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About two hours later, the Carters left the old life for good. With Amy cradling her cat, Misty Malarkey Ying Yang, and Jimmy carrying his own bags as usual, they boarded a chartered airliner at Albany, Ga. Carter told newsmen, "I think I'm ready now to be President. If I can stay close to the people of this country and not disappoint them, I think I have a chance to be a great President, but it still remains to be seen...
...celebrating. As the Peanut Special rolled toward Savannah past naked cotton-and cornfields and snow-crowned pine and pecan groves, they partied with a vengeance-almost as if they were reversing General William Tecumseh Sherman's earlier trek across the South. Said Sam Simpson, a grocer from Barnesville, Ga., bedecked with a peanut lei and two peanut bracelets: "My granddaddy told me that hell would freeze over before we'd have a Southerner as President. Well, I just heard that Washington is frozen." Joseph Wiley Reid, who described himself as a "cousin of Jimmy way back," carried...
...first President from the region since 1849. Said North Carolina State Senator Harold Hardison of his friends' eagerness to attend the Inauguration: "They'll be there just as sure as a cat's got climbing gear." Added Shelby Smith, a retired building contractor in Helen, Ga.: "It's been a long dry spell for us, and we feel a little like farmers when they get that first whiff of needed rain...
...Rosalynn, few outside the fashion business had heard of Rompollo. His main business is supplying medium-priced ($100-$300), ready made dresses to department stores and dress shops. Mrs. Carter is his first custom client. Among Rompollo's dress-shop outlets is Jason's in Americus, Ga.. where Rosalynn sometimes goes to buy her clothes off the rack. "Mrs. Carter is totally unimpressed by famous-name labels." says Jason's President Jack Moses. "If she likes an inexpensive item, she'll take the inexpensive item...
...away in a hot-air balloon. "I ain't worried about getting up," he said. "It's coming down." A contingent of reporters big enough for a moon shot watched Billy soar aloft, narrowly missing a utility pole, and sail over the pine trees of Americus, Ga., with the pilot and a friend. Billy blithely ignored federal recommendations that ballooners use hard hats. Instead, he wore his old Pabst Blue Ribbon cap, which matched the case of refreshments he took along. Back on earth, Billy was somewhat deflated by Georgia officials: they issued him a warning against selling...