Playboy Interview: L. Douglas Wilder

September, 1991

He's handsome, gregarious, rich and charming--the perfect Southern gentleman. He's also a natty dresser, a skilled decorator fond of antique furnishings, a man of impeccable taste with a bachelor's eye for beautiful women. Yet for all his courtliness, he's known as a tightwad governor, a shrewd tactician and a ruthless political infighter, and he has been accused of being secretive, vindictive and given to troubling lapses in judgment. As the first elected black governor in American history, Dem...