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For a Mainer, meeting future First Lady Rosalynn Carter was like “a Yankee landing in the middle of King Arthur’s Court,” recalled Jane Fenderson Cabot of Harpswell. But Plains, Georgia wasn’t quite as glamorous as the mythical Camelot.
Cabot had driven to Plains on the second day of her new job as director of scheduling for Jimmy Carter’s wife during the 1976 presidential campaign. “She met me at the door beautifully coifed and made up.” But she also was barefoot and wearing jeans because “she was having her official campaign portrait taken only from the waist up,” Cabot said with a laugh.