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Just how had the money been spent? Says one U.S. official with firsthand knowledge of the deal: "Sure, some of it went to satisfy some worldly appetites. But a lot of it, a lot more, was disbursed in a way that guaranteed us access in some extremely sensitive and useful areas. O.K., call it buying friendship. But that's what overt aid is too, isn't it? I know what we got for that dough, and it was worth every goddam cent...
...astute campaign director, Hamilton Jordan (see box page 34), drafted an uncannily prescient strategy for the primaries. About a year later, as Democratic congressional campaign chairman for the 1974 election, Carter traveled all over, meeting party officials and power brokers, observing politics outside the South, learning firsthand the issues that bothered voters...
...Wilson's firsthand impressions of the job he held longer than any other peacetime Prime Minister in this century (seven years and nine months), TIME London Bureau Chief Herman Nickel called on the former Oxford don at his small town house in Westminster's Lord North Street. Wilson, in shirtsleeves, opened the door himself. Apologizing for the mess of paper piled high on the dining table-the contents of his desk at No. 10-he ushered his guest into a cozy, wood-paneled living room. There he settled into an easy chair, lit his pipe and talked. Excerpts...
...their neighbors, the Walshes had invited a stranger into the family room of their suburban home. Both Jim and Pat Walsh were undecided about whom they would vote for on Nov. 2. So Detroit Bureau Chief Edwin Reingold asked if he could join them for the debate, to report firsthand on their reactions to the candidates...
...disproportionate number of young blacks with college degrees who were unemployed and turning to alcohol and drugs. It was also obvious that the arrogance and greed of the white community remained largely unchanged. My wife, who happens to be white, was able to observe some of this firsthand. There was a prevailing hostility toward blacks, but what was most shocking was the automatic assumption by whites that all other whites shared this hostility. What has been harder for my wife to accept is the hostility of the black community toward her. I'm beginning to hate myself for loving...