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...gone to boarding school in Vickburg, Mississippi, and now she was a freshman at Hampshire College. She hated it. It seems her roommates made fun of her make-up, her politics, her attitudes towards sex, and the flirtatious, coy way she acted around men. "All my friends went to Ole Miss (University of Mississippi)," she said. "I don't know why I wanted to come up here. I guess it was pressure from my parents. I'm different. I'm not like everybody else up here, and all I want to do is get the hell...
Billy, on the other hand, has pursued his lucrative celebrity with such up-front good ole boy's cupidity that his ventures seem quite innocent-especially after Watergate. Critics quick to seize upon any hinted impropriety around a President have laughed off Billy. No one has to suspect Billy of anything -he simply takes a certified check, in advance, then goes out behind the microphone, usually clutching a cold one, and exhales his ineffable magic: one-liners, snorts ("hee-unh, hee-unh"), the buffooneries of a quick-witted redneck (self-advertised). "I ain't the Carter that...
...Billy's heehaw, one senses a touch of Martha Mitchellism; it is sometimes hard to imagine his adventures ending well. One problem is that Billy's cracker vaudeville is based upon a certain amount of sneering contempt. Under the good ole boy façade lies an unpleasant pool of anger. W.C. Fields was a professional at that kind of thing; it was his trade. The President's brother may discover that the Billy phenomenon can backfire. In any case, there is an unsettling symmetry about these two Carters: a President who forever asks the "decent, honorable...
...familiar problem. FBI Director Clarence Kelley was due to step down by the end of 1977, but Carter and Bell had no replacement in sight; they were not happy with the five candidates proposed by a special committee. "My God," sighed Bell, "I still wish we could get ole Frank Johnson to take...
...first flush of his success, Elvis lived with the crazy vigor of a good ole boy who just had the whole world tucked snugly into the back pocket of his overalls. He surrounded himself with home-town cronies, kept them fed and cared for, dispensed lavish gifts. He gave away luxury cars-particularly the Cadillacs he doted on-like gumdrops. After a while, though, the cronies became heavies-bodyguards, procurers-and the gifts bribes to buy loyalty, or silence. He courted a girl, Priscilla Beaulieu, he had met during his Army hitch. He persuaded her father to let her come...