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Darwin was described by the great American golf writer Herbert Warren Wind as "a man of exceptional ability and enormous personal charm." In fact, the enduring sobriquets Darwin lent to his contemporaries and the anecdotes that surround his own career would alone be enough to fill a volume...
When Carter began full-time campaigning after Labor Day, he immediately ran into trouble. Because private opinion polls showed that many voters feared he might be too liberal, Carter swung around; he tried to sound more conservative and only lent credence to Republican charges that he flip-flopped on the issues. He staked out three slightly differing positions on grain embargoes; he spoke of ambitious new programs and of balancing the budget; he painted an almost Depression-like picture of the U.S. economy that many people perceived as unreal. In a year of skepticism about politicians, he was beginning...
...practice in Boston and New York, the summer home in Cotuit. (only when we were older were we to find out that he was plagued by alcoholism, that he had divorced his wife, our grandmother, to marry another woman, that he was careless with money--usually money he had lent; in short, we discovered that he also had his flaws...
...Ford radio commercials in the Midwest, and Dallas Cowboys Coach Tom Landry is plugging the President in Texas. In all, more than 100 "Jocks for Jerry"-ranging from Tennis Star Chris Evert and Skater Peggy Fleming to Jockey Willie Shoemaker and New York Yankee Manager Billy Martin-have lent their name to the President's cause...
...that he was indicted later in 1974 on charges of attempting to exert influence upon a public official. They were dropped because county prosecutor Moise Berger, a bumbler who has since been removed, held off-the-record conversations with the jury. The news story does not record that Warren lent Berger $15,000 to run his 1968 campaign for the prosecutor's office. Warren has never been convicted of anything in Arizona. It was the Seattle trial that turned up John Adamson as his sometime-associate. Warren calls the new charges "ridiculous...