Jimmy Carter on Power and God
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- Опубликовано: 31 окт 2016
- "The fact that a person has deep religious convictions doesn't necessarily mean that that person always thinks that he's right, that God's ordained him to take a dominant position" - Jimmy Carter in May 1976, six months before he was elected President.
Originally aired on WNET's Bill Moyers Journal on PBS
We loved uncovering this interview with Jimmy Carter talking about his humble upbringings and vision for America under his watch. He talks the impact of God and religion in his path to public service, experiencing with world while in the Navy, missing the final years of his father's life, and the true meaning of helping people overcome injustice in all forms.
Follow this with our episode featuring the man who would defeat him four years later, Ronald Reagan.
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He may not have had the most effective administration, but you can tell he meant so well and genuinely cared about making a difference. We could really use that
Andy Kilbride I agree.
The Kings who were overthrown and murdered by the people were rarely evil men. Only ineffective ones. Competency is better for the masses hen morality.
@@levongevorgyan6789 ok Machiavelli. Jesus
@@ericreingardt2504 I'm just looking at history. Evil leaders like Stalin and Hitler survived their cruelty towards their people. while incompetent ones like Czar Nicolas and King Louis didn;t.
@@levongevorgyan6789 The latter two were not incompetent though. They just caved too much or were betrayed at every corner.
My professor once said about Carter, “He wasn’t a good President but he is definitely an awesome human being.” I can see it now, as he’s going into his late 90s and still going strong with his humanitarian efforts and just overall an honest human beinng. God bless this man!
He was a much better President than he's credited for
Same thing goes for Hoover, he saved so many Beligians from starvation and did what he hoped would save the economy, even if it didn't, and in fact, made it worse.
HE's STILL ALIVE!!!
He's still still alive
woah
I hope that he’s the first former president that turns 100 years old.
@@josechavez9041 me too
it's Elizabeth's arch-nemesis
Carter was an underrated president. He's still awesome to this day.
50 people to date do not know enough about Jimmy Carter. There is a reason he only lasted one term.
reason being?
enlighten me please
PogieJoe underage for being a candidate for the worst president in US history
Seemed more charge to severance of common good more then with egoism and materialism of his next six successors.
In that a rather conservative really. Yes some of his ideas embodies slow growing. Quick grow turn quick to wither. Ask any child star on that regard.
Nah b
Recently, I heard he’s in hospice. I hope he lives out the rest of his days as comfortably as he can surrounded by love. God bless this beautiful soul. God bless his wife Rosalynn who recently passed away. May they reconnect in the afterlife. ❤
We need more men and women like jimmy carter in leadership.
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PersianAmazon Do not try to scare me, gypsy. I serious.
We need more people like Ima Troll on youtube.
Oh my god-
You dumbass
Luis, you must be a neo con, or a Trump supporter.
So well spoken
Reminds me of my grandmother, the way she speaks, maybe it's something with the generation
My mom grew up when he was in office. I know he wasn’t the most effective president, but he had so much good in his heart, you could tell that he just wanted to do the right thing for his country. I love Jimmy Carter.
I am German, and I only know about Carter because our history teacher felt like telling us about him, and how he was too ahead of his own time, a bit too unrealistic but nevertheless good-natured in his aspirations. As far as I heard, he was not viewed in such a favourable light by his fellow Americans, is that true?
HOONTERS GONNA HOONT sadly yes most viewed him as weak with that issue the Iranians and then there was the Soviets, the Cold War still going on during his time and people wanted a strong brash leader and Carter was too calm and not wanting conflict so thus he was viewed as weak. Now a days the only Americans that still rag on Carter are a bunch of war mongering idiots while other Americans like him for his positive personality and maturity.
@Ny Jeep Adventurer That attitude right there is why your country is falling apart my man.
The military industrial complex was trying like hell to get another generation of Americans killed for profit like Vietnam and ever since Carter resolved the conflict without going to war he's been slandered and called weak ever since.
Carter was a great man but he wasn’t the politician the people wanted; the people were angry and wanted war, and Carter was the only one smart enough to try and find a peaceful way out. But that wasn’t good enough for most folks, and they thought he was mild and indifferent. Nowadays we look back at him with a fond nostalgia, especially his green energy programs.
He’s seen as bad because the second worst recession in all of US history happened while he was in office
JImmy Carter has been the most honest and moral POTUS of my lifetime. If he was running for office today, I would vote for him without hesitation. Does it say something about our political system that the presidents who seem to be the most effective (or at least perceived as such) are the ones that are master manipulators who seem to lack a moral compass?
I think that is a beautiful idea. What is you qualifications to make such a statement though? It was kinda like someone saying this is the worse movie ever made. Have you watched every movie ever made? Did you know every president and personally know their Moral Compass? Or are you just talking out the side of your head like a dumbass?
