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He came from 0% asterisk in the polls at the beginning of the 76th cycle to being inaugurated as the 39th president in 18 months.

Politically, it was a work of genius, but all the genius deserted him after he was elected.

This is your host, Scott Bertram.

Welcome to the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, part of the Hillsdale College Podcast Network.

That was Stephen Hayward, professor at Pepperdine, senior fellow at the Pacific Research Institute

and author of the real Jimmy Carter.

Later on in today's program,

we talk in-depth with Stephen about the Carter legacy. First, we're joined by Dr. Miles Smith,

assistant professor of history here at Hillsdale College. Dr. Smith, thanks for joining us.

Thanks for letting me be on, Scott. Talking today about an essay you had published over at Real Clear Defense, Navy has a

cultural crisis. And you open by saying that the U.S. Navy is adrift, strategically, culturally,

and spiritually. So what the heck's gone wrong over there? Well, I think that militaries need

an identity.

I'm writing a lot on the military right now.

We started a military history center here at the college.

So if our listeners don't know that, it's really cool, come out and participate in some of the events.

So I think that what's happened is the Navy, for a long time, kind of understood itself as this kind of defender of a Western liberal democratic

republic that was largely predicated on Judeo-Christian values. And that sounds like something

you would take for granted, but I don't think that that's necessarily been what the Navy,

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