by Jonathan Alter
Miss Julia assigned Carter warranty’s to read in fifth grade
The Carter’s got electricity in 1935 and his father purchased a windmill with an elevated water tank and pipes so they could have running water period
With Earl’s encouragement, Jimmy learned to be a tireless entrepreneur when he was 6 years old period before long he earned more than many grown men in the area, who lived on less than $1 a day period Jimmy picked peanuts off the Vine and stack them in his little wagon, wash them, and soak them overnight period at the 4 o’clock he rose to boil the peanuts and fill 20 paper bags with a 1/2 pound each period then he pulled the wagon down the railroad bed 2 miles to plant to sell his wares-5 cents a bag-out of the wicker basket on Main Street period some of the men at the filling station like to eat their penis with their dopes, which is what cokes were caught then called period then he began learning about the world beyond his family the black workers killed for Quote impudence boarding on assault closePage 47
And somewhere around 86, and already wilful Jimmy decided he wanted to be not a farmer like his father or one of the other ambitious ambitions of kids as age, railroad engineer, cowboy, FBI agent, John Dillinger-but to go to Annapolis to become a naval officer the discipline, drive, and exceptionally broad horizons he developed and the navy would make everything in his future possible
Jimmy enrolled at Georgia Southwestern college a 2 year junior college in America’s
In early 1942 Congressman pace refused once again to recommend him for the Naval Academy period this time, though, Mr. Earl stubbornly refused to leave paces America’s porch until he had a more definitive answer about his boy’s future pace promised an appointment the following Spring if Jimmy took math and science classes that weren’t available at George’s Southwestern period that led to a year at Georgia Tech and acceptance to the naval reserves officers training corps periodPage 51
Carter entered Annapolis in 1943 Roosevelt had signed it order saying that all midship and must complete their studies in 3 years instead of 4 because of the war Invictus invictus written by English poet William Ernest Henley one of his favorite points
Page 55 story about the incident at Annapolis when Carter refused to sing marching through Georgia even though he was punished Extensively by the upper classroom
Concerning the first black to come to Annapolis, page 57 period Carter did the right thing, but more quietly period the price was higher for him because he was a Georgian period he was treated as if he were a trader for his lining up with brown supporters, a classmate, Walter moiley, recalled
Carter graduated number 60 out of 820
Separation of church and state was the Central tenant of Roger Miller Baptist church
Williams thought church and state should be separate to preserve integrity of the church. Unlike Thomas Jefferson who would follow, Williams did not wish to separate church and state primarily to preserve the peace and purity of the state but rather to preserve the peace and integrity of the church.
When the Georgia General Assembly was in session, Jimmy bumped at a cheap hotel and rose at 430 to begin preparing period he arrived at the gospel before 7-earlier than any colleague-and he worked 5 days when most of the rest put in 4 period page 122
Carter took a speed reading class at Georgia Southwestern to help him fulfill what he ruefully called his foolish promise to read every bill in his entirety before voting on it-a daunting task when about 12:00 bills reach the floor every year period page 122
The following weekend, Carter recalled being sickened at the George Georgia Tech football game when some fans booed during a moment of silence for the slaying president Kennedy
When news of JFK’s assassination was announced in chips classroom at plains high school, the teacher said good and the teeth students supplied in period chip picked up a chair and flew it at the flung it in the teacher’s direction period and the principal’s office, Mr. Sheffield expressed his sympathies over the president’s death and sent him home, where Jimmy and Rosen declined to punish him periodPage 126
Jimmy reminded the congregation that black worshippers had previously been admitted to the church for funerals-including that of his father-and other special occasions period this is not my house: this is not your house he said period here and they could keep anyout of their house if they wanted period but I for one will never stand in the door of this church and keep anyone out period page 129
Carter jumped into the race just 12 weeks before the September democratic primary period from the start, he ran a discipline, ideologically hazy campaign focused on integrity and reform-a pattern for the future period but there were signs of his inner progress of struggling to get out period without drawing attention to it, he accompanied a bit in black churches-one of the first times in a white statewide candidate in Georgia did so period page 134
Little Lillian Carter joined the Peace Corps when she was 67 years old it was sent to India a village near Bombay page 134
Carter came to believe that no other human being had affected his career more profoundly we’re beneficially than Hamilton Jordan period page 136
Lester Maddox A Democrat and a major racist, ended up winning the raceA Democrat and a major racist, ended up winning the race.
