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By Sally Quinn
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, January 22, 1977; 12:30 AM

They are not our king and queen. There is nothing royal or imperial about them.

He signs his name "Jimmy."

They refuse to ride in a limousine, and ride instead to their own inaugural events in a mustard-colored Lincoln.

She wears her unfashionable 6-year-old evening dress from his gubernatorial inaugural ball for "sentimental reasons."

He wears a clip-on bow tie.

They walk from the Capitol to the White House.


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