On the heels of multiple domestic and foreign policy successes, the Carter Administration headed into 1979 brimming with hope and optimism. And the American people were mostly supportive of their humble president who helped return some dignity and sanity to the Oval Office. But trouble was brewing from within the Democratic ranks, the global economy and several bad actors abroad that would coalesce seemingly overnight to challenge the president. 

Chapters

Intro: 00:00:25

Chapter Six: Carter on the World Stage. 00:01:54

Chapter Seven: Fallows’ Peripeteia. 00:16:08

Chapter Eight: Mudslide. 00:24:15

Outro: 00:41:53

Resources

Office of the Historian, Foreign Service Institute: The Panama Canal and the Torrijos-Carter Treaties 

The New York Times: Jimmy Carter’s Unheralded Legacy 

The Atlantic: The Passionless Presidency

Vox: The Republican myth of Ronald Reagan and the Iran hostages, debunked 

Politico: The Humiliating Handshake and the Near-Fistfight that Broke the Democratic Party 

Brookings: Today’s global economy is eerily similar to the 1970s, but governments can still escape a stagflation episode  

HISTORY: Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev sign the SALT-II nuclear treaty

Book Love

Kai Bird: The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter 

David Rockefeller: Memoirs

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