Monday, Nov. 03, 1980
Who's for Whom CARTER
Carol Channing, actress: "We can't have a President who just acts like a President. I'm campaigning to save America from a Hollywood administration."
The Rev. Jesse Jackson, black activist: "Mr. Reagan's approach to foreign policy is that of a macho man. And John Anderson is a vacuum cleaner to suck up the frustrated, the purist and the self-righteous."
Loretta Lynn, country music star: "We can talk to the President. I'm a country girl and he's from the country too."
Muhammad All, former heavyweight boxing champion: "We don't have no black candidate for President, so it's up to us to choose the right white."
Goldie Hawn, when interrupted during an interview in Florida by a deafening overhead roar that the questioner identified as a B-52: "Oh, did Ronald Reagan already get in? I'm supporting Carter because I don't want to die."
Jane Fonda, actress: "A vote for Anderson is a vote for Reagan, so I'm supporting Carter."
I.F. Stone, journalist: "Some in Reagan's entourage are wacky paranoids."
Also: Hank Aaron, Leonard Bernstein, Johnny Cash, Helen Hayes, Coretta Scott King, Cheryl Ladd, Ann Landers, Willie Nelson, Leontyne Price, Burt Reynolds, Neil Simon, Cheryl Tiegs.
REAGAN
Glen Campbell, one of the rare country-western singers for Reagan: "Any man who is 69 without gray hairs must know something."
Leon Jaworski, former Watergate special prosecutor: "I would rather have a competent extremist than an incompetent moderate."
Zsa Zsa Gabor, whose first choice is not a candidate this time: "Nixon would know how to deal with the Iranian militants: get a million dollars baksheesh and pay them off. They steal a ring off your ringer and sell it back to you. Nixon understands."
Eldridge Cleaver, former Black Panthers leader: "Carter has turned his back on [black Americans and] has become the laughing stock of the international community."
Frank Sinatra, singer: "Reagan has displayed a better grasp of the issues than the other candidates."
David Susskind, television producer: "Carter is incompetent, arrogant, insulated, provincial and unknowing. He is a pious fraud. The pietistic humbug is intolerable."
Roger Staubach, former quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys: "There have been a lot of poor decisions made in the last four years. We've got to stop the snowball from going downhill."
Charles Evers, Mississippi civil rights activist: "Carter grins too much. Got too many promises for everybody."
Also: Pat Boone, James Cagney, Connie Francis, Milton Friedman, Lionel Hampton, Jack LaLanne, Michael Landon, Dean Martin, Eugene McCarthy, Ginger Rogers, James Stewart, Gloria Swanson.
ANDERSON
Margot Kidder, actress, who has lately been sporting a VOTE ANDERSON T shirt: "I can't cast a vote because I'm Canadian, so I have to wear it."
Stockard Channing, actress: "He's addressing the issues rather than merely his opponents."
Arthur Schlesinger Jr., author: "A vote for Carter to keep Reagan out or a vote for Reagan to throw Carter out is not adequate."
Kurt Vonnegut Jr., novelist: "He hasn't insulted the intelligence of the American people. Well, it's a dull year, isn't it?"
Also: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Richard Kiley, Paul Newman, Jason Robards, Susan Sarandon, Gail Sheehy, James Taylor.
NONE OF THE ABOVE
Studs Terkel, author: "If I had a thimble, and I poured into it the difference between Reagan and Carter, I would still have room for a double martini."
Raquel Welch, actress: "It's got down to a choice between the one with the fat lips and the one with no lips, so I'm voting libertarian."
Sammy Davis Jr., entertainer: "The only thing I'm endorsing this year are checks."
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