The Time Jimmy Carter Played White Supremacists for Fools
The Daily Beast Podcast
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Was Jimmy Carter a Fail President?
He was made president by Watergate. He came along, he said, I won't lie to you. And we need a government as good as its people. But then the post-Watergate press also undid him because every flap, like his brother became a lobbyist for Libya. Every flap, and there were dozens of them, they would attach gate afterward to it. The press assumed that he must be crooked like Nixon,. And he just wasn't as charming as Reagan.
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