The American Presidential Election of 1976
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The 48th episode in a very long series about the American presidential elections from 1788 to the present. In 1976, the country celebrates its bicentennial by not trusting the government.
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The 48th Presidential election in American history took place on November 2, 1976. The country was now over 200 years old, but during this time an increasing number of Americans didn’t seem to trust their government. This guy might be the reason why. Remember how Richard Nixon won big in the 1972 election? Well, as it turns out, his campaign that year was up to some shady stuff. Some of his supporters broke into the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C. in order to spy on them. They were busted, and this was eventually known as the Watergate scandal.
As it turns out, the Nixon administration was involved and later tried to cover it up. Nixon was forced to give up audio recordings that proved this. Facing impeachment by the House of Representatives and likely getting fired by the Senate, Nixon resigned on August 9, 1974. Just like that...he gone.
Gerald Ford, the Vice President, was sworn in as the 38th President in American history. Hold up! What happened to Spiro Agnew? Spiro Agnew had actually resigned the year before. He had his own scandal involving him receiving illegal bribes back when he was the Governor of Maryland. So Nixon nominated Ford, a dude from Michigan who at the time was the House Minority Leader. Congress overwhelmingly approved the nomination. Good thing the fairly recently passed 25th Amendment to the Constitution said they could now do this.
Also because of the 25th Amendment, Nelson Rockefeller became the 41st Vice President in American history.
So what is one of the first things that Gerald Ford does? Well, he pardons Richard Nixon. All, that’s so sweet of him.
Ford was President during a tricky time- the Vietnam War was ending as the Americans left and let South Vietnam fall, which was a humbling defeat, and the economy wasn’t doing so well back at home. The U.S. dealt with stagflation, which is when things basically cost a lot while unemployment goes up and companies produce less.
In 1976, Ford tried to get the Republican nomination for President as the only sitting President who had never been elected to national office, and he had an impressive challenger. Ronald Reagan, the now former governor of California, nearly took the nomination. Going into the Republican Convention, the two were dead even. However, Ford won the nomination narrowly on the first ballot. The Republicans nominated Bob Dole, a Senator from my home state of Kansas, as his running mate.
Just like in 1972, many sought the Democratic Party nomination. Four stood out in the beginning. Henry Jackson, a Senator from Washington, Mo Udall, a U.S. Representative from Arizona, Jerry Brown, the Governor of California and son of former California Governor Pat Brown, and George Wallace, who, despite being shot and paralyzed during the last election effort, was still going strong. Well none of those four saw Jimmy Carter coming.
Carter, a former Governor of Georgia, took everyone by surprise by winning the early Iowa caucus and New Hampshire primary. Henry Jackson didn’t even compete in those, and boy was that a big mistake- he never recovered. Ever since then, the media has spent extra special attention to Iowa and New Hampshire, you may have noticed. Check out Political Junkie and Step Back History explain this in more detail.
Anyway, Carter capitalized on the fact that he was a D.C. outsider and a centrist from the South to become a successful dark horse candidate. Despite an ABC movement, or Anybody But Carter movement, Carter got the nomination at the convention, with Walter Mondale, a Senator from Minnesota, as his running mate.
One third party candidate I will mention was Eugene McCarthy, our boy from the 1968 election, who had since split from the Democratic Party and now ran as an independent candidate.
But the Democrats and Republicans had the money. Carter generally led in the polls over Ford, and Ford said stupid things like “there is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe and there never will be under a Ford administration." But then again, Carter was talking about lusting for women other his wife to Playboy Magazine, so the race remained tight.
Bob Dole and Walter Mondale participated in the first-ever formal vice presidential candidate debate.
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Mr. Beat I don’t know if people knew this but I believe that Ford meant to say that there will be no Soviet dominance in Eastern Europe under a Ford administration. Meant that the soviets will have no control in Europe but idk🙃
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@@coach_huggiesytb3130 well good luck with that Ford
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Fun fact: gerald Ford is the only person to serve as both president and vice president without getting elected to either office by the electoral college. He was nominated for VP in the middle of Nixon's second term, inherited the presidency, then lost the presidential election.
*M E G U S T A*
So he's the only _de facto_ president then
what about lydomb jhonson ?
