1976 Jimmy Carter Democratic Convention Acceptance Speech

[@realmichaud]

"Its time for the people to run the government, not the other way around" - Jimmy Carter

[@bubbastill2040]

He didn't,and most of the American people didn't realize then that the big banks/corporations/oil companies/military-industrial complex/deep state really runs and controls the gov't.Yes,it can be changed,but in deeds,not mere words....................

[@flovv4580]

@@bubbastill2040 Holy Shit! They were already running the show in 76?

[@michaelbenedict5964]

May he be at peace now as the twilight of his life draws near

[@martinkearney8045]

Carter was (and is) a great and good man. While not a compelling speaker, he was very sincere. And the tone of his speech was quite moderate in tone but also populist. The Democrats would serve themselves by studying the themes of this speech. Many are relevant for today.

[@robertmoir5695]

He might be a good man Martin Kearney but he was not a good president Biden is a lousy president so was Obama and Clinton

[@viking956]

When results matter, doesn't really matter how great nor how good a man is. And the results of this man's presidency was as complete a disaster as any in American history. Only the current Biden administration comes close to achieving a more calamitous outcome from it's nonsensical policies. Now the Biden people have a couple of years to turn it around; however, should they maintain their current trajectory there is no doubt they will surpass the Carter administration as the worst in American history.

[@AcmePotatoPackingPocatello]

Carter incompetence destroyed the NEW DEAL.

[@joshuaroberts6937]

Possibly the greatest person ever to hold the office of the presidency.

[@jasonraczkowski6001]

he was too honest for the job

[@IronPiedmont]

@captain mirrorboots I'm bit of a GOP man myself, and even I believe that man's comment was uncalled for.

[@mariussiderkevicius2278]

@@IronPiedmont which comment ?

[@person3070]

Hoover was also a good person He and Carter were great human beings

[@paleo704]

So great that Ted Kennedy nearly beat him 4 years later in a primary despite being the incumbent president

[@maryharris8723]

This Guy Just Turned 100. You Are Motivation And Inspiration.

[@evanshiong3557]

Fun fact: Jimmy Carter was the last Democrat who won both North and South Carolina in a presidential election.

[@Kerorofan1990]

Also the last Democrat to win Texas. Been red ever since.

[@evanshiong3557]

@@Kerorofan1990 Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas, and Alabama would vote blue ever again.

[@austinwhite1268]

He was also the last Democrat to carry Texas.

[@k.t.5405]

Cincinnati Reds, Happy Days, Rocky Balboa, the Bicentennial and Jimmy Carter... that was 1976 for a five year old kid in America.

[@ryanr1701]

5:24 Greatest intro of all time

[@erubshirmee4427]

I think he should run for president he's got my vote

[@melodylapier]

A smile as big and bright as the sun. 💛

[@tony84.]

11:42, This is a very good speech, an underrated speech by President Carter.

[@ryanr1701]

The most honest president this country has ever had. Jimmy Carter's character and moral clarity will never be matched again. The country gave him up for a lying actor who stole from the poor and gave to the rich. This speech and Jimmy Carter himself is why I am a Democrat. A true President for ALL the people.

[@michaelmckinney2435]

THIS MAN WAS A WITCH AND A WISARD MY 26 LETTER IS NOT WORKIN OM MY LAPPY

[@selvitr3945]

@@michaelmckinney2435 which Carter ? Carter from Georgia a decent faith true for All the ppl

[@cedricbaccay633]

I love that band version of President carter’s campaign song at the end of his speech ❤

[@TimmyTheTinman]

One of my favorite presidents.

[@Hikaru3899]

the year is 2050 jimmy carter set to give the eulogy for obama

[@AntNBen]

Jeez if that’s the secret to living long than ima be eating peanut butter for breakfast lunch and dinner

[@shahrulamar5358]

@@AntNBen Our former prime minister, Dr Mahathir also above 90 years old. He is younger by one year than Jimmy Carter. He already 94 years old when he resigned in February 2020. He love riding horse and strictly controlled his diet. 🇲🇾 🇲🇾

[@Dimitristhe]

​@@shahrulamar5358Mahatir Mohamad still going strong at 99! Love to Malaysia from Greece!🇬🇷🇲🇾

[@WilliamStoneContentZone]

CARTER 2020

[@jrexx2841]

He might not even finish his full term😂

[@sydneyleite6553]

One of my heroes.

