service he is getting in the up-
spending by $700-million.
proposal 80 the
before to ) full-fledged White
statement.
stairs dining room.
If either the House or Senate
take effect.
being noncontroversial as she
House news conference. Her
made the following remarks:
predecessors favored more in-
#She said that she would
formal meetings with reporters
campaign for ratification of the
in the living quarters of the
equal rights amendment for
East Wing.
women by the state legislatures,
But Mrs. Ford has let it be
adding that her husband had
known that she intends to be
once joked with her about
an active First Lady with in-
"equal rights" for women but
tarests centering on the arts
was now an advocate of the
and children, and she opened
proposed. constitutional amend-
ment.
Cougar-Hunting Curb Asked
qAsked about Mr. Ford's plan
to run in 1976 for a full four-
SANTA FE, N. M., Sept. 4
year term as President, she re-
(UPI) - A suit filed in District
fused to commit herself as to
Court here seeks to invalidate
whether she thought the plan
the State Game Commission's
was wise, but said, "I'll be
liberal hunting season for
happy to campaign - and for
cougars in New Mexico. The
guess who?"
Central Clearing House, a San-
Con the politically sensitive
to Fe environmental organiza-
issue of abortion, she, was
and Donald Campbell, &
asked whether she was closer
less consultant for the
to the views of Senator James
Club, filed the suit yes,
L. Buckley, Conservative-Re-
against the commission
publican of New York, who
and the State Game and Fish
opposes legalized abortion, or
Department.
Vice-Presidential-nominee Nel-
By JOSEPH DURSO
OUL oy the A S. rog Berra
took 1 2-0 lead In the first
sed Strategy
Income tax evasion-resigna-
Special 10 The New York Times
was almost thrown out by
inning and couldn't hold it
The New York Times reported
tion, three years on probation
OAKLAND, Calif., Oct. 14
the umpires. Tug McGraw
The Mets took the lead with
two weeks ago that a similar
and a $10,000 fine-was too
-In the longest and maybe
went six adventurous in-
four in the sixth and couldn't
"national security" wiretap on
lenient.
the loosest game In the 70-
nings in relief. Mike Andrews
hold It. The A's scored twice
Morton Halperin, a former col-
Ford Sees 'Open' Hearing
year history of the World
made two errors that treated
with two down in the ninth
league of Mr. Lake at the Coun-
In short, the Gallup survey
Series, the New York Mets
the Mets to three runs in the
for a last-minute reprieve-
cil, had remained in force after
suggested that Mr. Ford's desig-
scored four runs in the 12th
12th. And Willle Mays fell
but couldn't hold it. And the
he, too, had severed his ties
nation to succeed Mr. Agnew
inning today to defeat the
twice, but batted home the
Mets finally scrounged their
to the Government and had be-
as Vice President had posed no
Oakland A's, 10-7, and tle the
lead run once in a game that
final four runs in the 12th
come the head of Senator
particular political difficulties
Series at one game aplece.
each side won and lost
and simply held on for dear
Muskie's campaign committee
for. President Nixon but had
It was a wild game that
several times.
life.
on the military budget.
done little, if anything. to di-
filled a record 4' hours 13
Along the way, Oakland
By then, many in the
Both men have said that, dur-
minish the distrust of his Ad-
minutes of, a Sunday after-
crowd of 49,151 were stream-
ing the time they were under
ministration produced by the
noon in Oakland-Alameda
Jets Win; Giants Lose
Ing home. probably to be
surveillance by the Federal
Watergate Investigation and the
County Stadium with capers,
Three field goals by Bobby
safely away from the stadium
Bureau of Investigation, they
Agnew scandal.
errors, rallies and sun-lost
Howfield helped the Jets de-
in case somebody tied the
discussed Mr. Muskle's cam-
Meanwhile, Mr. Ford said he
fly balls.
feat the New England Patri-
game again in the bottom of
hoped and expected that the
paign strategy over the tele-
Eleven pitchers worked in
ots, 9-7, yesterday at Fox-
the 12th. But nobody did, and
Congressional hearings on his
the debris, matching a World
phone with other members of
boro, Mass. At Yale Bowl
SO the teams headed for New
the Senator's staff.
confirmation would be "the
Series record. Vida Blue was
the Giants were beaten by
York, where they will play
most open and in-depth" ever
knocked out by the Mets.
Although neither man can re-
the Washington Redskins,
held by Congress.
Jerry Koosman was knocked
call any specific conversations
21-3. Details on Page 43.
Continued on Page 43, Column 1
The Gallup organization,
on the tapped phones with Sen-
based In Princeton, N.J., inter-
ator Muskie himself, Mr. Lake
viewed 730 adults in represent-
More Housing Funds Predicted for City
said it was possible that he
ative communities across the
might have spoken with the
country yesterday, one day
Senator from his home by tele-
after Mr. Ford was nominated
By MARTIN TOLCHIN
lowances for lower-income fam-
residential and commercial
phone at some point during the
and three days after Mr. Agnew
Special to The New York Times
illes.
buliders, easing the housing
two-month period.
surrendered his office and
WASHINGTON, Oct. 14
"New York City is a special
shortage and stemming deteri-
Total of 17
pleaded no contest to charges
James T. Lynn, Secretary of
case," Mr. Lynn said in an in-
oration and decay.
He added, however, that any-
of failing to report $29,500 of
Housing and Urban Develop-
terview, "New York City can't
Consequently, New York City
one listening to his conversa-
income in 1967, when he was
ment, has said that New York
be looked at solely as a hous-
Governor of Maryland. The
can expect some type of new
tions with other campaign offi-
City, because of its unique posi-
ing problem, but as a total ur-
cials at the least could have an-
margin of error for a telephone
construction and rehabilitation,
tion, could expect to be an
ban development challenge."
in addition to the housing al-
ticipated "some of the speeches
survey of this size is four per-
exception to the Nixon Ad-
The Federal goals, he said,
lowance program, Mr. Lynn
he [Senator Muskie] was going
centage points.
ministration's housing proposal
included reversing the exodus
Specifically, the questions
said yesterday.
to make."
to gradually replace Federally
from the city on the part of
asked in the special. survey
Over the next five years,
Until it became apparent in
supported new construction and
middle-income families, lessen-
combined funds for Model
mid-March of 1972 that Senator
"ontinued on Page 13, Column 1
rehabilitation with housing al-
ing the competition between
Cities, urban renewal, water
Muskie's bid for the Democratic
and sewage treatment and
Presidentia! nomination was
Mrs. Ford Is Calm Despite the Hubbub;
other H.U.D. programs for New
Continued on Page 25, Column 1
York City under the proposed
Better Communities Act would
Opposes Her Husband's Running in 1976
Increase by one-third, to $149-
Teachers End Strike
10/15/73
million annually, Mr. Lynn said.
