Well, you had said on this program I just recently watched that his blue eyes had a little bit to do with it. Oh, my! Well, I was… you know, Jimmy’s not an extremely tall person and I sort of propped my foot up on my shovel and raised myself up to help my appearance a little bit and I was al- most level with that pair of blue eyes and his eyes are extremely blue and they’re very ex- pressive and yeah, yeah, I told him I’d help him so there we have it.
Oh yeah. Well Jimmy had made history even when he was Governor, especially regarding his feeling on race relations. Can you tell the readers a little bit about what you know about that as far as, I thought he was making great strides, even back then, in race rela- tions. Is that true? Absolutely. I think the thing that most people remember him for of course when he was Governor was zero-based budgeting and that has followed him and is even true now. The Georgia State Capitol and the Legislature refer to it occasionally. But the race relations, growing up as a boy, he began to notice that there were injustices and his feeling was that if he could become a part of the legislative system or the system that changes things that he could do something about it. And he did appoint African Americans. He put them in important positions and it was, I think, at about that time there were questions that our black citizens had to answer before they could register to vote that seemed unfair to him and they were, they were totally unfair. And he helped to abolish that and probably that is the thing that was most pronounced. There were other things that I did reference in my book but I believe that that was the most promi- nent.
Dot, tell our readers , who haven’t read the book yet, about organizing the Peanut Brigade and what the Peanut
Brigade actually was. Well, for the first part of your question, thank you very much for your comments on the book and the book is available on Amazon or Barnes and Noble if you want to order online or I will send one direct to a person if they re- quest it.
They can get it autographed that way, too, right? And personalized, yes.
That’s very nice. The Peanut Brigade was something that had started in January of 1976. It didn’t have a direction, a same direction and it certainly didn’t have a name but Georgians flew into New Hampshire and it was part of the strat- egy of the campaign. There were nine people running in the New Hampshire primary, nine Democrats running in the New Hampshire primary, senators, past Governors, represen- tatives, people who were well known, decided we needed something to set Jimmy Carter apart. And so it became a natural that if we could send these Georgians from the red clay hills of Georgia up to the snow in New Hamp- shire that would make a difference. It did. I
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