@@CarlosFerZar he was the official president, not acting.
@@Mggames-ds5dm i know
Fun fact: jimmy carter can technically run for president again
And still win bigger than Biden or Trump.
This is such a weird election
@Yoshikage Kira I need to wake up soon, nothing this year makes sense
is he not dead?
@@parker-lonzy650 No he’s still alive
The earliest election where one of the main candidates is still alive as of 2020.
Mondale is still alive as well
Edit: 4/22/21 He died a few days ago
The 2 "running mates" Walter Mondale and Bob Dole are also still alive
Of the 4, only Ford has passed away. Writing in July 2020.
Not anymore sadly. RIP JIMMY CARTER 1924-2021!
@@thesponge3535 Jimmy Carter never dies.
The last election where the Democrat was pro-life and the Republican was pro-choice. Carter later became pro choice.
Carter only believes in abortion up too two months and in cases of rape and incest
Gerald Ford was pro-choice ?? Never knew that
@Jimmy Carter apparently man was very woke
@Jimmy Carter I would also vote for Ted Kennedy during the Democratic primary of the following election. No offence man but your response to the hostage situation wasn't very successful 🤷🏻♂️
@Jimmy Carter this may seem really stupid but I’m actually kinda glad we had a president who came from my home state of Georgia
With those "four losers" (Dole, Ford, Carter, Mondale), only one of them, Jimmy Carter, is still alive in 2022. Dole and Mondale died last year.
...whom also lived for a long time too.
For contrast, the 1984 election still only has Mondale living.
Reagan, Bush, and Ferraro have all passed away.
Winning two elections ages the shit out of you.
Ford was the oldest president until H. W. Bush beat him (then Carter)
1976 was the last time a Democrat won without California.
Cuz Californians aren't Americans? haha. It's like saying Nixon was the last republican to win without texas
Chris Ashe I guess your lord and savior Ronald Reagan AKA former governor of California was not an American.
Chris Ashe Californians are as Americans as Americans from any other state
Chris Ashe fuck you we calis are Americans liberal awesome cool skiing surfing beaches pools Golden Gate Bridge
Joanna Swerdlow I said you were American you goddamn idiot.
I greatly respect both of these men. I would've voted for Ford in '76 myself but Carter was probably the most decent man to ever serve, even if he was a mediocre president.
Corey Krannacker The way he thanked Ford in his inaugural address... I miss the decency
Four years ago it was “crooked hillary this and that”, and now it’s “do-nothing democrats this and that”
Dale Sajdak just wait for ‘senile joe’ this and ‘senile joe’ that
Matthew Dodd Well to be fair Joe isn’t exactly fit to serve even one term as the most powerful person in the most powerful country on Earth. Donald Trump may he stupid, but at least he can string together sentences and come to reasonable conclusions.
Matthew Dodd But yeah I agree. Inter-partisan politics is just name calling.
@@dalesajdak422 Well, "Sentences" is a strong word
"There was no Soviet domination in Eastern Europe..." Lol, what?!
Right? Lol that's like saying "there is no communist domination of North Korea and Cuba"
He meant those countries don't consider themselfs part of ssr
@@nick56677 North Korea isn't really communist
Nahum Bradford Then what are they? Socialism?
Nerd Dragon Doesn’t matter. They literally had no control of what the Soviets did to them. There was soviet domination of Eastern Europe.
It's funny how progressive Jimmy Carter has been since leaving office
He’s done a lot of good since he got out of office. 96 years and still going strong.
Yeah he’ll probably outlive a lot of the other still living presidents (Biden, Trump, and Bush definitely)
my dad helped jimmy carter with "habitat for humanity"
@@coasterhockygamingboy9549 yeah, no.
@@coasterhockygamingboy9549 probably just Biden
This is the last election we’re Texas voted Democrat. Since 1980, Texas voted Republican ever since.
Till 2020
Yea and now they have covid too.., and it is just waiting for: a big financial crisis (someone gave a big tax cut to the richest of slimy swampy folks) or a democrat to fix things (AGAIN) There are a just few good republikans left; Justin Amash, John Kasich, Mitt Romney and the late John McCain.., the most of them though are swamp creatures in the grip of fear of orange-utan!
