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Jimmy’s White House
When the cat is away the mice
will play at the White House
By JAMES GERSTENZANG
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - When
the President disappears for a
quiet week’s vacation at Camp
David, when the vice president
is off fishing in the north woods
of Minnesota, when Congress
has scattered to the four winds,
odd things happen at the White
House.
An old-fashioned, wind-up
alarm clock is placed in a card
board box and staff members
pretend the ticking package is a
time bomb, sending it to each
other’s offices in the White
House West Wing, where Car
ter’s office is located.
A blazing gun battle erupts in
a corridor just a few feet from
the Oval Office, with junior staff
members spraying each other
with water from squirt guns.
Other staff members guide
friends and relatives around the
White House. They stop, like
tourists at one of dozens of
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Scene discussion
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DIRECTOR RICHARD BROOKS discusses a scene with
actress Diane Keaton during filming of Paramount's
“Looking for Mr. Goodbar.” Ms. Keaton plays the lead in
the Hollywood version of Judith Rossener’s bestseller
about a lame schoolteacher with a compulsion for sexual ,
encounters in New York singles bars, due for October
release. Ironically, Brooks chose Ms. Keaton because he
wanted a solid actress rather than a “star.” Meanwhile,
Ms. Keaton’s career has skyrocketed in the past few 1
months because of her success in Woody Allen’s “Annie
Hall.”
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Washington sightseeing stops,
to peer into the empty Oval Of
fice.
And one senior aide jokes that
the dog days of August are the
best time for reading her
bosses’ memoranda and the
vice president’s diary.
Is this really the White
House? It is, on a sultry August
afternoon.
The President and his family
left Washington nearly two
weeks ago for a five-day visit to
Plains, Ga. After four days back
at the White House, they were
off again, for a vacation at the
presidential retreat in
Maryland’s Catoctin Moun
tains.
So, staff members, who are
less-than-formal when the Pres
ident is in town, are playing a
few pranks and relaxing a bit.
Some are even using the break
to catch up on work.
Only the telephone operators
at the White House switchboard
are finding the workload only
slightly diminished. But you
can’t talk to them. They’re too
busy answering the telephones.
The President worked on tax
revision proposals and relaxed
in the mountaintop woods. It
was an opportunity for him to
play with his 5-month-old
grandson. If he had any
speeches to give this week, he
had a small audience.
So, speechwriter James Fal
lows was on vacation. His as
sistant, Jean Saar, tried to
sound busy, suggesting that she
had “a little bit of this and a
little bit of that” to take care of.
“You’re not very busy?” she
was asked. “Right,” she re
plied.
Tim Smith, the President’s
assistant appointments secre
tary, works on events coming
up in the near future, so he was
keeping busy.
Part of his office's duties in
volve answering mail requests
for meetings with Carter, and
these keep coming in whether
the President is in the White
House or on vacation.
But, he said, somehow the
pace slacked off this week.
In the basement of the West
Wing, members of the National
Security Council staff were fol
lowing up on matters that de
veloped in Congress’ rush to be
gin the August recess two weeks
ago. They also were preparing
for the trip next week by
Secretary of State Cyrus R.
Vance to China, for the opening
of the United Nations General
Assembly session next month
and for Congress’ return.
“This is sort of a period of
consolidation and rejuvena
tion,” said spokesman Jerrold
Schecter.
Margaret “Midge” Costanza,
the President’s assistant for
public liaison, was in a playful
mood.
What does she do when Carter
and Vice President Walter F.
Mondale are out of town?
“I’m using their offices and
reading their memos,” she said,
jokingly. “I just searched the
vice president’s diary and I’m
not in it.”
“I’m catching up on my phone
calls,” said the assistant, who
can sometimes take days to
reach on the telephone. “I’m
only eight weeks behind.”
But, she said seriously, what
she is really trying to do is catch
up with accumulated work and
give her staff some time off.
The maintenance staff took
advantage of the break to vacu
um and shampoo the carpet in
the press office and press brief
ing room, lifting several
months’ accumulation of ciga
rette ashes and coffee stains
from the yellow floor cover.
At the White House switch
board, one operator said life
was a little quieter with the
President out of town.
“But (pause to answer a call)
we’re busy,” she said, pausing
to answer another call. “People
just want to call us.”
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Kennedy museum
N.Y.—This is Hammersmith Farm in Newport, R.1.,
where John F. Kennedy wooed and won Jacqueline. It has
been sold by the Auchincloss family to Edward Sughrue of
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— Griffin Daily News Thursday, August 18,1977
Whitinsville, Mass., who plans to open it as a museum'
honoring Kennedy.
(AP)