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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
As a president Carter was a disaster, he was far too trusting of a person.
He flubbed the Iranian Crisis.
He trusted Brezhnev on arms control and Brezhnev not only didn't abide by it, but once he had the measure of the American President he invaded Afghanistan.
The Nato leaders had little respect for Carter. I think that the French President had a very dim view of Carter and said it publically.
The American economy plummeted under Carter with Inflation going through the roof as well as unemployment.
He was really not suited to be the president.
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He did initiate the deregulation of the transportation industry and the resulting changes to the freight rail and the passenger airline industry are arguably one of the most positive changes to the American economy (and also prodded similar changes to the Canadian transportation industry).