This guy is a humanitarian.

[billanole]

Some years before, my high school in Tallahassee was joined by a group of Vietnamese refugees. I never got to be real friends with them, but rather knew of them.
In kind of a strange twist, I sat next to one of those ”kids” just a year or so back. We started talking and it turns out she was in high school with me long ago.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/04/politics/jimmy-carter-legacy-refugees-cec/index.html

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A significant part of Jimmy Carter’s legacy hasn’t gotten much attention, even amid the recent outpouring of tributes to the 39th US president after he entered hospice care.

These steps Carter took during his presidency are still shaping the United States, decades after he left office. But they didn’t help him at the polls.

Because of Carter’s actions, hundreds of thousands of people fleeing persecution had a chance to come to the United States when he was commander-in-chief. And millions more resettled in the US after he left office.

“He was well aware of the political cost,” says Carter biographer Kai Bird, author of “The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter.” When it came to taking on tough issues, Bird says, Carter didn’t shy away from doing what he thought was right.

And that’s where Carter found himself in the summer of 1979, making a decision that went against what polls said that most Americans wanted.

 

[SolarHawk]

Probably the most genuine president we’ve ever had. Dude is a stand up guy, and he’ll be missed.

 

[jamesvanderwulf]

Probably the most genuine president we’ve ever had. Dude is a stand up guy, and he’ll be missed.

2/3 ain't bad...he turned farmers and Iowa against the Dems after his disastrous Soviet Grain Embargo which crippled an already hurting industry, reeling from 15% interest rates, inflation and low commodity prices. Not all his fault except the embargo. That was the last straw, Ronaldous Maximus , here we come...

 

[billanole]

2/3 ain't bad...he turned farmers and Iowa against the Dems after his disastrous Soviet Grain Embargo which crippled an already hurting industry, reeling from 15% interest rates, inflation and low commodity prices. Not all his fault except the embargo. That was the last straw, Ronaldous Maximus , here we come...

This thread was not meant to be political. Thanks, james.
And then came Ronald. https://www.csmonitor.com/1981/0811/081142.html


They key issue will be whether the President and the Republicans can bring inflation down," predicts Mr. Moore. "If, as we expect, the overall Reagan economic plan works, then the President will certainly continue to enjoy the support of America's farmers."

Nationwide, signs of a small but growing farm backlash against the administration have been noted in other states, though they are probably not of the same intensity as in Georgia. No doubt this is partly due to the fact that under the Reagan administration, farmers' cost of production, including interest rates, have continued to increase at more than twice the rate of farm income. This declining profitability is still resulting in the exodus of some 1,000 farmers from the land each week in the United States, according to the department of Agriculture, and farmers interviewed in many states say they had expected the President to take stronger steps to reverse this trend.

In Iowa, the nation's second-largest agricultural state in terms of total sales, the President's popularity has declined by 11 percent since April, according to a copyrighted article in the July 19 Des Moines Register. "Ronald Reagan's political honeymoon appears to be almost over in Iowa," one-sixt of whose population is made of farmers, the newspaper noted.

"A lot of folks have changed their minds about the President around here," notes Iowa Farmers Union state president Pete Croghan, who adds that White House actions to maintain high interest rates and cut back FmHA lending by 25 percent were especially unpopular among farmers who Mr. Croghan says are "living hand to mouth."

 

[jamesvanderwulf]

"A lot of folks have changed their minds about the President around here," notes Iowa Farmers Union state president Pete Croghan, who adds that White House actions to maintain high interest rates and cut back FmHA lending by 25 percent were especially unpopular among farmers who Mr. Croghan says are "living hand to mouth."

Yet, Carter lost to Reagan 489-49 and four years later it was even worse 525-13. This opinion obviously proved to be wrong...

 

[billanole]

Yet, Carter lost to Reagan 489-49 and four years later it was even worse 525-13. This opinion obviously proved to be wrong...

Thanks, james.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1984/03/25/farm-policy-disaster-for-reagan/92dce6d1-ef88-48fd-8752-98d7b67436ad/

 

[SIXERS24]

Great guy terrible President like Hoover