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...implausible linkage of Jimmy Carter to lechery stemmed from some afterthought views on sexual mores that the candidate expressed in a wide-ranging interview that will appear in the November Playboy. The result of five hours of interviews given over a three-month period to Writer Robert Scheer, the Playboy article quotes Carter on such substantive topics as U.S. intervention in foreign countries, multinational corporations and the Mayaguez incident. But none of these created a stir...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: TRYING TO BE ONE OF THE BOYS | 10/4/1976 | See Source »

...judgment: should a presidential candidate choose a public forum where he will share attention with busty "Miss November" and a blurb heralding "Much More Sex in Cinema"? The cover promotion for the Carter story: "Now, the Real Jimmy Carter on Politics, Religion, the Press and Sex in an Incredible Playboy Interview...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: TRYING TO BE ONE OF THE BOYS | 10/4/1976 | See Source »

Incredible indeed. In discussing sex at all. Carter was attempting to assure Playboy's presumably hedonistic readers that his own preference for marital fidelity has not given him a holier-than-they attitude. "We are taught not to judge other people," Carter said of his Southern Baptist upbringing. Then, in a rambling response to a suggestion that he might be a "rigid, unbending President," Carter declared: "What Christ taught about most was pride, that one person should never think he was better than anybody else." That should have been sufficient, but Carter continued: "I try not to commit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: TRYING TO BE ONE OF THE BOYS | 10/4/1976 | See Source »

...Carter felt obliged to bare more than anyone needs to know about what goes on in his mind and heart-puzzled even his supporters. So did the fact that he spent more time with Scheer, a former editor of the left-leaning Ramparts magazine (who had previously done a Playboy interview with California Governor Jerry Brown that had impressed the Carter camp) than with any other journalist. As Columnist Mary McGrory suggested, the conversation "should have been off the record with God, not one taped with Playboy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: TRYING TO BE ONE OF THE BOYS | 10/4/1976 | See Source »

...daughter would never have an affair. That was pretty dumb. Carter was being truthful with all due humility." The reaction that most intrigued California Pollster Mervin Field was expressed by his 16-year-old daughter Melanie as she watched television news accounts with her father. When the Carter-Playboy story was concluded, Melanie asked: "Dad, is Jimmy Carter a weirdo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: TRYING TO BE ONE OF THE BOYS | 10/4/1976 | See Source »

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