Carter called the book Ryan hold nibura on politics his political Bible period page 140
Carter felt he couldn’t easily do missionary work in Georgia, where he had become well known, so in May 1968 he joined a lay mission team for 2 weeks in lochaven, Pennsylvania, an industrial town in the mountains period page 1 41 3Page 143
When the Carter’s worked as a team-as they would for the rest of their lives-they also embodied the ideals of rosalynn’s original creed: methodism, inspired by founder John Wesley’s admonition to quote do all the good you can, to all the people you can, as long as you as long as you as long as ever you can period closeQuote page 146
David rabhan he drove quarter to campaign appearances in his cesina 310 twin-engine pro plane.
He once turned the fuel line switch off while Carter was driving as a prank period.
Carter never had a campaign Manager. Jodie Powell started as his driver Carter would leave him if he got up too late. Was expelled from the Air Force Academy for cheating. He was a doctorial candidate at Emery.
I eventually became his press secretary.
During his campaign for governor Carter offered what would later be caught dogwhistles: code words such as George’s heritage law and order local control and respect for government Wallace that sounded innocuous on the surface of its signal to white voters that he was with them on racial issues he was an early master of the practice page 154
Carl Sanders law firm represented big and unpopular corporate interest, including Georgia power, and he had personal stakes in several of them period Carter picked up on a republican gym-cufflinks Carl-and it’s stuck, though Sanders didn’t wear shirts that needed them page 157
Carter curried favor of Harrison Griffin to the biggest segregationist in Georgia page 162
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Being governor brought out the exacting engineer in Carter-and the righteous Warrior period he would prove to be the greatest environmentalist governor in the country, but not before ALA80 many Georgians with his bold plan to overhaul state government period both experiences pre sauge what he would do-and what would be done to him-as president page 177
His nickname was jungle Jimmy
Carter was talking about carbon dioxide levels rising way back in 1972 nobody else was paying in a sectionAttention
Carter pushed through a gigantic reorganization of state government in Georgia it saved them millions of dollars for example they could now issue general obligation bonds which save them a lot of in interest costs page 182
The chattahoochie river became one of the Carter’s greatest legacies he protected at page 183
Carter was one of the first to take on the army corps of engineers because he thought they were building way too many dams that were unnecessary page 184
A Congressman wanted to build a dam on the Flint river period before making a decision-Carter Canoe down the river twice and made a point of learning all about the indigenous showbass otter blocks muskrat beaver and Bobcat that would be affected by the dam he devoted more than a 100 hours of his time to meeting with dozens of groups on both sides for concrete manufacturers to fly fishermenEdit a video again
Carter passed a bill that said all 57 miles of the chat to tahuga river could not be d*****Page 186
Carter would sometimes ride around the state please and they would pull cars over that were speeding above the 55 miles an hour limit so that Carter could personally lecture them p 188
Carter joined the anybody but govern effort saying that government would lose every state in the South
For a while Pat Cadell would be Carter’s advisor he would go on to coach Gary Hart Joe Biden Ross perro and eventually Donald Trump on how to appeal to disaffected voters page 197
When Jimmy told his mother he was preparing to run for president, lily and replied, president of what? Page 199
Carter rewrote the speech he gave for the famous law day because he thought the original one he had sounded too much like Kennedy’s period so we rerouted on the spot period
The law day speech was nevertheless an instant classic, and for the next 2 years, Thompson played the 45 minute tape dozens of times for people who would look at me like I was finally over the hump into terminal brain damage period of course people listen anyway because a hip, often cynical celebrity journalist was telling them that this obscure governor had something important to say period it’s hard to exaggerate the boost Thompson gave Carter with the young reporters he would need to take him seriously as a presidential candidate period page 208
Jimmy Carter was a famously Unlucky president period but as a presidential candidate, he caught many breaks period
The first was that the smiling Sunday school teacher seemed perfect in a doubt to the scowling quote who had just left office period
Outsider themes were in the air in the mid-seventies period
Billy Carter said my mother went into the Peace Corps when she was 68, my one sister is a motorcycle freak, my other sister is a holy roller evangelist, and my brother is running for president period I’m the only same 1 in the family period page 217
