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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Confused Image. The Georgian was confronted by a lot of other problems as well. The big question was whether he could arrest the slide his campaign had been taking because of his personal bloopers, lack of a clear line or image and organizational foulups...
...tear on himself. "Hi, Chip," one worker nodded pleasantly. "I heard you was gonna be here." Replied Carter: "We sure do need your help in November." Chip has been home only six times for brief visits during the past year, but, unlike his father, he still finds a lot to laugh about in politics. When a young woman in Hurst knelt to photograph his Jimmy Carter belt buckle. Chip jumped back in mock alarm. Said he: "I thought you were lusting after my belt buckle." The best Carter campaigner, excluding Mom and Dad, Chip will have stumped in 48 states...
...taken a subtle but significant shift. Carter seems to have the most adjusting to do, having already taken back some of the promises made in his acceptance speech, still clarifying his ideas about taxes. It turns out from the evidence being mined by pollsters and politicians that a lot of Americans are rich or so close it hurts and a lot more have got the fever from them...
...inheritance tax on all holdings over half a million dollars, the most vehement opposition came from blue-collar workers. A bemused McGovern asked, "What do they think-that they are all going to win the state lottery?" Apparently so -that enduring American lottery, which offers tempting odds that a lot of plain old boys can get pretty rich-like Jimmy Carter...
...Utah's Second Congressional District. That district includes all of Salt Lake City, but for a while after Howe's arrest June 12 the only Howe campaign poster in town was on a corner of West Second South: some pranksters placed it across the street from the parking lot where Howe first met the two women...