Ironically, in a speech about a “crisis of confidence” Carter himself came across as not confident. Although he did lay out a plan, the speech lacked any single phrase that anyone could look at ...
The war had been over for Americans since 1973; North Vietnam defeated South Vietnam, reuniting the country by force in 1975. Still, Georgia Gov. JimmyCarter believed the fates of thousands ...
In 1977, they and a few hundred idealistic, young, smart activists like them came to Washington to join Jimmy Carter’s new administration — an injection of outsiders into a White House that took pride ...