Graydon Carter
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And then when he discovered Twitter, he...
It was just all over me in a bad way.
You know, it sort of became part of the national, the presidential debates.
Marco Rubio brought up the smallness of his hands.
Even in this recent Iranian Revolutionary Guard video with the little Lego figures, they make a comment about his small hands.
So he can't get away from it, and I feel badly about it.
And he feels badly about it.
Did he send evidence that his hands were not as small?
He would regularly send me photographs of his hands.
In fact, he sent one.
It was an old ad from the book The Art of the Deal.
And he circled his hands in a gold sharpie and said, see, quite large.
And I stapled a note onto the card.
I said, actually quite small.
And I had it messengered right up to him that afternoon.
This is when I was still at Vanity Fair.
Yeah, it was a friend of mine who was working for Margaret Thatcher at the time, his friend Steve Proben, and he said, why don't you try to get New Yorkers, really rich New Yorkers, to sign really small checks?
So I thought, this is a great idea.
So we set up a company called the National Check Retrievals Company, and we sent checks out to 100, 32-cent checks out to 100 rich New Yorkers at the time.
This is like late 80s.