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OCR Page 1 of 2Social Study
Gen Germant, Jack
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What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Sitting on the porch in West Virginia with Alice (my wife),
watching the Shenandoah River roll by.
Which living person do you most admire?
Jack
Gorbachev.
What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
Sloth.
What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Moral certitude.
Germond
What is your greatest extravagance?
Food and drink.
What do you consider the most overrated virtue?
Piety.
On what occasion do you lie?
Nineteen ninety-six marks the 10th
When it is necessary and harmless.
presidential campaign that Jack Germond
What do you dislike most about your appearance?
Where should I start?
has covered. This month the ultimate
Which living person do you most despise?
boy on the bus-who famously moonlights as
No one is worth despising.
The McLaughlin Group's resident
What is your greatest regret?
The steady and apparently irrevocable decline in the
moderate-shares some hard-boiled wisdom
political system.
in V.F.'s Proust Questionnaire
If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
I wish I had more self-discipline about things other than
my work.
What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Getting paid for more than 40 years to be a reporter, which
I would have done for nothing.
If you were to die and come back as a person or thing,
what do you think it would be?
A ward leader in Boston or Chicago.
If you could choose what to come back as, what would it be?
Center fielder for the Yankees.
What is the quality you most like in a man?
Intelligence and tolerance.
What is the quality you most like in a woman?
Intelligence and great haunches.
What do you most value in your friends?
Their willingness to accept my flaws.
Who are your favorite writers?
C.P. Snow, Arthur Miller, Mark Harris, James Lee Burke.
Who is your favorite hero of fiction?
Arthur Winner of By Love Possessed,
by James G. Cozzens.
What is it that you most dislike?
Sanctimonious people and broccoli.
How would you like to die?
Quietly with a big winning exacta ticket in my pocket.
What is your motto?
The next best thing to a winning day at the track is a
losing day at the track.
VANITY FAIR/AUGUST 1996