A four-week strike against
For the next two years, how-
eight Roman Catholic high
By MARJORIE HUNTER
ever, the city will receive a 10
schools in Brooklyn and
Special to The New York Times
per cent reduction in these
Queens ended last night when
WASHINGTON, Oct. 14 -
funds, because in 1972 they
lay teachers voted to accept
Mrs. Gerald R. Ford said today
were artificially inflated by a
a salary proposal after a
that she did not want her hus-
weekend of bargaining and
band to run for President or
Continued on Page 33, Column 4
mediation. Page 41.
Vice President in 1976.
PHOTOCOPY
PRESERVATION
"Three years will be fine, but
no more." the wife of the new
Slaying of Musician
Vice-Presidential nominee said
quietly. "But, of course, Jerry
Alarms West Siders
is the boss in this family."
The quiet of the Fords' small
corner of Virginia suburbia has
By PRANAY GUPTE
been shattered in the two days
In the last four years,
Beverly Donna, had returned
since President Nixon chose the
Stephanie Digby, a young
to their 14th-floor apartment
House Republican leader as the
woman who lives on the
at 165 West End Avenue at
successor to former Vice Pres-
Upper West Side, has been
about 1:30 A.M. Saturday and
ident Spiro T. Agnew.
mugged three times in front
had d'scovered two masked
Workmen were installing a
of her home and her apart-
intruders near their bedroom.
new telephone line in the brick
ment and car have been
The couple were beaten,
and clapboard house. Secret
broken into on several occa-
bound and gagged, the po-
Service agents were camped on
sions. Once,' while standing
lice said, and after Mrs.
the lawn and in a temporary
at her window, she said, she
Hodge was left unconscious
headquarters truck out front.
saw a gang of youths attack
in the bedroom her husband
Sightseers craned their necks
a girl as a crowd watched,
was killed by a blow to the
from passing automobilies.
but no one bothered to help.
head with a blunt Instru-
But Betty Ford, a petite bru-
So yesterday, when she
ment. The assailants escaped.
'te who once considered mak-
learned about the murder on
"I am tired of this vio-
modern dance her life-
Saturday of George Howard
lence." Miss Digby said. "I'm
time career, was as calm as the
Hodge, a 42-year-old musician
tired of being frightened. I'm
eye of a hurricane as she sat
who lived in the Lincoln
tired of looking over my
in her sunny living room, seem-
Towers apartment complex
shoulder and_I am extremely
ingly oblivious to the clamor all
on West End Avenue, Miss
sick of being scared."
around her.
Digby was not surprised. She
That violence and crime
"My voice is losing me," she
was just more frightened than
plague the Upper West Side,
apologized, a little huskily.
usual.
from about 60th Street to
"Usually, they say it's your
The New York Times/George Tames
The police reported that
Columbia University from
Continued on Page 8, Column 2
Mrs. Gerald R. Ford at her home in suburban Virginia
Mr. Hodge and his wife,
Continued on Page 73, Column 1
TOBER 15, 1973
Mrs. Ford, Calm Despite Hubbub, Opposes Race in '76
Continued From Page 1, Col. 1
said, "but not in the extent
home;' because daddy might
times has trouble keeping from
that many wives do. "Jerry
not be home for three days,"
being underweight.
right hand that gets sore from
feels I should be home with the
she said; smiling. "I've had to
"I'm sure I've lost three
receiving lines. Me, it's my
children because he's away so
train myself to make the deci-
voice."
much," she added.
sions."
pounds since Friday," she said.
If her husband is confirmed
The oldest, Michael, 23, is a
She cooks, but only because
"It's been a terribly exciting
by Congress, she said, the Fords
divinity student at Gordon
she has to. The Fords have no
time for all of us."
will continue to live in the
Theological Seminary in Wen-
live-in maid. Her favorite hob-
On Friday night, as the a
house they built 19 years ago
ham, Mass.; John, 21, a student
by now is gardening. both flow-
ception following President's
in Alexandria, just across the
at Utah State University: Ste-
ers and vegetables, in the back
Nixon's announcement of his
Potomac from Washington.
ven, 17, a high school student,
yard.
choice for Vice President was
"We talked it over with the
and Susan, 16, a student at a
Until nine years ago she was
nearing an end, the President
children and decided-this was
girls' school in-nearby Bethes-
an avid golfer and-skier-But
put his arm around Betty Ford.
B.
home." she said. "Actually. the
da. Md.
she gave up both sports-and
"It's all yours," he said, smil-
house is like an accordion; it
While Mrs Ford considers
her dancing as well=because
ing.
bulges out when we're all here
her husband the boss of the
of a pinched nerve in her neck.
"Mr. President." Mrs. Ford
and contracts when most of us
family she has had to be the
She still swims, however, in
said. "I don't know whether
are away."
disciplinarian because of his
the family pool.
you're offering tulations
Their garage. she said, will
frequent trips away for speeches
One of the best dressed of
or condolences,'
be remodeled to accommodate
and other Republican functions.
the Congressional wives, she
The President laughed.
the Secret-Service agents. who
"It's not like saying to the
still wears a size 10. Weight is
"Well," he said, "at least the
moved to Mr. Ford's side just
kids, 'Wait until daddy gets
no problem. In fact. she some-
pay is better."
seconds after his appointment
Friday at the White House.
As Second Lady, Mrs. Ford
said, she would "like to do
something for the arts, If they
need me anywhere."
Altma
A dancer since the age of 8
and a dance instructor when
she was just 14, Betty Ford
was with the Martha Graham
modern dance group in New
custom
York City in the late 1930's
and early 1940's.
