I have nothing but the utmost respect for President Jimmy Carter! A man of complete integrity and high moral character. a man in which this world should look up to as an example.
Mr. Carter, if you ever read this, then I want you to know that I think you're the very best President this country has ever had the honor of having! I CRIED when you lost on your second term, and yes I did vote for you both times. Sir, you saved my life and the lives of my family. THANK YOU AND GOD BLESS YOU!
@@iDeathMaximuMII And who armed up those in the Middle East? And who trained those who ended up causing the worse terrorist attack in us history? Who ignored the aids epidemic and let thousands die?
How much do I love Jimmy Carter? If I were a millionaire, I'd give jimmy a million. I appreciate Mr. Carter so much. He was the BEST President America has ever known. THE BEST! Back when he was in office, my wife at the time was pregnant with our first child, and I had nobody to help me financially, but when I asked for help from the Carter Administration, not only did they help, they provided me with a way to go to school, pay for my wife's C-section, etc. Jimmy Carter REALLY cared about the American People, and, unlike so many ungrateful ones who don't appreciate it when someone does something nice for them, I DO! I pray for, hope, and wish the VERY BEST for Mr. Carter, his family, and all of his siblings! WHAT AN AWESOME GUY HE IS! THANK YOU JIMMY AND GOD BLESS YOU SIR! Sincerely, Tim Halcomb
James Kingsmill I was married with a new born baby boy, and Mr. Jimmy Carter helped me to get a great job! I wasn't the only one! Mr. Carter has helped many folks in his time, but some are idiots and don't respect anyone. Also, you do realize that he has a Doctorate Degree In Nuclear Physics right? What is wrong with you?
+Tim Rubin Halcomb Do you remember gas lines...double digit inflation....double digit interest rates? Not getting hostages from Iran?There is a reason that he lost in one of the largest landslides in history...
Ryan Shaffer No! What I remember is that I had a pregnant wife and no way to feed me, her, and my baby. Then, amazingly, Mr. Carter started a program for those who wanted to EARN a living while going to school too. It was called C.E.T.A.. So you can't tell me anything that's bad about Mr. Carter! He is an awesome guy who was victimized by sadistic scandals perpetrated by the republican party criminals. He's way more intelligent than you are. I bet you don't have a Doctorate Degree in Physics do you? Just look at all of the great he has done for humanity even after he got out of office. He traveled all over the world helping people, and I will always be grateful for what he did for me!
Tim Rubin Halcomb Well I'm glad he helped you out individually with our tax dollars, but for the private sector that was paying those tax dollars he was awful. Anytime you have double-digit inflation and interest rates, you have a real problem. Prices for business are rising fast, and it becomes very difficult to borrow money to fund worthwhile projects. "He's way more intelligent than you are. I bet you don't a Doctorate Degree in Physics do you." I have no idea whether Carter is more intelligent than me. What I do know is that neither he nor you have an MBA like I do. When it comes to running an economy, you need someone that understanding business, not science. "Just look at all of the great he has done for humanity even after he got out of office. He traveled all over the world helping people, and I will always be grateful for what he did for me!" He does seem like a nice guy, just a lousy president. Mother Theresa was a very kind person as well...but I wouldn't want her running our economy either!
Carter took the humanitarian aspects of christian teachings to heart while respecting the Constitution as a secular document that forbids government entanglements with religion. As an Atheist, I can appreciate his attitude because it's respectful of the individual American's rights to approach political involvement as a strictly human enterprise. Secular Humanists would do well to regard Carter's 'evangelism' as a practical model that needs none of the negative baggage that religions frequently foist on the process of living a good & genuinely charitable life.
+Thomas Jefferson he s right on the middle east , he obsessed wit Israel because he believe in a two state solution . its not extreme its common sense, best president u ever had
+1wolftone best president u ever had? ....not hardly.Only one worse is the one we have now.'Jimmy' was/is anti Semitic.He should stick to historical novels (which he does very well) and swinging a hammer.... 1
@@bigverybadtom Don't start with the gas prices. It wasn't his doing. He brought peace to the world. And he freed the hostages in reality, not Reagan. Reagan gave him credit.
@@Grmario85 Don't teach your grandmother to suck eggs. The high inflation certainly was his doing, and it wasn't just about gas prices. Reagan had to undo that. Carter deserves credit for brokering the peace deal between Egypt and Israel. But the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan happened under his watch, as well as the fact that Iran took the hostages in the first place. Iran only released them because they succeeded in humiliating Carter and they served their purpose. It was Reagan who really brought peace by standing up to the Soviet empire and fighting back against it.
@@bigverybadtom I saw this comment quite late. You lived through Carter's Presidency so you are a person of age and will respect you. I wan't even born. But America came to appreciate Carter. He was way ahead of his time. The conservation of the natural wealth, like Alaska, solar panels and renewable energy in general, the middle east, Latin America democracies, department of education, no violence and killing citizens in other countries, pardoned draft evaders, all these are considered great achievements and moves today. Especially compared to the absolute mess we are in now. Yes he couldn't tackle unemployment and gas prices but one man can't do it all. But as someone wrote in a newspaper "History will be kind to Jimmy Carter". Because as time goes by America sees more clearly.
+J Harris Reagan utilized chicanery rhetorical speech methods that were very insidious. He knew very well what he was doing, and he did way more harm than good. On the contrary, Jimmy Carter acted as an empathetic President and wanted to help the working class and unemployed people to improve themselves. He truly does care about people and is an awesome person!
+Nikola Tesla lets see he increased the national debt by a quarter raised taxes on the poor lowed them for the rich, subsidized the military industrial complex with the phony cold war designed to socialize the costs of new technology and hand it over to private corporations."failed to sustain the momentum for deregulation initiated in the 1970s" and that he "added more trade barriers than any administration since Hoover." under reagon: "The atrocities were carried out with vigorous U.S. support and participation. Among the standard Cold War pretexts was that Guatemala was a Russian “beachhead” in Latin America.The real reasons, amply documented, were also standard: concern for the interests of U.S. investors and fear that a democratic experiment empowering the harshly repressed peasant majority “might be a virus” that would “spread contagion,” www.alternet.org/noam-chomsky-nuclear
+Nikola Tesla HAHAHAHHA needed a stronger army.the military will never be strong enough for the gop,they want to take over the universe.if you acualy READ from people who are not statist apologists you will find that none of that stronger military shit is true.its all a ruse to gain more power and wealth.like reading carrol quigley tragety and hope: the central fact of the whole period, and the one which dominated all the others, was the scientific and technological rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union, because this rivalry formed the very foundation and core of the Cold War, which was recognized by everyone to be the dominant political factor of the period. ..... Our allies, the neutrals, and even the Russians were ignored and often despised, while the State Department engaged in what Dulles himself called, in January 1956, "going to the brink" of war. This policy sought to reduce government spending and balance the budget by reducing expenditures for all local or conventional wars and to base our strategy and our foreign policy on the threat that any Soviet advance of any kind anywhere of which we disapproved would be stopped by our "massive retaliation" with all-out nuclear attack anywhere we judged appropriate, on a unilateral (without consultation with our allies) and on a "first-strike" basis (that is, we would do this even if the Soviet Union had not attacked us and had not used nuclear weapons). This policy was hopelessly irresponsible and not only alienated allies (such as France) and neutrals (such as India), but could not be used, since we would never adopt such suicidal and ineffective tactics to reply to a Communist local advance in Korea, southeast Asia, Tibet, Afghanistan, Iran, Egypt, Yugoslavia, or most other places on the periphery of the Soviet bloc.
Reagan was the last great republican. I tend to lean democrat and i still have respect for Reagan. Jimmy Carter was also a good president also.. he said the truth and now it is catching up to America... should have listened !
The nation with former president jimmy carter at the helm knew peace .he was a breath of fresh air .a person we trust even to this day to do our bidding abroad as ambassertor.!! Jimmy carter is simply part of the answer !!! Doctors ben carson and ran paul also are persons of intergrity and not selfish.
