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Former President Jimmy Carter is the subject of Marquette University political science professor Julia Azari.

She describes President Carter's life and how he reimagined the presidential primary contest.

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And of course, greetings to our friends watching this on the C-SPAN lectures and history series.

So just a quick reminder on Thursday, I'm going to circulate the writing assignment and give back the tests. I know that we are getting very close to spring break, so if you're not able to make it, you'll have opportunities to get the assignment on D2L and ask plenty of questions, and of course I'll hand exams back after the break as well. All right, any logistical questions about that? Okay, then I'm going to get

started with our scheduled program here. Today we're talking about the presidential legacy of

Jimmy Carter, who was president from 1977 to 1981. Our lecture is titled Why Not the Best, which was also the title of Carter's campaign

biography, and I think really gives us some insight. So keep that title in mind as we think about

Carter's political project and legacy. So I'm going to start us off here with Jim and Carter in the news.

So a couple weeks ago, it was announced that former President Carter, who is 98 years old,

is going to live out the rest of his days in home hospice.

And this kind of kicked off a lot of reassessment, a lot of conversation about Carter's presidential legacy and legacy in the world,

some of which you read about today.

But up until this point, Carter's had a pretty kind of negative legacy,

and is often at the bottom of lists of great presidents.

You kind of see this here.

Here are a couple of, these are both

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