The Legacy and Presidency of Jimmy Carter

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Wall Street Journal

News, Society & Culture

4.2 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Jimmy Carter, who won the Oval Office after the Watergate scandals by portraying himself as an earnest evangelical, dies at age 100. The 39th president served only one term, which was marred by an energy crisis, economic woes and a failed hostage rescue mission in Iran. But how will he be remembered for what he did while President and afterwards? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.0	From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.
0:35.9	Jimmy Carter, the 39th American president, died Sunday.
0:39.5	At age 100, his presidency lasted from January 1977 to January 1981, only four years
0:47.9	and one term, but he was the longest living president in history.
0:51.8	What's his legacy and what lessons does it hold for us still today
0:56.1	at the end of 2024 as we transition to another new presidency? That's our subject for today on
1:03.3	Potomac Watch, the daily podcast to the Wall Street Journal Opinion Pages. I'm Paul as you go,
1:08.9	the editor of those pages. And I am here with two of my
1:12.0	colleagues, Mary Anastasia O'Grady and Bill McGern, who, like me, remember the Carter presidency.
1:19.9	No aspersions on our ages, but we are old enough to remember what it was like then. Just tell a
1:25.8	personal remembrance. I met Carter when I was a student
1:29.6	at Dartmouth College working at the student newspaper. He was campaigning in the New Hampshire
1:34.2	anticipation of the New Hampshire primary. But he hadn't yet shot to the four as he would
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