In 1957, he sent the 101st Airborne to integrate Little Rock’s Central High School. In 1958, he told the Red Cross to ignore a Louisiana law requiring that blood from black and white donors be segregated. This was in character: In 1942, when Australia desperately sought US troops but said a law prohibited blacks from entering the country, Gen. Eisenhower said, “All right. No troops.” Australia quickly saw the light.
Um, Ronald Reagan defeated Walter Mondale by 17,878,120 votes. That's beyond a landslide popular vote victory. He defeated Carter by 8,423,115. We conservatives don't just talk about the electoral college margin. We know the popular totals too. No disrespect here. Just sayin' though.
I am so happy to see former President Carter sitting down. His ass got spanked so hard in the 1980 election no one ever thought he would be able to sit down comfortably again.
+Red Kap Seems like a nice guy, but he was a lousy president....the Reagan line that really shot him down was..."Are you better off now than you were 4 years ago..."
+Thomas Jefferson American foreign policy makers have been inconsistent in determining who were terrorists and who were freedom fighters worthy of American arms and financial support.
Jimmy CArter lied in this interview. He claims he separated totally his religion and his work as President. But by his own admission in one of his books, which he has written several and I have read each one, he "witnessed" to the President of South Korea and tried to get him to accept Christ as his personal savior during a state visit to Seoul by Carter. I mean that is about as blatant a mixture of church and state any President can do. And personally, I don't mind. As a Christian he has a duty to witness. It's his lack of honesty I object to. Right, wrong, or indifferent, he should own what he does and not lie about it in an effort to criticize Republicans or anyone else.
The last question he answered here tells everything you will ever need to know about this wonderful man and leader. If I only knew in 1980 what I know now.......FUUUUUUUUUK!
In the 1976 presidential debates, Jimmy Carter sanctimoniously lectured the world that the oil would run out of oil by 2011: ruclips.net/video/iXHTmEUGR7c/видео.html He richly chides Reagan for not being able to listen when anybody (meaning "carter") talks to him. Jimmy Carter should now understand why people shouldn't have listened to him.
every single interview that I have ever seen with President Carter is simply magnificent and he is probably the most moral and thoughtful politician in modern history
@@thealfamayl what the hell are you talking about? Jimmy Carter tried to bring peace between Israel and the Palestinians and nobody tried harder than he did. Reagan and Bush committed treason to bump him out of office that is a fact not a conspiracy we know that through Freedom of Information Act they conspired with Iran to delay the release of the hostages until after the election. You might just be somebody who drinks the Zionist Kool-Aid and is not an agent of real truth.
Carter may never rank as an outstanding president, but I do believe history will judge him much better. And from this side of the Atlantic, he will always have my respect.
I remember Jimmy Carter,, saying the best thing he's done in his life ,is marrying his lovely wife,,,now hearing that, President Jimmy Carter is a Saint.
Actually Eisenhower was a very accomplished President. 1. Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960. First significant civil rights acts since 1875. 2. The Eisenhower administration declared racial discrimination a national security issue and was the first President to start desegregation in schools.Two-thirds of Army units were still segregated, five years after President Truman’s integration order. 1954, no more segregated units existed. 3. Created the Interstate Highway System. 4. Created NASA.
Daniel P Hanover Read a book! Pay attention in class! Watch a documentary! Do something productive with your life instead of misspelling insults on the Internet.
TTV5 I have a college degree and have studied U.S. Constitutional Law. I've read more books than I care to count, particularly biographies and autobiographies. (Julius Caeser, Martin Luther, Ted Hall, many others). FOX NEWS has had the highest ratings of any cable news network for at least the past dozen consecutive years. MADCOW's ratings are about a tenth of FOX NEWS' ratings. Why they keep this inispid person on is a mystery to me, because barely anyone watches her (I don't) and no eyeballs means no ratings and means no dollars. So I guess that they just want to piss away the shareholders' money by paying MADCOW to spout her vapid socialist nonsense. PEACE ! :)
Daniel P Hanover Many people who have degrees have this uncanny ability of being able to display the fruits of their education without explicitly telling people that they have a degree. Try it some time. Do you know why Rachel Maddow (although spelling it MADCOW is very, very, very funny) is still on television? Because she has the highest rated show on MSNBC. She gets more viewers than CNN's most rated show, Anderson Cooper 360. Not much of a mystery, in other words. She gets less viewers than FOX News's most rated shows, but far from ten times less.Try 2.5 times less than Bill O'Reilly, Fox's most watched show. It's also a sad day when Rachel Maddow is considered someone who spews socialist nonsense. Some perspective would be nice.
I like Carter but I am not only a Reagan fan. I am also a Trump fan. Trump will also be remembered as something of a saint. Because he too was likeable and a patriot.
He was a staunch segregationist? That's a complete lie. In February 1953 15 months before Brown v. Board of Education he vowed to use every power of his office to end segregation in the District of Columbia and the armed forces. In February 1953 ,15 months before Brown v. Board of Education, he vowed to use every power of his office to end segregation in the District of Columbia and the armed forces.
He was a staunch segregationist? That's a complete lie. In February 1953 15 months before Brown v. Board of Education he vowed to use every power of his office to end segregation in the District of Columbia and the armed forces.
It just came to me watching Maddow search for questions she thinks were important. She is the female Stelter. That same “I hope you decide that I’m smart while I interview you” look on his face as well!
Find the equation of the tangent plane to z = x^2 + Y^2 at the point (1,1,2) by utilizing the del operator . Hint: let z = f(x, y) = x^2 + Y^2 and find the gradient.
reagan sold missiles to iran in 87 used the money to fund an ilegal war in nicaragua lied about it. after saddam hussein invaded iran reagan sold weapons to him. he also ran up a 3 trillion dollar debt ignored the aids epidemic while over 25,000 americans died he really didnt do anything about it. he also gutted the social safety net which hurt many poor people and deregulated the savings and loan industry causing it to collapse he was despicable man and a terrible president do those facts mean anything to you
Jimmy Carter was probably the least favored president in the modern era. I've got a strong feeling that Obama is going to take that title away. The country [the people] voted him out fair and square and by a large margin. He made a mess of the oil situation and mishandled the Iran hostage affair. Yes humanism and idealism is good, but you got to know when to lead and give hope and confidence to the people that we're on the right track . . . Carter didn't do this.
I have twenty-one years in the military,including two call ups for Iraq and service in Desert Storm. Governments don't call on the military to send them messages. That is handled by the State Department. Also the US Army's history of WWII shows that it was FDR's Secretary of State that answered for the US on the matter with Australia and other governments. He essentially informed Australia and other countries that if they requested US troops in their country,the troops would include blacks too.
Maddow couldn't know that mortgage rates were somewhere around 18% (no typo) during the Carter administration. I recall getting a "deal" on a car loan at my credit union (vs a bank) at the time. 14% APR. woo hoo. Runaway inflation, American hostages being held in Iran for well over a year. The national malaise (loss of morale) was palpable. Jimmy Carter is a nice and decent man but was a feckless President. I do wish him well though.
+NVRAMboi , The President of the United States does not control interest rates. The Federal Reserve does. Carter gave a speech about the "malaise" and how he bemoaned it. He was roundly criticized for it, no one in the "me generation" wanted to hear about any bummers. Queue the Love Boat theme!
Reagan was a horrible president and a horrible man he deregulated wall street ignored the aids epidemic sold missiles to Iran and lied about it and reagonomics was a failure
Wrong, he ranks second only To Donald Trump as the worst republicans. He and Donald are men completely incomparable to Abraham Lincoln and Dwight Eisenhower
School. In 1958, he told the Red Cross to ignore a Louisiana law requiring that blood from black and white donors be segregated. This was in character: In 1942, when Australia desperately sought US troops but said a law prohibited blacks from entering the country, Gen. Eisenhower said, “All right. No troops.” Australia quickly saw the light.
He wasn't a staunch segregationist,he just didn't do a whole lot for anybody who wasn't white. He did order the full desegregation of the military and D.C but he wasn't full of enthusiasm for civil rights.
Obviously, Dr. Lewis Gould didn't do much research on Eisenhower. Not many Presidents in the 20th century were as great as Ike. Underappreciated would be the best term.
