James Earl Carter (Epilogue).

Unf*cking The Republic

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🗓️ 4 March 2023

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Summary

President Carter ran out his final year in office from the confines of the Oval Office as he worked night and day to free the hostages in Iran. After 444 days, they were released on the day his successor was inaugurated. It was a bittersweet and undeserving end for an all-too-brief tenure. The final installment of our series examines the events of 1980 and offers some final reflections on Jimmy Carter the man, and his legacy.

Chapters

Chapter Nine: 00:00:01

Epilogue: 00:11:08

Outro: 00:17:39

Resources

The New York Times: Jimmy Carter’s Unheralded Legacy

Book Love

Kai Bird: The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter

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0:00.0	Chapter 9. Glimmers of Hope, a quiet end. January, 1980. Inflation, 13.9%. Unemployment, 6.3%. Carter's approval is 55%.
0:14.6	And from our desk in Washington, Frank Reynolds. Good evening, day one of the 80s, day 59 of the seizure of the
0:22.5	American embassy in Tehran and the captivity of American hostages. And today there was a violent
0:28.0	demonstration at another embassy, thousands of exiles from Afghanistan, and some Iranians stormed
0:33.8	the Soviet embassy to protest Russia's invasion of Afghanistan.
0:46.1	Candidate Jimmy Carter accused President Gerald Ford of running a Rose Garden campaign in 1976.
0:54.2	This light here is that Ford was using the trappings of the Oval Office and the Rose Garden bill signings to leverage the power of incumbency.
0:58.8	The idea being that the more Americans view the president in presidential settings,
1:01.5	the harder it is to imagine them out of office.
1:03.0	And it's a real thing.
1:07.9	What Carter couldn't have foreseen was his own Rose Garden strategy that year.
1:14.1	From the moment the hostages were taken in November of 1979, Carter committed himself 100% to their safe return to the United States.
1:16.9	And we now know, of course, they did indeed all return on the day of Ronald Reagan's inauguration.
1:35.2	This is the story of a political pundit who looked at the world around him and just said, fuck it,
1:39.2	gives the middle finger to authority and says, kiss my ass.
1:42.5	But instead of a revolution, he started a podcast.
1:50.0	Just what the world needs. He started a podcast just what the world needs another basic white guy who started a podcast but it's fun because he curses all through the podcast i'm fucking the republic
1:56.2	with his motherfucking podcast podcast well jimmy Motherpuffin' Podcast While Jimmy Carter and team worked day and night devising plans to save the hostages,
2:08.7	the Republicans were organizing.
2:11.0	Somehow, after a disastrous 1979, Carter still came into the next decade with relatively
2:16.3	decent approval ratings. But there was a sense
2:18.9	that everything could turn on a dime given the turbulence at the end of the year. Not to mention,
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