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...pledged. "I am basically a cautious, conservative man," he says. His is the typical up-by-the-bootstraps story, black or white. He was born in Calvert, Texas, a dusty town so small, he says, "that you can spit all the way across it." His father, a cotton picker, kept moving the family until they finally reached Los Angeles in 1923. Bradley attended an almost exclusively white high school. Nicknamed "Long Tom" because of his commanding height (6 ft. 4 in.), he became a football and track star. He took racial slurs in stride. Recalls Robert Carter, a landscape architect...
...White House tells it, Nixon and Wife Pat took a fancy in 1969 to the ten-room, Spanish-style house in San Clemente where the late millionaire real estate developer Henry Hamilton Cotton liked to entertain his fellow Democrats, once including Franklin Roosevelt. The Nixons wanted only the house and a parcel of 5.9 acres, but the Cotton heirs insisted on selling the entire property, covering 24.6 acres. To swing the deal, the Nixons agreed to pay $1.4 million, with $400,000 in cash and a $1,000,000 mortgage...
There are other oddities. A month after the Nixons had bought the whole Cotton estate, the White House still was saying that the President would buy only about five acres. And as late as last October, John Ehrlichman, then the President's Domestic Affairs adviser, told an interviewer from the Los Angeles Times that Nixon was still looking for a buyer for the land-the same land that the White House now claims he sold...
...bear a shock: those 1,340 were still officially listed as missing in action. Legally, the M.I.A.s are still alive, but their wives and children live in a limbo of both legal and personal uncertainties. Last week a salute to veterans was held at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas. Such public celebrations serve only to intensify the anguish of M.I.A.wives, and some stayed away. One such wife, interviewed by TIME'S Joseph J Kane, is Peggie Duggan of El Paso...
Perot, the son of an East Texas cotton and cattle trader, apparently genuinely believes that philosophy. In 1962 he quit a safe job as an IBM computer salesman to work for Blue Cross-Blue Shield and to start his own computer software company, Electronic Data Systems. By 1969 it had grown enough to make Perot a billionaire at the age of 39. That left little danger; so Perot, who might be described as a mixture of Billy Graham and Don Quixote, has sallied forth to rescue Wall Street from the dragons plaguing it. In 1970 he heeded pleas from John...