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...Bocing an anathema to liberal Democrats, who suffers from suspicion about the handling of his campaign fund in 1972; a former Senator from Oklahoma who ran for the Presidency three years ago because he couldn't get re-elected to the Senate; and an outgoing Governor from Georgia, a peanut farmer, whose major source of attention is derived from his distribution of cups of peanuts to delegates at the Democratic Mini-Convention in Kansas City...
That is perhaps why typical American enjoyments, like hamburgers, cokes, hot dogs, peanut butter and the like, contrive to be tasteless...
Georgia's Governor Jimmy Carter last week became the second Democrat, following Arizona Representative Morris Udall, to announce his candidacy for the presidency in 1976. A blue-eyed big-time peanut farmer noted for his folksy charm, Carter, 50, bears a slight physical resemblance to John F. Kennedy. He was one of the major formulators of party strategy this year as chairman of the Democrats' National Campaign Committee. One of the chief political figures to show concern about erasing the remaining gap between black and white in the modern South, Carter as Governor has become a symbol...
...public office, in 1962, a re-count won Carter a seat in the state senate. After two terms there, he entered the state Democratic gubernatorial primary. Despite an impressive showing by Carter, the winner was Lester Maddox, and Carter returned to supervising his family's 2,500-acre peanut farm...
...talking of party unity, Alabama Governor George Wallace held court in his suite at the Holiday Inn, receiving visits from a dozen state delegations and some 20 Congressmen. Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter, who is due to announce his candidacy this week, expertly worked the lobbies, smiling his down-home peanut-farmer grin, and Texas Senator Lloyd Bentsen, a millionaire, threw the biggest blast: a cocktail party attended by 4,000 people...