21lauriux You would have thought differently had you lived through it dude. Gas lines, hostages, bad tanks in the desert, 20% interest rates, 13.5% inflation rate.
rockribbed rushy I live through it, it was tough, but our nation survived. Carter was dogged by the increasing energy costs that dogged Nixon and Ford In the event they ever knew it many forget or find it easy to forget the rise in energy began months before the Embargo. also convenient to forget that Reagan was a beefactor of moderating oil prices. Few consider rhat many corporation never dialed back price increases they blamed on increased energy cost when they started to pay less for energy. In other words we are still paying for those increasing energy costs of the 1970s. I live in an area of Kansas where many major oil producers had production at that time, meaning this little town of 3500 (at that time) had a service station for every major oil producer. The result being we never seen lines to get gas. from a high of 12 stations we are down to 4 for town with 1800, no major brands left.. The Conoco man stopped selling gas when the new underground storage regulations took effect. Make that a high of 13 I forgot about Skelly.
waswestkan What I find amazing is that here are people who remember the Carter years fondly. Whatever Carter did, he took the wrong approach. Reagan came in and cleaned up that mess as best he could. And there are those who still blame Reagan for doing it. I took to calling the late 70's The Paradise that was Jimmy Carter's America.
@@rockribbedrushy7705 that was not his fault at all he had really bad luck. please explain how reagan was a good president when he ran up 3 trillion dollar debt,ignored the horrible aids,hiv epidemic,deregulated the savings and loan industry which caused it to collapse. sold weapons to saddam hussein after he invaded iran,sold missiles to iran and used the money to fund and illegal war in nicaragua and lied about it. he also gutted the social safety net which hurt many people. terrible president and a despicable piece of shit of a human being so disgusting what he got away with
Not to that extent, but they used to with FDR. I guess the past 50 years have been unbearable politics. *someone whispers in ear* What?! The federalist party used to elevate themselves as the party of Washington even though Washington never campaigned for a specific party, and all democratic Republicans tried to project themselves as Jefferson's successor?! The same can also be said of Jackson, Lincoln, Roosevelt, Kennedy and now Trump. That's just how politics work. During an election, when people are trying to chose sides, its easier to tie yourself to a popular person to show what your positions will lead to. It goes both ways as well. My paragraph is long enough as it is, but Obama literally got elected twice by campaigning against the policies of George w bush
@@frankjosephunderwood5089i think that's mostly a fringe cult like part of republicans similar to the progressive wing and Bernie Sanders. But it seems most democrats whether progressives or moderates have a very saint like view of Obama.
Carter was one of the greatest presidents in the history of the nation. He has been put down by the right wing , but if you look at his accomplishments you can see for yourself.
To all of you bashing Reagan while continuing to bash this incompetent buffoon Jimmy Carter, all I can do is quote RONNIE and say, "THERE YOU GO AGAIN!" Jimmy Carter has the longest retirement of any former President. His problem is he's been spending most of it trying to tell us how great he was. He also was quoted as saying he'd spend the rest of his life apologizing for losing to Reagan. Jimmy, STOP APOLOGIZING! YOU LOST! DEAL WITH IT!
When you think about how many different interpretations and approaches to Christianity, and faith in general; we need to be wary of religions effect on government. Some people would like it taught in school; do you really want a stranger teaching your kids about their relationship with god? That is the reason for me why religion should never be taught in public schools. Why anything even broaching this subject that is so crucial should be a personal not governmental choice.
He sent troops to Little Rock only after being embarrased into doing something.Prior to that and afterward he did absolutely nothing for black people. Segregation in the ETO? Not a word of protest from old Ike. No striking down segregated officers and enlisted clubs,no integrating units. Yep good old Ike the friend of the black man! ROTFLMFAO
That's funny, because Time/Life recently named Eisenhower as one of the 10 greatest presidents of the 20th century. But opinions like yours are quite insightful into the mindset of the crazies in this country.
With all due respect, it doesn't sound like you have ever served in the military. These kind of decision making processes require chain of command approval. Before something like this would even get to the Secretary of State it would require approval from subordinates. Eisenhower was part of that process.
@wntoply6 Interesting take. I lean left, but I tend to think Eisenhower and his administration had some degree of underlying decency. For a military man, I give him pretty big props for his departing "Military/Industrial complex" speech, though he was strangely quiet about anything re. the pending Vietnam involvement and build-up. His right during retirement maybe, but... And I'm open for debate or dispute of these words. btw I believe Mr. Carter has a good basic decency.
Actually the historical record shows that although Ike was the liaison between the Australian government and the War Department that it was Secretary of State Stimpson that overrode the objections of the Australian government and sent African-American troops there. Ike had nothing to do with the decision.
+Tim Hammond - I often here this, but I never hear any given reason. You seem to have a somewhat balanced view, can you explain why you think he was a terrible one? From the little that I know, he is one of the few presidents that didn't pull the country into war. He put solar panels on White House to get us started on energy alternatives. He was the only one who was able to create a peace treaty between Israel and Egypt.
+Job Hd Don't listen to Tim, Carter was most definitely the last great president we did have. I think he's ridiculed by the current establishment because they don't want people following in his foot steps. remember we have nothing but war mongering neocons in power now. it's no different then belittling people like Ron Paul for anti war stances a few years ago.
+Job Hd Carter believed that he could simultaneously renew America's trust in government and reassert America's leading role within global affairs. He failed in both regards. A lot of it had to do with his personality. He came to Washington believing that he could change the way politics was made. He hoped to make politics more transparent which would, he believed, make politics more effective and less divisive. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Carter's self-perception as a reformer and Washington outsider concomitantly carried what can best be described as a savior complex. He looked down on other politicians, believing his deep-seated morality made him the only one capable of bringing the Washington establishment into line. Thus, Carter arrived in Washington expecting Congress to fall lock-step behind his policies. Naturally, congressmen from both parties weren't to fond of the way Carter handled congressional relations. This tension between the executive and the congress was exacerbated by Carter's aides, who were primarily old friends and staffers from when Carter was governor of Georgia. Georgia politics are, of course, nothing like Washington politics, and Carter's aides were woefully inadequate for the job. Still, he kept them, much to the chagrin of even the Democratic congressional leadership. Due to bad congressional relations, Carter had difficulty passing domestic reforms on such major issues as social security and health care. If this wasn’t enough to derail his policy-making process, Carter’s hands-on approach to everything didn’t help. He was notorious for wanting to personally review and authorize even the most minimal of tasks, going so far as to personally OK each morning who would be allowed to use the White House tennis courts. Not all of the problems with Congress stemmed from Carter's and his aide's personalities though. After Watergate, politicians promised to make politics more transparent. This, unfortunately, made it more difficult for politicians to do the back-room bargaining that leads to compromise and, eventually, the passage of legislation. Moreover, Congress as an institutional structure was changing. During Carter's presidency, Congress split into many different caucuses (basically, groups of like-minded congressmen that ally to create mutually supported policies). These caucuses existed, like always, at the broadest level (Democrat and Republican), but now there were additionally a plethora of smaller caucuses like an African-American caucus, a women’s caucus, regional caucuses, etc. This explosion of caucuses allowed almost all congressmen to gain good committee assignments. Congressmen used these congressional committees, covered intensely by the media, as ways to generate publicity and gain support for re-election. Due to the greater publicity that even junior representatives now held, there was less of a need to rely on their party label when they ran for office. Instead, they could run on personal recognition. All of this ultimately meant that there was less of a need for individual congressmen to hew toward the party line, which made it even more difficult for Carter to gather congressional support for his policies. In terms of foreign policy, one of Carter's strengths in the 1976 election was that he rejected the Nixon Administration's idea of realpolitik, which held that the international system did and should operate solely on the rational calculation of self-interest. Carter instead believed that the United States should frame its foreign policy within moralistic terms, and early in his administration he made human rights the top priority of U.S. foreign policy. In reality, this didn’t happen. Instead, he relied on traditional Cold War conceptions of world affairs centered on national self-interest. After the shah of Iran, who had brutally repressed the Iranian people for decades, was overthrown during the Iranian Revolution, Carter allowed him to come to the United States. (The Shah was suffering from cancer; Carter allowed him to come to the U.S. to receive chemotherapy). In what is probably a huge understatement, this didn’t sit well with most Iranians. Soon after, the U.S. embassy was overrun and the American staffers there were held hostage for 444 days. Every day that the hostages remained in captivity showed America’s apparent weakness on the world stage. It didn’t help with all of the news outlets reminding Americans at the end of every broadcast that “Today is day [7, 84, 300, etc.] of the Americans’ captivity in Iran.” To free the hostages, Carter attempted a night-time raid by American special forces. A U.S. plane landed in the Iranian desert carrying stuff for the raid and soldiers. A handful of helicopters carrying more soldiers was coming to meet at the makeshift air field when one of the helicopters flew into the plane, killing many of the Americans. Needless to say, it was a big embarrassment and only seemed to further prove America’s weakness on the world stage. Iran wasn’t the only foreign policy problem Carter faced. In addition, the Soviet Union had been making great gains in the Third World, particularly in Africa. Thus, it appeared that not only was the United States becoming weaker, but the Soviet Union was becoming stronger. This fear of increasing Soviet power culminated with the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. All of this was compounded by the worst economic crisis in the U.S. since the Great Depression. Carter, no matter how correct he may have been, didn’t exactly instill confidence in the American people. Regarding what appeared to be unending inflation, he told the public that all he had to offer were “partial remedies.” In the face of a rate of inflation in the double-digits, he asked employees not to increase their wages by any more than 7%. It also didn’t help that in general, Carter wanted to deregulate most government agencies. Thus, when many people were calling for some sort of government intervention, Carter was cleaning out many federal agencies. All of these problems, foreign and domestic, appeared to show an ineffective president. At one point, Carter tried to show that he was being an active leader by asking for the resignation of his entire cabinet, who dutifully complied. Instead of showing action, however, the American public believed the act only proved that Carter could not at all manage the presidency. Not all of these problems were Carter’s fault. The economy was doing poorly when he came into office and it didn’t start getting better for a couple of years into Reagan’s presidency. Nor could he change the way post-Watergate politics was conducted. But his refusal to work with others, his need to oversee even the most miniscule of matters, and his inability (or unwillingness) to carry out a foreign policy that adhered to U.S. moral sensibilities and national interests, really did make him one of the least effective presidents of the twentieth century, certainly of the post-WWII era.
