Holiday Break

Carter snaps his collarbone

The Christmas holiday started happily for the Carters. WE STILL LOVE YOU, JIMMY said signs held by several people in the crowd of a thousand who greeted the President and his wife at Robins Air Force Base near Macon, Ga. At Plains, they received an even warmer welcome from some 200 friends and neighbors. A boy gave Carter a Christmas tree ornament—a glass mouse. Several women kissed him. Then, grinning shyly and wiping lipstick from his cheek, Jimmy took Rosalynn's hand and they walked up the drive to their home.

For their last Christmas as President and First Lady,...

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