#jimmy carter
Reagan:
- Ignored acid rain because fixing it might hurt corporations against his own EPA director who himself was a wildly non-conservationist person
- Actively tried to block clean air and water regulation in California that he would later try to take credit for.
- Fought tooth and nail to try to keep OSHA from existing.
- Rewrote numerous regulatory bodies to rely on self-regulation of industries instead of protecting the safety of workers.
- Because everyone knows companies police themselves adequately and responsibly. Just like Wall Street.
- Regularly ignored EPA research and proposals that lead to a mass resignation in protest
- Opposed the Civil Rights Act.
- Weakened Habeus Corpus protections.
- Actively undermined bipartisan anti-discrimination efforts, which was over-ruled by a republican-Majority congress.
- Began his career attacking civil rights and free speech protesters.
- Supportedmandatory prayer in public schools whilesimultaneously wanting to dismantle the Dept. of Education (literally the same year).
- Proposed NAFTA
- Laughed at people dying of AIDS and viewed it as divine punishment of gay people.
- IranContra
- Attempted to dismantle the minimum wage.
- Killed the Fairness Doctrine that required newscasters to be factually unbiased and accurate.
Wish i lived in the timeline where Reagan, Bush II AND Trump were never president. Think of the advancements in economics, peace, prosperity, and personal liberties we would have experienced.
If we’re playin’ timeline, let’s take it all the way back to Nixon. Nixon is the reason we’re goin’ through this shit now. It’s all on his watch, all these vile swine like Roger Stone and Manafort.
I’ll take the one where Jimmy Carter’s solar panels stayed, and our descent into the climate maelstrom would be a dark fantasy that would not come to pass, as we would have, by now, the whole fossil fuel thing done and over with.
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Suits Are Action Clothes.
Jimmy Carter, 1976.
Wishing former President Jimmy Carter a speedy recovery, so he can get back to doing some of this.
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“Do presidents ever feel bad for having so much stuff at Christmas when some people have nothing?”
Last week, students from a 6th grade Social Studies class in Texas took to Twitter to ask us about Christmas at the White House. The question above merited a longer response than 280 characters, and Corey Carr, Museum Technician at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library, found an example from Christmastime in 1980. Here is his response to the students at Krueger Middle School:
It is easy to imagine that Presidents do feel sorrow for having such abundance when others have so little. Some run for office simply to improve the lives of others. Some Presidents, such as Jimmy Carter, the 39th President, had humble beginnings. President Carter, like other Presidents, recognized this disparity and used their authority and power to ease the suffering of others. He spoke about his humble beginnings just before lighting the White House Christmas tree in 1980: “My background is as a farmer and farmers have to have a lot of faith in order to keep on every year, planting a crop, not having control over what’s going to happen next.“
During this speech many Americans were being held hostage in Iran and subsequently were separated from their families during the holiday. President Carter recognized the hostages when he asked their families if they wished all the tree lights turned on or just the single Star of Hope on top of the White House tree. The families responded by saying they wanted to wait until all the hostages were home before the main lights of the tree were lit. In the meantime the hostage’s families wished simply for the Star of Hope to burn brightly until their loved ones safe return.
Whether it is securing peace in the Middle East or eradicating disease in Africa, Jimmy Carter is an example of how someone from humble beginnings can better their lives and chose to then use their success in service of others. He understands that the real meaning of Christmas and life itself is not objects but rather people. Helping others, spending time together with loved ones, recalling fond times, and making new memories are what is important. Jimmy Carter epitomized this sentiment once by saying:
"I have one life and one chance to make it count for something… My faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try to make a difference."
This Christmas let us understand that we all have the power to make a positive change, however small, in the lives of others whatever our circumstances. That is the greatest gift we can offer ourselves and the world. What can you do for others?
Image: President Jimmy Carter at the Christmas Pageant of Peace, 12/18/80.
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On this day, June 18, 1979, President Jimmy Carter and General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev signed the SALT II strategic arms limitation treaty between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. in Vienna.
The SALT II Treaty established clear rules and limits on nuclear weapons. Although SALT II did not end the arms race, the treaty and its protocol:
- Limited the number of strategic nuclear delivery systems (bombers and missile launchers) after January 1, 1981.
- Restricted the number of warheads that could be put on each ICBM and SLBM.
- Banned the deployment of mobile ICBMs or the flight testing of ICBMs from mobile launchers.
- Limited the range of land or sea-based cruise missiles, and
- Banned the testing or deployment of Air to Surface Ballistic Missiles.
Though the Treaty had been signed, it still had to be ratified by a 2/3 majority in the Senate. On June 22, the SALT II Treaty was submitted by the President to the Senate for debate. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved ratification of the Treaty, but the USSR invaded Afghanistan before it could be voted on by the full Senate.
In January 1980, President Carter asked the Senate to delay ratification until the US responded to the invasion. Although the treaty was never ratified, both sides agreed to honor its terms until it would have expired December 31, 1985.
Images: Carter and Brezhnev at the Vienna Summit. 6/15/79; Signing the SALT II Treaty on 6/18/79.
-from the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library
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The Egypt-Israeli Peace Treaty is signed putting an end to all hostilities after Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin realize both their mothers are named Martha.
Trump will have the worst jobs record in modern U.S. history. And it’s not just because of the pandemic.
—The Washington Post
Obama, Clinton and Jimmy Carter
h/t Malcolm Nance@MalcolmNance
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President Jimmy Carter, a Georgian, loved pro wrestling, here, with his favorite wrestler, Mr. Wrestling II.
Jimmy Carter invited Mr. Wrestling II to his inauguration, but Mr. Wrestling II had to turn it down, as the secret service required he not wear his mask.
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President Jimmy Carter at the dedication of the African Room at the Kennedy Center [section of contact sheet], 4/24/1977.
Series: Jimmy Carter’s Presidential Photographs , 1/20/1977 - 1/20/1981
Collection: White House Staff Photographers Collection, 1/20/1977 - 1/20/1981
Image description: Four photos: two of President Carter and another man touching a hanging textile; two of President Carter and other guests viewing a large tapestry depicting two stylized people amid plants.
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