I wish we could have can interviews like this today
Carter as a person was the one of the greatest
I would love to hear a blank on blank with Richard Nixon
I've read his Book, he was a eloquent man. And give in-depth analysis of politics. I grately appreciate his work for I am a pre law student.
“You read my book” so wholesome
It wasn't that Carter was a bad person. He was a conscientious, compassionate leader with a strong moral compass. But he lacked the stomach for the job; more importantly he lacked the nerve to stand up to the likes of Tip'O Neill, the Soviets, and to the Iranian leadership. Granted, some things were out of his control; perhaps if that Delta team hadn't crashed in the desert and carried out a successful mission, we would remember him more kindly. But a lot of other bad things happened on his watch that his administration was just too inept to deal with. Still, I'd take him over the current occupant anyday.
As history has shown us, good people aren't usually the best to lead, because they trust others as if they're trusting one like themselves. Although he probably would've dealt with things like the Iran hostage crisis if he had a VP like HW.
@@nope929 To be fair, he did finally manage to hammer out a deal with the Iranians in the Algiers Accords, but far too late to save his presidency. (The invasion by Iraq had a big impact on negotiations. Iran desperately needed the funds frozen in American banks to fund the war, and could not afford to hold out for grander terms.) The Iranians themselves did not release the hostages until AFTER Carter had left office as a final “F you” to Carter.
Of clurse, it woukd end up being a Phyric victory for Iranians. The US never forgave or forgot the mistreatment of its diplomats or the high-handed way the Iranians negotiated. The Reagan administration poured weapons and funds to the Iraqis, and the 8-year conflict killed nearly an entire generation of Iran’s young male populace and led to more than a hundred thousand civilian deaths on the Iranian side. Since then its been nothing but 40 years of tit for tat.
Let’s hope cooler heads prevail and we don’t repeat such mistakes.
@Qimodis Man why you gotta say that? I hate Reagan. Just saying Tip and Carter could’ve gotten on better, but Carter was like a wet blanket on Tip’s dreams of a grand New Deal. If you’re gonna stand in the way of a bull like Tip, at least have the courtesy to serve him some alcohol, red meat, and a firm alternative plan action instead of coffee, biscuits, and a Sunday school lecture.
this guy is 96 and still dedicating his life to humanitarian work mad respect he is what ever Christian should strive to be and that's coming from a non religious person
Being a good Christian politician in American, a lost art form...
New World Old Problems You don’t have to be Christian to be good, i guess the lost art is being good honestly
I'm a Muslim and I totally agree...
If only that was the case I can't wait until that stupid book is irrelevant. The Bible is a book of lies
^^^^^^
atheists just love to talk about how atheist they are. Please shut up and let us believe what we want to believe.
@@Chuysgamer he didn't say christian = good he said a good christian
I Would Love to watch something of Chomsky, the father of the modern linguistic
Check out Michel Gondry's film "Is The Man Who Is Tall Happy?". It's essentially a full length movie in which Gondry animates a conversation between himself and Chomsky.
These animations are amazing. Very well crafted and thought through. They really bring the interview to life in an interesting and memorable way.
You guys need to do Milton Friedman!
Taylor Smith Off of context your comment is very bad.
The man was genuinely kind. Unfortunately good intentions don't lead a country. Cultural and economic decay followed with military humiliations had people really believing the end of America was near. And Reagan (while far from perfect) really did breath new life into our national identity.
Reagan (and then Bush) also sacrificed fifteen years' worth of regulatory progress for the almost exclusive enrichment of the well off. The crises that Carter faced were never exclusively his fault nor under his control. Reagan reinvigorated patriotism, but at what cost?
It would be great if you could find an interview with Fatty Arbuckle. It would be difficult to find and very very interesting to hear his voice. Thanks for the videos. Haven't seen one I haven't enjoyed greatly. Keep up the great work.
I think one on Orson Welles would be great. Also, Peter O'Toole and Patrice O'Neil
Prescient!
-Thank you, Patrick and the B on B gang.
I'd like to see a Blank on Blank about his brother Billy.
Awesome as always.
thanks for watching!
Man. What a thing to hear post 2020.
Carter is a good man. I don’t care if he wasn’t necessarily a good president. Someone as good natured as him couldn’t lead because being a politician is a cutthroat profession.
Great book
I support our current president and all but fuck I wish we had someone like this as president it really feels like they care and wanna unite us I'm no patriot or anything but it hurts seeing my homeland tear itself apart
Deavon Manson I agree.
I agree
Deavon Manson youre acting like jimmy carter was a good president
A man who has truely listened and truely understood would not be also one who responds with vile and ignorance.
The people of America are tearing themselves apart.. Trump wants to unite us but he his so hated by the mainstream media and the left.