Hamilton Jordan believe the candidate’s secret weapon was the variety of his life experiences he could talk commodity prices with I will farmer’s, d*** construction with New Hampshire environmentalist, navy traditions with veterans, and the teaching of Jesus with the rule Bible belt democrats women’s groups thrilled to the idea of miscellaneous being freed by the early death of her husband to build her own life of adventure, while businessmen were impressed by Carter’s hard-nosed management of his company Miami Cubans cheered when he explained to them emphasis in Spanish, with a Southern accent) how is human right policy could end Castro’s domination of Cuba, and blacks loved hearing him use the cadence of a preacher to confess that he had lived his early life in Central segregation period page 218
Which of them noticed that Carter did especially well with children, who would rush towards him in a way that reporters had never seen while covering other politicians it wasn’t that Carter treated children as adults but that he treated both adults and children as children enveloping them with a smile and his message of goodness and love page 219
Ford said that dropping Rockefeller from the ticket was the worst mistake of his presidency page 228
Biden was the first senator to back Jimmy Carter page 233
He’s not a politician Charles kerbo reminded other aids in Atlanta as president he will do what he thinks is right, whether it’s popular or not, and if elected, he may be a one term president period page 245
Carter quoted Dylan during his democratic nomination acceptance speech We have an America that in Bob Dylan’s phrase is busy being born not busy dying
Carter said quote I feel like I have only one life to live-I feel God wants me to do my best I can with it period and that’s quite often my major prayer color let me live my life so that it will be meaningful period and I enjoy tackling difficult problems, and solving them, and the meticulous organization of a complicated effort period close Page 259
This was becoming known in theological and socio philosophical circles as the servant leader model, though a humble self as approach to social change was not normally associated with those at the very top period page 259
Carter aired the first Ever political TV ad in Spanish page 262
Today the playboy interview would likely be a 1 day story: even then, a more Teflon candidate like ground rag and might have let it slide right off him period but Carter had a Velcro quality to him the result of his righteousness and his inability to develop a casual disarming humor that so often accompanies political success the playboy embrogalio was the first was serious web search as Frank Carter to a smaller than life character and, as Charles KimKimberly feared, affects a semi permanent kick me sign to his posterior page 267
Over the summer Carter had bonded with James Dickey, the celebrated American poet Carter had been amused in 1972 and dickey, a Georgia native, showed up drunk to the first screening of deliverance now dickey became virtually the only one who’s debated vice he would welcome page 273
Martin Luther king’s father helped Carter a lot. George Wallace told his supporters it was okay to vote for Carter towards the very end of the campaign joso helped page 277
Carter was the first President elected from the deep South since Zachary Taylor in 1848 and the first governor elected President since FDR in 1932 page 280
In the end, Jimmy Carter won the election but not the mandate, James Naughton of The New York Times wrote on election night already signaling that Carter’s ambitious agenda might have trouble page 280
The democratic majority in 1977 was undermined by an almost total absence of party line votes democrats were divided between old-fashioned northern new deal great society liberals, Southern conservatives who might as well have been republican’s, and Ramon bunches young democratic watergate babies elected in 1974 who disliked the stuffy emphasis on seniority and took orders from no 1 page 2 Carter tried something called cabinet government which disempowered the White House staff which had grown arrogant in recent administrations and favor giving cabinet secretaries more autonomy and freedom to craft policy that backfired though since Carter got all the blame and none of the credit page chto 8786
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Carter loaded his senior White House staff with young Georgians, and envisioned them as spokes on a wheel all with equal direct access to the president the center can you get it the same thing terrible page 288
Carter gave Mondale a big suite just down the hall from the oval office and gave him lots of responsibilities page 289
Weirdly he selected Theodore swordson JFK speech writer to be the CIA director it wasn’t a good choice sorisson was a conscience objector during World War 2
Carter started the practice of the president releasing his taxes which everyone did until Trump
Carter put all his assets in a blind trust
Carter walked up Pennsylvania Avenue during the ignore after the inauguration
On his 1st day in office Carter started working towards pardoning all the Vietnam draft Dodgers
Carter’s many bills on energy and the environment had a profound cumulative impact on life in the 21st century his policies sharply reduce dependencies on foreign oil, began the transition to green energy, mandated energy efficiency, and move across a broad front to clean up the environment page 299
But austerity is a political loser for president’s: all pain for largely invisible gain and energy conservation is expensively unpleasant because it cramps everyone’s lifestyle Carter knew this but remained undaunted it’s a b**** I know why no other President was willing to tackle it he told his family towards the end of his term page 300
Dane acroyd played Carter as a president so frighteningly competent he could help callers on everything from fixing high-speed postal lettuce order to surviving a bad LSD trip page 302
