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Young, who was Jimmy Carter's Ambassador to the United Nations, said he called Alice Bond before he knew that she had implicated him as well as her husband. He did so, he said, only to suggest that she stop "passing rumors." After the call, Alice Bond told reporters that her charges were false, even though she had also named the alleged coke supplier and a limousine driver she claimed had sometimes delivered the drug to her husband. The three police officers who had taken the statements from her were then transferred to lesser duties without explanation. That...
...mayor, who contends that he has "never even seen cocaine except in the movies," rejected suggestions by his lawyer, Griffin Bell, Carter's former Attorney General, that he plead the Fifth Amendment lest the grand jury prove a political trap. Young and Bond, who also denied using coke, are prominent black Democrats, and they are eager to clear up the matter well before their party holds its national convention in Atlanta next year...
Democratic Pollster Geoffrey Garin cites a related requirement: "In 1988, the watchword is sincerity. Does the candidate mean what he says? Is he leveling with me?" But neither Jimmy Carter's Sunday School platitudes nor Ronald Reagan's "Morning-in-America" syrup will suffice this time because voters have been disappointed too often...
Babbitt's status as an obscure ex-Governor and outsider reminds the galleries of Jimmy Carter's standing in the spring of 1975. Carter -- like Babbitt, Gephardt and most of the others today -- bet everything on Iowa and rode that success through New Hampshire. The 1988 race resembles the one in 1976 in a number of ways. But this time the field is so splintered that Iowa and New Hampshire may produce a clutch of losers without a clear pair of one- two winners...
Quite apart from the subject of sex, the procession of Presidents after Kennedy has included men of rather peculiar and divided psyche. Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon and Jimmy Carter were personalities utterly different from one another, but they all shared, to some degree, an odd, self-thwarting trait. Each became his own worst enemy...