European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 29, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                " mrs. Lillian Carter holds her 6-month-old son James Earl in this photo taken in 1925. By Dave Goldberg associated press Myson the president Lyndon Johnson the profane Texas Wheeler dealer John f. Kennedy the it boat hero rough Riding Teddy Roosevelt Harry Truman where the Buck stopped All of them mama s boys yup says Doris Faber in the president mothers a combination of feminism Freud and Erich Fromm pub used by St. Martin s press. She writes almost without exception in the cases where Suffi evidence survives to permit any verdict at All the indents of the United states have been in the Forth t parlance of the playground mama s boys we be never had a woman president but the re were 38 presidential mothers from Mary Ball Washington to lil Lian Gordy Carter. That these particular 38 women Moth wed presidents is not says Faber a coincidence. All she says were Strong willed even overpower. Lag women. They were the principal influence in 11 their sons Early lives. Sometimes they were the Only influence. All of them directly or subtly instilled in their sons a desire for Success in some instances Success As preach ers a calling not far removed from politics. And Many presidential mothers Faber writes were married to men who preferred to stay in the background. Excepting Theodore Roosevelt sr., whose command ing presence cannot be overlooked she writes most presidential fathers appear to have made no very Strong impression during their sons formative years and some never did. The incidence of Early death among these men is much higher than among their wives As is the Inci Dence of chronic failure in the worldly  so Here is Rebekah Baines Johnson seeing in the infant Lyndon the deep purpose and True nobility of her own father and consecrating herself to the creation of a god in a Man s  and Here is Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy daughter of Honey Fitz one of Boston s most skillful politicians subtly imparting to her sons Wisdom that later served them so Well in politics. Despite All the propaganda picturing Joe Kennedy As an insatiable Svengali of a father writes Faber. The Plain truth is that during his Chil Dren s formative years be was away from them much More than he was  and Here is Mitty Bulloch Roosevelt a Scarlett o Hara figure growing up on an antebellum Georgia Plantation anticipating her son s charge up san Juan Hill. She was a magnificent horsewoman she would throw a Cape Over her shoulders and Gallop Over the Sandy Hills like a creature escaped from the pages of the arabian  not to mention Lillian Carter and Hannah Milhous Nixon Ida Stover Eisenhower and Sara Delano Roose velt a dominating figure even during her son Franklin s White House years. And the feisty Martha Young Truman who could give pm hell just like her son Harry. Soon after Harry became president mrs. Truman flew from Missouri to a White House Mother s Day ceremony. When hordes of photographers tried to take her picture she snapped of fiddlesticks if i d have known there was going to be All this fuss i would t have  to the present first Mother Lullan Gordy Carter goes credit for son Jimmy s racial moderation. Miss Lillian s father was a populist and she inherited a Fervour for people and views on race several decades ahead of her time in that  Faber says Jimmy Carter s Mother gave him a different View that literally instilled in him desire to join the Navy and see the world. I she saw to it that personal messages from a world us i finitely More varied than the red Fields around Plains regularly reached Jimmy Faber writes. Postcard vistas addressed to Jimmy from every Quarter of the Globe arrived whenever his mother1 youngest brother a Seaman in the . Navy touched in at another port. Before Jimmy reached High school to was already aiming at  1 the title for the Section on Hannah Milhous Nixon is i question raised by son Richard s Farewell address. Wai j she a Saint i i a w a to the kit Birt few Harry s. Truman then a . Senator with his 91-year-old Mother mrs. Martha Truman in Grandview mo., in 1944. Mrs. Hannah Nixon appearance in their Page 14 the stars and stripes tuesday