Carter thought there should be a palestinian homeland at the very beginning of his term
He knew more about say the endangered species act and its impact on drilling in dams that almost anyone he could have hired, and he brought that knowledge to bear during the Sprint towards a comprehensive energy plan page 3 or 3
Quote tonight I want to have an unpleasant talk with you about a problem unprecedented in our history with the exception of preventing war, this is the greatest challenge that our country will face in our lifetimes the energy crisis has not yet overwhelmed us, but it will if we do not act quickly page 3 or 3
Carter’s new natural gas regulatory structure encouraged both production and conservation would help make the United States Annette energy exporter in the 21 st century page 307
Carter and portpose the first federal fuel economy standards for passenger vehicles
It wasn’t until the 1977 clean air act amendments pushed hard by Carter enforced by UPA minister Doug costle the air quality in the United States began to show astonishing improvement page 308
Ypa required for the first time companies to list all toxic substances in their product
They ban Flora flora Flora and carvines in the air sauce helped produce reduce props with ozone they banned lead paintThey imposed market-based emissions trading so-called cap-and-trade which event eliminated acid rain in United States
The clean water act in 1977 helped in the air where rivers caught fire
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Rosalind’s popularity at least partially compensated for some of Jimmy shortcomings she didn’t exaggerate, correct grammar, or forget to say thank you and by jimmy’s automation her formidable political instincts were superior to his own Roselyn had the full respect of the president’s aides in part because they would ask her to keep a political message to her husband-usually with embracing those of realism-that he might otherwise dismiss she was known as steel Magnolia page 310
Roselyn attended cabinet meetings
Rosen focused on ages of mental health Refugees from Vietnam and Cambodia maybe Thailand And vaccinations
The vaccination program was a stunning success within 3 years this US center for disease control reported that the incident amuses bombs rebella and other communicable diseases among school aid children was it at or near record low levels page 312
He appointed GinsburgShe said people love and ask me why did you always want to be a judge my answer is that it just wasn’t in the realm of the possible until Jimmy Carter became President and was determined to draw on the talent of all the people, not just some of them page 314
Carter was Amy’s nanny’s parole officer while they were in the White House weird
Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell homes fables described FDR as having a second class intellect in the first class temperament Jimmy Carter was reversed with the first class intellect in a second class temperament page 319
Personalized, Carter continued to be tight as bark on a tree as his old friend dot Padgett put it as President, Carter was still wearing suits he bought for less than $100 from a friend in former Georgia state senator who specialized in making clothes for JC Penney and other department stores 326
Carter later admitted that he alienated too many members of Congress page 328
Carter told Raff’s shoe he should continue to call him Jimmy, but rafshun couldn’t bring himself to address the President that way-except once when Carter gave him a hard time for sending his kids to private school, raffshun shot back f*** y** Jimmy Bob Stewart didn’t Miss A beak it’s f*** y** Mr. President Carter loved it page 330
Having been elected by a president fed up with artifice, Carter never seemed appreciate that the presidency is not just a fishbowl but a theater-the stage from which to project an image page 330
After performing at another press banquet where he was expected to be funny, he complained aboard Air Force one, they don’t want a president semi: they want Bob Hope page 337
Carter raised taxes to make so security solvent for generation
William sapphire’s columns for the New York City New York Times we’re misleading at best about birth Lance page to 340
Bird Lance was acquitted of all charges page 344
Carter’s bills on tax reform welfare reform and consumer protection all failed page 346
On tax reform Carter did not try to persuade the heads of the citizen finance committee and house and ways of meets committees to back his bill which was really stupid page 347
Carter’s welfare reform plan included the earned income tax credit which was adopted by Clinton and Obama and according to the author became the most durable and effective anti property program since so security in 1935 page 348
Bird called the 1978 civil service reform act the most tremendous legislative achievement of Israel in Washington page 350
Without a process for whistle blowers and inspector general, president Trump’s infinite phone call with the Ukrainian president would never have come to light in 2018, and he would not have been impeached page 351
A new global movement was taking shape, as authoritarian regimes on both the right and the left bent to the democratic revolution sweeping the globe in the 1980s and 90s the concept of human rights became permanently encoded in the global conversation-and dissidents no longer felt so alone when the prison door clang shot at night for all the legitimate worries about research it authoritarism in the 21st century around half of the nation’s the world now live a nurse under some form of democracy I’ve been more than twice as many as in 1980 That is a tribute, in part, to the work of Jimmy murder page 371
