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...been that Frost got the nod because of his American reputation for skillfully playing the buffoon to celebrities and near-celebrities on talk show programs. But this was the Frost of the old BBC "That Was the Week That Was," and obviously he had done a lot of homework and he did his best to nail Nixon. But he didn't have to. Nixon nailed himself...
Carter's preparations have been extensive. Convinced that every problem can be made "manageable" with sufficient homework, he set aside ample time to get ready for the conference. Fresh from a two-month speed-reading course, he whizzed through a thick CIA report on the economic outlook for 24 non-Communist industrial nations; it predicts an average annual 4% economic-growth rate along with an 8% consumer-price rise in 1977. Carter also read specially prepared biographies of the leaders he is about to meet, plus summaries of the 1975 summit at Rambouillet, France, and the 1976 sequel...
...Hopes. Homework aside, Carter ran the risk of irritating his fellow heads of state when he granted interviews to a flock of European publications-all to be released just before he arrives in London. Earlier he had informed Prime Minister Callaghan that he would like to make an excursion to Poet Dylan Thomas' birthplace in Wales. The request was made without considering the fact that Britain is trying to moderate Welsh nationalist demands. Callaghan suggested a visit instead to the ancestral home of George Washington near the coal town of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. The Prime Minister felt that taking...
...Angeles and declared, "David, I don't think you're up to this." His assessment galvanized Frost. In the days that followed, Frost pored over his briefing books and endured hours of sessions in which a staffer attempted to answer each Frost question the way Nixon might. With his homework properly done, Frost proved that he was indeed a formidable adversary for Nixon. The British charmer turned into an English bulldog...
Today's race will tell whether Higginson has done his homework...