In Reply to: RIP Jimmy Carter posted by DSCBruin on December 29, 2024 at 14:21:10
WE were literally taught in HS what a bad president Carter was. We all were told Reagan was a great POTUS and we all believed it.
Said it repeatedly as I got older and actually saw what happened I completely changed my views. I had a POly Sci teacher at DeAnza college who told us Carter was a much better president than any of us thought, took me 20 years or more but I eventually agreed with him.
The main things Carter took the blame for were the hostage crisis in Iran and inflation. He inherited the inflation from Ford who had inherited it from Nixon and it got worse. Carter wound up having to take extreme measures with the fed, but again they didn't cause the problem.
Iran as I've posted before Reagan and the GOP literally had a side deal with the hostage holders to NOT release them until after the election. One of if not the dirtiest politial moves in US history.
There's a book I read that describes a group of high ranking Republicans literally applauding when they found out the rescue mission with helicopters had failed.