Wild '70s Was Age Of Innocence.

Publication: Albuquerque Journal (Albuquerque, NM)

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COPYRIGHT 1998 Albuquerque Journal

Byline: Larry Calloway Of the Journal

When I asked Tim Kraft of the New Mexico Democratic Party for a "recollection" on Monday, I didn't even have to finish the sentence. "Sex in the White House?" said Kraft, who was appointments secretary for President Jimmy Carter.

Oval Office perfidies of any kind were practically unthinkable during the four-year presidency of Carter, a faithful Southern Baptist and serious family man.

The biggest sex scandal involving Jimmy Carter was a quote in a Playboy magazine interview when he was a candidate in 1976. He confessed that at times he had "lusted" in his heart.

Shame, shame, some cried. He's just being honest, responded others. Pretty quaint, in the view from here and now.

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