Failure of a president, yet oddly an absolute success as a former president. Love ya jimmy, best of luck to you.
no he wasnt reagan george w bush and trump were the worst failures of all time as president by far
The only President who will go to heaven.
Washington, Coolidge, Lincoln, etc
Damn
@@jacobschultz7718 Washington owned slaves, no
@@MeikaiX bible supports slavery.
You can tell he's the only guy that actually reads the Bible and not just use as a token like Trump and Biden do.
Do you have plans to add Erich Fromm and Eric Hoffer to the mix?
Man for real the biggest “president I wanna have a beer with” candidate ever. Never hear shit about his presidency but man he seems to ooze charisma.
I wish I was old enough to have voted for him. Wow, what a beautiful tone compared to what we have today.
PLEASE DO LEONARD COHEN, I'd love you forever, not that I don't already 😉
funny you should say..
Follow up Jimmy Carter with our Ronald Reagan episode: ruclips.net/video/nAEI4HhKWbY/видео.html
they're connected by history. take a leap :)
Blank on Blank can you do chomsky
Anyone should listen. To hear such profound wisdom and compassion and then to follow with a spirit of hatred and stupidity will give the listener an appreciation of how bad the 80's were and how sorely we need a leader who speaks with such a voice now.
Anyone should listen. To hear such profound wisdom and compassion and then to follow with a spirit of hatred and stupidity will give the listener an appreciation of how bad the 80's were and how sorely we need a leader who speaks with such a voice now.
Carter is the president in mind for me to run for office someday. I wanna help those in need, but I need some power.
Kuma Sama well you don't have to be President to do that. All it take is some volunteered time. The problem with being President is that even the smallest thing can backfire dramatically, even with the best intentions
Warren Rhinerson Nope I need raw power. And you only fail by your own means. most of the time they just become part of the system and get lazy about change or help themselves.
I want to James K. Polk that shit and work every day giving orders well into the night to save this country.
History's Greatest Monster
he’s a pastor now!
a great man
Robert Smith, Layne Staley and Dave Mustain please!
Ey when you hitting us with that Jeff Buckley episode doe? :)
we'll see....
Johnny Marr??
Hello Good Morning Politik America - Fantastic ´God Bless you ´I Love you New York :):) `**
one on anyone from led zeppelin, particularly Jimmy Page or Robert Plant, would probably be very interesting
cool
I want to hear Bobby Kennedy on blank or blank or Sharon Tate
From this to fucking Trump. Unbelieveable.
Sick burn at 1:00
My favorite American President.
Below-average Prez, above-average man.
When I contrast the things Carter says that a nation needs in a president with what Trump will most likely bring (or the lack thereof), it really disheartens me.
Here's a little something: Trump was the first president since Jimmy carter to not involve the US in any armed conflict.
@@ollikoskiniemi6221 but he didnt pull us out of any conflicts, ramped up airstrikes and civilian deaths almost forced us into war but commiting a war crime on Iraq and not to mention the pandemic or anything but half a million americans died because of him because he did little to nothing to stop it. I voted him twice but god was he a idoit and not someone to defend at all.
@@TheGamersCastInc pretty much everything you said is clearly a lie.
Jeff Buckley will be great!
My peanut farm went sour
Too bad he was a sucky president, not entirely his fault though. The circumstances were dire and I’m pretty sure it was damn near impossible to manage his situation with 100% precision
how was he a sucky president
You showed a cartoon of a priest, but Jimmy said "pastor"
Big difference
Not that big all things considered
@@partydean17 explain please
@@bobpolo2964 they Sheppard a flock in christianity. They are spiritual leaders.
@@partydean17 I think you're forgetting the denominational dimension
@@bobpolo2964 which I don't find as a BIG difference
I forgot this guy even existed for a hot second
Mr. Carter PLEASE run for a second term!
Hes 96, I doubt that is going to happen
@@actually-will1606 :(
We want our god damned canal back, Jimmy.
GOD WONT Hold him guiltless who uses His name in vain
"Fuck the Shah!"-President Jimmy Carter
Carter . The last American Democrat. Nixon. the last American Republican.
Clinton- the beginning of the end
To know American's and their gullibility one only needs to read these comments here...WOW
Was it too much trouble to eq the audio? Muffled and bassy af. Kinda sucks to only make out half of it.
Um, we always do. Source audio is often rough and we put in a lot of work cleaning up analog tape, as much as it can be boosted.
If you want to offer your services, let us know. We're always looking for good people to help produce our series.
FWIW, I often marvel at how good these vintage interviews sound. Especially given how often tapes were reused and poorly stored.
-It's just magnetized rust glued to plastic, peeps. The binding glue's composition varied by manufacturer. "Print-through" between layers was so common that keeping reels stored "tails out" was a Thing, so at least the overlapping layer's pattern sounded like an echo.