Tim Hammond all of thos things you just mentioned is what I think make Carter one of the best presidents of the 20th century. politics were changing in the late 60s and 70s and not for the better. the fact that Carter had the strength to go up against the establishment to enforce more of a world peace type stance was amazing. Deregulating certain agencys was also a good thing. for example the airline industry got much better from Carters policies. also thanks to him We have less government control over the manufacturing of beer and many great micro brewers came to be. he may not have been the best in economics but he was no where near the worst. as you stated he inherited a bad economy when he first got into office. this was not his fault it was Nixon's. atleast Carter practiced restraint when it came to government spending and didn't increase our debt. His balanced budget was probably one of the most impressive any democrat has had in the last 50 years possibly longer.
John Jarou G GHWB has another four years he could serve. Both are better what their parties are now offering up. However I want to see Bernie run stirring up the pot
Jimmy Carter is my Herero. I am shame of Iran, my country of birth, for what they did to this peace loving person in his second election. In my share, as an Iranian born, I sincerely apologize President Carter, hope and expect the present Iranian government to do the same before we miss this great person. I wish I could meet President Carter in person, advice and encourage him to give the Sha-haa-dah that there is only One God and Jesus is one of the Prophets of that Unique God and that Muhammad is his last prophet. Peace Causing and Peace Loving people like Jimmy Carter deserve Paradise and pronouncing this few words of Sha-haa-dah is the only key to unlock one the entrance gates of it.
Well,let's think this through a bit. Australia has the Aborigines whose skin is as dark as any African's so for them to have a law like that would have required the forcible deportation of all Aborigines. Also when Ike was SACEUR he didn't require that black US troops be treated equally by the US Army. They had segregated posts with second rate facilities for blacks;nor did Ike at any time tell US commanders in England that black soldiers were free to mingle and date white English women.
I have nothing but the utmost respect for President Jimmy Carter! A man of complete integrity and high moral character. a man in which this world should look up to as an example.
+Michael Wallingford Good job, Rachel!
We all thought that way about Bill Cosby too. I've learned to stop believing reputations.
@@bigverybadtomSit down. You're embarrassing yourself
@@kiwiangeldust6912 No, I'm embarrassing you. Deal.
jimmy carter is not jealous at all,he was president for 4 years.there is nothing to be jealous about,he has his own convictions and views!!!
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Hahaha and he wished to be president for 4 more years , but ronald regan defeated him fair and square , that's why he is salty
@@anjaneyagaming295. He's still bitter over the loss.😊
As a right-winger and a Christian, I think Carter's view of Seperation of Church and State is what the founders intended.
What a rare thing to see a man who is decent and also a Christian and also devoted to the secular principles of the Constitution.
Mr. Carter, if you ever read this, then I want you to know that I think you're the very best President this country has ever had the honor of having! I CRIED when you lost on your second term, and yes I did vote for you both times.
Sir, you saved my life and the lives of my family. THANK YOU AND GOD BLESS YOU!
Let me guess Gayle you are a Trump supporter??
I like Trump!
So well spoken. A blessed man
I get the impression that the reverence Reagan enjoys bothers Ms. Maddow much more than it does President Carter.
@@sean2015 Ronald Reagan was way better President then Obama.
CORRECT
@@nikovidovic3410 Iran contra war begs to differ and CIA cocaine
@@deweydugger8201 Putting immigrate children in cages & continued war in Afghanistan begs to differ during Obama’s Presidency
@@iDeathMaximuMII And who armed up those in the Middle East? And who trained those who ended up causing the worse terrorist attack in us history? Who ignored the aids epidemic and let thousands die?
A genuine Christian gentleman.
How much do I love Jimmy Carter?
If I were a millionaire, I'd give jimmy a million.
I appreciate Mr. Carter so much. He was the BEST President America has ever known. THE BEST! Back when he was in office, my wife at the time was pregnant with our first child, and I had nobody to help me financially, but when I asked for help from the Carter Administration, not only did they help, they provided me with a way to go to school, pay for my wife's C-section, etc. Jimmy Carter REALLY cared about the American People, and, unlike so many ungrateful ones who don't appreciate it when someone does something nice for them, I DO! I pray for, hope, and wish the VERY BEST for Mr. Carter, his family, and all of his siblings! WHAT AN AWESOME GUY HE IS!
THANK YOU JIMMY AND GOD BLESS YOU SIR!
Sincerely, Tim Halcomb
How much drugs did you do in the 70s? You obviously have no mind and were to high in the 70s to notice the country was going to crap around us.
James Kingsmill
I was married with a new born baby boy, and Mr. Jimmy Carter helped me to get a great job! I wasn't the only one! Mr. Carter has helped many folks in his time, but some are idiots and don't respect anyone. Also, you do realize that he has a Doctorate Degree In Nuclear Physics right? What is wrong with you?
+Tim Rubin Halcomb Do you remember gas lines...double digit inflation....double digit interest rates? Not getting hostages from Iran?There is a reason that he lost in one of the largest landslides in history...
Ryan Shaffer
No! What I remember is that I had a pregnant wife and no way to feed me, her, and my baby. Then, amazingly, Mr. Carter started a program for those who wanted to EARN a living while going to school too. It was called C.E.T.A.. So you can't tell me anything that's bad about Mr. Carter! He is an awesome guy who was victimized by sadistic scandals perpetrated by the republican party criminals. He's way more intelligent than you are. I bet you don't have a Doctorate Degree in Physics do you? Just look at all of the great he has done for humanity even after he got out of office. He traveled all over the world helping people, and I will always be grateful for what he did for me!