Gave Up Dancing
25
"Martha Graham once told
me she wanted me to keep on
draperi
dancing, but she told me 1
would have to completely dedi-
Tonight
cate myself to it and give up
everything else." Mrs. Ford
Hart Schaffner & Marx
ofshee
said. "After thinking it over for
a long time and talking to
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go home."
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great news from our
was 35, she was 30.
beauty
"Sometimes I look back and
HS&M Heritage wor-
wonder what it would have
sted suit collection:
been like if I had kept on danc-
excellent worsted
ing," she said. "Actually, I'm
woolens in bold
glad I did what I did. Politics
is Jerry's life, and I like it,
plaids, great solid
too."
colors, and distin-
For nearly 25 years, the en-
guished checks
tire span of her husband's ca-
and stripes. A
reer in Congress, Betty Ford
has found herself playing a dou-
wide selection of
ble role-as housewife and
models, 175.00.
House wife.
"That's what we call our-
selves, House wives;" she said,
referring to the various Con-
gressional and Republican clubs
to which she belongs. "Some-
how, I always end up being pro-
gram chairman."
She has campaigned for her
husband in every election, she
PAT NIXON
LADY BIRD JOHNSON
Copyright 1993 The Washington Post
The Washington Post
June 18, 1993, Friday, Final Edition
SECTION: STYLE; PAGE G2
LENGTH: 519 words
HEADLINE: TV Preview; Lady Bird, The Mellow Rose of Texas
SERIES: Occasional
BYLINE: Sarah Booth Conroy, Washington Post Staff Writer
BODY: In 1965, it seemed as if Congress was about to recess without passing Lady
Bird Johnson's Highway Beautification Act. President Johnson called in his Cabinet and
cronies. He told them that he loved his wife. That Mrs. Johnson wanted the bill passed.
And that he intended she and the country should have it. Johnson was a clever and
astute politician -- and so was Mrs. Johnson. She had, and still has, her own strong
constituency, earned by good works.
Fittingly, a tribute by Congress to that First Lady begins an hour-long documentary,
"The Story of Lady Bird Johnson, at 10 tonight on Channel 26. The story is told by
Mrs. Johnson; Liz Carpenter, her adept staff director; George Christian, presidential
press secretary; and others -- unfortunately not always identified when they speak.
Charles Guggenheim wrote and directed the program; Grace Guggenheim produced it.
The viewer's reaction will be what a nice woman, what a pleasant television biography.
Claudia Alta Taylor, as she was born on Dec. 22, 1912, was an un-elected but very
active worker for the nation. The 1963-69 First Lady was 22 when she came to town in
1934, bride of a congressional aide.
Family photographs of Karnack, Tex., show an idyllic and bucolic childhood, marred
when she was 5 by the death of her mother. The footage hints of a domineering father, a
good preparation for her husband.
Sometimes in her own movie footage and in her own words, her years as a caryatid to
his career are brought to life: giving tours to constituents; learning dress and demeanor;
living in a tiny apartment until her tears convinced her husband that they should have a
house; and, as the vice president's wife, standing in for Jacqueline Kennedy.
Her last contribution to LBJ's political life was to persuade him to leave the
presidency in 1969, when he was unable to solve the conflicts of the Vietnam War. She
also gave him the graceful words: "I will not seek, and I will not accept" a second
presidential term.
Neglected in this portrayal are her accomplishments as a businesswoman, radio station
owner, founder and preserver of the family fortune -- no small achievement in her
difficult life.
Lady Bird Johnson is neither a lily of the field nor a hothouse rose. She might be
likened better to a sturdy magnolia tree, well able to stand the winds of public life.
The Texas woman, in the custom of her times, was self-effacing and soft-spoken. "I
never tried to lose my Southern accent," she once told me. Not enough can be said about
her nurture of nature, but the documentary does credit her efforts in Washington and the
nation's parks. The film rightly points to her advocacy of the Head Start program, which
resulted in adoption of that key part of Johnson's Great Society program.
As she says, "Being married to the president of the United States, somebody was going
to listen to what you said, so you better try to think hard about saying something that
was both good and true and that you had your heart in."
She might have added that you can accomplish a great deal -- if you don't mind giving
others the credit.
GRAPHIC: PHOTO, LADY BIRD JOHNSON: A SOFT-SPOKEN CRUSADER AND
AN ASTUTE POLITICIAN.
TYPE: REVIEW
SUBJECT: TELEVISION; FIRST LADY
NAMED-PERSONS: LADY BIRD JOHNSON
Copyright (c) 1988 The Washington Post
April 29, 1988, Friday, Final Edition
SECTION: STYLE; PAGE G1
LENGTH: 780 words
HEADLINE: Lady Bird Johnson, Blooming Still; A Day of Tributes to a Legacy of
Beauty
BYLINE: Sarah Booth Conroy, Washington Post Staff Writer
BODY: When Lady Bird Johnson left Texas to come up to Washington for her
Diamond Jubilee, she told her folks: "Call me if it rains, so I can give thanks."
More compliments than raindrops fell around the good gardener yesterday as the
nation celebrated her 75th year. Still, enough rain fell on the rose garden she had
tended at the White House that the congressional gold medal presentation by President
Reagan had to be moved inside to the East Room.
Mrs. Johnson, speaking in her soft low voice with her natural rhythm that sometimes
sounds like hymn singing, told an East Room full of friends that the medal is "a salute to
all those people all over this great land who are working to preserve and to enhance the
natural beauty of America."
And the clouds moved, and the sun sparkled and the raindrops on the flowers she
planted in the capital turned into diamonds for Lady Bird Johnson's jubilee.
Majority Leader Jim Wright (D-Tex.) told the best Lady Bird story on the House
floor.
He recalled that once all of Congress had been invited by the president and Mrs.
Johnson to a gala Salute to Congress. " But that day Lyndon Johnson sent word to the
congressmen that they needn't come to the party until they'd passed the highway
beautification act sponsored by the first lady. So the wives in party dresses sat waiting in
the House's family gallery until the bill was finally passed at 12:51 a.m. Oct. 8, 1965.
