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Comment by fanatic2pope

15 days ago

Thanks, Carter!

https://www.cartercenter.org/programs/guinea-worm/

best _former_ president of all time.

  • I won't stand for Carter slander: he was a darn good president too. What he wasn't good at, was politicking, and that was because he also was a good man, to a fault. He gave an honest answer to a question on if he had ever lusted after a woman who was not his wife, and reaped a scandal.

  • He's helicopter crash away from being remembered as a daring wartime president.

  • Pretty good president overall. Too bad he told America what they didn’t want to hear, like they had to make tradeoffs regarding energy use.

  • I just listened to a the rest is history podcast and he had a few things he was lacking and wasn’t particularly flattering but he was an upstanding citizen at the very least.

Rickover: Did you do your best? Carter: No, sir. I didn't always do my best. Rickover: Why not?