They should have left the stinking sinking ship long time ago! Now they are for ever tainted!
@@bibia666 deranged much?
Mr Ttripz he’s right, but if you don’t think so you have the chance of of disproving him
@@slimestoneexpert9804 The point wasn't to say he's wrong. You and I both know that you can't change an opinion drawn on partisan lines. My point was he comes off as abit deranged in his angry ramblings. Same when neocons were screaming that Obama was a commie. See?
2016- Describe Hillary in 2 words: Not Trump
1976- Describe Carter in 2 words: Not Ford
Lol
The two word description that gave Carter the White House: No lawyer.
@@brianarbenz7206 Watergate + Vietnam
The thing is with carter it worked, although it might work this time, if his presidency makes it to 2020
Edit: just to clarify, I made this comment while he was under investigation for impeachment
Lol Hillary lost though. If you described trump it would be not Hillary. Hillary was terrible that's why Trump won. Trump didn't win the Democrats just lost
It's honestly kind of wild that Jerry Brown was a governor in the 1970s and went back to being governor from 2011-2019
Something about a grandfather clause. He is a tool anyways.
He pulled a Grover Cleveland, he is the only president to serve 2 non consecutive terms.
In my view, Carter could not have become President but for Nixon-Ford-Watergate, and Reagan could not have become President but for Carter.
just as Donald could never have become President if not for the disaster named baraq hussein omarxist
moses soloveitchik ok boomer
@@mosessoloveitchik2724 ahahahahaha
Whoever became President in the late 1970s would have faced a tough re-election in 1980 due to the struggling economy.
Part of the reason Carter won the election was because much of the nation wanted a fresh new start with the Republican party associated with the Watergate scandal a few years before when Nixon was in office, even though Ford, the other candidate had nothing to do with the scandal.
God, it's amazing how little that Jimmy Carter Playboy interview would matter today.
Agreed. Trump went on television and bragged about grabbing women by their genitals, and he managed to win the presedency.
@Tryhard Chomper locker room talk is called locker room talk for a reason, it stays in the locker room, you don't say it on national television
@Tryhard Chomper he still said it in public LOL. he's a freak. it shouldn't have come out of his mouth
“iT wAs LoCkEr RoOm TaLk”
Talking about sexual assault or treating people like inanimate objects is abhorrent. Abusive behavior should not be normalized, locker room or elsewhere.
It didn't seem to matter much at the time. There was even speculation that he said it on purpose to make himself appear less remote and aloof and more folksy and human. Dan Aykroyd did a great Saturday Night Live skit playing up that idea.
Added in edit: also consider that a large portion of the Playboy readership were college students. It could have been simply a directed appeal to ingratiate himself with that group.
Found this one particularly fascinating - great work as usual Mr B! I think later history will view Carter more kindly, and Reagan less so - but maybe not for quite a while.
Thanks! I think agree with you about the perception of Carter.
Well, reagan will always be viewed favorably by the right, so it evens out. The center left will probably carter it.
Carter was weak on foreign policy, weak on the economy and weak on the Soviets.
Reagan will always be remembered better simply because the 80s were a wonderful time. The last decade where you could find a quarter or two on the sidewalk and use it to buy a coke. Just like Margaret Thatcher, despite the smears people have put on him his popularity hasn't wavered. According to opinion polls he's the #1 president most likely to be added to Rushmore by a large margin.
I find it baffling that today's entitled youth can look at Carter and Reagan and say Carter was better- despite the fact that Reagan's America was definitively a better place to live on all fronts.
@@treman722 The Reagan presidency was a long-term disaster for the US. The economic growth of the time was due to cheaper oil, not Reagan's policies. The Soviet empire would have collapsed anyway. And Iran-Contra was more harmful than Watergate because it showed what a crooked administration can get away with if Congress and the MSM don't do their job (a lesson not lost on his successors!).
@@treman722 you’ve gotta look at the bigger picture than just their four and eight years respectively. Carter’s economy was actually Nixon’s, and it was Carter’s policies that fixed the economy, but Reagan got credit for it. Reagan, on the other hand, destroyed the middle class and made the national debt an issue.
