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...California dairy farmer protesting the government's milk pricing system poured milk down a drain in front of TV cameras, claiming that he had to take a stand, "just like Rosa Parks had to take a stand...
...Espy was, even more than any of the independent counsel probes, widely criticized for being overzealous. His 34-count indictment of Espy for allegedly accepting illegal gifts and gratuities ended in acquittal. And those he gathered in his net along the way - lobbyist James Lake, Espy aide Ron Blackley, farmer Keith Mitchell, longtime Espy friend and lobbyist Richard Douglas, Tyson Foods official Archie Schaffer and others - are now free and clear...
...Georgia boy destined to become President grew up near the Depression-ravaged settlement of Archery, bereft of indoor plumbing and electricity. He became an accomplished child farmer, and even today can explain how to plow a straight furrow. In this captivating memoir he recalls his eccentric forebears, among them, the great-great-grandfather who married the sister of his deceased wife, then asked to be buried between the women but "tilted a little toward" the first wife...
...wonder that signals a southerner's nostalgia drifting back over a considerable distance - called back in my own mind a summer in southern Maryland many years ago, when I was a nine-year-old white boy and my best friend was Charles, the son of a black tenant farmer...
...Hughie and I preferred to live with the tenant farmer's family in their unpainted, weathered house half a mile down the road. My brother, Charles and I stayed up reading the Montgomery Ward's catalog by the coal oil lamp, fantasizing over the cowboy boots that were available for $5.95 (an impossible sum of money), and falling asleep in sleeping bags on the living room floor. (The news the other day that Montgomery Ward's had gone out of business bumped in my mind against Jimmy Carter's voice and memories - all items from a lost world...