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...would like to say that at the age of 15 I realized that shoddy cartilage would prevent me from keeping pace with my dear buddies on the tour. In fact, I discovered that my frantic desire not to fail outweighed all the practice swings and wind sprints. I choked more often than my peers and rarely rose to the occasion when facing a superior. Finding little solace in the chilly locker rooms of indoor racquet clubs, I returned to the easy glory of high school competition and old men's doubles...
...several hard-line platform planks, all efforts to amend them were squelched. To protest the platform's repudiation of the ERA, some 4,500 women (and a few men) marched through downtown Detroit as a sidewalk band mockingly played I Want a Girl Just Like the Girl That Married Dear Old Dad. But when John Leopold, a member of the Hawaii delegation, proposed from the floor that the platform be reconsidered, he failed to stir support from any delegation...
Kissinger leaned hard on Ford's sense of patriotism. ("He had to be motivated to give up a hell of a lot," Kissinger explained later.) One of those in the party described the former Secretary's role throughout the evening as "alternately being a very dear friend of Ford and next using the plea of national emergency." Urged Kissinger at one point: "The country needs you." Replied Ford: "But, Henry, it won't work...
...background, Carter could hear the former first lady say, "Maybe it's Walter Cronkite again, dear...
...Well, dear, the last name is the same as that nice man you debated four years ago. You know, the one who thought Poland wasn't free," Mrs. Ford answered...