This is the first time in American history where both candidates eventually would become the longest lived president in the history of the United States. Gerald Ford held the record from November 12, 2006 to November 25, 2017. Jimmy Carter got the record in March 22, 2019. This happened once more, in 1980, which also involved Carter.
Technically 1788 had 2 president nominations who would become the longest living president
Ford would have won if he had kept Nelson Rockefeller on the ticket. New York at that time had 41 votes in the electoral college and Rockefeller had been their governor 4 times.
Yup and if he bailed out NYC. If he did, there would be no daily news article "FORD TO CITY: DROP DEAD"
@@AquaAtia plus he could build diverse coalition
No he needed someone to the right of him after that primary
@@haroldlawson8771 But that cost Ford New York state which had 41 electoral votes in 1976. He admitted in his memoirs he made a mistake in not keeping him on the ticket.
Nelson Rockefeller retired in this election
Carter was way ahead in the polls until the final weeks when Ford roared back and nearly overtook him.
If the election had been nov 7 or 8 he might have won.
Ford campaigned so hard he lost his voice and Betty had to give his concession speech.
He came very close to winning for a president who was never elected, neither as president or as vice-president.
Betty Ford looks like she's in pain in that speech, it's actually disgusting
It remind me President Trump!
This is such an amazing video. Another interesting fact to consider in this election was Ford's refusal to bail out NYC as it was on the verge of bankruptcy. That decision damned his campaign in New York, especially in NYC where the NYPost issue where the frontcover headline was "FORD TELLS NYC TO DROP DEAD" circulated widely.
RIP to Bob Dole. He died at age 98. He lived from July 22, 1923 to December 5, 2021.
Your RUclips name is the worst president in US History.
@@Southern_Agrarian1930*He’s one of the best because he abolished slavery whether you like it or not!!*
Explanation :
Bob Dole - Lost in 1996
Jimmy Carter - Lost in 1980
Gerald Ford - Lost this election
Walter Mondale - Lost in 1984
Carter had a huge 30 point lead in the polls after the convention but that narrowed significantly and it ended up being a relatively close election despite Ford's obvious handicap of pardoning Nixon.
In my history class people compare me to Walter Mondale and I still don't know why.
hahahahahahahahahaha
Probably because you have great hair.
Mr. Beat aw Thank You :)
Hey Mr. Beat I like your new series supreme court briefs!
Baby Trump That’s odd, I don’t remember choosing an infant Trump as my VP
It’s funny how Jimmy Carter is almost 100 years old, making him the oldest former president alive in American history
In regards to Carter's comment about 'lusting for other women' in an interview with Playboy Magazine, it was completely blown out of proportion. Carter discussed it when he was on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. He said after the interview concluded he was walking the Playboy journalist to the door when the journalist asked Carter casually if he ever fantasized about other women. Carter casually replied that yes he does occasionally like anyone else would, not knowing that the journalist's tape recorder was still on. You could call it a journalistic ambush.
Ford had the balls to come out and say the state of the union is not good.
Politicians need to understand ppl not abuses note to all say living humanity’s not dead generations
And whose fault was that?
It surprised me was that every Democratic presidential nominee dating back to Carter are still alive. That's 44 years of nominees!!!
As a pattern, D nominees have been younger than the R ones, 2020 notwithstanding 😎
All except Mondale now
that aged like milk
Every Democratic candidate since Dukakis actually, since Mondale died last year.
@@joezegers Well at the tíme he was Still alive
Jimmy Carter turns 97 today, happy birthday Jimmy!
@@Daniel-nm4gk Jimmy Carter is 100 in a few weeks
Best years of my life. A school kid having the same first name as the president.
I think you ended up with the wrong President
At least it wasn’t Richard
Max Liu or donald
1:20 Pedantic correction: Spiro Agnew was still receiving bribes even while he was vice-president. Obviously a class act.
The comment about Jimmy Carter and "adultery" really could have used the proper context!
On an SNL skit about the debates one of the questions they asked Carter was "You said in Playboy that in your past you lusted after women. Governor Carter, are you still attracted to women?"
Whatever Carter felt, that's his personal issue, however he should have been careful with what he said with the word usage of adultery.
