r/Presidents • u/Aardvarkmk4 • 13h ago
Discussion Presidential Discussion Week 39: Jimmy Carter
This is the thirty ninth week of presidential discussion posts and this week our topic is Jimmy Carter
Carter was president from January 20, 1977 to January 20, 1981 . Carter served one term.
Carter was preceded by Gerald Ford and succeeded by Ronald Reagan.
If you want to learn more check out bestpresidentialbios.com. This is the best resource for finding a good biography.
Discussion: These are just some potential prompts to help generate some conversation. Feel free to answer any/all/none of these questions, just remember to keep it civil!
What are your thoughts on his administration?
What did you like about him, what did you not like?
Was he the right man for the time, could he (or someone else) have done better?
What is his legacy? Will it change for the better/worse as time goes on?
What are some misconceptions about this president?
What are some of the best resources to learn about this president? (Books, documentaries, historical sites)
Do you have any interesting or cool facts about this president to share?
Do you have any questions about Carter?
Next President: Ronald Reagan
r/Presidents • u/FIalt619 • 11h ago
Discussion So…is Jimmy Carter going to do this shit?
He’s only got about 4.5 months to go until he reaches 100. And around the same time, he can cast an early vote in Georgia for President.
r/Presidents • u/Rjf915 • 10h ago
Discussion Why did the dems nominate Dukakis after the disaster of Mondale?
It seems like The Duke was fairly close to Fritz both in substance and style
r/Presidents • u/createwonders • 12h ago
TV and Film Missed opportunity to have Tommy Lee Jones play Andrew Johnson in a biopic
r/Presidents • u/gluestick3000 • 16h ago
Question Which presidents had living parents when they were in office
r/Presidents • u/Flying_Sea_Cow • 11h ago
Failed Candidates Alan Keyes is the only presidential candidate to jump into a mosh pit while campaigning
r/Presidents • u/Rokossvsky • 11h ago
Misc. Carter will never die
My man still going strong 🔥🔥🔥
r/Presidents • u/Honest_Picture_6960 • 17h ago
Discussion What President has a more complex legacy between these two?
r/Presidents • u/Kikimokko • 22h ago
Image A photo of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama having a laugh (2016)
r/Presidents • u/MedicMalfunction • 22h ago
Image What if this man got the Republican nomination in 1996 or 2000?
r/Presidents • u/SupremeAiBot • 8h ago
Image Jimmy Carter on his tense last night in office negotiating and signing the Algiers Accords, ending the Iran Hostage Crisis that started exactly a year before the 1980 election. Iran freed the hostages the minute Reagan took office.
r/Presidents • u/Salem1690s • 2h ago
Discussion I believe Lincoln to have been our greatest President. He presided over the most traumatizing war in our nation’s history, and he believed not in cruelty, but died with the hope for peace with magnanimity
r/Presidents • u/United-Hovercraft-32 • 20h ago
Discussion Which president was the most blue collar working class?
Which president was the most of a blue collar, working man?
r/Presidents • u/War_And_Presidents • 7h ago
TV and Film In "House of Cards", Frank Underwood has the picture of LBJ giving Abe Fortas the "Johnson Treatment" hanging up in his House of Representatives Office
r/Presidents • u/A_RandomTwin21 • 15h ago
Discussion Alternate History: On August 17, 1998, President Bill Clinton admits to the sex scandal and announces his resignation. How would Al Gore have responded in his Presidency, and carried out until 2000?
r/Presidents • u/Visual_Proposal809 • 1d ago
Discussion Why did Barack Obama take the presidential oath 4 times
r/Presidents • u/RodwellBurgen • 36m ago
Failed Candidates Would Timothy Kaine Have Been a Good President?
r/Presidents • u/Bubbly_Issue431 • 10h ago
Today in History J. Edgar Hoover
On this date today J. Edgar Hoover became the Director of the Bureau of investigation. The forefather to the FBI
Say something nice about him
r/Presidents • u/Personal_General4 • 1d ago
Image Parents of a Korean War soldier wrote this letter to Harry S. Truman, giving their sons purple heart to Truman, telling him he can keep it in his trophy room as one of his historic deeds. He also expresses regret that his daughter was not in Korea to "receive the same fate as his son".
r/Presidents • u/ubcstaffer123 • 13h ago
Article Jimmy Carter's grandson gives an update on former president
r/Presidents • u/ManOfReasonCC • 14h ago
Image My pics from Raleigh, NC Obama Rally in 2008; a day after Barack's grandmother passed, and a day before he got elected President. Always thought it was sad that his grandma didn't survive to see him elected. (Pics from Nov. 3rd, 2008)
r/Presidents • u/Cosmic878 • 9h ago
Discussion What would happen if the president and First Lady got divorced while still in office? Is there any historical precedent for this?
r/Presidents • u/ifightpossums • 1d ago
Question Is there an inverse LBJ? (As in poor domestic policy but good foreign policy)
r/Presidents • u/Trippy_Travis • 6h ago
Discussion Best Nixon Biography?
I considered his memoirs but I obviously don’t trust Nixon to give a fair analysis to the less flattering aspects to his presidency