At the Capitol earlier Mrs. Johnson, in a Southern-lady navy blue dress with pearls, sat
in a House full of kinfolk. Her daughters were there: Lynda Bird Robb with husband
Charles Robb, a senatorial candidate; Luci Turpin and her husband Ian Turpin plus their
children, and friends ranging from actress Helen Hayes to decorator Bob Waldron to
author Liz Carpenter and publicist Bess Abell. Texas congressmen -- and a few from
Alabama where she was born -- told stories about her kindness to freshman members of
Congress and their wives, her accomplishments as a humanitarian, businesswoman, first
lady, environmentalist and hostess.
Rep. Lindy Boggs (D-La.) spoke of her admiration for the way Mrs. Johnson had
juggled working in her husband's office with volunteering at her daughters' schools,
helping with relief to the poor and still managing to be included in the "sessions with the
boys."
The congressional ceremony had everything from the Naval Academy Glee Club to the
Joint Armed Forces Color Guard to seven speeches, all before lunch. After lunch,
starting a half hour late, the Senate had about as many speeches, but no singing, unless
you count Majority Leader Robert C. Byrd's oration, which included a poem.
Byrd said Mrs. Johnson's efforts, like the scent of roses, would linger. And he added,
"It is not for every man or woman to engrave his name or her name upon a plate of
bronze or to build a great shaft of granite, but it is within the reach of every man and
woman to so live that they might plant an ever blooming flower in the breast of all
whom they meet. Lady Bird Johnson has planted that flower." Sen. Robert Dole
(R-Kan.) said that when he came to Washington in 1961 it was "still a sleepy Southern
town. It only had one Chinese restaurant, no Kennedy Center and no Bloomingdale's.
But in 1963, Mrs. Johnson initiated a remarkable transformation. Every time I look out
my office window, I see tulips, flowering trees, a magnificent feast to life. Her gift keeps
on giving."
Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.), apparently unscheduled, signaled Byrd for a chance to
speak. He paid tribute to her for her work in beautification, but also (as did several
others) lauded her work in promoting the Head Start program. And then he said, "in the
1960s, as first lady, she was very kind to my mother and my family." Mrs. Johnson, sitting
in the Senate gallery, nodded her thanks to him.
Sen. Lloyd Bentsen (D-Tex.), who had proposed the gold medal (the only one ever
awarded a former first lady, according to first ladies historian Carl Sferrazza Anthony),
spoke of the many roles of Mrs. Johnson: "a wife, a mother, a pioneering and successful
businesswoman, a political counselor, and a private citizen who has continued to
contribute President Johnson won some major battles in the war on poverty -- and he
was helped by a first lady who traveled over 200,000 miles across this land to muster
support for those programs."
And Mrs. Johnson put her hands up to her eyes.
Some 600 people from Washington, Texas, Utah and other states attended the two-day
event and gave amounts from $ 125 to $ 10,000 to make up a million-dollar endowment
for the National Wildflower Research Center in Austin, Tex., founded by Mrs. Johnson.
JACKIE KENNEDY
Newsday
November 23, 1988, Wednesday, ALL EDITIONS
SECTION: PART II; JFK 25 YEARS LATER; Pg. 2
HEADLINE: A Portrait Of Jackie;
She has moved from first lady to independent working woman, aloof from the public, yet a
celebrity of legendary proportions
SERIES: JFK 25 YEARS LATER. 3rd in a series
BYLINE: By Susan Brenna
Just 31 years old when she entered the White House, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy was the
last of the pre-feminist first ladies. Lady Bird Johnson, who held the post at the dawn of the
women's movement, had her highway beautification campaign, and every first lady
thereafter was forced to adopt an appropriately progressive civic cause. Mental health.
Drugs. Literacy.
But Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy (now Onassis), trained from birth to be an accomplished
rider, graceful conversationalist and pretty lady, presided over a world where becoming the
perfect wife and mother was considered to be the pinnacle of womanhood. She was not
supposed to advise her husband on race relations. She was not expected to understand the
Cuban missile crisis. She was, in her own eyes and in the view of others, expected to dress
like a princess, host fabulous parties, speak Spanish to Spanish diplomats and French to the
French, and hire an upright English nanny for her children. And that's what she did.
She was born to the Bouvier family of old but thinning wealth, riding in East Hampton
horse shows by age 5 in her custom-made derby, ascot and jodhpurs. Her schools were all
private, and she barely finished college, transferring out of Vassar to George Washington
University her senior year because she essentially had lost interest in higher education.
BODY:
She was not a barnstorming political wife. In fact, she barely campaigned at all, because it
tired and bored her. She did not even vote until she cast her first vote for Jack Kennedy. And
after he died, she refused to vote in the next presidential election. Her vote, she explained,
had always been his.
Living in the White House, she spent much of her time buying clothes, thinking about
clothes and designing clothes. One year she spent more money on clothing than her husband
earned as president. She even had a maid who ironed her stockings.
Today, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis is a single working woman. Three days a week she
commutes by taxi or hired limousine to her office at the Doubleday publishing house. She
gets her own coffee, presents her own books at meetings, and signs her own authors. When
she visits her veteran hairdresser Kenneth these days for her twice-monthly coloring and
styling, she hefts along a Hermes tote stuffed with galleys.
In 25 years she has changed from a photogenic cipher, a powerful man's adornment, to a
woman who lavishly enjoys her independence (by the accounts of those who know her well).
As she has changed, so have American women.
"The whole world has changed since the Kennedys," says Letitia Baldrige, once Mrs.
Kennedy's White House social secretary and now an authority on etiquette.
Considering the limitations of her personality and breeding, many have speculated
whether Mrs. Onassis could succeed today in repeating her immense popularity as a first
lady.
Doris Kearns Goodwin, a Kennedy family biographer and a guest at the Caroline
Kennedy-Edwin Schlossberg nuptials in the summer of 1986, recalls watching a joint
questioning session involving all the Democratic presidential candidates' wives during the
past primary season. She says, "It's hard to imagine Jacqueline ever wanting to go to that sort
of thing. But twenty years ago, that wouldn't have been a problem.
"Remember, she had little children in the White House. That would be a reason people
might accept a first lady who didn't run around campaigning" or involving herself in other
public projects. Nonetheless, says Goodwin, "She really is a role model from the past."
