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Kennedy went into the debates as an underdog to Nixon. The boyish-looking Senator was widely seen as an attractive but inexperienced and unpresidential lightweight. Nixon had hoped to show him up as a rich political playboy. But the self-assured Kennedy tossed off facts and statistics with ease, demonstrating that he was every bit as knowledgeable as his opponent...
...Kennedy's confidence and competence went a long way toward overcoming his underdog status, Nixon's drawn appearance in the first debate probably helped even more. Nixon had learned that Kennedy planned to wear no makeup. Before CBS Producer Don Hewitt had a chance to explain that the deeply suntanned Kennedy really did not need any makeup, Nixon rejected an offer of professional cosmetic help from the network. Instead, Nixon had his own makeup man apply Lazy Shave, a light pancake makeup, for the famous 5 o'clock shadow. Yet even a poor makeup job does...
Throwing aside any remaining reticence about proclaiming his own accomplishments, Ford declared: "From August of 1974 to August of 1976, the record shows steady upward progress toward prosperity, peace and public trust. It is a record I am proud to run on." Where an underdog Harry Truman ran in 1948 against a "do-nothing Congress," Ford will take on "the vote-hungry, free-spending congressional majority [of Democrats]." The speech was essentially, though mutedly, conservative, an evocation of Eisenhower themes. "I see Americans who love their country for what it has been and what it must become. I see Americans...
Ford had something charitable to say about almost everyone. He was effusive about John Connally, conciliatory about Ronald Reagan and confident about the advantages of going against Jimmy Carter as an underdog in the fall. He seemed eager to forget politics altogether and instead to reminisce about Raymond ("Ducky") Pond, the colorful Yale varsity football mentor under whom he worked as an assistant coach and scout from...
...more innocent times-which may roughly be reckoned from the birth of Homer to the death of Errol Flynn-all boys (and the occasional girl with rapier envy) turned to martial romance for a chauvinized vision of what they would be when they grew up. Despite the fact that Underdog and Bionic Woman now mold the taste of young audiences, Sabatini may be in for a revival. Ballantine Books has reprinted in paperback 100,000 copies each of so-so Sabatini (The Black Swan, Captain Blood Returns, Mistress Wilding). Three examples of super-Sabatini (The Sea Hawk, Scaramouche, Bellarion...