One need not pretend Jimmy Carter was a good president overall in order to appreciate several beneficial things he did within office and without. As Carter prepares to enter eternity, one such thing deserves more attention than it will get.
Others will write, accurately, about what a tremendous breakthrough the Camp David accords were, and about the worthiness of Carter’s post-presidential efforts for Habitat for Humanity. Some conservatives will note his wise efforts to deregulate the airline industry, and my colleague Tiana Lowe is right to credit his grudging acquiescence to necessary monetary policy.
With the strenuously anti-communist wing of the party, represented by Sen. Henry “Scoop” Jackson of Washington state, clearly and sadly on the wane, Carter’s mainstream liberalism was a much more stabilizing choice than McGovernite radicalism represented by Idaho’s Frank Church and Wallace’s racism. Carter also genuinely had reformist instincts against sclerotic bureaucracy and corrupt insider dealing.
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