Word: lilliane
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...shooting. At the end of the street is the crowning bit of make-believe, the period-piece depot that does not deal with trains at all but is Carter's headquarters, festooned with peanut wreaths and campaign paraphernalia. On the freight platform is the rocking chair where Miss Lillian, Carter's already legendary mother, gives her thousandth interview...
...swollen with tourists-from Los Angeles, Akron, Germany-all eager to be part of this first page of a new chapter in history. They trailed along as Carter strolled two blocks to the peanut house. They explored Billy Carter's service station. They snapped happily as Miss Lillian rolled by in a Georgia state police...
...Miss Lillian swept up to the polling place, took one look at the line of voters shivering in the brisk wind and declared, "I wouldn't stand in this line for nothin'!" An hour later she tried again, and upon receiving the voluminous ballot said airily, "I don't know what you'd do with all this except paper a barn." Behind the blue curtains she obviously relegated the long list of constitutional changes to the barn: she was closeted only long enough to flip the one lever she cared about...
While I am weary of Jerry and Jimmy, I have had it "up to here" with Betty, Rosalynn, Liddy, Joan, Jack, Jeff, Chip, Jack, Aunt Sissy, Miss Lillian (have I forgotten anyone...
Apart from a couple of Beverly Hills get-togethers (Actor Warren Beatty was host at one), Carter has steered clear of Hollywood. Such tactics have not pleased the candidate's mother. Robert Redford, who endorses neither candidate, flew to Plains and talked with Miss Lillian, 78. She laments that Paul Newman has not followed suit...