We're now on the 38th day of my daily presidents threads celebrating the 250th anniversary of the USA.Today we have Jimmy Carter (10/1/1924 - 12/29/2024), who served as president from 1977 to 1980. Prior to becoming president he was a state senator from and governor of Georgia, as well as a peanut farmer and a member of the Navy post WW2. He is our most recent president to die and our only centenarian president. Notable actions or events during his presidency include the Camp David Accords, the Torrijos-Carter Treaties, the Guadeloupe Conference, the Pardoning of Vietnam Draft Dodgers, establishing Diplomatic Relations with China, SALT II, the Department of Energy, the Department of Education, the Iranian Revolution and the Iran Hostage Crisis, El Dialogo and the Mariel Boatlift, the 1979 Oil Crisis, the Carter Doctrine, the National Energy Act, and Operation Cyclone. What do you think of the nice guy who finished last?
>>18548854he also helped hank hill and his dad make up
i guess him and Hoover proved engineers are not presidents
He wanted to be an honest politician and refuse to play political games. Unfortunately, that's not the world we live in.Amazing human being, meh president.
Carter grew up rich on a plantation in Georgia with blacks held in near-slavery conditions so he became a liberal out of white guilt.
>>18548854the only president to serve a full four year term without appointing any Supreme Court Justices (he tried to convince Thurgood Marshall to retire so he could appoint a replacement to no avail)
>>18548854Don't forget "Billy Beer"; where the president's brother lent his name to a beer company
>>18548854That he won the '76 election was a fluke and probably happened because the news networks called many of the East Coast states early so voters didn't bother showing up convinced he'd already won. He made a rather poor impression during the general election and wasn't very convincing to voters. Once in office he suffered from Sarah Palin syndrome with his wacky redneck family that were the butt of late night comedy jokes.
>>18548890or the bad press he got over the 'killer rabbit' story
honestly nobody liked the guy except Southern housewives. he had no friends or connections in D.C. nor did he try to make anyway. he also saw himself as too good for politics and did not like Congress--even with a Democrat trifecta he was unable to accomplish any major legislative acts.
>>18548854Carter was the last Democrat to sweep the South (other than Virginia) but at the same time that was heavily thanks to the black vote.
the guy was really not up to being president, he used his engineering skills to grab the Democrat nomination (and because he had been on the committee that drew up the '76 primary rules so he knew how everything worked) but once he had the White House proved his serious limitations as a chief executive.
>>18548854he first met Roslyn when he was 3 years old, one day after her birth
>>18548895So yeah, he was bad at passing legislation even with his own party in control of Congress and he loved micromanaging things and making decisions on stuff that a president really shouldn't concern himself with.
pretty much nobody liked him once the initial bloom of being not-Nixon wore off
>>18548895well ok he legalized home beer brewing so he wasn't completely terrible i guess
>put down the fork and tighten that belt, chud
>>18549095the tl;dr was accept Eastern Bloc living standards with rationed food and gas from this point onward
>>18548858HATED A BABY!?
>>18548986He had the problem a lot of governors-turned-president did where he had a kind of high handed manner because he came from running a state but didn't have any real connections to Washington. Clinton obviously stands out because he did have connections through his association with the New Democrats and leadership of the DLC.
>tells the American people to rip up their credit cards>"Sure thing, Mr. Prez">consumer spending plummets and the economy crashes into its worst downturn since the Depression
Cleveland, Wilson, FDR, and Carter all had that same issue of being governors with no ties to Washington prior to being president.
>During his meeting with Brezhnev at the SALT II summit in Vienna in May 1979, Carter remarked "I know you're going to invade Afghanistan." Brezhnev looked slightly uncomfortable and replied "No....no, I'm not planning to do that."[2]
>Wait, you mean a magazine about sex published an interview where I talk about my sex fantasies? What is this shit? I am offended. :/
>>18549362lol
>>18548986He didn't like Tip O'Neill whom he perceived as a typical sleazy smoke filled room politician.
>>18548891>Once in office he suffered from Sarah Palin syndrome with his wacky redneck family that were the butt of late night comedy jokes.You do know who runs the late night comedy circuit right?
>>18550026This is a reference to some 90s movie I've never seen, I assume.
>>18549584>>18548854Jimmy Carter liked campaign trips
