Word: playboyism
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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...
...rapidly as Jimmy has, it's impossible for the voters to have a deep understanding. During spring and summer they saw Carter and they liked him and wanted to know more about him. In September, instead of adding to the understanding, we distracted the electorate-Clarence Kelley, Playboy...
...about the candidates. Saturated with information, they have come to know the strengths and frailties of the two men only too well?and that may be what is giving so many voters pause. There has been too much attention paid by the press to relatively minor flaps: Carter's Playboy interview, Ford's tangled tongue, what to do about Earl Butz. Yet a fairly accurate assessment of each man has emerged...
...CAMPAIGN. Carter's most effective moment may have been his frank admission that he had made mistakes in the long campaign ("This is part of just being a human being"), particularly his Playboy interview. He ticked off other notables who had been interviewed by Playboy (Treasury Secretary William Simon, Walter Cronkite and Albert Schweitzer) but conceded, "They weren't running for President." He now knows, he said, that he should not have granted the interview. Then he vowed that his campaign would not get personal in its final days, but predicted that Ford's would. Ford admitted...
...heart, I would certainly appreciate being mentioned." Not one to be overlooked, Harvard Professor Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream, popped the same question while interviewing Carter in August for the Ladies' Home Journal and three other women's magazines. Though Playboy's piece was not yet out, she says she had heard about its most memorable lines and asked Carter: "Are you feeling lust now?" The candidate, who has on occasion been accused of waffling, wiggling and wavering, wiggled and wavered for a bit and then said he "didn...