I wish I held fonder remembrances of Jimmy Carter as our president. I don’t. The 100-year-old Carter, who died Sunday, governed during an era when I was trying to grasp the prickly politics that drove America. What I recall most about Carter as president was his blundering to free hostages in Iran. On November 4, 1979, Islamic militants overran the
Maybe at one point his hair was blond, not white. But that was long before Phil Donahue corralled audiences for his daytime talk show in 1967 and turned them into faithful viewers. Donahue, who died Sunday night, wasn’t the first of his kind, but he hit the airwaves when talk shows like his weren’t omnipresent. Others followed. Think about them:
I won't dwell on what the man did during a Hall-of-Fame football career, because O.J. Simpson destroyed whatever that legacy was in my mind when he and his sidekick Al Cowlings drove a Ford Bronco at a turtle's pace down a California highway with a parade of police cars behind them. Do you remember the sight? I didn't know then
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