You’re exactly the same man that I met 50 years ago – always honest, always faithful and always the patriot. You have legions of friends around the world – and here’s a Happy Birthday! from one of them. May there be many more! Plains, Georgia – Election Night 1976. Carter cousin Betty Pope reacts as […]
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In journalism, one of the things early learned is that a reporter or photographer should dress for the occasion that he or she is covering. If you’re working a State dinner at the White House, the appropriate garb is a tux…or at the minimum – a dark suit. You want to blend in. To be accepted […]
John Glenn, the Would-be Vice President
John Glenn. All Americans know the name. Marine, combat and test pilot, astronaut, first American to orbit the earth, politician and statesman, United States Senator from his home state of Ohio. But what most Americans don’t know…or don’t remember, is that John Glenn was came close to being our Vice President. In the summer of 1976, Democratic […]