We all know Forest Gump busted the Watergate guys. “There’s some guys across the way with flashlights and they must be lookin’ for a fuse box or something.”
DICK is a hilarious Watergate satire!
5:30 That totally makes sense because they all ran for president and lost.
Gerald Ford lost in 1976
Jimmy Carter lost in 1980
Walter Mondale lost in 1984
Bob Dole lost in 1996
Bob dole lost in 1996.
Rest in peace Walter Mondale. You will be missed.
"Anybody But Carter"
Oh, this has been relevant the last election and the current one.
Which is stupid, the “anyone but” movement is fucking retarded
So weird seeing all those southern states being blue, along with the Pacific coast, and some of the Great Lake ones in Illinois and Michigan, & several northeast states going red. You'd swear the map was almost all wrong if you looked at it, while having no idea how this election went! (L.O.L.!)
Thank You for all those awesome videos, Mr. Beat!
It's my pleasure. Thank you for watching them :)
Ok, the great scandal of 1976 was Jimmy Carter saying he "lusted in his heart" after women he wasn't married to. The non-Bible belt way of saying that is that he "has sexual fantasies." BULLETIN: Gerald Ford had them too! This was a non-issue. The only negative thing about Carter saying that was his ridiculous terminology. Had he said, "I have sexual fantasies," it would have been as meaningful and impactive as "I eat food" or "I sleep at night."
Compare that to what today’s politicians have said
Even so if he lusted in his heart, he should have kept it to himself.
@@robertmasina4610 I mean, it's such an American point of view though. We're so closed off about sexual matters. In most of the world this would have been perceived as a non-issue.
Fun Fact: The Carters just had their 77th anniversary.
R.I.P. Vice President Mondale
Carter had one shot at a landslide but lost it over the playboy interview
yep he was close in California , Oklahoma , South dakota ...
That particular interview had negligible impact overall. "Gene" McCarthy may have cost Carter ME, OK, IA, and OR (his vote tally in each was greater than Ford's margin over Carter). Too, Carter needlessly highlighted his stance favouring greater firearms regulation by the Feds. And the 'transit' suburbs and even some central cities regarded the national Rs more benignly than in recent times.
Nixon had no reason to break into to dems, he had it won anyway.
The sad part is if Nixon had come clean up front he would have probably servived it
Nixon was paranoid as hell
Sonic Phil he didn’t do it one of his ppl did. But when he found out he tried to cover it up that’s what made him resign but he didn’t order it.
Sonic Phil what happens if the America people find out that the republicans were secretly spying on the democrats for about a year that may ruin Nixon’s re election campaign I don’t blame him for trying to cover it up I would’ve done the same thing if I thought no one would find out. It’s a shame I agree with you the guy was a fantastic president one of America’s better ones. Shame.
Sonic Phil yeah that sounds fair
Fun fact: this was the first election in which the LIbertarian Party achieved nationwide ballot access. Their candidate was Roger MacBride, and if you recognize that name ... it's probably because he was the faithless elector who was responsible for the single electoral vote in Libertarian history* (what can I say, we're election nerds).
But also it might be because he was also the author of a spinoff from the Little House book series focusing on Laura's daughter Rose. He was Rose's close personal friend and later her literary executor, and oversaw the first publication of a lot of both Rose and Laura's writings (he also retained rights to the Little House intellectual property so you can thank him for the TV show as well).
Rose was actually hugely influential on the development of libertarian ideology. Like some put her on the level of Ayn Rand (though I'd argue that Rose is a better writer). As someone who grew up with Little House books and much later on was briefly Libertarian, without suspecting any connection between the two, it's almost surreal.
*sidenote: the VP on that ticket was a woman, making her the first woman ever to earn an electoral vote
The last and only time that I know of. Where both Candidates in the Presidential Election, Were People of truly Impeccable Character, regardless of their different Political Views.
I just binged watched all of your videos and just want to say thank you for making history easy to understand and remember. As someone who used to fall asleep in class in middle school this was helpful as a refresher.
4:10 - Ford meant that the people in the Soviet Union were strong and could stand up against communism. He wasn't denying the existence of satellite States. It was not a gaff, that's why it took him so long to call it a mistake. His mistake was the terrible wording of it.
