By all accounts he was easily what we came to know as a "good man". Naturally so, a genuine article and humanitarian. The guy who tried to break up fist fights with dad jokes and buying the next round for the house. Unfortunately, politics happened. Not being naive but he often had the impression of a "Go-fish" card playing champ sitting down at the highest stakes poker game on Earth. I remember my dad not liking him at all particularly thru the hostage crisis. To his direct time in office, I guess the biggest thing that I recall are the gas lines
. Late 70's and all of us kids stuffed in a station wagon trying to time "odds or even" days depending on the last number of your license plate. Iran had been spiraling for a very long time and their war with Iraq was on deck in the Middle east. Carter boycotted 80' Olympics too with Russia invading Afghanistan. Imagine The Mariel boatlift today.
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Re: Jimmy Carter dead at 100
Originally Posted by Spicoli
By all accounts he was easily what we came to know as a "good man". Naturally so, a genuine article and humanitarian. The guy who tried to break up fist fights with dad jokes and buying the next round for the house. Unfortunately, politics happened. Not being naive but he often had the impression of a "Go-fish" card playing champ sitting down at the highest stakes poker game on Earth. I remember my dad not liking him at all particularly thru the hostage crisis. To his direct time in office, I guess the biggest thing that I recall are the gas lines
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