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...Cuff Freedom, Dick Freedom, Ned Freedom, Peter Freeman, Cuff Liberty, Jeffrey Liberty, Pomp Liberty. These are some of the names that Negroes chose when they were allowed to join the Continental Army. The words express the deepest wish of the 530,000 black people in the Colonies. Less than 10% live north of Maryland. In the south about 90% are slaves...
...that exists between him and Hunter Thompson, author of Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72 and other boozy, spaced-out analyses of the American body politic. Thompson met Carter in 1974 at a University of Georgia Law Day ceremony, where Carter gave an off-the-cuff speech. So impressed was Thompson by the speech that he got a tape recording of it, which he often plays at odd hours of the night...
This time, Rocky's off-the-cuff remarks became a matter of public record. A Republican leader who had listened to him at the Georgia gathering got in touch with David Nordan, political editor of the Atlanta Journal. "Don't you think you press guys should expose this?" the Republican demanded. After checking the caller's account with three other individuals who had heard the Vice President's remarks, Nordan pieced the story together and the Journal ran it on Page One last week...
...added that Bruce Collier, assistant dean of the College, made an "off-the-cuff calculation" last spring of the costs of one proposed system...
...year-end party at the Federal City Club just a couple of blocks up from the White House looked like a political rest farm. Robin West, a young White House aide, chortled through his eggnog as he noted the PT-109 tie clasps (J.F.K.) and the L.B.J. cuff links still worn by those aging and jowly warriors of the New Frontier and Great Society. Ruddy and smiling John McLaughlin, the former Jesuit who defended the Nixon Administration's soul, rubbed elbows with presidential aides from other years, such as James Rowe (F.D.R.), Ben Wallenberg (L.B.J.) and Bob Amory...