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...hard decision, but this was something I had to face." So said a sad-faced Jimmy Carter last week as he announced that he was getting out of the peanut business to prevent any conflicts of interest after he becomes President. "I don't have any regrets about it," said Carter. Then, after a brief pause, he added, "There are some regrets...
...emulate?Carter's ability to express warm affection. Carter and his wife hold hands as naturally in public as though they were on a high school date. The Georgian has extraordinary empathy with children. During the campaign, he took time out to talk to grade school kids?about civics, peanut butter, civil liberties?and never talked down to them. Once Carter asked a correspondent about his family. The reporter mentioned that one of his children was suffering from an incurable disease?and turned to see tears running down Carter's cheeks...
...couple of minor mistakes and raised questions about them. In terms of intelligence, Heller estimates Carter would rank among the upper 5% or 10% of graduate students in top universities. Says Okun: "What struck me is you really see an engineer's mind at work, not a peanut farmer, not a Baptist preacher, not a standard politician, but the engineering and management-science approach...
...President Harry Truman was saved from haberdashing by failure, Jimmy Carter was saved from peanut farming by success. Angels of ambition -Admiral Rickover's "Why not the best?", a Baptist preacher's contempt for spare-time religion, his engineer's want to shape things so they are right, a touch of anger at the neighborhood's black-baiters-wrestled him out of the warehouse and into wider fields...
Despite the waves of tourists and newsmen who are washing over Plains (pop. 683) and providing brisk business for the Peanut Museum, the sandwich shop, and the new stores selling what Miss Lillian calls "Jimmy-things," the main pastime still seems to be memory-as it is in all villages, Southern or otherwise, where people lead lives of work and family. Stop most anyone you see-they're generally stoppable-and he or she will soon be spinning you a web of recollection to entertain you both. They tend to start with Carters, since that...