#President Carter

[deadpresidents]

"It hurt to lose to Ronald Reagan. But after the election, I tried to make the transition as smooth as possible. Later, from my experience in trying to brief him on matters of supreme importance, I was very disturbed at his lack of interest. The issues were the 15 or 20 most important subjects that I as President could possibly pass on to him. His only reaction of substance was to express admiration for the political circumstances in South Korea that let President Park close all the colleges and draft all the demonstrators. That was the only issue on which he came alive."

-- Former President Jimmy Carter, on losing the 1980 election and the transition leading to the inauguration of Ronald Reagan, interview with TIME Magazine, October 11, 1982.

#History #Presidents #Jimmy Carter #President Carter #Carter Administration #Ronald Reagan #President Reagan #Reagan Administration #1980 Election #Presidential History #Presidency #Presidential Elections #Presidential Transitions #Inauguration of Ronald Reagan #Presidential Rivals #Presidential Rivalries #Presidential Relationships #Quotes #Presidential Quotes #Quotes by Presidents #Presidents on Presidents #Politics #Political History

[socialjusticeinamerica]

#president carter #habitat for humanity #never trump #republican assholes #traitor trump #crooked donald #republican hypocrisy

[strappedarchives]

Lil Wayne photographed by Gregory Bojorquez during a photo shoot at his home in New Orleans, LA - March 2003

#strappedarchives #Lil Wayne #Lil Tunechi #Weezy F Baby #Weezy #President Carter #Y2K #2000s #Early 2000s

[truth-has-a-liberal-bias]

A significant part of Jimmy Carter’s legacy hasn’t gotten much attention, even amid the recent outpouring of tributes to the 39th US president after he entered hospice care.

These steps Carter took during his presidency are still shaping the United States, decades after he left office. But they didn’t help him at the polls.

Because of Carter’s actions, hundreds of thousands of people fleeing persecution had a chance to come to the United States when he was commander-in-chief. And millions more resettled in the US after he left office.

“He was well aware of the political cost,” says Carter biographer Kai Bird, author of “The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter.” When it came to taking on tough issues, Bird says, Carter didn’t shy away from doing what he thought was right.

And that’s where Carter found himself in the summer of 1979, making a decision that went against what polls said that most Americans wanted.

The scenes from the other side of the world were devastating.

Hundreds of thousands of people fleeing government oppression in Southeast Asia were taking to the sea, and many were drowning as they tried to escape.

A crisis that began before Carter took office was becoming increasingly dire by the day. In 1978, Carter ordered American ships to pick up refugees fleeing by boat. A year later, the exodus had only intensified.

And as world leaders met to discuss top issues facing their countries, Carter took a dramatic stand, announcing the US would double the number of refugees accepted monthly from the region from 7,000 to 14,000. The move, according to news reports at the time, was aimed at pushing other countries to take similarly significant steps.

It was not politically popular. As writer Thu-Huong Ha noted in a 2016 piece for Quartz, a poll from CBS and The New York Times showed that 62% of Americans disapproved. And a Gallup poll indicated 57% of Americans were opposed to the US relaxing its immigration policies for refugees from the region.

Carter did it anyway. [...]

#President Carter #politics #Southeast Asia #Democrats #Democratic Party

[mudwerks]

(via and everything else too: Amy Paper Doll)

#Amy Paper Doll #paper doll #president carter #1977 #vintage

[itsmythang]

President Jimmy Carter’s grandson says his grandfather has entered the final stages of his life which breaks my heart. What an amazingly beautiful wonderful human being this man is. Keeping him and Rosalynn in my heart and prayers.💙🙏🏾

#President Carter #end-of-life

[ifelllikeastar]

Jimmy Carter married Rosalynn Smith on July 7, 1946 when he was 21 and she was 18. But they knew each other for as long as Rosalynn was alive; she lived down the road in their hometown of Plains, Ga., and was a frequent playmate of Carter's little sister Ruth.

#former first lady rosalynn carter enters hospice care #love #president #president carter #united states #georgia #rest in peace #rosalynn carter

[lucidpast]

Jimmy Carter campaign poster, 1976. Intended for college campuses.

#jimmy carter #campaign poster #1976 #election #president carter

[allhailthe70shousewife]

#1980 #President Carter #republicans #dirty bullshit #southern strategy #they have been pricks my entire lifetime

[stephenist]

“After a series of short hospital stays, former US President Jimmy Carter today decided to spend his remaining time at home with his family and receive hospice care instead of additional medical intervention. He has the full support of his family and his medical team,” the statement said.

Carter turned 98 years old last year.

😢🙏🏻❤️

#jimmy carter #president carter

[deadpresidents]

the job of President was too big for Warren G. Harding and if there was an instruction manual, he couldn't find it.

I don't have anything to add to your totally unsolicited statement (everyone knows I just love being sent random, anonymous opinions) that had literally nothing to do with anything I've written recently.

BUT...believe it or not, there actually kind of IS an instruction manual for the Presidency. Jimmy Carter used to have a copy of this massive book in his office at the Carter Center titled "The Duties of the President of the United States of America".

