Don’t Appear Weak!

Carter and President Gerald Ford debating at the Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia, September 1976 – Public Domain

“Since his death, Jimmy Carter has been lauded for brokering the Camp David Accords and for his post-White House mission to help the poor and battle disease. But glossed over amid all the tributes is the burdensome legacy that Mr. Carter left for his Democratic Party: a presidency long caricatured as a symbol of ineffectiveness and weakness.”

“This perception has shadowed the party for nearly 40 years.