Michael Barone in dailyherald: Give credit to Jimmy Carter for accomplishments that benefitted the country
Jimmy Carter, the 39th and the longest-living U.S. president, has chosen to enter hospice care at age 98. This is a good time to try to place his presidency in history. Indeed more years separate us in 2023 from Carter's time in office than separated Carter from Franklin D. Roosevelt's.
The problems he faced, campaigning in 1975 and 1976 and taking office in 1977, have a familiar ring today. Inflation had been raging on and occasionally off during the decade in ways the conventional economists of the day could not explain or remedy. The nation was still reeling from a military defeat in a protracted war. Violent crime was rising in central cities, and domestic terrorists had been setting off bombs and destroying property, mostly with impunity, for years.
by signing up you agree to our terms of service Carter's Georgia cast the nation's second highest percentage for John F. Kennedy in 1960 and then voted for Republican Barry Goldwater in 1964 and George Wallace in 1968. Carter ran in Democratic primaries for governor as a rural candidate, losing in 1966, winning in 1970, then beating an Atlanta-based Republican in the general election.
Early on, Carter decried"inordinate fear of Communism," but after the invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, he said his"opinion of the Russians has changed more drastically in the last week than even the previous two and a half years." The result was covert action in Afghanistan and a defense buildup that, accelerated by the Reagan administration, resulted in the dismantling of the Soviet Empire a dozen years later.
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