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...when Ford returned to Washington, trouble was waiting. Late in the week he was acutely embarrassed by the revelation that Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz, who has long suffered from galloping foot-in-the-mouth disease, had made some obscene and scatological remarks about what he genially referred to as "the coloreds." Ford promptly called Butz into the Oval Office and chewed him out, and Senator Robert Dole, the President's running mate, called the remarks "stupid" and "ill-conceived." G.O.P. Senator Edward Brooke, a black, demanded Butz's resignation. Jimmy Carter declared that Butz's crack...
...conservative side of Carter's nature springs from his father's upbringing. Mr. Earl, as he was called, was a demanding father and an avowed segregationist, but he was also noted for his generosity in giving money and gifts to local blacks. (One thing the gregarious Mr. Earl was not able to teach Jimmy, however, was to relax and have fun for its own sake.) While Mr. Earl did not read books or allow blacks beyond his back door, Miss Lillian, his wife, compensated on both counts. She taught Jimmy to respect the rights of blacks, and beyond...
Colonel John Warnock of Arkansas rises to address the convention on the subject of 'America in Jeopardy.' Chief Justice Earl Warren was "the worst thing that ever happened" to the United States. "When he lay in state in the Supreme Court building" Warnock thundered, "over one million Negroes were in walking distance but only 300 showed up to pay their respects." He goes on to bemoan the fact that there are "500,000 people in Chicago who don't even speak English" and lament that "the more mixed blood in hospitals, the more hepatitis there will...
...entire campaign season: 70,000 farmers attending a "farm fest" on a muddy field in Minnesota's rural Lake Crystal. Introduced rousingly by Senator Hubert Humphrey, who accused the Ford Administration of "violating the law" in imposing embargoes on foreign grain sales, Carter assailed Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz and used a subtle "we" to identify with his attentive audience. "I never met a farmer who wanted a handout," Peanut Processor Carter said. "I never met a farmer who wanted the Government to guarantee him a profit. But we do want to be treated fairly...
...Chatham, Va., a community of 1,822 residents not far from a highway connecting it with Greensboro, N.C., and beyond. In the center of town is the courthouse of Pittsylvania County -named after William Pitt the Elder, who was the Earl of Chatham. Chatham boasts the elegant, Episcopal-run Chatham Hall school for girls on one side of town and the Hargrave Military Academy on the other, as well as 19th-century wooden houses with broad front lawns and wide verandas...