'The easy shorthand about him — lousy president, outstanding former president — is misleading,' biographer jonathanalter writes in a guest column for Yahoo News. 'In fact, Carter was an underrated president and a slightly overrated ex-president...'
President Jimmy Carter at the White House in 1977.
The easy shorthand about him — lousy president, outstanding former president — is misleading. In fact, Carter was an underrated president and a slightly overrated ex-president, in large part because he had much less power after leaving office to change the lives of people around the world. Take the environment. Carter imposed strong new pollution controls and the first fuel-economy standards. He established the Superfund, which has cleaned up thousands of toxic waste dumps across the country. And with the enactment of the Alaska Lands Act, he doubled the size of the national park system. He forged the nation’s first comprehensive energy policy, which included the first federal funding for green energy.
Carter with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin during the signing of the Camp David Accords in the White House in 1978. The 1978 Camp David Accords, made possible by his much-derided attention to detail, is arguably the most successful peace treaty since the end of World War II. Israel and Egypt fought four wars in the previous 30 years but have not fired a shot in anger against each other in the four decades since.
Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, at a 2019 basketball game between the Atlanta Hawks and the New York Knicks.
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