When Carter goes, he should get a state funeral

It would be a shame if you were hit by a speeding truck and died a horrible and painful death.
 
Makes sense it would be there and not in Plains.

Who even in Georgia knows where Plains is?
Drove through it once. Take I-75 south, exit at Americus, drive past the enormous Miller Brewery there (where the make Miller Lite for most of the South), then straight down the two lane a bit and you'll reach Plains. The Carter's home is right off the main highway on the right, you can see it from the road.
 
Drove through it once. Take I-75 south, exit at Americus, drive past the enormous Miller Brewery there (where the make Miller Lite for most of the South), then straight down the two lane a bit and you'll reach Plains. The Carter's home is right off the main highway on the right, you can see it from the road.
You seem to be a traveling man. Any ideas what authoritarian country will the trump presidential library be located?
 
You seem to be a traveling man. Any ideas what authoritarian country will the trump presidential library be located?
I'm sure DeSantis would welcome it in Florida.
The real question is, what the hell would they include in it?
 
A good read is An Hour Before Daylight- President Carter. All about growing up on the farm in Plains, GA. Interestingly, he has a hand drawn map of their farm across the inside front cover over both pages. It is a carbon copy of our family farm (or what it looked like growing up) right down to where the commissary was placed.

For years I’ve wanted to write a letter to Pres Carter and ask him if it was a coincidence or was it some type of Ag Agents advisory that farms used back then. Sadly I’ve waited too long. I’m not sure he would answer. I’d heard he personally answered any and all mail he would get.

I have related on this Forum a time I “met” President Carter, but was too dumbstruck and forgot to ask him personally.🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
 
You have the most underdeveloped intellect on Lit. The man and his presidency was a colossal failure.
The stagflation of the time did not result from anything Carter did or failed to do. It resulted from the rising price of imported oil -- an external cost, beyond the reach of U.S. fiscal or monetary policy. And Iran was a situation he inherited from Eisenhower's CIA -- see Operation Ajax. In hindsight, there really was no way he could have handled it better.

A good source here is Reaganland, by Rick Perlstein, which, despite the title, only covers the Carter years.

When Carter sat down to do the federal budget, he took an engineer's approach -- how much money is needed for what purpose and where can it be raised? Without reference to ideology, or interest-group interests, or gored oxen.
 
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The stagflation of the time did not result from anything Carter did or failed to do. It resulted from the rising price of imported oil -- an external cost, beyond the reach of U.S. fiscal or monetary policy. And Iran was a situation he inherited from Eisenhower's CIA -- see Operation Ajax. In hindsight, there really was no way he could have handled it better.

A good source here is Reaganland, by Rick Perlstein, which, despite the title, only covers the Carter years.

When Carter sat down to do the federal budget, he took an engineer's approach -- how much money is needed for what purpose and where can it be raised? Without reference to ideology, or interest-group interests, or gored oxen.
Presidents don't get the luxury to blame their failures on the previous administration, especially in regards to public opinion. :)
 
The stagflation of the time did not result from anything Carter did or failed to do. It resulted from the rising price of imported oil -- an external cost, beyond the reach of U.S. fiscal or monetary policy. And Iran was a situation he inherited from Eisenhower's CIA -- see Operation Ajax. In hindsight, there really was no way he could have handled it better.

A good source here is Reaganland, by Rick Perlstein, which, despite the title, only covers the Carter years.

When Carter sat down to do the federal budget, he took an engineer's approach -- how much money is needed for what purpose and where can it be raised? Without reference to ideology, or interest-group interests, or gored oxen.
BS.
 
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