Tim Rubin Halcomb Well I'm glad he helped you out individually with our tax dollars, but for the private sector that was paying those tax dollars he was awful. Anytime you have double-digit inflation and interest rates, you have a real problem. Prices for business are rising fast, and it becomes very difficult to borrow money to fund worthwhile projects.
"He's way more intelligent than you are. I bet you don't a Doctorate Degree in Physics do you."
I have no idea whether Carter is more intelligent than me. What I do know is that neither he nor you have an MBA like I do. When it comes to running an economy, you need someone that understanding business, not science.
"Just look at all of the great he has done for humanity even after he got out of office. He traveled all over the world helping people, and I will always be grateful for what he did for me!"
He does seem like a nice guy, just a lousy president. Mother Theresa was a very kind person as well...but I wouldn't want her running our economy either!
Carter took the humanitarian aspects of christian teachings to heart while respecting the Constitution as a secular document that forbids government entanglements with religion. As an Atheist, I can appreciate his attitude because it's respectful of the individual American's rights to approach political involvement as a strictly human enterprise. Secular Humanists would do well to regard Carter's 'evangelism' as a practical model that needs none of the negative baggage that religions frequently foist on the process of living a good & genuinely charitable life.
+Thomas Jefferson he s right on the middle east , he obsessed wit Israel because he believe in a two state solution . its not extreme its common sense, best president u ever had
+Thomas Jefferson wats your point .
+SIMKINETICS
I agree! The guy is very brilliant and a truly amazing man!
+1wolftone you missed it . wow stay off the drugs
+1wolftone best president u ever had? ....not hardly.Only one worse is the one we have now.'Jimmy' was/is anti Semitic.He should stick to historical novels (which he does very well) and swinging a hammer....
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That, my friends, is a true class act right there.
I'm gonna HEEEAAALLL you're credit!
and jimmy carter had integrity decency,compassion and empathy all of which reagan like lbj trump and george w bush had none of
Does Carter think he is still relevant?
Rachel Madcow talking about Reagan like he was her ex 😂
Reagan's ex voted for him twice for President.
Jimmy Carter always tells the absolute truth
We would do well to absorb any bit of wisdom given to us by the gift, Jimmy Carter.
I wish he would give a course in humanity on PBS,
Carter was a class act!!!! We need more like him!!!!
Mr Maddow calling people fascist if people dont agree with him
without a doubt, Carter is the most underrated president in American history
I agree
Having lived through the Carter Presidency, if anything he is overrated.
@@bigverybadtom Don't start with the gas prices. It wasn't his doing. He brought peace to the world. And he freed the hostages in reality, not Reagan. Reagan gave him credit.
@@Grmario85 Don't teach your grandmother to suck eggs. The high inflation certainly was his doing, and it wasn't just about gas prices. Reagan had to undo that.
Carter deserves credit for brokering the peace deal between Egypt and Israel. But the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan happened under his watch, as well as the fact that Iran took the hostages in the first place. Iran only released them because they succeeded in humiliating Carter and they served their purpose. It was Reagan who really brought peace by standing up to the Soviet empire and fighting back against it.
@@bigverybadtom I saw this comment quite late. You lived through Carter's Presidency so you are a person of age and will respect you. I wan't even born. But America came to appreciate Carter. He was way ahead of his time. The conservation of the natural wealth, like Alaska, solar panels and renewable energy in general, the middle east, Latin America democracies, department of education, no violence and killing citizens in other countries, pardoned draft evaders, all these are considered great achievements and moves today. Especially compared to the absolute mess we are in now. Yes he couldn't tackle unemployment and gas prices but one man can't do it all. But as someone wrote in a newspaper "History will be kind to Jimmy Carter". Because as time goes by America sees more clearly.
the reagan rhetoric and the reality of what reagan did are two very different things.thats what propaganda does to people.
+J Harris
Reagan utilized chicanery rhetorical speech methods that were very insidious. He knew very well what he was doing, and he did way more harm than good. On the contrary, Jimmy Carter acted as an empathetic President and wanted to help the working class and unemployed people to improve themselves. He truly does care about people and is an awesome person!
*****
no
+Nikola Tesla Tell that to the homeless vets he created. He was a senile old coot.
+Nikola Tesla lets see he increased the national debt by a quarter raised taxes on the poor lowed them for the rich, subsidized the military industrial complex with the phony cold war designed to socialize the costs of new technology and hand it over to private corporations."failed to sustain the momentum for deregulation initiated in the 1970s" and that he "added more trade barriers than any administration since Hoover."
under reagon:
"The atrocities were carried out with vigorous U.S. support and participation. Among the standard Cold War pretexts was that Guatemala was a Russian “beachhead” in Latin America.The real reasons, amply documented, were also standard: concern for the interests of U.S. investors and fear that a democratic experiment empowering the harshly repressed peasant majority “might be a virus” that would “spread
contagion,” www.alternet.org/noam-chomsky-nuclear
+Nikola Tesla HAHAHAHHA needed a stronger army.the military will never be strong enough for the gop,they want to take over the universe.if you acualy READ from people who are not statist apologists you will find that none of that stronger military shit is true.its all a ruse to gain more power and wealth.like reading carrol quigley tragety and hope: the central fact of the whole period, and the one which dominated all the others, was the scientific and technological rivalry
between the United States and the Soviet Union, because this rivalry formed the very
foundation and core of the Cold War, which was recognized by everyone to be the
dominant political factor of the period. .....
Our allies, the neutrals, and even the Russians were ignored and often
despised, while the State Department engaged in what Dulles himself called, in January
1956, "going to the brink" of war. This policy sought to reduce government spending and
balance the budget by reducing expenditures for all local or conventional wars and to
base our strategy and our foreign policy on the threat that any Soviet advance of any kind
anywhere of which we disapproved would be stopped by our "massive retaliation" with
all-out nuclear attack anywhere we judged appropriate, on a unilateral (without
consultation with our allies) and on a "first-strike" basis (that is, we would do this even if
the Soviet Union had not attacked us and had not used nuclear weapons). This policy was
hopelessly irresponsible and not only alienated allies (such as France) and neutrals (such
as India), but could not be used, since we would never adopt such suicidal and ineffective
tactics to reply to a Communist local advance in Korea, southeast Asia, Tibet,
Afghanistan, Iran, Egypt, Yugoslavia, or most other places on the periphery of the Soviet
bloc.
Jimmy Carter is a wise man.
Poppycock
Reagan was the last great republican. I tend to lean democrat and i still have respect for Reagan. Jimmy Carter was also a good president also.. he said the truth and now it is catching up to America... should have listened !
Reagan wasn't the best republican. Donald Trump is outdoing him by a long shot.
How's that leaning democrat working out for you now lmao
The nation with former president jimmy carter at the helm knew peace .he was a breath of fresh air .a person we trust even to this day to do our bidding abroad as ambassertor.!! Jimmy carter is simply part of the answer !!! Doctors ben carson and ran paul also are persons of intergrity and not selfish.
Jimmy U R the man!!!!
God bless ronald Reagan one of the greatest president's of the USA.
Yeah, Reganomics was such a success, Iran Contra to
The greatest liar, thief, terrorist ally, fear mongerer, and racist.
In 1957, he sent the 101st Airborne to integrate Little Rock’s Central High School. In 1958, he told the Red Cross to ignore a Louisiana law requiring that blood from black and white donors be segregated. This was in character: In 1942, when Australia desperately sought US troops but said a law prohibited blacks from entering the country, Gen. Eisenhower said, “All right. No troops.” Australia quickly saw the light.
Incidentally, JFK was extremely critical of Ike sending the Airborne division to Arkansas in 1957.
Um, Ronald Reagan defeated Walter Mondale by 17,878,120 votes. That's beyond a landslide popular vote victory. He defeated Carter by 8,423,115. We conservatives don't just talk about the electoral college margin. We know the popular totals too. No disrespect here. Just sayin' though.
After watching the 1980 Reagan-Carter debate, I came to the conclusion that it was Carter that didn’t like to listen to people
Remember his "My daughter Amy" comment. I 😄
I am so happy to see former President Carter sitting down. His ass got spanked so hard in the 1980 election no one ever thought he would be able to sit down comfortably again.
