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Graydon Carter

πŸ‘€ Speaker
756 total appearances

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Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth
More Rosebud in NYC - Graydon Carter

And then when he discovered Twitter, he...

Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth
More Rosebud in NYC - Graydon Carter

It was just all over me in a bad way.

Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth
More Rosebud in NYC - Graydon Carter

You know, it sort of became part of the national, the presidential debates.

Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth
More Rosebud in NYC - Graydon Carter

Marco Rubio brought up the smallness of his hands.

Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth
More Rosebud in NYC - Graydon Carter

Even in this recent Iranian Revolutionary Guard video with the little Lego figures, they make a comment about his small hands.

Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth
More Rosebud in NYC - Graydon Carter

So he can't get away from it, and I feel badly about it.

Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth
More Rosebud in NYC - Graydon Carter

And he feels badly about it.

Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth
More Rosebud in NYC - Graydon Carter

Did he send evidence that his hands were not as small?

Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth
More Rosebud in NYC - Graydon Carter

He would regularly send me photographs of his hands.

Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth
More Rosebud in NYC - Graydon Carter

In fact, he sent one.

Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth
More Rosebud in NYC - Graydon Carter

It was an old ad from the book The Art of the Deal.

Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth
More Rosebud in NYC - Graydon Carter

And he circled his hands in a gold sharpie and said, see, quite large.

Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth
More Rosebud in NYC - Graydon Carter

And I stapled a note onto the card.

Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth
More Rosebud in NYC - Graydon Carter

I said, actually quite small.

Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth
More Rosebud in NYC - Graydon Carter

And I had it messengered right up to him that afternoon.

Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth
More Rosebud in NYC - Graydon Carter

This is when I was still at Vanity Fair.

Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth
More Rosebud in NYC - Graydon Carter

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?

Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth
More Rosebud in NYC - Graydon Carter

So I thought, this is a great idea.

Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth
More Rosebud in NYC - Graydon Carter

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.

Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth
More Rosebud in NYC - Graydon Carter

This is like late 80s.