“Too many Republicans ran like Ronald Reagan but governed like Jimmy Carter.”
—Ken Blackwell at a June 21, 2010 AIA authors’ night explaining the GOP’s recent reversal of electoral fortunes
“Too many Republicans ran like Ronald Reagan but governed like Jimmy Carter.”
—Ken Blackwell at a June 21, 2010 AIA authors’ night explaining the GOP’s recent reversal of electoral fortunes
When Jimmy Carter made an unsuccessful bid for reelection as president, even Democrats couldn’t say for sure why they were voting for him. Nearly three decades later, he is treated as an elder statesman.
Every year, freshmen at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia get to hear former President Jimmy Carter lecture on world affairs.
If the policies of former President Jimmy Carter seem more successful in their college classroom retelling than they do when matched up against the historical record, it might be because so many alumni of the one-term chief executive’s administration are themselves academics.
He was most known for being President Jimmy Carter’s head of the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) when it began the deregulation of the airline industry in 1977-78. He was my Economics professor at Cornell University in the late 1960’s.
What do Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, William Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama all have in common?
Dating back to the 1979 Iranian revolution that lifted Ayatollah Khomeini to power and boldly challenged President Jimmy Carter, the US-Iranian relationship has been strained, to say the least.
Every presidential election cycle, there is always a prolonged discussion about which candidate will be the next president of the United States of America. Typically, governors and senators have run for the highest elected office…
A recent poll of presidential scholars in academia showed their anti-Trump biases, where they ranked President Trump at the bottom of leadership and diversity and inclusion categories among the fourteen modern U.S. presidents.
It’s one thing for professors to rewrite history but it’s even more annoying when they “amend” current events, and in a newspaper, no less!