On the right you have Gilead and then on the left you have kind-hearted people like President Carter and Pete Buttigieg.
God Bless You!
President Carter makes me proud to be american
+Red Kap: A good man.
+Red Kap Seems like a nice guy, but he was a lousy president....the Reagan line that really shot him down was..."Are you better off now than you were 4 years ago..."
+Thomas Jefferson because Israel does comit crimes . just because isis commits crimes dosnt mean u can for get israels.
+Thomas Jefferson American foreign policy makers have been inconsistent in determining who were terrorists and who were freedom fighters worthy of American arms and financial support.
+Red Kap
Thank you! I feel the same as you do.
I just wish we had someone like him to fill the executive position right now! We sure do need him!
Jimmy CArter lied in this interview. He claims he separated totally his religion and his work as President. But by his own admission in one of his books, which he has written several and I have read each one, he "witnessed" to the President of South Korea and tried to get him to accept Christ as his personal savior during a state visit to Seoul by Carter. I mean that is about as blatant a mixture of church and state any President can do. And personally, I don't mind. As a Christian he has a duty to witness. It's his lack of honesty I object to. Right, wrong, or indifferent, he should own what he does and not lie about it in an effort to criticize Republicans or anyone else.
The last question he answered here tells everything you will ever need to know about this wonderful man and leader. If I only knew in 1980 what I know now.......FUUUUUUUUUK!
I knew in 1980 what I know now. Carter was not a good President, and Reagan was great. Why Reagan won so overwhelmingly in 1984.
In the 1976 presidential debates, Jimmy Carter sanctimoniously lectured the world that the oil would run out of oil by 2011:
ruclips.net/video/iXHTmEUGR7c/видео.html
He richly chides Reagan for not being able to listen when anybody (meaning "carter") talks to him.
Jimmy Carter should now understand why people shouldn't have listened to him.
every single interview that I have ever seen with President Carter is simply magnificent and he is probably the most moral and thoughtful politician in modern history
You must be joking. The guy who sold weapons to the terrorists.
@@thealfamayl what the hell are you talking about? Jimmy Carter tried to bring peace between Israel and the Palestinians and nobody tried harder than he did. Reagan and Bush committed treason to bump him out of office that is a fact not a conspiracy we know that through Freedom of Information Act they conspired with Iran to delay the release of the hostages until after the election. You might just be somebody who drinks the Zionist Kool-Aid and is not an agent of real truth.
@@polara01 my mistake, I was reading another comment at the same time and I thought this one was about Ronald Reagan. I agree with you
@@thealfamayl okay I appreciate the follow-up!
Carter may never rank as an outstanding president, but I do believe history will judge him much better.
And from this side of the Atlantic, he will always have my respect.
Exactly. He wasn't a bad president, he was just a victim of his time
I remember Jimmy Carter,, saying the best thing he's done in his life ,is marrying his lovely wife,,,now hearing that, President Jimmy Carter is a Saint.
Carter is a hamas supporter and known bigot
Carter knows that the constitution and the Bible are two very different things. Modern politicians can learn from him.
This is one man and statesman we need more of, straight and to the point, even keel.
He create massive unemployment and his policies created peak inflation of 17%.
If only he knew what level of personality cult was to come
Actually Eisenhower was a very accomplished President.
1. Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960. First significant civil rights acts since 1875.
2. The Eisenhower administration declared racial discrimination a national security issue and was the first President to start desegregation in schools.Two-thirds of Army units were still segregated, five years after President Truman’s integration order. 1954, no more segregated units existed.
3. Created the Interstate Highway System.
4. Created NASA.
I agree, Eisenhower was objectively one of the greatest, unlike those who worship the feet of Reagan’s decomposed corpse.
Jimmy Carter is amazing.
An how MADCOW stays on tv is beyond my understanding. GAAAAKKKK !!!!!!
Bet that's not the only thing that' beyond your understanding! SNAAAAPPPP !!!!!!!
TTV5 Lieralism is a very srious mental illness.
Daniel P Hanover Read a book! Pay attention in class! Watch a documentary! Do something productive with your life instead of misspelling insults on the Internet.
TTV5 I have a college degree and have studied U.S. Constitutional Law. I've read more books than I care to count, particularly biographies and autobiographies. (Julius Caeser, Martin Luther, Ted Hall, many others). FOX NEWS has had the highest ratings of any cable news network for at least the past dozen consecutive years. MADCOW's ratings are about a tenth of FOX NEWS' ratings. Why they keep this inispid person on is a mystery to me, because barely anyone watches her (I don't) and no eyeballs means no ratings and means no dollars. So I guess that they just want to piss away the shareholders' money by paying MADCOW to spout her vapid socialist nonsense. PEACE ! :)
Daniel P Hanover Many people who have degrees have this uncanny ability of being able to display the fruits of their education without explicitly telling people that they have a degree. Try it some time.
Do you know why Rachel Maddow (although spelling it MADCOW is very, very, very funny) is still on television? Because she has the highest rated show on MSNBC. She gets more viewers than CNN's most rated show, Anderson Cooper 360. Not much of a mystery, in other words.
She gets less viewers than FOX News's most rated shows, but far from ten times less.Try 2.5 times less than Bill O'Reilly, Fox's most watched show.
It's also a sad day when Rachel Maddow is considered someone who spews socialist nonsense. Some perspective would be nice.
There he goes again......
I like Carter but I am not only a Reagan fan. I am also a Trump fan. Trump will also be remembered as something of a saint. Because he too was likeable and a patriot.
a saint who is a lying racist criminal
Also qanaon for atheist Trump. At least Regan's tax cuts didn't sunset for the middle and lower class after 5 years dispite being A awful president.
He was a staunch segregationist? That's a complete lie. In February 1953 15 months before Brown v. Board of Education he vowed to use every power of his office to end segregation in the District of Columbia and the armed forces. In February 1953 ,15 months before Brown v. Board of Education, he vowed to use every power of his office to end segregation in the District of Columbia and the armed forces.
LOVE the high pitch noise in the background
He was a staunch segregationist? That's a complete lie. In February 1953 15 months before Brown v. Board of Education he vowed to use every power of his office to end segregation in the District of Columbia and the armed forces.
Making Jimmy Carter talk about Reagan is like asking a tiger to talk about why eating meat isn't bad for you.
It just came to me watching Maddow search for questions she thinks were important. She is the female Stelter. That same “I hope you decide that I’m smart while I interview you” look on his face as well!
He would have sat on the inaugural stage with Reagan in 1981 not 1980....
there is no left or right, only up or down ------Reagan
+newsmthjoke
Reagan was way down there! So far, in fact, that I think he and the devil were intimate lovers!
Find the equation of the tangent plane to z = x^2 + Y^2 at the point (1,1,2) by utilizing the del operator . Hint: let z = f(x, y) = x^2 + Y^2 and find the gradient.
Reagan destroyed Carter
reagan sold missiles to iran in 87 used the money to fund an ilegal war in nicaragua lied about it. after saddam hussein invaded iran reagan sold weapons to him. he also ran up a 3 trillion dollar debt ignored the aids epidemic while over 25,000 americans died he really didnt do anything about it. he also gutted the social safety net which hurt many poor people and deregulated the savings and loan industry causing it to collapse he was despicable man and a terrible president do those facts mean anything to you
President Carter such a gentleman.
JIMMY CARTER 2016
Jimmy Carter was probably the least favored president in the modern era. I've got a strong feeling that Obama is going to take that title away. The country [the people] voted him out fair and square and by a large margin. He made a mess of the oil situation and mishandled the Iran hostage affair. Yes humanism and idealism is good, but you got to know when to lead and give hope and confidence to the people that we're on the right track . . . Carter didn't do this.
wise man
I have twenty-one years in the military,including two call ups for Iraq and service in Desert Storm.
Governments don't call on the military to send them messages. That is handled by the State Department.
Also the US Army's history of WWII shows that it was FDR's Secretary of State that answered for the US on the matter with Australia and other governments. He essentially informed Australia and other countries that if they requested US troops in their country,the troops would include blacks too.