Says Baldrige, "The charm and social grace and hospitality and style of Mrs. Kennedy
would be welcomed and would excite the public in any era. But the women's movement has
changed the role of the first lady."
It's strange now to watch Mrs. Kennedy's televised 1962 "Tour of the White House." The
tour was filmed while the first lady was in the midst of her drive to renovate the White
House, to bring to it the glory of French vermeil candelabra and satin draperies and antiques
that had once been the possession of presidents past. In the film she seems so young, hardly
removed from the girl who society columnist Cholly Knickerbocker named "Debutante of the
Year" in 1947. Her voice is soft and girlish as she strides through her "pretty ruhms" with
perfect but utterly stiff school-girlish posture. She seems more a figurine than a person.
Yet, she has always seemed to be something other than a simple flesh and blood person.
Her public is divided into two groups. There are those who think of her as a woman who
surmounted inexpressible tragedies with her dignity, and also her precious children intact. To
those people, she is awesome.
Then there are those too young to remember her in her moment of greatest pain. They
know only the tabloid Jackie of nightclubs and Greek yachts and multiple famous escorts.
Like that other exalted female of her peak era in the early '60s, Marilyn Monroe, she has
evolved into a pop-culture icon, almost a cartoon figure. Discos have been named for "Jackie
O." Warhol did her portrait. Post-baby boomers, still in their cribs the day the young widow
veiled in black trailed her husband's funeral cortege through Washington, admire her fame,
her attitude and her skill at marrying big and rich.
"I want to be Jackie Onassis
I want to wear a pair of dark sunglasses
I want to be Jackie Onassis, oh yeah, oh yeah.
I want bodyguards all around
I'm anxious to avoid an autograph hound
I want to be Jackie Onassis, oh yeah, oh yeah."
So goes the song by Human Sexual Response in which tabloid Jackie is immortalized.
If this hurts her, she does not complain, at least not in public. In this age of the salable
celebrity, there is no other figure of such stature who conducts herself with quite the aloof
dignity Mrs. Onassis possesses. Even Princess Di occasionally does BBC interviews. Mrs.
Onassis does none.
She leads not quite a normal life these days, but one that has a routine to it. She lives in
the same 15-room Fifth Avenue apartment that she moved to from Washington just months
after John F. Kennedy was assassinated. She had to leave Washington, she said in a rare 1978
talk with a researcher for the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library, because she could
not bear the sight of the home she had shared with the president. "Even driving around
Washington," she said, "I'd try to drive a way where I couldn't see the White House."
Although she received frequent invitations to state dinners, she said, "It was just too painful
for me to go back to that place."
Five years ago, on the 20th anniversary of JFK's killing, members of the Kennedy clan
gathered by his grave at Arlington National Cemetery. His widow took a solitary walk along
the beach at Martha's Vineyard.
With both her children now grown - Caroline a law school graduate and the mother of a
daughter, Rose; John in his last year at New York University law school - she has been able
to relax her obsession with shielding her children from intrusive strangers, as well as from
the clamorous, troubled young Kennedy cousins. Now she has her own schedule to cling to,
spending three days a week at the Doubleday job and leaving town each weekend for either
her home in New Jersey hunt country or the secluded estate she built by the sea on Martha's
Vineyard.
"She's always loved to travel, she's always loved the country and her riding, and the tastes
she has now are pretty much the tastes she has developed over the years," says Mabel
(Muffie) Brandon, a celebrated Washington hostess who also worked on a book with Mrs.
Onassis. "She's a voracious reader and has a wide knowledge of literature."
She has no financial need for a job, being the beneficiary of a $ 10 million Kennedy trust
and $ 20 million from the Onassis estate. She was persuaded to go to work by Letitia
Baldrige after husband Aristotle Onassis' death in 1975. Baldrige felt her old employer
seemed to be at odds, not content to simply shop and lunch.
In her profession, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis is not above using her celebrity when she
needs to. It was her personal persuasion that convinced reclusive Michael Jackson to sign
with Doubleday for his best-selling autobiography. Although Mrs. Onassis snagged the book,
say Doubleday associates, the actual editing was done by a colleague. Mrs. Onassis handles
fewer books than most senior editors in the trade division, and those chiefly deal with artistic
or historical subjects. Her latest published project is a coffee table book on Fred Astaire.
She has her peccadillos. When she hires a private car, no chauffeur can drive her more
than once. She does not want anyone knowing the addresses she frequents.
She sees a shiatsu acupuncturist for tension relief and has never been broken of her
cigarette-smoking habit. She jogs in Central Park along the reservoir and keeps a
high-powered telescope in a front room of her Fifth Avenue apartment that she uses not for
stargazing, but for people-watching down below. She is also a devoted bird-watcher.
She entertains only at small dinners in her apartment. Her co-host for those evenings, as
well as her frequent escort, is Belgian-born financier Maurice Tempelsman. Tempelsman is
married but estranged from his wife. But even if he were to become free, friends doubt that
Mrs. Onassis would marry again. Having dealt with two difficult husbands, the first a
womanizer and constant political campaigner who spent little time with his wife, the second
a much older and often contentious man who resented her extravagant shopping, she feels
happier being her own accountant and keeper.
With close friends, she is warm and sometimes even silly. "She's full of humor and great
fun," says Muffie Brandon. But the widow of two strong-willed men is wrapped in a
translucent shell of her own design, one that allows her to be on display and yet remain
utterly mysterious. Her Bouvier family cousin, John H. Davis, calls her modus operandi a mi
of "steel and style," everything on her own terms.
"She's the most famous woman in the world, and yet nobody knows anything about her,"
says one of her biographers, Stephen Birmingham, who chronicles the American aristocracy.
It's a privacy that otherwise forward New Yorkers almost unanimously respect (with the
exception of the paparazzi). Author Dominick Dunne has named her as the single individual
he is most eager to interview, but to approach her is out of the question, he says. "I never
would' I just admire her too much for the way she chose to live her life out of the limelight,
and has succeeded at doing so, creating an aura of such respect about her."
