Word: dewing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That's the first surprise, how the subject of Jimmy has vanished like dew. It is literally true that in four days of engaging random citizens and family relations in casual conversation, I never heard the President mentioned until I brought him up. The silence didn't seem a result of gloom, and certainly not of shame or humiliation. Billy's breakfast hangout, the Best Western Inn of Americus, did list crow on the menu of Nov. 5; but that's only consistent with the air of amused and stoic relief that greeted all my inquiries...
...probably will occupy him, along with plans for a presidential library, probably in Atlanta. He may emerge now and then to pay off old political debts-to Fritz Mondale, for example-but as one Eastern Democratic leader says, "As far as the party is concerned, Carter will disappear like dew...