It doesn't sound like anything, but it was a huge decision. Then he went on to integrate Georgia. But then I think he spent the second half of his life, from that moment on, essentially making up for what he did not do in the first half of his life on civil rights. And that can be an inspiration for us, so this faith and this sense of wanting to do as much as he can for as many people as he can in whatever time he has left.
So, does he finally, Jon Alter, become like Harry Truman, a president who is appreciated, but decades after he's president, or not? What do you think? So, Harry Truman was his favorite president. He put the sign "The buck stops here" right on the desk. And I'm hoping that I and other authors can contribute to a real reassessment of his presidency.
He's not going to be in our first rank of presidents. He made plenty of mistakes, but I do think that historians are now starting to recognize that he got slimed in some ways after he left office, and that there was much more that he achieved than people recognize.
And, of course, we haven't even spoken about his achievements as a former president. He revolutionized the role of former president. Rosalynn Carter is this enormously formidable partner. And I have the love letters, kind of steamy love letters that he wrote her from the Navy.
So, he completely changed the role of first lady. She did much more, for instance, than Eleanor Roosevelt as first lady. And then, after he left office, he revolutionized the role of former president. But I'm just trying to kind of correct but I'm just trying to kind of correct the balance here and end this notion that he was a lousy president, which is just not true. The book is "His Very Best," of course, a play on Jimmy Carter saying when he was running for president, why not the best?
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Like his father in , John Quincy Adams failed to repeat his presidential victory four years after making it to the White House. Adams was in some ways a highly consequential statesmen, formulating the Monroe Doctrine, which aimed to bolster U. Among its core tenets was a willingness to intervene against European powers in any efforts to squash independence movements in Latin America. However, the sixth president was plagued by accusations of corruption and became a casualty of a shifting political climate.
A former secretary of state, Martin Van Buren became the first president who was never a British subject. Years earlier, President Andrew Jackson had folded the Second Bank of the United States, which some saw as a stabilizing force for the economy. Meanwhile, an expansion westward that was fueled by easy credit meant that many settlers lost their property during the depression.
Van Buren, who railed against central banks, could do little to stop the economic mess, and he was defeated in by William Henry Harrison, who died just 32 days into his term. That was certainly true of Benjamin Harrison, who presided over a disastrous economic situation during much of his one term. Harrison simultaneously advanced protectionist policies passing the McKinley Tariff Act of and appeased reformers by breaking up monopolies signing the Sherman Antitrust Act.
With his wife, Caroline, falling gravely ill, the Republican was unable to campaign extensively, which further diminished his chances. Harrison lost his reelection bid to Grover Cleveland, who acquired nearly twice as many electoral votes, despite receiving fewer than , more popular votes than Harrison. Though the legal profession was more his passion than the world of politics, William Taft became the 27th president of the United States, serving between and However, his relationship with Roosevelt soured while in office, with his mentor believing Taft fell short on delivering the progressive agenda he had hoped for.
Roosevelt ran as a third-party candidate in the election, drawing votes away from Taft; in the end, both were defeated by Woodrow Wilson. He went on to become chief justice of the U.
All that changed when the stock market crashed immediately after Hoover entered office, leading to the Great Depression. The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act that he signed into law raised the price of important goods, and his initial unwillingness to let the government interfere with the markets was widely seen as prolonging the economic malaise. With trust in his leadership eroding, he was defeated in the election by Franklin D. Gerald Ford occupied the White House from to , but was never elected on a presidential ticket.
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He was roundly defeated by Ronald Reagan in the election, winning just six states and the District of Columbia. However, Carter has had an unusually active post-presidential career, during which he has promoted peace efforts and diplomacy around the world. A little over a year into George H. He was given credit for successfully managing foreign affairs as the Soviet Union crumbled.
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