1/On this day, #JimmyCarter was defeated by Ronald Reagan on the one-year anniversary of the hostage crisis. His Presidency deserves reevaluation and if today's Republicans had 1 percent of his decency, the world would be a better place. bennetkelley.wordpress.com/2015/08/22/the…
2/The latest historian Presidential rankings list him as #40 in a key category - luck. He had to deal with inflation caused by the end of Nixon's price controls and two oil shocks - the OPEC embargo and the Iranian revolution.
3/ Had the mission to rescue the hostages in Iran succeeded he likely would have been reelected.
4/While the GOP slams his economic record, he had greater job growth than his GOP successors and he did something none of them did - lower the deficit. 
5/Carter also was very successful in foreign policy with the Camp David Accords, the Panama Canal Treaty, making human rights central to US foreign policy and blocking a potential Warsaw Pact invasion of Poland to crush Solidarity.
6/ Oh, and as you book your flights for the holidays, remember that it was Jimmy Carter who made air travel affordable through airline deregulation.
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