An associate at Doubleday says, "I'm as starry-eyed as anybody here. People really are a
little bit in awe of her, but they try to hide it for her benefit." And rather than acting
imperious toward them, Mrs. Onassis "goes out of her way in the opposite direction, not
wanting to interrupt conversations, going out of her way to be polite and unassuming."
Although she has lent her name and, at times, her presence to the struggle to preserve
New York landmarks and other causes in the last two decades, she has never lent her
breathy voice. Unlike most modern public figures, there is almost no archival record of Mrs.
Onassis speaking, for she never, ever gives interviews. "And we've certainly had many
requests lately," says Nancy Tuckerman, her shield and friend from their days at Miss
Porter's School.
To most Americans Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis remains a soundless image, a pair
of wide dark eyes, now edged with pinpoint wrinkles, and that instinctive rotoravure smile.
Still, people are hungry to hear her. The "Tour of the White House with Jacqueline Kennedy"
is one of the most requested viewing selections among visitors to the Museum of
Broadcasting.
Friends such as Doris Kearns Goodwin believe that in her 60th year Mrs. Onassis has at
times considered breaking her silence, speaking out on issues that concern her.
"But the habits of a lifetime are set. I think maybe even if she wanted to break out of her
shell a little bit and be a little bit more public, she might think: 'If I do it this once, then
maybe I'll have to do it twelve more times.' I'm not sure that it is possible to become more
publicly open and not fall right into 'Live at Five' and the rest of it. Maybe it is, but how
would she know ahead of time?"
Arguing the opposite is Stephen Birmingham, who continues to encounter Mrs. Onassis at
various New York charitable functions such as the Literary Lions fund raiser at the New
York Public Library this month.
"She manages her celebrity just fine as it is," Birmingham says. "There is always the
question of will she or won't she show up, which is very clever on her part. Everyone gasps
when she walks in, even if she only stays three minutes. She always makes an entrance."
Doubleday could probably guarantee itself a Michael Jack son-beating best-seller, should
they be able to convince their most celebrated editor to commit her own life to paper. She
did write a book once with her sister, Lee, about their post-collegiate travels in Europe.
But friends believe Mrs. Onassis will never reveal herself on the page again.
Still, she has an obvious literary talent, which suggests that to her authors, she is a
sensitive editor. She contributed an essay to Look magazine on the first anniversary of
President Kennedy's assassination. It could have been mawkish. Instead, it was executed with
grace.
"Now I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it - but I
should have guessed it could not last," she wrote. "I should have known that it was asking
too much to dream that I might have grown old with him and see our children grow up
together.
So now he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man."
Friday: The next generation of Kennedys
GRAPHIC: 1) Photo by Mark Shaw Collection/Photo Researchers-A photo of Jacqueline
Kennedy, candidate's wife, above, was part of a Life magazine essay on her 'cultured, quiet,
unpolitical' life at home in Georgetown while her husband was out campaigning. 2) Photo by
George Silk, Life Magazine [COPYRIGHT] Time Inc.-Above: First lady on Inauguration Day,
1961, with Pat Nixon; Mamie Eisenhower; and Lady Bird Johnson. 3) Photo by Lisa Larsen,
Life Magazine [COPYRIGHT] Time Inc.-Jackie and John at their wedding reception in
Newport, R.I., 1953. 4) Photo by Morgan/Globe Photos-As a young girl, Jacqueline Bouvier,
at Belmont Park Racetrack in 1939, was trained to be an accomplished rider. She continues to
ride and often spends weekends at her home in New Jersey hunt country. 5) Photo by Alfred
Eisenstaedt/Life Magazine [COPYRIGHT] Time Inc.-Jacqueline, working at Viking Press in
New York in 1977.She's now an editor at Doubleday, where she works three days a week. 6)
Photo by Adam Scull/Globe Photos-Jacqueline with frequent escort, above, Belgian-born
financier Maurice Tempelsman, who is estranged from his wife. 7) Photo by [COPYRIGHT]
Ron Galella-At right, in 1971 with second husband, Greek shipping magnate Onassis. 8) UPI
Photo-In 1983, proud single parent with her son, John Jr., and daughter, Caroline, and their
uncle Sen. Edward Kennedy, in 1983. 9) AP Photo-On the 20th anniversary of JFK's
assassination, his widow takes a solitary walk along the beach at Hyannisport, Mass., as
members of the Kennedy clan gathered by his grave at Arlington National Cemetery. 10)
Color Cover Photo by Sygma/Allan Tannenbaum-Jacqueline Kennedy
Copyright 1989 The Time Inc. Magazine Company
Life
July, 1989
SECTION: COVER; Pg. 72
LENGTH: 188 words
HEADLINE: Happy (60th) Birthday Jackie
BODY: Sunday, July 28, 1929, was a scorcher along the eastern seaboard of the
United States, and the following day The New York Times reported "record throngs at
local beaches." For weekend enjoyment, many people were reading Erich Maria
Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front or watching Lucky Star, with Janet Gaynor
and Charles Farrell "in their first talking picture." At Yankee Stadium, Babe Ruth hit a
12th-inning home run to beat the St. Louis Browns. General Motors was selling at $69.50
a share, but three months later it would be down to $7.50. In Southampton toward the
tip of Long Island, a gathering of prominent residents attended a series of luncheons and
parties to raise money for a hospital. Their names were listed in the Times on Monday,
and it is possible that those of Jack and Janet Bouvier, who had been married a year
earlier in the social event of the season, might have been among them but for the fact
that Janet was at a nearby private hospital giving birth to an eight-pound daughter. Her
parents decided to name her Jacqueline. What follows is her life in photographs, one
taken each year.