He's history's greatest monster!
in the old days, the making of the constitution of America they debated the executive seat. what was it going to be, and yes in those days pious ant the unwanted excess of material prosperity the many n the legislature was in the favor to the one head of state. they planned the best they could to stem the tides of history. when the president of a nation could drop all modesty and put on the vanity of king. They puzzled over this, what shell be done? Hamilton said let him reign for life, and let him choose his successor, Everybody called him a monarchist, rightly so. Shut the hell up hammy bone was there retort, you'll have influence over commerce and banking and growing the industry of our young nation, but supremacies to end end you and yours with a bullet in a fashion of Burr's. The question remains what is the presidency to put unneeded might be to condemn a future, to grant him all powers, might mean empowering a madmen ( cough Trump). Still what is the seat, and how much regency shell it hold? To paraphrase Ben Franklin, it is what it is, we believe it to be the best yet, but with all things it is its people to command.
A decent leader
Jimmy Carter is actually God
Jimmy Carter: Very decent human being, terrible president. So it goes...
He was so much better then reagan
Amazing person, just wasn't fit to be a president .
Jimmy carter (while I was not alive when he was president) wasn’t that bad, but the people he surrounded himself with (minus Walter Mondale) were the reason he failed.
It kind of bothers me that you did Reagan before Carter, since i believe, Reagan is the president who started the great american decline. Jimmy Carter was our last great president.
Actually it was Bush II.
Let me preface with everything i'm about to say that Reaganomics MUST BE ABOLISHED and a proper welfare state must rise in the US to restore the hallowed out middle class.
That being said, The Neo liberal reforms Reagan made Actually saved the US from the crisis it was in under Carter.
People tend to look back at Carters time as some golden age before Reagan came and destroyed everything but that is not true.
The US economy in the 1970s was a dumpster fire, It's foreign policy was a mess, It's president had been a crook, there were riots for Civil rights and a major War had just been lost.
Carter's presidency was one giant crisis and it shows. He might have been a great person but he was a shit president
Regan and Bush I helped Usher in an American golden age that peaked under Clinton. I mean even the fact that Regan was elected to office twice on Historic mandates showed he was doing something right. The Digital revolution started under their reign and the Cold War was won. Regan//Bush are actually the best leaders the US has had since Eisenhower.
Clinton inheritedd a budget surplus and an exploding economy, an unparalleled military and unrivalled diplomatic prestige. Which he maintained.
The big issue was with Bush II. He blew it all off,
first the inadequacies of his intelligence apparatus led to 9/11.
He then started 2 of the most expensive wars in US history killing hundreds of thousands and burning the US's reputation
He let China into the WTO (The biggest geopolitical mistake since Germany took the side of Austria Hungary)
This last decision gutted the American working class more than any other. Manufacturing in the US literally died
and then... 2008 happened
and the decline became a tail spin
Obama tried but he was ineffective, the political polarization that arose during Bush's era made his governance impossible
And then Trump happened and now half a Million American lay dead.
If there is one thing that I would change, Clinton should have started Adopting a welfare state the level of the Europeans and Started raising back taxes. Regans reforms were needed at the time, don't be deceived. The problem is that they've overstayed their welcome. They should have been repealed 20 years ago, probably even more
But anyone who puts this all on Regan ignoring the state the US was in under Carter is just delusional
and I say this as someone who desperately want's his reforms to be changed.
:20 I never asked God to be president, he didn't have divine right.
It’s a shame what happened to Carter and his peanut farm.
Best President we ever had
Carter was the last good POTUS. Maybe Reagan too.
SO
HOWS "FOLLOW THE LEADER" AND WAITING FOR THE ONE TO SAVE US WORKIN OUT FOR YA?
Trump screwed us I agree
He endorse people who pro choice
Good
Carter seems like a pretty nice person. He just wasn't a good president.
He is nice but he wasn't the greatest president,he was a good president
Obama is basically the second Carter. Both cool guys with shit policy. (And no, I'm not a trump supporter)
Donald Trump, he is a WORST President Ever.
@@Airborne637He's going to jail and they're going to cancel his library ambitions.
A master racist/ Racist
I don’t like Carter
Carter talks about God way too much for the comfort of modern Democrats.
Alot of dems like Jimmy hell biden is catholic. Gotta remember dems dont like modern Christians because they fallow the 17th century english translation that's promotes hate on gays with the 16th and older don't hence why Jimmy said jesus supports gay marriage.
@@TheGamersCastInc There's no discernible difference between 16th and 17th century translations of the Bible. Get your facts right.
Jimmy carter is more boring than counting dust
I think someone like Christopher Hitchens will be great for this.
good idea.
yesyesyes Alan Watts!!
Good suggestion, Kronos.
I'd love to see John Lennox, personally.