If there’s a gene for duty call on responsibility, and the will to tackle messy problems with little or no potential for political gain, Jimmy Carter was born with it nothing showed this better than his determination to give the Panama canal back to Panama this success in doing so almost certainly prevented a long and bloody glory war against the United States and Central America page 372
President Ford and Carter had a 30 year 30 years of friendship and cooperation between the old rivals page 376
The former California governor renewed his 1976 attacks and began mis informing conservative audiences that once again the United States relinquished sovereigntyThe Panama would nationalize the canal overnight page 376
Tennessee’s Howard Baker finally supported Carter on the treaty
After Baker had cited with Carter on several other votes, the president thanked him for doing the right thing Baker replied that with any more right things he loses seat in the senate page 378
Giving the panel come out to Panama would prove overtime to be one of the wisest decisions ever made for democracy in the West and hemisphere-and not just because the pandemoniums have, by all accounts, managed the canal well since 1999 they hand over engendered significant goodwill for generations 10 horn dictators had used resentment of arrogant gringos to gain and hold power page 385
Carter was more critical of Israel and supportive of arabs than any other president, especially after he left office and yet he also did more for the security of the state of visual than any American president other than Harry Truman, who first extended diplomatic recognition to the newborn nation in 1948 page 388
Carter describes the dot as a man I would come to admire more than any other world leader page 390
FDR started camp David would heat which he could refer to as shangrila Eisenhower renamed to camp David after his son who ended up marrying Richard Nixon’s daughter JuliaThe Carter’s love camp David’s so much they spent almost every other weekend there with a longer stay’s, that ended up generally 1/4 of his entire presence he-far more than any other president page 393
They use the single tech tech they use the single text technique pioneered by Roger Fisher in his book negotiating to yes to come with an agreement
Criteria realized you would have to separate the 2 leaders like a parade or teacher with squabbling children from then on he would read negotiate with each individually it would be a long 10 days before saddot and begin were in the same room at the same time again in the meantime Carter would meet for many hours alone with each one, a level personal discipline diplomacy unmatched by any other American president page 399
During a visit to Gettysburg begin recited lincoln’s entire Gettysburg address from memory and with great emotion page 403402
End up relations with China. Suggested to ding that China allow people to worship freely and to own bibles they did so not much later
Iranian revolution led to the Iran Iraq war, which left 1.5 million dead page 431
When the revolution app and Carter was busy with the camp David accords and the summit with dink and a bunch of other important things so-and-so the Carter administration’s reaction to events in Iran was everything quite herself was not golden undisciplined disorganized and poorly informed period but even if the President had given the revolution more of his attention it’s unlikely he could have done more than by a little time Carter was in no position to stem the tide of historyJust spent 25 years failing to prop up the Government of South Vietnam, the United States was understandably reluctant to take on ownership of what happened in Iran page 432
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Visitors to the palace were soon described in the shot as shattered and possibly on the brink of an overspreet down secretary of treasury Michael Bloomfield Bloomington though, whom Carter asked to make a side trip to Iran while in the region, remembered a pale and bake it looking near zombie page 3435
But by late fall of 1978, ambassador Sullivan felt that everything he had thought about Iran since his arrival near the there’s earlier was mistaken he reversed his assessment a 180° from sharply pro shot to what Carter called obsessive support for advocation I soon to be infamous November 9 cable entitled thinking the unthinkable cell phone for the first time envisioned Iran without the ShawPage four thirty seven
While no one could have predicted the final outcome-their accuracy without a fight-the intelligent failure was colossal As late as August 1978, a breathtakingly incompetent CIA assessment found that Iran is not in a revolutionary or even a pre-revolutionary situand now there was apparently no surveillance of the iotolen France to offer advanced word on his plaque nation’s original goals in IranThe CIA director admitted later that his agency had let Carter down badly on a run page 438
Carter said we personally prefer that the Shaw maintain a major role in the government but that is a decision for the Iranian people to make page 440
Once the resistance was confident that the Shaw’s army wouldn’t shoot, street protest surged page 440
The United States did not In the Shaw they simply told him to make his own decision eventually Carter told him that he should use force but either got it too late or ignored it.
