President Jimmy Carter inherited
President Jimmy Carter inherited an impossible situation – and he and his advisers made the worst of it. Gaddis Smith
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President Jimmy Carter inherited an impossible situation – and he and his advisers made the worst of it. Gaddis Smith
If you go back and you look at the presidency over the course of history, presidents tend to do what they campaigned on. In the 20th century, presidents between Woodrow Wilson and Jimmy Carter accomplished 73 percent of the things that they said they would do as candidates. Part of that is because once they … Read more
The difference between Carter and [Ted] Kennedy: Carter has this vague religion which he believes in strongly, while Kennedy has this strong religion which he believes in vaguely. Eugene McCarthy
We had a party with the rest of the skaters in our trailer and then the next day we were off to see Jimmy Carter. And then we had the World Championships the next weekend, so not a lot of chance to catch up. Eric Heiden
Obama, like Carter, is reacting to warning signs by seeking to split the difference between dispirited Democrats and increasingly radicalized Republicans. Eric Alterman
Stylistically speaking, Barack Obama could hardly be further from Jimmy Carter if he really had been born in Kenya. Eric Alterman
More and more, Democrats are starting to worry they that they have a more um, colorful version of Jimmy Carter on their hands. Obama acts cool as a proverbial cucumber but that awful ’70s show seems frightfully close to a rerun. Eric Alterman
[A]n Obama presidency would be an amusing approximation of the Carter administration, complete with vaporous moralizing and foreign policy bungling. Emmett Tyrrell
Jimmy Carter laid out policies that we now look back at and say, ‘Gee, that actually made sense.’ But you also need to explain it and convey and communicate in a way that provides that tableau, that understanding. Eliot Spitzer
Only a few reporters…discerned that Anderson really combined Carter’s ineptness with Reagan’s simplicities. Edwin Diamond