I think terrible wording can still constitute a gaffe
Imagine Reagan winning the Election in 1976. What would he do during the Iranian Revolution
Fly off the handle, as was his wont, not face the fire for being sober under threat, which is the true mark of a tough guy.
Jimmy Carter, Walter Mondale, and Bob Dole are all alive in their 90s now
edit Dec. 5, 2021: Just Jimmy Carter now
edit: This is the earliest election with any major party candidates living today, and that's been true since the Presidential Elections in American History series started, too.
Mondale died last night.
Rutherford B. Hayes I know, rest in peace
:( mondale!!!
@@dddaavvviiiddd6800 Yeah, I heard :(
To this day, Spiro Agnew is still the closest Maryland has ever gotten to the highest political office. Close, but still so far.
We could have had John Delaney in 2020.
Didn't Lyndon B Johnson won some southern states aswell in 1964? I thought he won at least in Florida and Texas.
Ascarongamer 96 Yes, Johnson won Texas and Florida, along with the Mid-South (NC, TN etc). However, he lost LA, MS, AL, GA and SC. Carter won all those states, most famously Mississippi, which put him over the top.
He didn’t win racist southern states because he signed the civil rights act.
@@TheLordOfNothing yeah I understand that because you know the white Southerners and since black voters at the time still could not mostly vote that was until a couple of years later
Carter did more well in the south than LBJ. Crazy.
@@thecupheadfan1837 kinda make sense bc LBJ even though he's a southerner signed the '64 civil rights act and carter was a southerner
Minor quibble: Nelson Rockefeller did not retire from politics, he was dumped off the ticket. Ford wanted a more conservative VP running mate to blunt the primary challenge by Reagan. Although I couldn't vote in this election, it was pretty fun to watch. Nice video.
You are correct that Rockefeller was dumped from the ticket, though this was not what Ford wanted. Reagan and other conservative leaders of the Republican Party demanded a more conservative VP. Ford caved in to their demands. There was lingering animosity remaining from the 1964 battle between Rockefeller and Barry Goldwater.
@@energyplus8738 Ford was good at caving.
Plus carter got most of the east and ford got most of the west
As happened with Kennedy (winning most of NE as well as South) and Nixon (winning most of the W and Middle West) ~
Democratic nominees in 1976: *"I'm gonna win. No I'm gonna win."*
Jimmy Carter: *Last Surprise starts playing.*
Wallace running a third time: damn it. I lost again.
Mo Udall that's another of those cool names in the vein of Spiro Agnew and Adlai Stevenson
His response in the Debate to the Soviet union, his scorn for New yorkers, and the Shadow of Richard nixon cost Gerald ford the Election.
I never would have thought “Play That Funky Music” and Jimmy Carter would coexist are the same time lol. Especially from 4:00-4:05
5:32 All of their vice presidential opponents were also presidential election losers!
@@ThatOneGuy7999 yes
I called it: I KNEW you'd use Play That Funky Music in this video. Good choice.
I like how you have Play That Funky Music by Wild Cherry, playing in the background while you are talking about The 1976 Presidential Election.
A big hit that year!
@@iammrbeat My mom was 13 years old going on 14 years old, and my dad was 6 years old back in 1976.
Joseph Rodriguez Jr. My mom was 6 and my dad was 9
@@MeesterTweester If I may say, my mom and dad were both 20 in 1976.
My reaction to the thumbnail: Oh my god, it’s David Hyde Pierce and Kelsey Grammer. I could absolutely see Frasier and Niles Crane running against each other for President.
Woah. Jimmy Carter is the only Democrat alive who won Texas and lost California
This guy sounds like Ben Wyatt from Parks and Rec.
Nick Czarnota Oh my gosh I didn’t hear that. Dang. Thanks for the enlightenment.
Mr. Beat, this video is great, as are most of your videos. There is one small point that I think you got incorrect: Vice President Nelson Rockefeller did not voluntarily retire. President Ford realized that Rockefeller was unacceptable to the Republican Party's right wing, and thus replaced him with Bob Dole. There was still bitterness lingering from Rockefeller's unsuccessful race against Barry Goldwater for the 1964 Republican Presidential nomination and Rockefeller's being booed by the delegates at that year's Republican National Convention. .
