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Samantha

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3. Incredibly interesting read

Reply to Bennet Kelley (Original post)

Sat Aug 22, 2015, 11:04 PM

Aug 2015

Thank you so much for posting this thread. It is wonderful those too young to have lived through his Presidency can read commentaries such as this and receive another sense of the man other than that portrayed by the Carter critics. Personally, I have always admired him.

Sam

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The Carter Presidency Revisited [View all] Bennet Kelley Aug 2015 OP

I'd drop Afghanistan from all that--there's a few buildings missing from Manhattan from that MisterP Aug 2015 #1

OFCS! L. Coyote Aug 2015 #2

+1 eggplant Aug 2015 #4

and why not? they thought they were so clever--"let's give Russia its own Vietnam and lure it into MisterP Aug 2015 #5

Why not? Because it is utter nonsense! L. Coyote Aug 2015 #7

so he's supposed to get credit for Afghanistan ... but not get any credit for Afghanistan? MisterP Aug 2015 #8

No, you're not supposed to blame him for what happens decades later. L. Coyote Aug 2015 #11

we *poured* money into the mujads under Carter and the ISI set up MisterP Aug 2015 #15

Read a bio of Herbert Hoover sometime 1939 Aug 2015 #17

Incredibly interesting read Samantha Aug 2015 #3

thanks for the comment Bennet Kelley Aug 2015 #10

Good, but inflation is really what made president carter a one-term president yeoman6987 Aug 2015 #6

Carter paid the price of Nixon's closing the gold window in 1971. roamer65 Aug 2015 #12

I remember the release of the hostages rusty quoin Aug 2015 #9

There were two gas crises 1939 Aug 2015 #18

He restored trust and honor to the Presidency... kentuck Aug 2015 #13

What about his relationship with the Shah of Iran? oberliner Aug 2015 #14

He made a grave mistake in giving in to (War Criminal) Kissinger hifiguy Aug 2015 #16

Liberty Under Siege: American Politics 1976-1988 bemildred Aug 2015 #19

Message auto-removed Name removed Aug 2015 #20

Carter is one of the most under-appreciated presidents in the history of our country davidpdx Aug 2015 #21