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...interesting but not unduly exciting, absorbing but not all-involving. Best of all, the stories go on seemingly forever and satisfy the modern taste for family sagas -just look at Roots and Upstairs, Downstairs. Says Galbraith: "Anybody who tells you he has read all of Trollope is a liar. No matter how old you are, you'll always find another volume you haven't read before...
Several matters-relatively trivial but taken as clues to his character-became major news events and cost him support. Perhaps most damaging were his comments to Playboy about lust and his description of Lyndon Johnson as a liar and cheater, for which he publicly apologized to Lady Bird Johnson...
...Powell again was the only aide traveling with him, briefing reporters and still acting as gofer. Powell soon began to impress the national press corps with his authoritative access to the candidate and his relentless energy. When Harper's last winter was about to depict Carter as a liar, Powell rushed out a 22-page response that did not convince all reporters but certainly reached most of them before their copy of Harper...
Such industry would probably not sit well were it not for Powell's strategic use of humor. When a former Georgia Governor called a press conference to denounce Carter, Powell countered, "Being called a liar by Lester Maddox is like being called ugly by a frog." When not home in Atlanta with his wife and nine-year-old daughter, Powell spends his free hours drinking (beer or bourbon) with reporters. Says Political Writer Richard Reeves: "Jody is genuinely good company. Carter...
...three sons during the babylift, is now living in California, where she is fighting to regain them. She found her youngest child, Tung, 3, at an adoption agency. But since he did not immediately recognize her, agency officials said she could not take him. "They call me a liar," she says. "They make me feel very...