Word: sweaters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...impression they are getting their Government back. He has become our first real television President. People always said that about Kennedy, but they were wrong. Kennedy was a man of words. I don't think Carter does very well with words. That fireside chat he held wearing a sweater was more than a stunt. It said a lot of things to a lot of people: we'll have to dress more warmly from now on, use less fuel and just be colder in general. He could have made 15 speeches and not made the point as well...
...entire family is waiting for him in the cavernous West Sitting Hall: Rosalynn, wearing a red sweater, kissing the President as he enters; Amy, ready for bed in an ankle-length nightgown; the President's mother, Miss Lillian, whom the nation has come to think of as indefatigable, now using a wheelchair because of the arthritis in her legs; Rosalynn's mother; Sons Chip and Jeff and their wives. Like the President, the other members of the Carter clan seem tired. Chip is holding his six-week-old son James Earl Carter IV in his arms. The baby...
...economic program. But there is no Carter energy policy yet, and not a single unemployed person has been put back to work through Carter's programs. Gallup's experts figure Carter's 71% approval has to do with how and what Jimmy says and that sweater he wears. "It is kind of like Ike," says a Gallup man, suggesting that Jimmy may become a folk hero in his own special...
More broadly, the nation's regional press has applauded Carter's tone-setting use of symbols in his first Oval Office days. The low-key Inaugural speech, the walk down Pennsylvania Avenue, the televised chat in a sweater, the surprise visit to frozen Pittsburgh, putting Amy in a public school, cutting down on limousines, banning Hail to the Chief -all were seen as moving Carter closer to the people. "That spirit of mutuality, that feeling that all Americans are part of the Government and not apart from it, is a feeling that we have missed for years...
...feel that you can go into it a little deeper," the jeans-and-sweater clad coach continued, "and give a person a way to deal with the ego involvement that hurts his performance...