Maddow couldn't know that mortgage rates were somewhere around 18% (no typo) during the Carter administration. I recall getting a "deal" on a car loan at my credit union (vs a bank) at the time. 14% APR. woo hoo. Runaway inflation, American hostages being held in Iran for well over a year. The national malaise (loss of morale) was palpable.
Jimmy Carter is a nice and decent man but was a feckless President. I do wish him well though.
+NVRAMboi , The President of the United States does not control interest rates. The Federal Reserve does. Carter gave a speech about the "malaise" and how he bemoaned it. He was roundly criticized for it, no one in the "me generation" wanted to hear about any bummers. Queue the Love Boat theme!
REagan was one of the best Republicans ever.
Reagan was a horrible president and a horrible man he deregulated wall street ignored the aids epidemic sold missiles to Iran and lied about it and reagonomics was a failure
Wrong, he ranks second only
To Donald Trump as the worst republicans. He and Donald are men completely incomparable to Abraham Lincoln and Dwight Eisenhower
School. In 1958, he told the Red Cross to ignore a Louisiana law requiring that blood from black and white donors be segregated. This was in character: In 1942, when Australia desperately sought US troops but said a law prohibited blacks from entering the country, Gen. Eisenhower said, “All right. No troops.” Australia quickly saw the light.
This is when it all went 'south'.
He wasn't a staunch segregationist,he just didn't do a whole lot for anybody who wasn't white.
He did order the full desegregation of the military and D.C but he wasn't full of enthusiasm for civil rights.
Obviously, Dr. Lewis Gould didn't do much research on Eisenhower. Not many Presidents in the 20th century were as great as Ike. Underappreciated would be the best term.
I just started researching about Jimmy Carter. Little did I know that he was a great president.
21lauriux You would have thought differently had you lived through it dude. Gas lines, hostages, bad tanks in the desert, 20% interest rates, 13.5% inflation rate.
rockribbed rushy I live through it, it was tough, but our nation survived. Carter was dogged by the increasing energy costs that dogged Nixon and Ford In the event they ever knew it many forget or find it easy to forget the rise in energy began months before the Embargo. also convenient to forget that Reagan was a beefactor of moderating oil prices. Few consider rhat many corporation never dialed back price increases they blamed on increased energy cost when they started to pay less for energy. In other words we are still paying for those increasing energy costs of the 1970s. I live in an area of Kansas where many major oil producers had production at that time, meaning this little town of 3500 (at that time) had a service station for every major oil producer. The result being we never seen lines to get gas. from a high of 12 stations we are down to 4 for town with 1800, no major brands left.. The Conoco man stopped selling gas when the new underground storage regulations took effect. Make that a high of 13 I forgot about Skelly.
waswestkan What I find amazing is that here are people who remember the Carter years fondly.
Whatever Carter did, he took the wrong approach. Reagan came in and cleaned up that mess as best he could. And there are those who still blame Reagan for doing it.
I took to calling the late 70's The Paradise that was Jimmy Carter's America.
Little did you know... very well put.
@@rockribbedrushy7705 that was not his fault at all he had really bad luck. please explain how reagan was a good president when he ran up 3 trillion dollar debt,ignored the horrible aids,hiv epidemic,deregulated the savings and loan industry which caused it to collapse. sold weapons to saddam hussein after he invaded iran,sold missiles to iran and used the money to fund and illegal war in nicaragua and lied about it. he also gutted the social safety net which hurt many people. terrible president and a despicable
piece of shit of a human being so disgusting what he got away with
The last person to offer an unbiased opinion on Reagan is Jimmy Carter
The irony of this is the Democrats do this with Obama now.
Not to that extent, but they used to with FDR. I guess the past 50 years have been unbearable politics.
*someone whispers in ear*
What?! The federalist party used to elevate themselves as the party of Washington even though Washington never campaigned for a specific party, and all democratic Republicans tried to project themselves as Jefferson's successor?!
The same can also be said of Jackson, Lincoln, Roosevelt, Kennedy and now Trump. That's just how politics work. During an election, when people are trying to chose sides, its easier to tie yourself to a popular person to show what your positions will lead to.
It goes both ways as well. My paragraph is long enough as it is, but Obama literally got elected twice by campaigning against the policies of George w bush
And Republicans with Trump
@@frankjosephunderwood5089i think that's mostly a fringe cult like part of republicans similar to the progressive wing and Bernie Sanders. But it seems most democrats whether progressives or moderates have a very saint like view of Obama.
As far as ex-presidents go, Carter leads the pack in the sour grapes department.
Wonder how Rachel would have gone 1980 election night as a commentator.
Carter was one of the greatest presidents in the history of the nation. He has been put down by the right wing , but if you look at his accomplishments you can see for yourself.
Poppycock
What is it with every political video I find people bickering over extreme views rather than having a civil discussion? Just, wtf?
To all of you bashing Reagan while continuing to bash this incompetent buffoon Jimmy Carter, all I can do is quote RONNIE and say, "THERE YOU GO AGAIN!" Jimmy Carter has the longest retirement of any former President. His problem is he's been spending most of it trying to tell us how great he was. He also was quoted as saying he'd spend the rest of his life apologizing for losing to Reagan. Jimmy, STOP APOLOGIZING! YOU LOST! DEAL WITH IT!
Greatest president ever 🫡🫡🫡🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🙏🙏🙏
Funny, I remember the speeches, "Do you want four more years of..." and even liberal Andy Rooney said, "Obviously not from a Carter speech."
@@bigverybadtom Greatest realist and God fearing president we ever had 🇺🇸 👍 🫡
@@truthbtold7997 But one of the least competent. I actually remember the Carter years, and was tremendously relieved when Carter lost.
Leftist Lovefest
Indeed.
Jimmy carter is a national treasure. God love him and mrs. Carter.
When you think about how many different interpretations and approaches to Christianity, and faith in general; we need to be wary of religions effect on government. Some people would like it taught in school; do you really want a stranger teaching your kids about their relationship with god? That is the reason for me why religion should never be taught in public schools. Why anything even broaching this subject that is so crucial should be a personal not governmental choice.
He sent troops to Little Rock only after being embarrased into doing something.Prior to that and afterward he did absolutely nothing for black people. Segregation in the ETO? Not a word of protest from old Ike. No striking down segregated officers and enlisted clubs,no integrating units. Yep good old Ike the friend of the black man! ROTFLMFAO
That's funny, because Time/Life recently named Eisenhower as one of the 10 greatest presidents of the 20th century. But opinions like yours are quite insightful into the mindset of the crazies in this country.
How can you separate them?!!!??!??? It’s foolish to say that!!!!
One of the best movies is Get Carter, isnt it? :-)
With all due respect, it doesn't sound like you have ever served in the military. These kind of decision making processes require chain of command approval. Before something like this would even get to the Secretary of State it would require approval from subordinates. Eisenhower was part of that process.
It seems Joe McCarthy would LOVE the current form of much of the Republican party. Ay yi yi!
I think Joe Stalin would love today's Democratic party.
@wntoply6 Interesting take. I lean left, but I tend to think Eisenhower and his administration had some degree of underlying decency. For a military man, I give him pretty big props for his departing "Military/Industrial complex" speech, though he was strangely quiet about anything re. the pending Vietnam involvement and build-up. His right during retirement maybe, but... And I'm open for debate or dispute of these words. btw I believe Mr. Carter has a good basic decency.
"Hate" is a powerful word Ms. Maddow....and Lord knows you are drowning in it.
Sainthood? He's a god, like Caligula. I swear to him every time I see something senile, like Reaganomics.
Reaganomics was so senile ti turned our stagflation economy into prosperity. Why Reagan overwhelmingly won in 1984 and everybody expected it.
Maddow is overemotional and over the top generally.
This woman is so hateful
Actually the historical record shows that although Ike was the liaison between the Australian government and the War Department that it was Secretary of State Stimpson that overrode the objections of the Australian government and sent African-American troops there. Ike had nothing to do with the decision.
Who is worse Biden or Carter? They are low low low
I do think Carter is a good and decent person but he was a TERRIBLE President. He also was a terrible Governor.