My parents were just telling me how much they loved Senator Lloyd Bentsen. There's a highway named after him here!
RIP Gerald Ford. Such a nice guy...
1976 was the last time a major party's presidential candidate was not decided until the convention.
Red New Jersey and blue Alabama, what a time.
Yeah! could you imagine new Jersey not being so liberal? OUR TAXES WOULD BE SO LOW! (Laughter turns into crying)
The earliest election where the winner is still alive.
This was the last time the election wasn’t a blowout until 2000.
Carter could have win in a landslide if it wasn't for the Playboy scandal
Oh how times have changed
Best soundtrack to an episode.
That supermarket is GLORIOUS.
I love that music in the background
Hey jimmy carter how did 1980 go for you?
Fuck you. Your deficit caused Bush Sr. to jot keep his no new taxes pledge
@@gerard0529 now, new taxes is different from no new taxes.
@@ryanmcsharry9405 i made a mistake headass
@@gerard0529 no fuck you reagan is god
We still kept the House.
Rest in peace Walter Mondale
Nixon stepping down an appointing someone he knows will pardon him was pretty wild also its crazy how many people couldve been president from the VP position if not replaced or re nominated
“None of those four saw Jimmy Carter coming”
*second verse of Play That Funky Music drops*
So perfectly timed 😂😂😂😂
Jimmy Carter can still run again
Rest In Peace Walter Mondale.
I wasn't a big fan of Fritz but may he rest in peace. Long-lived and left behind a legacy, I guess.
IMHO, Ford should have won over these two, but at least, Carter was a good-natured boy and had good taste in music. Moral and honest, at most.
In Georgia he was the first and only Dem to flip *all* counties despite not reaching as a high overall % as FDR, after Nixon the previous election became the first candidate to flip all counties for any party
I would make the argument that this was the last election in which we had two good, understandable candidates to choose from. I feel like this was the last election for how we were able to have a nice choice no matter who you voted for.
Morgan Kingsley,
I agree, thank you!
Rouge The Horny Bat
True Romney and Obama did a better job hiding their corporate ownership
That’s because Americans don’t hold their candidates to a higher standards
I am planning to make trip to Plains, GA in June to explore and would love to meet Pres Carter and First Lady Rosalynn as I adore them. Anyone ever visited Plains before?
Great series of video.
This is the first election where I can't tell who won, it's been mostly easy in the past because it's usually been one person who I've heard of before running against someone who is basically a no name and this time it's two people I know were president
Edit: I had no idea that Ford was only president for 3 years and it was because he was Nixon's VP and Nixon resigned, I thought he was president for longer
2:23: Nancy, that is a knockout sweater!
I love seeing the how the electoral map changes in every election
RIP Rosalynn Carter.
Jimmy Carter is a great man but was a horrible President
The same went for Herbert Hoover.
@@stepheneinbinder2604 yes it did
Great choice of background music.
Jimmy Carters “Crisis of Confidence” speech NEEDS to be listened to by all Americans today
He never used the word "malaise"!
"I thought that was beautiful!"--Annette Bening in 20TH CENTURY WOMEN
Funnily enough, these two are probably the most... meh presidents in recent years. Honestly, that probably sums up the 70s as a whole for most people. Most people only remember Ford for coming after Nixon, and Carter for Iran, still being alive at the time of this post and everything he did AFTER his presidency.
Man this election would have been interesting if Nixon had picked Connally instead of Ford
I was eating peanuts while watching this
You would make jimmy carter proud
Am I the only one that sees that Henry Jackson looks shockingly similar to Walt Disney? 2:46
Pretty cool seeing a person from my home state of Georgia become president
The curse of Anti-One canditate coalition ever since 1976 every 40 years, this happened in 2016 so keep that in mind
"Fired" is INTERESTING phrasing
Real question is, if Reagan got nominated in 1976, would he of won against carter?
I'm inclined to think he would have. Carter wasn't a particularly exciting or interesting candidate; the only real reason he won was because Ford had so much baggage.
It’s September 2023 and both Jimmy and Rosalynn are both still alive today.