Shapur baktar is the guy the Shaw asked to form a civilian governmentHe said the shot would have leaved the country for him to do that page 441
Jim slushed in your thought the president’s hope for democracy was preposterous and naive but Carter stuck with it anyway, assuring session jer and brez now felt that the Iranian Parliament could become a source of stability and that a generally non-aligned Iran need not be viewed as a setback United States on both counts, he was tragically mistaken page 442
President, who had a company Carter to go out to Dubai, are you strenuously that if the United States prevented the show was military from acting decisively, Carter we showed her a massive historic responsibility with a robotics commonly told the president, it’s not a kindergarten they have to take a crack presents me ski he was disturbed by the impending budget but agreed not to change the instructions to Heiser which was the fight the letter shoot page 443
Then nothing happened, the Shaw said his talk of a bloody crackdown was meant only to pressure bacteria in whom he had already lost confidence he resumed his procrastination in the civilization, as did the quarter administration page 443
To the president’s relief, the Shaw decided to skip Palm Springs and Settle with his family in Morocco the second of 7 countries you would live in during the frenzied last 18 months of his life page 444
At this point, Carter and bakyar, both of whom should have known better, still trusted diet told us empty promises bacteria told the United States he would close the airports and permit homaniac to enter only if he promises do so as a religious leader, not a political air Carter wrote miss diary on January 23rd
What if in hindsight why should adult bacteria that committee’s promises were worthless might that have helped bacteria to consolidate power and survive? Maybe period more likely news of bacterized consorting with the enemy-with America-Would have made the Sprint protest even bigger and accelerated the revolution page 446
Carter and his team could not be held responsible for the Iranian revolution in its apromath to titanic plates of history were shifting beneath their feet but they were blindsided by the depth of a running hatred of the United States for imposing a puppet on their proud country for 35 years and so, with the support of all his advisers, Carter decided to pursue full diplomatic relations with the as told as regime who we thought would be friendly to us and work with us page 455
The malaise beach iPhone Carter decided to move forward with the speech that addressed Cadell’s themes then he rose to take mondell for a walk around the compound to cool him down he found his vice but it is still quite destroyed Carter asked for Mon Dell support but did not get it to appease him, he threw cuddle out of camp David for a couple of days page 465
Here was the president of the United States confronting the American people over there materialism it was a moment of breathtaking honesty that had no president and will almost certainly never be repeated you wouldn’t tough times, future presidents will stop well short of truly challenging their audiences page 469
If Carter hadn’t hired Volker as for the federal reserve if Miller had been placed by someone similarly loyal to jimmy Carter the history of the next 40 years might have unfolded in dramatically different way page 478
Our Carter aides like to argue that Peggy Clawson changed American history had she let her husband coming chairman with a fed, he would have been far more causing it to cause the I’m a cosmetics and of the sensitive politics at play interest rates would not have skyrocketed, and Carter would not have faced voters in November 1980 with such a dismal economy page 479
In 1980 despite camp David, Carter would receive a mere 45% of the jewish vote, making him the only democratic candidate in modern times to lose a majority of it page 486
Carter D regulated the airline industry and the trucking industry which created millions of jobs and board air fares a lot page 492 but it mostly benefited Reagan
Administration also started deregulated communications breaking up AT&T for example and a enabling cable TV they even allowed home Brewers 24 us since they were now allowed to compete with large breweries page for 93
Carter initially wanted to have a program for a national health care but later thought it would be better to phase it in Kennedy hated that idea Page 493
Carter’s bill was better than anything that we produced by Congress for decades under it no American would pay have to pay more than $1250 a year and out-of-pocket cost, with anything above that handled by national catastrophic coverage the bill federalized and expanded medicaid funded generous prevention programs paid all prenatal delivery and infant cost and created a framework to transition to full universal coverage over 4 years page 495