[@jasonhenry5by5]

Are you made totally of soy ??

[@selvitr3945]

@@jasonhenry5by5 Which Carter you re refering? Carter from Georgia not others dont be confused

[@robertmoir5695]

I could n t say that Sydney Leite and I could n t say that about Biden I hate that creep I hate Obama I hate Clinton

[@robertmoir5695]

@@jasonhenry5by5 No I can t say that I am

[@signed_Bewildered]

and mine too !

[@thedemocraticchristian2348]

Fun fact. The reason why, as President Carter mentions here, he never met a Democrat President is because they were all dead. FDR (#32, 1933-1945) died in 1945, President Truman (#33, 1945-1953) died in 1972, President Kennedy (#35, 1961-1963) was assassinated on November 20, 1963 and President Johnson (#36, 1963-1969) died in January 22, 1973, a mere four years and two days after he departed office. So at the very second President Carter raised his right hand on January 20, 1977, he became the oldest living Democrat President.

[@GreenArt4]

And he's been the oldest since!

[@shahrulamar5358]

@@GreenArt4 Now Carter is the oldest former president ever lived. 😮😮😮

[@elwin38]

I remember watching this as an 8yr old.

[@joannahharless7680]

Same. Still love the guy.

[@nicolasantoro4049]

Jimmy Carter Nobel Prize for Peace

[@dewbunny110362]

He deserved it

[@spider-manoscarkennedy6117]

Jimmy Carter looks great at the 1976 Democratic National Convention

[@westfalkland]

Carter seemed more charismatic and “fresh” here than in his 1980 acceptance speech.

[@relievedbigfoot4640]

I’ve heard that the teleprompter at the 1980 convention was unreadable. Not sure how true it is, but I’ve read in a few places that Carter and Ted Kennedy, as well, had to recite his speech from memory in 1980.

[@ousarlxsfjsbvbg8588]

Keep in mind also that during the 1980 DNC people had a rough idea that Carter was doomed, which must’ve had an impact on him.

[@williamwingo4740]

in 1980, he probably knew what was coming....

[@westfalkland]

@@relievedbigfoot4640Yes, I think I read that also somewhere. Think it was from his “White House Diaries”, he had to read it from memory I think.

[@raydaniel2490]

The last President that was a true moderate. It's strange how we still struggle with some of the same issues. We have moved to the extremes and it is sad.

[@Crayolapup]

My Dad was still living in the Dominican Republic and My Mom in NY was 15 at this time.

[@samstan4462]

I thought it was a pretty good speech. It was quite centrist. Reform the tax code, all americans who can work should work, efficient government. This speech would appeal to many Republicans. In '76 there was so much hype around him. 4 years later things were so dramatically different for him.

[@realmichaud]

we would have been better off with another 4 years of Carter, then Reagan/Bush/Bush would have never happened, 9/11....nope.....IranContra....nope....massive deficits and debt?....nope and the list goes on and on

[@CinemaDemocratica]

As I remember it, he had two basic problems aside from the obvious and oft-quoted ones (inflation and the situation in the Middle East). One, he had a lot more energy than he had agenda -- which after Nixon was exactly the opposite of what an exhausted country was looking for -- and two, he wasn't a particularly good delegator. The oft-quoted story of him taking time in the Oval Office to discuss the scheduling of the White House tennis courts is a telling example of this. Maybe inflation and Iran team up to take him down anyway, but I can't help feeling he was the absolute right guy at the absolute wrong time, more generally.

[@robertkresko6338]

You are right. It is often forgotten that initially he was big news. It changed for him as his presidency progressed.

[@lucaskyte-tremblay924]

@@realmichaud what an idiot

[@lucaskyte-tremblay924]

@@realmichaud Jimmy carter was trash that’s why he lost 44 states. Reagan won 2 landslides and got his own Vice President elected in a landslide thanks to his own popularity, something almost no other president has done. Carter’s legacy of failure will not be forgotten

[@patrickfuchs6086]

5:24 that smile 😍😍😍

[@LittleJoeTheMoonlightCat]

It'll be The Year I was Born, and Therefore Jimmy Carter is The first President-Elect Of My Lifetime.

