Exaggeration, misinformation and myth have always infected politics – even before social media took it to the extreme
as an outgrowth a Georgia commune where the spent time in the 1960s.
Carter biographer Jonathan Alter details that Martin Luther King Jr. befriended Koinonia's white founder, Clarence Jordan, during the civil rights movement. But the non-profit organization was accused in Georgia courts of being a communist front, and King’s inner circle considered it radical. Jordan was beaten on the streets of Americus, a short distance from Plains. Against this backdrop, Alter writes, Jimmy Carter kept his distance.
THE DETAILS: Carter sought the presidency in 1976 as an outsider in a party largely controlled in Washington by New Deal liberals and Kennedy loyalists. Carter was a “Southern Democrat” who never gelled with Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy, who challenged him in a damaging 1980 primary. Carter had described himself in Georgia as both “conservative” and “progressive,” depending on the issue, the audience and the campaign. Sometimes he even used those words together.
Carter advocated for a national health program but his top health care bill failed because it didn't go far enough for party liberals, including Kennedy. Carter grew more openly progressive as a former president, voting for Bernie Sanders in the 2016 presidential primaries. But he alsoMISCONCEPTION: Jimmy Carter is married to “RAHZ-lyn,” and he was there when she was born.THE DETAILS: Eleanor Rosalynn Smith was born in Plains on Aug. 18, 1927.
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