Mondell thought Kennedy was being an a** and being irresponsible about the healthcare then other things you were just been a Dick page for 96
Quote Kennedy, continue as irresponsible and abusive attitude, immediately condemned our healthcare plan closeAs California put it Kennedy’s all or nothing approach had less chance of passing than putting an elephant through a keyhole
But Kennedy’s fervent opposition was enough to kill Carter’s related effort at major health care reform page 497
Even as he learned in mid-march that king Hassan was essentially expelling the Shaw the president’s position did not soften he told Vance to scout other countries that might take him Carter was irrelevantly president what are you guys going to advise me to do if they overrun our embassy and take our peace people hostage? No one had a good answer page 504
Carter said f*** the Shaw I’m not going to let him in when he has other places to go where he’ll be perfectly safe page 507
Carter was told, fraudulently, that the shock could only be traded in the United States but really could have been treated in Mexico that was a lie doctor keen KEAN was the one who made it up
Let’s see that looks soft when communism actually helped undermine it 12 years later, many Hungarians pointed to the return of the Crown of Saint Stephen as a potential moment on their road away from communism page 531
Axe Gan’s government was overthrown by communist in 1979. Taliban was starting to overthrow the commonCommunist as thus the Russians entered the war
Brush enough oblivious to what tyranki had reported to Moscow 6 months earlier about the strength of practical Islam, figured the war would be over in 3 weeks it lasted nearly a decade, until humiliating withdrawal signaled the approaching demise of the Soviet Union page 537
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Carter brought his usual competitive street to his new career on tour, he kept score of his actually how fast he was signing copies and greeted those who waited in line coldly if they brought along one of his earlier books for signature but hadn’t purchased the new 1 but he knew how to sell when a woman came up and said if you still listen to Your Heart mister president I’m available he told the story on Late Night Talk shows he was affable in public but with a Purpose flying commercial he made a Habit of working his way Down the aisle shaking Hands with all passengers shortly after boarding the MOVE is Classic Carter cool and he made a great impression while also allowing him to get the well wishing out of The Way so he could work undisturbed for the duration of the flight page 619
The ripe poetry paint he learned to cook dip bear meat he learned how to make his own wine he tried to sing ropoetry he wrote a novel called the hornet’s nest
His idea was to make his presidential library into a small camp David a place to solve problems and resolve disputes page 626
Global 2000 initiative in Ghana very successful page 629
Guinea Warren disease work
Melinda Gates remembered Carter telling her in Seattle Melinda, anything you do has to be owned by the local people and when it’s owned by them f*** And their voices are heard, and they truly believe in it, they will take it up and when you leave, the program will still exist and he was absolutely right page 631
When Carter first focused on Guinea worm disease in 1986, that did seize afflicted 3.5 million people by 2 thousandand 14, it was down 21 130 cases worldwide page 632
Also worked with mark to reduce river blindness it was greatly reduced in Africa
Since the mid-eighties the Carter center has monitored more than a 100 elections roughly 3 year mostly in Latin AmericaAnd also in African Asia page 634
In late 2000, as president Clinton prepared to leave office, his peace initiative fell just short yes here are a fat proved to be a poor leader-tolerant of corruption and full of false promises-and that you have rejected a generous offer of a palestinian state from the Israeli Prime Minister, you do Barack page 654
During Obama’s first term community is the president of the Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had any interest in Carter’s advice his described his relationship with him as not existent which in turn in the case of obama whom he had greatly admired in 2008, was personally hurtful page 657
John Kerry in the second term was very interested in talking to Carter and get his ideas
1 day a visitor to planes came upon an old man and a cat mowing the grass behind a church isn’t that the place where Jimmy Carter chooses Sunday school the visitor asked yes it is Jimmy Carter replied with a smile before resuming his chores page 661
Jimmy was more than just a deacon at the Baptist church he made the wooden crosses of wooden collection plates on the lay and once twice a month from 1981 until late 2019 idonda balero Thai with the torque oystone instead to teach a warm and engaging Sunday school lesson to a smog with his neighbors and a much larger assemblage of visitors from all over the world page 661