[@LittleJoeTheMoonlightCat]

@Kent Beckman So Your a Leap Year Baby Too?

[@LucasStalloneTesla18]

Barack Obama was the president when I was born

[@judedesilva8366]

Happy birthday, Mr. President @JimmyCarter!!!

[@selvitr3945]

President Carter ‘s has slightly the face& charisma of JFK!

[@shahrulamar5358]

@@selvitr3945 Like JFK, Carter was also former Navy officer. 🇺🇲 🇺🇲

[@evanshiong3557]

Another fun fact: I believe he is the only president in the post-World War II era that did not appoint a justice to the Supreme Court

[@mikemessner1680]

I think he may have been the only president who served a full term who didn't do so.

[@benmiddleton9984]

Love you jimmy!!!

[@Eric-lt3xq]

Jimmy is was GREAT

[@anthonysandonato3590]

I didnt always like Jimmy Carter's politics but I loved his heart.

[@valinda22ify]

Thank you for all that you did for our country and millions of people around the world President Carter. I pray that you will not suffer in your final days. P 🙏 😭🙏

[@beasleybrother1]

The smoking so freely kinda stuns me but it was a different time.

[@jamesrivera4947]

Strawberry-blond appears to put opposite end of Tiparillo in her mouth (26:17) 🚬

[@JackRisvold]

JIMMY CARTER A TRUE STATESMAN FOR OUR TIME 💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙

[@Alejandro-ns4ub]

That orchestra version of the Jimmy Carter song sounds so good

[@callangray3427]

I miss decency..................

[@nicholasddesilva3297]

Thursday July 15, 1976

[@adielkhattabi4275]

last man standing!

[@callangray3427]

I wish this man had countless terms world would be much better off

[@kmartradio]

If he had two terms America would be so much better. Reagan needed 0 terms.

[@kmartradio]

Dave Henry No American would be in a better place without Reaganomics

[@Survivor87]

Right, and the unemployment rate hitting the fan, paying more taxes, and keeping the government in your way at every turn is such bliss.

[@kmartradio]

Survivor87 yea that was Reaganomics for you.

[@jimmorrison3657]

Thats exactly what Reganomics did and is still doing globally under Neo-Liberalism (TPP). He tripled the national debt and increased the deficit. He fired ATC workers because they went on strike. He was the first president to lower taxes on the upper class but raise it on the middle and lower class. Reagan administration has the most number of scandals out of every president in history. Reagan robbed billions of social security for his budget shortfalls. He was a corporate puppet who just happened to be a good actor.

[@stevendavis9712]

CARTER! CARTER! YEAH!

[@selvitr3945]

The women 25.25, 25.34 and 32 .01 giving attentions !, those audience cheerings clappings with that 70s fashionable Styles and hairstyles wows !

[@trackside77]

From what I can gather, and I was 12 at the time he was elected, he really did not have much in the way of competition from within the Democratic Party. Not quite sure who his opponents were, but I think Gov.Jerry Brown was in the mix, as was Birch Byah. Don't know if George Wallace had thrown his hat in the ring. Surprisingly, Teddy Kennedy was not in it. If he had, would he have gone up against Ford in the autumn?

[@martinkearney8045]

Carter’s victory in 76 was an example of how divided and weak the Democrats were in that era. There was no single front runner and Carter was very adept at exploiting the party’s divisions and navigating the mine field of primaries. Kennedy was weakened by scandal and the party lacked any other strong figure.

[@vidnut67]

Actually, Wallace did throw his hat in the ring in ‘76. In fact, going into the primary season he was favored to win the nomination. His biggest problem, however, was that he was paralyzed and running from a wheelchair at this point, and this hurt him as the primary season went on, especially after one of his aides dropped him accidentally in the process of putting him on an airplane and Wallace lay helpless for everyone to see. He had carried every county in Florida in 1972, but in ‘76 he finished third, as Carter pulled off a huge upset, and Wallace was soon finished.

[@robertkresko6338]

Udall ran in the primaries also.

