Excellent interview and post. Those of us who lived through the disastrous Carter years remember well waking before dawn on our appointed day to line up for gasoline. He not only called for lowering thermostats to 65 but 55 degrees at night (which no one did, to my knowledge). But the "good man" rhetoric belies his moralizing and preening on human rights and many other issues (he banned hard liquor from the White House and turned off the air conditioning) without regard to reality. He was about managing our decline when we just wanted to Make America Great Again (a slogan first coined by Ronald Reagan).
Oh, to be back in High School and the Carter years. Ms. Pletka forgot that gasoline broke the $1.00 mark during our high school days for the first time here in Los Angeles. I can remember 35cents a gallon filling up my first car. First rate memory and insight.
Excellent interview and post. Those of us who lived through the disastrous Carter years remember well waking before dawn on our appointed day to line up for gasoline. He not only called for lowering thermostats to 65 but 55 degrees at night (which no one did, to my knowledge). But the "good man" rhetoric belies his moralizing and preening on human rights and many other issues (he banned hard liquor from the White House and turned off the air conditioning) without regard to reality. He was about managing our decline when we just wanted to Make America Great Again (a slogan first coined by Ronald Reagan).
Oh, to be back in High School and the Carter years. Ms. Pletka forgot that gasoline broke the $1.00 mark during our high school days for the first time here in Los Angeles. I can remember 35cents a gallon filling up my first car. First rate memory and insight.
An excellent book that merits a careful rereading as we honor President Carter. “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid”.
https://www.amazon.com/Palestine-Peace-Apartheid-Jimmy-Carter/dp/0743285026
An average rating of 4.7 on a 5 star scale from thousands of readers. $11.99 on Kindle.
Read it and make up your own minds.
A lot of history here that few of us know. One can speculate why. Thank you for publishing it.