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As I learned when I got to Washington, after things go wrong, the willingness to take responsibility often vanishes. I went to a pay phone and somehow tracked him down, which was a lot harder before cell phones. I carried Madison County by 501 votes. wife, Alta, who was a good hill-country populist and the editor of the local paper, theMadison County Record.

lay in ordinary words and asking us repeatedly whether Shakespeare’s view of human nature and behavior seemed right to us. When I became President, Uncle Carl’s cousin Carter Russell still had a watermelon stand in Hope where you could get good red or the sweeter yellow melons. A few days later, Anthony and Mickey sat alone with me in the Oval Office. Her name was Georgia Stern.