1. Or so announced the Harris-favoring
Washington Post. They buried the correction a week later: Carter had won. It
was in the Oklahoma primary, by the way, that Lloyd Bentsen, then a freshman
senator with no congressional accomplishments or prestige to speak of, was
crushed indeed, humiliated in his bid for the nomination and
was knocked out of the race. He was no John Kennedy, you see.
2. For one thing, I had always known him only as
"Dick," while the media kept referring to him as
"Richard."