JIMMY CARTER (D) - 1977-1981
After the resignation of Nixon and the pardoning by Ford, Jimmy Carter was elected to be the 39th President as a pallet-cleanser, an honest man. The former peanut farmer could just never gather a consensus together to achieve any of his noble goals.
Ted Kennedy attacked him from the left and Ronald Reagan from the right, and Carter never could come up with anything to solve the nation's problems with inflation, rising prices, and the energy crisis. He was sharply criticized for having the United States boycott the 1980 Olympics in the USSR, his response to the Russians being in Afghanistan. The Iranian hostage crisis dominated the last year of his presidency, and it was only after he lost re-election that the hostages were released.
Carter's gone on to do a lot of humanitarian work and is there to speak for any liberal cause, but while in office, no matter how smart he supposedly was, the nation spun its wheels in malaise for four years.
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