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The Secret Service books all indicate he was a big micromanaging phony. This particular book, which covered the families between JFK and Obama period (presumably because those agents were still alive to tell their stories) made it clear that Carter was the worst (but they seemed to like Miss Lillian, Carter's mother). It does not talk about anything political merely how the families (and a few others with Secret Service protection) treated the hired help and acted in private (the Bush twins were a handful) plus problems of the Secret Service. They seemed to like Barbara Bush the best. I have the book but here is some info from it on Jimmy Carter:
"In the President's Secret Service: Behind the Scenes With Agents in the Line of Fire and the Presidents They Protect" by Ronald Kessler
Obama just got into office when the book was published but I assume they were assigned to him as a candidate, too. They liked him and Biden and again, we're talking about how they treated people who worked in the White House (and their pilots/drivers).
Sorry, Laura, I love your posts and almost always agree with you. But I don't buy this account of Carter at all. Carter wasn't and isn't the phony he would have to be for this account to be remotely accurate.
There have been better Presidents, sure. But there have been much worse as well. Much of the disdain for Carter over the years has been as irrational and blindly partisan as the current disdain for Trump.
If only we could find a politician with the grace of Jimmy Carter and the power of Reagan. We would be in great shape as a country again.
Bless you, President Carter, thank you for showing us what a fine gentleman you are.
Oh, Samuel L Jackson, bite me.
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