Carter was in office at the wrong economic time to run for reelection.
President Carter is also well known for the Camp David Accords, peace between Israel and Egypt. The treaty still works, after more than forty years in force. Is that an impressive length of time? According to my students, research shows the average peace treaty lasts about two years,Perhaps the statistic that impressed my students the most about Jimmy Carter was his post-Watergate clean government.
They found that in four years, there was only one indictment from someone in the Carter Administration, and no criminal conviction . Compare that statistic to the 16 criminal indictments and 16 convictions from the George W. Bush Administration, the 26 criminal indictments from the Reagan Administration, and the 76 criminal indictments from the Nixon Administration .
Students found that Carter started strong with his approval ratings, having defeated an incumbent and replacing the specter of Watergate. Like most presidents,
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