Word: catoctin
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...Catoctin mountain brought Jimmy to his knees...
...kind of scene that happens every weekend all over the country, but this one is by now part of presidential history-the middle-aged runner with the yellow headband and the number 39 on his T shirt nearing the top of a long hill in Catoctin Mountain National Park, then beginning to moan and falter. "I've got to keep trying," gasped Jimmy Carter, now sweating heavily. "If I can just make the top, I've got it made...
...that the most recent set of worries-dismal ratings in the polls, Soviet troops in Cuba, allegations of cocaine use by Hamilton Jordan, the challenge of Senator Edward Kennedy for his party's presidential nomination-might have undermined Carter's strength and played some part in his Catoctin fallout. More significant, however, was the fact that the President was doggedly attempting to improve his time; he was trying to cut a full four minutes off his best previous time on the punishing Catoctin course, from 50 minutes to 46. Many runners would consider such substantial improvement under competitive...
...trip to the Catoctin Mountain camp was a familiar one for Sidey, who has made it at least a dozen times before -first to visit President Eisenhower, often to meet with Kennedy and once before with Carter. Despite this seasoning, Sidey admits to feeling "always considerably in awe in the presence of a President." He was particularly susceptible last week because it was a moment, he believes, "that may mark a watershed in American affairs...
...Carter is to pull his presidency out of its nosedive and have a fighting chance of being renominated and re-elected in 1980, he will have to come down from the Catoctin Mountains with a dramatic answer to that question because at week's end the explanation for the Camp David mystery seemed to be nothing more-or less-than a spectacular display of White House ineptitude, followed by a desperate, last-gasp scramble to salvage something from the wreckage. By all indications from Administration aides, Carter canceled his energy speech because he realized, only 30 hours before...