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Line 8: {{quote\|"Please, everyone knows that Jimmy Carter is just a fairy tale Republicans use to scare children."\|DiZ, ''[[Ansem Retort]]''}} Considering that it happened more than thirty years ago, a look around the Internet will astonish many readers with just how firmly '''James Earl "Jimmy" Carter''''s presidency remains in [[Your Mileage May Vary]] territory. Conservatives declare that his watch was a mess, while liberals assert that he ''[[~~Mis Blamed~~Misblamed\|inherited]]'' [[~~Mis Blamed~~Misblamed\|a mess]] ([[Barack Obama\|Why does that sound familiar?]]): the huge [[Vietnam War]] deficit, an economy that for the first time ''ever'' suffered rampant inflation ''while stagnating'', and a national post-Vietnam, post-Watergate funk which was described as a "malaise" -- a word that is hung around his neck by conservative commentators (and ''[[The Simpsons]]'') to this day, though Carter himself [[Beam Me Up, Scotty\|never actually used it]]. "Stagflation" was exacerbated by the 1979 oil crisis; long gas lines and high energy costs contributed to the national unhappiness. In an attempt to lead by example, the President lowered the thermostats in the White House and donned sweaters to keep warm instead -- which became for many a hated symbol of the lifestyle sacrifices which they believed his policies had made necessary. On the foreign policy front, meanwhile, the [[Iran\|Iranian]] Revolution of 1979 and the subsequent protracted holding of American hostages seemed to many to demonstrate the feebleness of the Carter administration's foreign policy, an impression by no means dispelled by a bungled attempt to free the hostages by force. (Conspiracy theorists have held -- and not without reason or completely without evidence -- that there was an arrangement between the Ayatollah and the Reagan campaign as the hostages were released on Inauguration Day 1981, [[Let No Crisis Go to Waste\|almost immediately after Reagan had taken the oath]].) Carter's term saw the Soviets deploy better [[From Russia With Nukes\|nuclear weapons]] and [[Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan\|invade Afghanistan]], resulting in the SALT II arms control treaty not being put before the Democratic-controlled Senate. Line 33: == Literature == * In [[Harry Turtledove]]'s ''Timeline 191'' series, Carter is a Confederate naval officer and is {{spoiler\|killed in 1942 while home on leave, defending Plains, Georgia from an attack by black guerrilla fighters}}. * In [[Stephen King]]'s ''[[The Dead Zone]]'', clairvoyant Johnny Smith meets Carter when he's campaigning for the presidency in 1976, and predicts to him that he's going to win. Line 74: {{reflist}} [[Category:The Presidents]] [[Category:~~Jimmy Carter~~{{PAGENAME}}]]

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