GRAPHIC: Picture 1, HAPPY BIRTHDAY JACKIE HER 60 YEARS IN
PHOTOGRAPHS descColor cover: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis., Cover photograph by
RPM; Picture 2, NO CAPTION descBlack and white: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.,
BERT & RICHARD MORGAN; Picture 3, NO CAPTION descBlack and white:
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, John F. Kennedy., LISA LARSEN; Picture 4, (1)
Jacqueline Bouvier was to become one of the world's most photographed women.
descBlack and white: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis., MAGNUM PHOTOS; Picture 5, (2)
She lived in a large duplex apartment on Park Avenue in New York City -- she is shown
in Central Park with her dog Hootchie -- and summered on Long Island. descBlack and
white: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis., MAGNUM PHOTOS; Picture 6, (3) Her mother
gave birth to a second daughter, Caroline Lee. descBlack and white: Jacqueline Kennedy
Onassis, Janet Bouvier., UPI/BETTMANN NEWSPHOTOS; Picture 7, (4) Dressed for
the occasion, she attended a horse show with both parents; she would become an
accomplished competitor. descBlack and white: Janet Bouvier, Jacqueline Kennedy
Onassis, Jack Bouvier., UPI/BETTMANN NEWSPHOTOS; Picture 8, Horses, along
with her family, friends and a long procession of other dogs (5-13), were to dominate her
childhood -- one marred only by the divorce of her parents in 1940. descBlack and white:
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis., BERT & RICHARD MORGAN; Picture 9, See above.
descBlack and white: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis., LADIES' HOME JOURNAL;
Picture 10, See above. descBlack and white: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis., BERT &
RICHARD MORGAN; Picture 11, See above. descBlack and white: Jacqueline Kennedy
Onassis., MORGAN STUDIO/GLOBE PHOTOS; Picture 12, See above. descBlack and
white: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis., AP/LADIES' HOME JOURNAL; Picture 13, See
above. descBlack and white: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, others., UPI/BETTMANN
NEWSPHOTOs; Picture 14, See above. descBlack and white: Jacqueline Kennedy
Onassis., MORGAN STUDIO/GLOBE PHOTOS; Picture 15, See above. descBlack and
white: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, others., BERT & RICHARD MORGAN; Picture 16,
See above. descBlack and white: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis., BERT & RICHARD
MORGAN; Picture 17, (14) Black Jack and the Major, father and grandfather, showed
up to watch Jackie at a horse show. descBlack and white: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis,
father Jack Bouvier and grandfather., NATURAL; Picture 18, (15-16) At Miss Porter's
School, she rode in a horse-drawn sleigh and, along with two classmates, she vamped for
the camera, a dark-haired Veronica Lake. descBlack and white: Jacqueline Kennedy
Onassis on sleigh., PHOTO COPIED BY MARTHA STANITZ, COURTESY MISS
PORTER'S SCHOOL; Picture 19, See above. descBlack and white: Jacqueline Kennedy
Onassis, others., PETER BRENNAN; Picture 20, (17) Here she is, Miss America.
Having graduated, she made her debut at two Newport coming-out parties and was
named Deb of the Year by Oleg Cassini. descBlack and white: Jacqueline Kennedy
Onassis., MAGNUM PHOTOS; Picture 21, (18) She entered Vassar, had her own wheels
and descBlack and white: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis., LLOYD
PAULEY/PROVIDENCE JOURNAL-BULLETIN; Picture 22, (19), still acting saucy,
made her first trip through Europe. descBlack and white: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.,
MAGNUM PHOTOS; Picture 23, (20) Liking it, she joined the Smith College Junior
Year Abroad program, studying in France. descBlack and white: Jacqueline Kennedy
Onassis, others., UPI/BETTMANN NEWSPHOTOS; Picture 24, (21) Returning, she
graduated from George Washington University. A month earlier she had attended a
dinner party in Georgetown at which she was introduced to a young Massachusetts
congressman, John F. Kennedy, who later claimed to have "leaned over the asparagus
and asked her for a date." descBlack and white: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis., GLOBE
PHOTOS; Picture 25, (22) She summered in Europe with sister Lee and the two wrote
about their adventures in a book, One Special Summer, published in 1974. Later in 1951
she became engaged to John Husted, an investment banker, then landed a job as an
inquiring photographer in Washington, D.C. descBlack and white: Jacqueline Kennedy
Onassis., NO CREDIT; Picture 26, (23) Her newspaper work placed her conveniently
close to Kennedy, who had shown a good deal of interest, and Husted was a goner.
descBlack and white: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis., UPI/BETTMANN NEWSPHOTOS;
Picture 27, (24) On September 12, 1953, Jackie married John Fitzgerald Kennedy in
Newport, R.I., attended by 14 ushers and 10 bridesmaids. He was 36, she 24. descBlack
and white: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis., UPI/BETTMANN NEWSPHOTOS; Picture 28,
(25) A worried Jackie accompanied her husband to Cornell Medical Center in
Manhattan before he underwent back surgery. descBlack and white: Jacqueline Kennedy
Onassis, John F. Kennedy, others., AP; Picture 29, (26) When she participated in one of
the legendary Kennedy family touch football games in Washington, D.C., Jackie broke
her right ankle and announced her permanent retirement. descBlack and white:
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis on crutches., UPI/BETTMANN NEWSPHOTOS; Picture
30, (27) She attended the '56 Democratic convention while in the final months of her
second pregnancy, which, like her first, ended with no issue. Her husband's name was
placed in nomination as Vice President, but he lost, thus avoiding losing in an
Eisenhower landslide. descBlack and white: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis., HOWARD
SOCHUREK; Picture 31, (28) Caroline Kennedy, born the day after Thanksgiving in
1957, was christened by Richard Cardinal Cushing as her parents beamed. descBlack and
white: John F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Caroline Kennedy, Richard
Cardinal Cushing., AP; Picture 32, (29) This was a happy period, with a husband, child
and home in Georgetown. descBlack and white: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Caroline
Kennedy., NINA LEEN; Picture 33, (30) There was time for Hyannis Port and frolicking
in the surf with Caroline during the early summer of '59. The major event of the next
summer was the Democratic convention and her husband's nomination. Four months
later John Jr. was born. descBlack and white: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Caroline
Kennedy., MARK SHAW COLLECTION/PHOTO RESEARCHERS; Picture 34, (31)
In the bitter cold on January 20, 1961, Jackie and Jack rode to the White House after
the inaugural ceremonies. descBlack and white: John F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy
Onassis., PAUL SCHUTZER; Picture 35, (32) "I intend to make this a grand house,"
said Jackie of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, and she did, although it took more than a year.