+Tim Hammond - I often here this, but I never hear any given reason. You seem to have a somewhat balanced view, can you explain why you think he was a terrible one? From the little that I know, he is one of the few presidents that didn't pull the country into war. He put solar panels on White House to get us started on energy alternatives. He was the only one who was able to create a peace treaty between Israel and Egypt.
+Job Hd Don't listen to Tim, Carter was most definitely the last great president we did have. I think he's ridiculed by the current establishment because they don't want people following in his foot steps. remember we have nothing but war mongering neocons in power now. it's no different then belittling people like Ron Paul for anti war stances a few years ago.
+Job Hd Carter believed that he could simultaneously renew America's trust in government and reassert America's leading role within global affairs. He failed in both regards.
A lot of it had to do with his personality. He came to Washington believing that he could change the way politics was made. He hoped to make politics more transparent which would, he believed, make politics more effective and less divisive. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Carter's self-perception as a reformer and Washington outsider concomitantly carried what can best be described as a savior complex. He looked down on other politicians, believing his deep-seated morality made him the only one capable of bringing the Washington establishment into line. Thus, Carter arrived in Washington expecting Congress to fall lock-step behind his policies. Naturally, congressmen from both parties weren't to fond of the way Carter handled congressional relations. This tension between the executive and the congress was exacerbated by Carter's aides, who were primarily old friends and staffers from when Carter was governor of Georgia. Georgia politics are, of course, nothing like Washington politics, and Carter's aides were woefully inadequate for the job. Still, he kept them, much to the chagrin of even the Democratic congressional leadership. Due to bad congressional relations, Carter had difficulty passing domestic reforms on such major issues as social security and health care. If this wasn’t enough to derail his policy-making process, Carter’s hands-on approach to everything didn’t help. He was notorious for wanting to personally review and authorize even the most minimal of tasks, going so far as to personally OK each morning who would be allowed to use the White House tennis courts. Not all of the problems with Congress stemmed from Carter's and his aide's personalities though. After Watergate, politicians promised to make politics more transparent. This, unfortunately, made it more difficult for politicians to do the back-room bargaining that leads to compromise and, eventually, the passage of legislation. Moreover, Congress as an institutional structure was changing. During Carter's presidency, Congress split into many different caucuses (basically, groups of like-minded congressmen that ally to create mutually supported policies). These caucuses existed, like always, at the broadest level (Democrat and Republican), but now there were additionally a plethora of smaller caucuses like an African-American caucus, a women’s caucus, regional caucuses, etc. This explosion of caucuses allowed almost all congressmen to gain good committee assignments. Congressmen used these congressional committees, covered intensely by the media, as ways to generate publicity and gain support for re-election. Due to the greater publicity that even junior representatives now held, there was less of a need to rely on their party label when they ran for office. Instead, they could run on personal recognition. All of this ultimately meant that there was less of a need for individual congressmen to hew toward the party line, which made it even more difficult for Carter to gather congressional support for his policies.
In terms of foreign policy, one of Carter's strengths in the 1976 election was that he rejected the Nixon Administration's idea of realpolitik, which held that the international system did and should operate solely on the rational calculation of self-interest. Carter instead believed that the United States should frame its foreign policy within moralistic terms, and early in his administration he made human rights the top priority of U.S. foreign policy. In reality, this didn’t happen. Instead, he relied on traditional Cold War conceptions of world affairs centered on national self-interest. After the shah of Iran, who had brutally repressed the Iranian people for decades, was overthrown during the Iranian Revolution, Carter allowed him to come to the United States. (The Shah was suffering from cancer; Carter allowed him to come to the U.S. to receive chemotherapy). In what is probably a huge understatement, this didn’t sit well with most Iranians. Soon after, the U.S. embassy was overrun and the American staffers there were held hostage for 444 days. Every day that the hostages remained in captivity showed America’s apparent weakness on the world stage. It didn’t help with all of the news outlets reminding Americans at the end of every broadcast that “Today is day [7, 84, 300, etc.] of the Americans’ captivity in Iran.”
To free the hostages, Carter attempted a night-time raid by American special forces. A U.S. plane landed in the Iranian desert carrying stuff for the raid and soldiers. A handful of helicopters carrying more soldiers was coming to meet at the makeshift air field when one of the helicopters flew into the plane, killing many of the Americans. Needless to say, it was a big embarrassment and only seemed to further prove America’s weakness on the world stage. Iran wasn’t the only foreign policy problem Carter faced. In addition, the Soviet Union had been making great gains in the Third World, particularly in Africa. Thus, it appeared that not only was the United States becoming weaker, but the Soviet Union was becoming stronger. This fear of increasing Soviet power culminated with the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979.
All of this was compounded by the worst economic crisis in the U.S. since the Great Depression. Carter, no matter how correct he may have been, didn’t exactly instill confidence in the American people. Regarding what appeared to be unending inflation, he told the public that all he had to offer were “partial remedies.” In the face of a rate of inflation in the double-digits, he asked employees not to increase their wages by any more than 7%. It also didn’t help that in general, Carter wanted to deregulate most government agencies. Thus, when many people were calling for some sort of government intervention, Carter was cleaning out many federal agencies.
All of these problems, foreign and domestic, appeared to show an ineffective president. At one point, Carter tried to show that he was being an active leader by asking for the resignation of his entire cabinet, who dutifully complied. Instead of showing action, however, the American public believed the act only proved that Carter could not at all manage the presidency. Not all of these problems were Carter’s fault. The economy was doing poorly when he came into office and it didn’t start getting better for a couple of years into Reagan’s presidency. Nor could he change the way post-Watergate politics was conducted. But his refusal to work with others, his need to oversee even the most miniscule of matters, and his inability (or unwillingness) to carry out a foreign policy that adhered to U.S. moral sensibilities and national interests, really did make him one of the least effective presidents of the twentieth century, certainly of the post-WWII era.
+hooha tothefla Your comment has no facts or basis and therefore not worth a comment.
Tim Hammond all of thos things you just mentioned is what I think make Carter one of the best presidents of the 20th century. politics were changing in the late 60s and 70s and not for the better. the fact that Carter had the strength to go up against the establishment to enforce more of a world peace type stance was amazing.
Deregulating certain agencys was also a good thing. for example the airline industry got much better from Carters policies. also thanks to him We have less government control over the manufacturing of beer and many great micro brewers came to be.
he may not have been the best in economics but he was no where near the worst. as you stated he inherited a bad economy when he first got into office. this was not his fault it was Nixon's. atleast Carter practiced restraint when it came to government spending and didn't increase our debt. His balanced budget was probably one of the most impressive any democrat has had in the last 50 years possibly longer.
jimmy carter for president 2016.
John Jarou G GHWB has another four years he could serve. Both are better what their parties are now offering up. However I want to see Bernie run stirring up the pot
Ralph Maddow is a very angry feller.
Carter doesn't like io because REagen kicked his ass
That's why religion today is a republican thing
I am a leftist who is a member of the church
This interview apparently was before Rachel sold her soul to the dark side
Jimmy Carter is my Herero. I am shame of Iran, my country of birth, for what they did to this peace loving person in his second election. In my share, as an Iranian born, I sincerely apologize President Carter, hope and expect the present Iranian government to do the same before we miss this great person.
I wish I could meet President Carter in person, advice and encourage him to give the Sha-haa-dah that there is only One God and Jesus is one of the Prophets of that Unique God and that Muhammad is his last prophet.
Peace Causing and Peace Loving people like Jimmy Carter deserve Paradise and pronouncing this few words of Sha-haa-dah is the only key to unlock one the entrance gates of it.
Muhammad was a con artist. I felt like I had to say something on the matter.
Well,let's think this through a bit. Australia has the Aborigines whose skin is as dark as any African's so for them to have a law like that would have required the forcible deportation of all Aborigines.
Also when Ike was SACEUR he didn't require that black US troops be treated equally by the US Army. They had segregated posts with second rate facilities for blacks;nor did Ike at any time tell US commanders in England that black soldiers were free to mingle and date white English women.
There he goes again
Many hating republican trolls here !