"A recession is when your neighbor loses his job," Reagan said during the 1980 presidential campaign. "A depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his."
Recent Presidents may have their differences but it seems they can all agree on one thing - they don't like Jimmy Carter.
A new book has revealed that George H.W Bush, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama all dislike the one-term leader's insistence on making his views known publicly and continuing to do foreign policy work. ‘Carter gives the club a great gift, something for all the others to complain about,’ write Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy in their bookThe Presidents Club.
It was Carter who brought down America’s ally, the Shah of Iran, and brought the Ayatollah Khomeni back from exile, thereby transforming Iran into the first jihadist state, and America’s deadliest enemy. Neither Ronald Reagan nor both George Bushes could undo that. -David Horowitz
Democrat, Liberal, Incompetence
In April 1980, President Jimmy Carter sent the Army’s Delta Force to bring back fifty-three American citizens held hostage in Iran. Everything went wrong. The fireball in the Iranian desert took the Carter presidency with it.