Word: billye
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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It was only two months ago that Jimmy Carter left Plains to move into the White House, but the elation his neighbors felt then has vanished. Plains has lost its innocence. The once picturesque and placid farm town of 683 people in southwest Georgia is being buried beneath the detritus...
Jimmy is well-liked for going to church; Billy calls it "hypocritical" and makes an appearance only when his children are baptized. The President pledged himself always to tell the truth; his brother says he's "not the Carter that doesn't tell a lie." Liquor is banned at state...
That's not to say Billy Carter is a fake. His candor, although not of the Will Rogers quality attributed to him by Rifkin and Howard, is clearly of an interesting and unrehearsed nature. No Carter aide told him, for instance, to say the President's biggest problem is that...
The distinction is hardly significant, but then neither are the details of Billy's life, yet they're here too. A chronology shows him marrying his fifteen-year-old high school sweetheart, going off into the Marines because he "wants to be a bad-ass," flunking out of Emory University...
None of this is so amazing, of course, except for the fact that in addition to a mother who joined the Peace Corps at 68, one sister who's a faith healer and another who rides a motorcycle, Billy Carter's brother happens to be President of the United States...