[@dewbunny110362]

@@martinkearney8045 Carter was a great man who believed in equal opportunity for all Americans

[@josephbzezinski6847]

Back when the Democratic party was just misguided but not evil. Jimmy Carter was a dunce and complete failure as a president but he was also a good man who loved his country.

[@CWYMAN77]

He was an accident of history. Watergate paved the way for his candidacy. The country thought they needed someone like him at the time. They were wrong.

[@judedesilva8366]

Courtesy of WRC-TV (NBC affiliate), Washington, D.C.

[@Borrow919]

5:23 - My name is Jimmy Carter and I'm running for President

[@CWYMAN77]

Watergate, and the end of Vietnam paved the way for his candidacy. The country felt it needed his personality and style in the wake of a major scandal and war. In that vain, he was basically an accident of history. Even as the incumbent, he wasn’t a serious candidate in 1980, and he wouldn’t have been a serious candidate in 1972. He was at the right place at the right time, but he was in over his head from day one. Probably the strangest presidency in history.

[@Person-tk7kx]

Jfk wasn't assassinated at all. This is him about 14 years older.

[@coolcar3388]

5:23

[@jonchaney]

I heard he in fact farted, blamed it on a Ted kennedy staffer. Kept smiling, waving.

[@neutral7786]

Jimmy carter was a very humble person, but humility was his greatest enemy during his Presidency. For those who have lived through the Presidency of Jimmy carter. Was Jimmy carter a good President or not?

[@maeb8127]

JFK & Carter same ears🤔💭

[@AntNBen]

5:04 is that George Wallace??

[@TheMotz55]

yes

[@Pablosky1968]

😌🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

[@nathaninvictus7570]

He sold everything

[@josephconder9074]

What is the song being played as Carter takes the podium?

[@seanhitchcock1229]

joseph conder Why Not the Best... Then-Governor Carter’s campaign song

[@moy6569]

Jfk?

[@MrSS8864]

Vote for ME in 2020. MrSS8864 in 2020. I'll be a fantastic president because I'll be DEAD by then.

[@kneesoxxx7902]

RIP Jimmy Carter

[@AlternativeLoffen]

He's not dead yet

[@kneesoxxx7902]

@@AlternativeLoffen he will be soon

[@AlternativeLoffen]

@@kneesoxxx7902 of course.it's just that he is still alive at this point.

[@robertmoir5695]

I remember I was not happy when I heard Carter got elected president but I had a premonition he would n t get re elected 4 years later I voted for Ronald Reagan that was the first time I voted

[@elhijodelchupacabra]

"Are you better off now than you were four years ago?" Ronald Reagan 1980

[@rockytop4]

RR was a commie rat

[@selvitr3945]

@@rockytop4 RR was the 1 st President WHO married again after divorce, Those days strictly Presidents role faithful models! If you wanna now bad stuff of RR just ask his 1 st wife what an act or!

[@charlesnwarren]

And then came Reagan. And then came the fall of the USSR.

[@lliamjurdom9505]

The Democrats could have fielded a Labrador that year and it would have won ....

[@trackside77]

Carter did not have the charisma or personality of Reagan. Not sure why he kept going on about Kennedy and Johnson?

[@michaelcozzi9637]

Because they were the two most recent Democratic Presidents.

[@therealmaskedheel]

Jimmy Carter comes across as a mixture of Mister Rogers and that creepy uncle that is REALLY friendly to his young nephews.

[@aaronslife3159]

George Wallace should have won the nomination

[@robertkresko6338]

Time and the Democratic Party had passed Wallace by.

[@politicsdude369]

Nice guy, awful President.

[@robertkresko6338]

I agree.

[@rockytop4]

How the fun you know ...whats your age?... Ronny sold this cuntry to the commies

[@theCarbonFreeze]

Good god this speech is abysmal. Just awful.

[@mohtoadh]

What are you talking about? One of the best speeches I have ever seen.

[@WilliamStoneContentZone]

hello my dude :D

[@aaronslife3159]

2nd worst president ever

[@NoName-ch2wg]

Your an idiot dictator

[@pendorran]

Never heard Franklin Pierce or Andrew Johnson? Warren Harding? Millard Fillmore?

[@Regenold]

miami. 💙 1972 nyc 🩵 1976. It's all coming 🫴🏼 back to me now. I am going back 😆