Here she shows off a candelabrum from the James Monroe period. descBlack and white:
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis., ED CLARK; Picture 36, (33) As First Lady she was called
upon to perform -- with style -- a variety of duties, such as christening a U.S. submarine.
descBlack and white: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis., BILL EPPRIDGE; Picture 37, (34)
The Kennedy Camelot ended abruptly, tragically. She flew to Dallas with her husband,
was beside him when he was assassinated and three days later attended his funeral in
Washington with her brother-in-law, Robert Kennedy. An era was over. descBlack and
white: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Robert F. Kennedy., UPI/BETTMANN
NEWSPHOTOS; Picture 38, (35) Starting a new life, Jackie sold her Georgetown house
because it was becoming a tourist attraction. She also became a familiar sight at such ski
resorts as Stowe and Aspen and that summer traveled to England with the children.
descColor: Caroline Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, John F. Kennedy Jr., AP;
Picture 39, (36) She began to appear at public functions with a variety of gentlemen, and
she leased a house in Bernardsville, N.J., fox-hunting country, but on her birthday, she
stayed at the Kennedy compound in Hyannis Port. descBlack and white: Jacqueline
Kennedy Onassis., UPI/BETTMANN NEWSPHOTOS; Picture 40, (37) Jackie took the
kids to Hawaii, where John Jr. was burned when he fell into a cookout pit and had to be
flown to Honolulu. descBlack and white: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, others., N.Y.
DAILY NEWS; Picture 41, (38) On a trip to Cambodia, Jackie got an almost-too-close
look at a Republican mascot. descColor: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, elephant trunk,
others., EMPIRE NEWS/BLACK STAR; Picture 42, (39) Accompanied by
brother-in-law Ted, she visited Aristotle Onassis in August, then returned in October
with a cadre of Kennedys to say, "I do," reportedly receiving $1.5 million for each word.
descBlack and white: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Aristotle Onassis, others.,
UPI/BETTMANN NEWSPHOTOS; Picture 43, (40) On consecutive birthdays, Ari gave
her a 40-carat diamond ring and descBlack and white: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.,
A.P.I.S., PARIS; Picture 44, (41) told a bikinied Jackie on Skorpios he would buy her
"the best yacht in the world." descBlack and white: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.,
GAMMA-LIAISON; Picture 45, (42) Jackie and her children had dinner with the Nixon
family at the White House, her first visit there since 1963. descBlack and white:
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis., RON GALELLA; Picture 46, (43) A sticky lawsuit
developed with paparazzo Ron Galella, whom Jackie wanted kept at bay. descBlack and
white: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis., UPI/BETTMANN NEWSPHOTOS; Picture 47,
(44) When Caroline lost Secret Service protection at 16, Jackie hired her own guards.
descBlack and white: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis., ELIO SORCI; Picture 48, (45) Ari
died, and how much money Jackie received, only the IRS knew for sure. descBlack and
white: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, others., UPI/BETTMANN NEWSPHOTOS; Picture
49, (46) Viking Press signed her on as a $238-a-week consultant. She attended a Frank
Sinatra concert, after which Ol' Blue Eyes escorted her to the 21 Club. descBlack and
white: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Frank Sinatra., AP; Picture 50, (47) Jackie was seen
with artist William Katz at the Parsons School of Design, setting off rumors of romance.
Author Philip Roth, for one, denied he was a suitor. descBlack and white: Jacqueline
Kennedy Onassis., UPI/BETTMANN NEWSPHOTOS; Picture 51, (48) Jackie resigned
from Viking because it intended to publish a novel in which Ted Kennedy, elected
President, was assassinated. descBlack and white: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis., AP;
Picture 52, (49) Big year. She became an associate editor at Doubleday, bought 375 acres
of Martha's Vineyard for $1.15 million, watched John graduate from Exeter and threw a
combined 21st and 18th birthday party for her children. descBlack and white: Jacqueline
Kennedy Onassis., RON GALELLA; Picture 53, (50) She spent her own birthday aboard
a yacht off the Maine coast, companions unidentified. descBlack and white: Edward
Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis., UPI/BETTMANN NEWSPHOTOS; Picture 54,
(51) It wasn't romance, just an evening out with pal Mike Nichols. descBlack and white:
Mike Nichols, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis., DAVID MCGOUGH/DMI; Picture 55, (52)
Former First Lady greeted future First Lady Barbara Bush in a year when 17 paintings
Jackie bought in India were mistakenly thrown out but saved by alert sanitation men.
descBlack and white: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Barbara Bush., BOB SERATING;
Picture 56, (53) When John graduated from Brown, mother and sister were there,
Caroline playing paparazzo herself. Jackie was promoted to full editor at Doubleday and
was instrumental in handling an eventual best-seller, Michael Jackson's 1988
autobiography. descBlack and white: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Caroline Kennedy.,
JOHN FORASTE/GAMMA-LIAISON Picture 57, (54) Testifying at a hearing, she
supported landmark status for certain Manhattan buildings. descBlack and white:
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis., JOHN CARL D'ANNIBALE; Picture 58, (55) She
appeared with Gloria Steinem at the Academy of Arts and Letters in New York.
descBlack and white: Gloria Steinem, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis., UPI/BETTMANN
NEWSPHOTOS; Picture 59, (56) Wedding bells rang for Caroline, who married Edwin
Schlossberg, and niece Maria Shriver, who married muscleman Arnold Schwarzenegger.
descColor: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, John F. Kennedy Jr., CHARLES KRUPA/AP;
Picture 60, (57) Jackie chatted with Kitty Dukakis at the dedication of a park at Harvard
to honor JFK. descColor: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Kitty Dukakis.,
UPI/BETTMANN NEWSPHOTOS; Picture 61, (58) Attempting to stay fit and
incognito, she was caught circling the Central Park reservoir. And she became a
grandmother when Caroline gave birth to daughter Rose. descBlack and white:
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis., PAUL ADAO/OUTLINE PRESS; Picture 62, (59) Jackie
dined with Maurice Tempelsman, a diamond merchant, who is her long-standing escort.
In May, John graduated from NYU Law School. So that's it, Jacqueline Bouvier
Kennedy Onassis. Congratulations on July 28 from all of us at LIFE. descColor:
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Maurice Tempelsman., BRIAN QUIGLEY
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