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Dick Strout, 80, at President's left. Covered Calvin Coolidge. Still reporting. Charley Bartlett across table. Introduced Jack Kennedy to Jackie Bouvier. J.F. terHorst off to left, Once Jerry Ford's press secretary, Ike's favorite, Roscoe Drummond, on duty. Des Moines, Los Angeles, Baltimore ready to ask questions. President does not eat. Already been up several hours. He sips water. Puffy eyes. Still tired from Camp David. Delicious fatigue. New spirit in room. Respect from press. Carter easier. Abe Lincoln looking benignly down from the wall, chin in hand, elbow on knee. Carter with chin...
...Bartlett Giamatti's life-long dream was to become president of the American League. But last December an offer came up for him to be president of Yale University, and he decided to give it a whirl...
...Oooooh...Mmmmh, ooh, that's a very hard question. If I knew the answer, I would tell you." A. Bartlett Giamatti can't say why he accepted the offer to become president of Yale University last winter. He rubs his chin, shakes his head a little, pondering the question. He screws up his soft face, where a little bit of a goatee outlines his chin--but it's really in his eyes. His brown eyes grow misty and far away; and the deep sighs, mixed with a sad chuckle or two reveal a man somewhat puzzled by his situation...
Vesco tried again in late 1976, soon after Carter's election. According to court depositions, the financier met in Costa Rica with a trio of Georgians, Attorney Fred E. Bartlett and Businessmen Jerry Dorminey and R. L. Herring. Dorminey and Herring are now awaiting trial in Georgia on charges of fraudulently obtaining $277,000 in loans. At a farmhouse in the mountains, Vesco outlined a preposterous plan. If the Carter Administration would promise him leniency, he would order six Latin American countries under his "control" to support the Panama Canal treaty. Back in the U.S., Bartlett and his law partner...
...Bartlett Giamatti, president of Yale: "The university must be a tributary to a larger society, not a sanctuary from...