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...best thing to come out of the South since the Allman Bros...
...Kennedy Center spectacular, Jimmy and Rosalynn stole the show, and from some pretty big names at that: John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Gregg and Cher Allman, Muhammad Ali, Paul Newman. At a State Department tea for Mexican First Lady Carmen de Lopez Portillo (a guest of Rosalynn, who had attended the López Portillo inauguration last December), Shirley MacLaine twitted an old friend. Said Shirley to Henry Kissinger as he jokingly tried to pencil her into his little black book: "I talked to you before you became powerful. That's when I dropped...
...easily among the best of any Social Register crowd, and much the same holds true for other rock stars as well. While Mick Jagger lunches with Lee Radziwill, George Harrison meets Henry Kissinger, and Alice Cooper plays 18 holes with George Burns. Even Jimmy Carter, fashionably attired in an Allman Brothers T-shirt, has been seen in the company of Rock entertainers...
...Democratic team has scored better with rock stars. Fund-raising concerts by fellow Georgian Gregg Allman helped pay Carter's way in the primaries, and Linda Ronstadt has sung for Jimmy in Southern California. Ford's back-up musicians play more to the Lawrence Welk set; his boosters include Singers Tony Martin, Pat Boone and Vicki Carr. "Jimmy Carter is weird like musicians are supposed to be weird," says Jazz Trumpeter Al Hirt, "and I don't want anyone like me running the country...
...politicians than Carter provides. A candidate who tries to appeal to Playboy readers on one hand (see following story) and to evangelicals on the other, who promises tax reform but says he does not know enough yet to provide details, who talks both to God and Rock Superstar Gregg Allman, violates all the unwritten political norms. By appealing to such differing constituencies, he has magnified the uncertainties about his character and positions. Those doubts could cost him an election that seemed to be his for the taking a couple of months...