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Jimmy Carter

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Fresh Air
Remembering Jimmy Carter (Part II)

And the governor general sent word back that everyone could come except that one crew member. And the crew took great pride in telling the governor general to go to hell. And when I came home and told my father that story with some pride, he was embarrassed by it. And my mother said that I shouldn't discuss race issues with my daddy.

Fresh Air
Remembering Jimmy Carter (Part II)

But those were times, it's hard to remember now historically, when there was really not much question in the South of the advisability of a totally separate but equal society. And I don't think it's proper to condemn my father in ancient history because he complied with the mores of the time.

Fresh Air
Remembering Jimmy Carter (Part II)

But those were times, it's hard to remember now historically, when there was really not much question in the South of the advisability of a totally separate but equal society. And I don't think it's proper to condemn my father in ancient history because he complied with the mores of the time.

Fresh Air
Remembering Jimmy Carter (Part II)

But those were times, it's hard to remember now historically, when there was really not much question in the South of the advisability of a totally separate but equal society. And I don't think it's proper to condemn my father in ancient history because he complied with the mores of the time.

Fresh Air
Remembering Jimmy Carter (Part II)

All right.

Fresh Air
Remembering Jimmy Carter (Part II)

All right.

Fresh Air
Remembering Jimmy Carter (Part II)

All right.

Fresh Air
Remembering Jimmy Carter (Part II)

All right.

Fresh Air
Remembering Jimmy Carter (Part II)

All right.

Fresh Air
Remembering Jimmy Carter (Part II)

All right.

Fresh Air
Remembering Jimmy Carter (Part II)

This is really what precipitated my getting serious about writing poems. Some famous poems came down to Plains to do a reading, along with a country music singer, Tom T. Hall. One of these poets was Miller Williams, who wrote the textbook used in most colleges called How Does a Poem Mean?

Fresh Air
Remembering Jimmy Carter (Part II)

This is really what precipitated my getting serious about writing poems. Some famous poems came down to Plains to do a reading, along with a country music singer, Tom T. Hall. One of these poets was Miller Williams, who wrote the textbook used in most colleges called How Does a Poem Mean?

Fresh Air
Remembering Jimmy Carter (Part II)

This is really what precipitated my getting serious about writing poems. Some famous poems came down to Plains to do a reading, along with a country music singer, Tom T. Hall. One of these poets was Miller Williams, who wrote the textbook used in most colleges called How Does a Poem Mean?

Fresh Air
Remembering Jimmy Carter (Part II)

I do. I have two CDs by her, and I was very pleased when she won one of the top Grammy Awards this past year.

Fresh Air
Remembering Jimmy Carter (Part II)

I do. I have two CDs by her, and I was very pleased when she won one of the top Grammy Awards this past year.

Fresh Air
Remembering Jimmy Carter (Part II)

I do. I have two CDs by her, and I was very pleased when she won one of the top Grammy Awards this past year.

Fresh Air
Remembering Jimmy Carter (Part II)

I'm very pleased with Lucinda. I'm glad you know that. But Miller Williams has been a lot of help to me. But this is a poem about their coming to Plains. It's called Itinerant Songsters Visit Our Village. When some poets came to Plains one night, two with guitars, their poems taught us how to look and maybe laugh at what we were and felt and thought.

Fresh Air
Remembering Jimmy Carter (Part II)

I'm very pleased with Lucinda. I'm glad you know that. But Miller Williams has been a lot of help to me. But this is a poem about their coming to Plains. It's called Itinerant Songsters Visit Our Village. When some poets came to Plains one night, two with guitars, their poems taught us how to look and maybe laugh at what we were and felt and thought.

Fresh Air
Remembering Jimmy Carter (Part II)

I'm very pleased with Lucinda. I'm glad you know that. But Miller Williams has been a lot of help to me. But this is a poem about their coming to Plains. It's called Itinerant Songsters Visit Our Village. When some poets came to Plains one night, two with guitars, their poems taught us how to look and maybe laugh at what we were and felt and thought.

Fresh Air
Remembering Jimmy Carter (Part II)

After that, I rushed to write in fumbling lines why we should care about a distant starving child. I asked how we might love the fear and death of war, rejecting peace as weakness. how a poet can dare to bring forth out of memory the troubled visions buried there, and why we barely comprehend what happens out in space. I found my words would seldom flow.