What happened to Carol Shepp?

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What happened to Carol Shepp?

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Carol McCain moved to La Mesa, California, where she lived for several months with the family of top Reagan associate Edwin Meese. She became a personal assistant to Nancy Reagan in fall 1979 working with her on Ronald Reagan's 1980 presidential campaign, and then worked on the 1980 Republican National Conventi She was director of the 1981 Reagan inaugural ball,and as the Reagan administration began, she handled scheduling for the First Lady and the Reagan children.

In 1981, she became Director of the White House Visitors Office.There she planned tours and dealt with the pleas of different groups for the limited slots available She also dealt with demands from Washington officials, including a dispute regarding tour slots between Nancy Reagan and New York Congressman Thomas Downey.About the pressures of her job, she said cheerfully: "I'm always in tears, but I love the job. I'm really having a ball."During the early 1980s recession she declared that the White House tours were fully booked even when other Washington attractions saw declining attendance; her office processed well over one million visits a year. Between 1981 and 1986, she greatly expanded the annual White House Easter Egg Roll, adding participatory activities and doubling the size of the crowds attending. The Washington Post likened her "extravaganza-loving" event style to that of Cecil B. DeMille.She was also involved in planning South Lawn State Arrival Ceremonies,as well as a national Christmas celebration.

She left the White House Visitors Office position in January 1987, to join Philadelphia-based We the People 200, Inc., which was the organization planning the celebration for the 200th anniversary of the United States Constitution that year.She was named programming director, part of We the People 200's senior management team The bicentennial project was already troubled by lack of corporate financial sponsorship and persistent internal conflicts; the high salaries of McCain and other senior staff came under some criticism, but were defended by the organization's president as justified based upon age and experience.

By 1990, she was a spokesperson for Washington, Inc., a large event planning company. During 1991, she was a spokesperson for the Desert Storm Homecoming Foundation, which held a $12 million victory celebration and memorial in Washington in June 1991 following the conclusion of the Gulf War and Operation Desert Storm.She later worked in press relations for the National Soft Drink Association in Washington.

In 2003, Carol McCain retired and moved to a bungalow in Virginia Beach, Virginia.