Nation: Hail to the Chief!'

The President emerges—cautiously—from his Rose Garden

"I'm free! I'm free!" exulted President Carter as he ran around the South Lawn of the White House in his T shirt. Or so said one top presidential aide, joking about the fact that his boss abandoned the White House Rose Garden last week and started campaigning again after 186 days of self-imposed isolation. Still Carter was only half free as he made his first political foray since the capture of the Tehran hostages. Though he had just swept to solid victories over Senator Edward M. Kennedy in...

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