In his wonderful 2004 book, Fraternity: A Journey in Search of Five Presidents (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO), Bob Greene writes about being shown the book by a Secret Service agent while at the Carter Center:

On a table was a huge hardbound book, and on its cover were the words: The Duties of the President of the United States. [The Secret Service agent] flipped it open. "Try learning that in two months," he said. I suppose I had never thought about it; I suppose it had never occurred to me that there was a manual. Because that is what this book was: an enormous volume filled, in minute detail, with the duties for which the President, as decreed by law, is responsible. Not the vague, all-encompassing responsibilities spoken of in civics books (or the Constitution), but the daily, department-to-department staff-office-by-staff-office tasks over which the President, at least in theory, has oversight. The book was like a combination motorcycle-repair manual/computer guide/university-doctorate-level encyclopedia; it was not bedtime reading or narrative history, it was nuts and bolts. It informed a President -- especially a newly elected President, getting ready to take office -- what was expected of him.

I'm dying to have a copy of that book. I haven't found it being sold anywhere over the years. I'm assuming that it was specifically printed and bound for the President. It looks like books that I have that were published by the Government Printing Office. They all are black hardcover books with gold print for the title, so I'm guessing that they are probably given to Presidents or important staff members in the Executive Office of the President. But I very much would like a copy. Hopefully the fine folks at the Government Printing Office or the National Archives sees this post and thinks that I deserve my own copy.

#History #Presidents #Presidency #Presidential History #The Duties of the President of the United States of America #Presidential Instructional Manual #Books #Executive Office of the President #White House #Executive Branch #Jimmy Carter #President Carter #Presidential Job Duties #Duties of the President #POTUS #Bob Greene #Fraternity: A Journey in Search of Five Presidents #Instruction Manual #Presidential Instruction Manual #Government Printing Office #Government #U.S. Government #National Archives #National Archives and Records Administration #U.S. Government Printing Office

[iwriteaboutfeminism]

#jimmy carter #president carter #hospice

[usarmytrooper]

Best wishes to President Jimmy Carter

I meant to write earlier this week about President Carter’s decision to enter home hospice care that will conclude his long and storied life.

I believe that the historical record shows that he was, at best, a mediocre president. As President, he was out of his depth, even as events overwhelmed him and sank his presidency. In 1980, he lost his re-election to Ronald Reagan in one of the largest landslides in U.S. history. That however, is not the full measure of the man.

Though I may not have agreed with some of the policies his administration advocated and pursued, I believe President Carter to have been an honest and principled leader. While he may not have been a great president, there is little doubt that he is a stellar human being. Since leaving the White House, he has consistently worked to improve conditions for the poor and to advance other humanitarian causes. For this, he has my respect and admiration.

As he begins this final journey, I hope that the warmth and respect that the American people feel for him will bring comfort to President and Mrs. Carter and to his entire family.

#jimmy carter #president carter #39th president of the united states #hospice

[truth-has-a-liberal-bias]

“After a series of short hospital stays, former US President Jimmy Carter today decided to spend his remaining time at home with his family and receive hospice care instead of additional medical intervention. He has the full support of his family and his medical team,” the statement said.

Carter, who turned 98 last year, became the oldest living US president in history after the passing of George H.W. Bush, who died in late 2018 at 94. The nation’s 39th president has kept a low public profile in recent years due to the coronavirus pandemic but has continued to speak out about risks to democracy around the world, a longtime cause of his.

#President Carter #Democrat #politics #health

[eretzyisrael]

Despite the fact that Camp David didn’t earn Carter the Nobel Prize, Israelis and Egyptians owe him a debt of gratitude for that one (maybe only) good part of his legacy.  It would be dishonest and insincere not to acknowledge that, especially when it’s one of the only things on which Carter could rest his hat with any sense of a positive outcome, especially related to the Middle East.

During his presidency, Carter broke a taboo and sent his emissary Andrew Young to meet with the PLO. Carter had no problem emboldening terrorists, whether in Iran, or hiding out in Lebanon and Tunisia, even (or especially) if they were set on harming Israel.  Like dancing the two-step, he’d twirl forward two, but then backward one or two more steps.  

If one looks at Camp David as the success that it was, on the surface one would not be mistaken for thinking Carter did great things.  But while Carter’s presidency ended, his Middle Eastern interference did not.  And with this, he revealed a deep seeded antisemitism.  One does not become an antisemite in a day. He did not advocate for Jews to be second class citizens, being rounded up and sent to the gas chamber, or anything like that.  

However, were there a Nobel Prize in antisemitism, Carter would surely be a winner. His perception of Jews, including his rhetoric and holding Israel to a double standard, demonstrated this in many ways.  Carter was one of the first to publicly accuse Israel of apartheid. In doing so, he justified Palestinian Arab terror against Israelis and Jews, blaming the victim.  Carter may have been a horrible president but he is no dummy. His choice of words was precise and deliberate.

Carter also associated himself with a group of defunct world leaders known as the “Elders.”  One thing they had in common was their hostility toward Israel, as if they were writing a sequel to “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.”  One can learn a lot about a person by the company they keep.  Carter loved being around and emboldening the antisemites.  

#jimmy carter #camp david #antisemitism #israel #egypt #president carter #worst president

[itbe1964]

#csn #crosby stills and nash #David Crosby #stephen stills #Graham Nash #jimmy Carter #president carter