Jimmy Carter discusses his Presidency with William Shanley - February 1983

[@cedricbaccay633]

He told the truth and kept the peace. That is no small feat for the job that he had and yes, he paid for it politically. I admire President Carter for that.

[@GroveEndRoad]

He also balanced his budget so well to a zero deficit to shrink the national debt that he inherited.

[@SethTaylor]

I found this by searching "Jimmy Carter young". He was 58 here.

[@APOCALYPSE_X-MEN]

Well, he was young in comparison to his current age (96).

[@wilnerolivier7971]

@@APOCALYPSE_X-MEN He'll hopefully turn 98 on Oct 1!!

[@Grmario85]

@@wilnerolivier7971 and here we are, he's 99 :)

[@stretchscreamers]

⁠@@wilnerolivier7971almost 100 now

[@mr.wittybacon6741]

@@wilnerolivier7971 here's to hoping he makes 100!

[@chuc5o]

Jimmy Carter is an intellectual

[@jeanjacqueslundi3502]

I don't know a whooole lot about the American presidency in the last 50 years.....but Jimmy Carter always come across as the one president that had a heart. I get a different vibe from him. Maybe that's why at around 4:40 the journalist goes on about how the public perception of his leadership was poor. We love warmongers and "powerful" leaders. That's why we can't have a world of peaceful presidents and diplomats that serve ideals we SHOULD aspire to.

[@ThatkidwithCP]

I don't think the American public loves warmongers. I do think we are a very heavily propagandized nation and thus vote against our best interest.

[@jeanjacqueslundi3502]

@@ThatkidwithCP Im sorry bro but no one bats and eye at all the wars the US engages in since WW2. You may think being a big country is enough of an excuse for participating in só much killing but loads of countries dont do it. Its been normalized. Thats what i meant.

[@ErikSchneiderUSA]

#JimmyCarter is an underrated president because of his success's in #ForeignPolicy and trying to move America away from #ForeignOil

[@veronicaherrera7586]

He’s an extraordinary person.

[@jamesgrant3812]

Wow he’s old here and still so sharp of mind

[@thorstrebla980]

He's only 58 here. The presidency took a severe toll on him, so he looks older.

[@Alaninbroomfield]

I have to do some more reading about Jimmy Carter

[@robertbates6249]

I believe he was well meaning but unyielding in his take on a subject.

[@bradyfry8031]

Compared to most presidents, carter left office at a rather young age of 56.

[@sean2015]

True because he was _elected_ fairly young (he was 52 at his inauguration, quite young for a president in 1976) and also because he lost re-election. But both Bill Clinton and Barack Obama were younger than Carter when they left office (despite serving two terms each) because they were only 46 and 47, respectively, when they were inaugurated.

[@justisolated5621]

Nah Kennedy left office at the age of 46. In addition to leaving office, he left this world

[@Magdalenkaization]

@@justisolated5621 If the assassination in Dallas hadn't happened and Kennedy would have won the second term, he would have left office quite young - at the age of 51.

[@cedricbaccay633]

Happy 100th birthday president Carter ❤

[@richiew32]

I miss having Jimmy Carter as president. He was a great president!!!

[@3dartistguy]

Are you crazy? You miss double digit unemployment, inflation, high gas prices, a weak military and weak foreign policy?

[@jeremycagle19]

​@@3dartistguyAll of which started under Nixon and Ford. Carter had to clean the mess and largely did so but the results didn't show until after he left the office. OPEC doubled oil prices which has nothing to do with his policies.

[@3dartistguy]

@@jeremycagle19 give me break!

[@Grmario85]

@@3dartistguy He improved numbers actually compared to what he was given, the oil crisis was not his, he brought peace to Egypt and Israel, he created the department of education, he understood renewable energy sources and he reminded Americans that they don't run this world and should mind their own god damn business. It is only in the last 15 years that America realised his value.

[@thedude-jb7wx]

MY HERO AND ROLE MODEL im a christian and he ntaught me how to be a gentle spoken compassionate man to ALL people that what a real man does. Jimmy is kind to alll people and doesnt judge them and wouldnt hurt a fly. He would actually catch a fly and release it rather than smash it. Todays men and christian are sarcastic and cruel to people especially if they dont agree or understand them. A GOOD MAN IS KIND TO EVERYONE!

[@yellyman5483]

President Jimmy Carter is a underrated president. I would rate him among the top 20 presidents. His success's in foreign policy, his efforts for world peace, his attention to human rights, and the fact that he never fired a bullet of dropped a bomb during his presidency are all outstanding achievements. I also think he handled the hostage situation well. None of the hostages was killed, and no civilian Iranians lost the lives. It is a shame that the rescue operation didn`t succeed, but the marines died for their country and for a good cause. Overall i think President Carter had a good term.

[@stormcop55]

THANK YOU for giving us that laugh!!!

[@justisolated5621]

@@stormcop55 what do you mean? Are you sniffing cocaine and eating weed? Weedcop?

[@histochronos]

He really got screwed over by the high inflation and the Ayotollah seizing power in Iran and the subsequent embassy situation. Any president to have those events in the last years of their presidency would lose any re-election attempt.

[@GroveEndRoad]

I rate Jimmy Carter as far as his intelligence as one of the smartest presidents, but it's hard to rate him in the top 20 because he didn't get that second term to prove himself, which I'm sure he would have been able too

[@DannyJManny]

This video was filmed before his mother Lillian Gordy died in October

[@GroveEndRoad]

they say that Thomas Woodrow Wilson was too smart to be president, I think he Jimmy was too smart to be president, but too nice to be president as well. That is just not a good combination. Mind you, I voted for him twice

[@dm20422]

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[@jallenbrockett4488]

Jimmy cater 👌

[@chobson8602]

lol not the worst like GOP say thats ...JRB Jr

[@3dartistguy]

Four years of failure

[@viking956]

14:30 "I was castigated by the press, because I was the incumbent". Really? Oh really? So it couldn't have been because at the end of Carter's administration we were experiencing the highest unemployment, the highest inflation, and the highest prime interest rates since the Great Depression.....coupled with the disaster that was the Iranian Hostage Crisis, the invasion of Afghanistan by the Soviet Union, and Carter's assault on the American farmer with the imposition of his grain embargo against the Soviet Union. So none of that could explain why the press "castigated" Carter. It was only because he was the incumbent? It takes an astounding level of selfish self-assuredness mixed with a blatant disregard of the historical facts pertaining to his failed Presidency for this moron to make such a proclamation. Carter has spent the last four decades trying to convince the American people that his was not the worst Presidency in history. The longer he makes that argument, the more "newcomers" to the scene view it with sympathy. But for those of us who were of age and actually lived through the disaster that was the Carter Administration, we know the truth and we're not buying this bridge. Now, thankfully, we have in President Biden a compatriot of Carter's who can use his own level of stupidity to teach modern Americans what a failed Presidency looks and feels like.

[@andrewheydt577]

none of those things were his fault he just had really bad luck they were very much out of his control you are just taking the bandwagon opinion

[@gatormcklusky6274]

@@andrewheydt577 LOL

[@Mrm_Mario]

Anyone who examines the accomplishments of the Carter administration and compares it to the accomplishments of Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush. Obama, Trump and Biden put together will be amazed at what a great President Jimmy Carter was!

[@jeremycagle19]

You sound like a Trump supporter. High on Nationalism low on reality.