Jimmy Carter and Playboy: How ‘the weirdo factor’ rocked ’76
Jimmy Carter already had drawn months of media scrutiny as a devout Southern Baptist running for president. Then the 1976 Democratic nominee brought up sex and sin as he explained his religious faith to Playboy magazine. Nearly a half-century later, as Carter was receiving hospice care in the same south-Georgia home where he once spoke with Playboy journalists, his interviewer Robert Scheer said he believed Carter was treated unfairly. He recalled the former president as a “real” and “serious” figure... Читать дальше...