The Real Jimmy Carter

by Steven F. Hayward

The Nobel Prize is just the beginning: Jimmy Carter is enjoying a new day in the sun, with left-wing historians taking a "fresh look" at his disastrous presidency and trying to bamboozle Americans into thinking that it was actually successful. This ongoing Saint Jimmy campaign would be laughable if it weren't part of a larger strategy to whitewash the records of failed Democrats and justify Carter's outsize influence on today's Democratic party. Although the voters decisively dispatched Jimmy Carter in 1980, his legacy lives on in potent form today and is likely to survive his death. But now in The Real Jimmy Carter Steven F. Hayward demolishes the Carter myth once and for all.

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• How Carter's political persona amounts to little more than an odd combination of Machiavelli and Mr. Rogers

• Why the editor of the Atlanta Constitution called Carter "one of the three or four phoniest men I ever met"

• How Carter has again and again shown himself bereft of a solid intellectual foundation for his political views

• Carter as a politician: his habits of exaggeration, disingenuousness, and outright deception -- belying his claim to occupy the moral high ground

• Carter's weak, vacillating position on school desegregation as a member of a Georgia school board in the 1950s

• Carter's 1970 run for Georgia governor: after conducting an appallingly cynical race-baiting campaign, he immediately proclaimed that the time had come for the South to repudiate its racist ways

• Why Carter the renowned liberal moralist once declared that "Lester Maddox is the embodiment of the Democratic Party" and "George Wallace and I are in agreement on most issues"

• Jimmy's loopy side: who's the only person elected to the presidency to have filed a UFO-sighting report with the Air Force? You guessed it

• Why the national media ignored Carter's race-baiting and made him one of the darlings of the Democratic party in the early 1970s

• How, despite claiming to be "above politics," Carter used the traditional weapons of power as Governor: patronage appointments, attempts to maneuver his supporters into key legislative posts, and more

• False: Carter's claim, made during his 1976 presidential run, that he was a nuclear physicist

• Abortion: how Carter's 1976 position on this issue vividly displayed his ability to stand on both sides of an issue

• How Carter's 1976 election as president was not a fluke of the post-Watergate moment, but the fruit of his own carefully planned five-year effort

• Why even Carter's notorious use of foul language in his mid-campaign Playboy interview may have been the result of careful calculation

• Carter: born again? Disquieting evidence that he was not as much "one of us" as evangelical Christians assumed in 1976

• The massive blunder Carter committed as President -- that was repeated by Bill Clinton in 1993

• President Carter's foreign policy: "McGovernism without McGovern"

• The Camp David accords: why Anwar Sadat exclaimed, "I'd just spent two years throwing the Soviets out of the Middle East, and now the United States is inviting them back in"

• The Carter executive order that Barry Goldwater blasted as "the most disgraceful thing a president has ever done"

• Inside the Carter White House during the disasters of the Sandinista takeover of Nicaragua, the energy crisis and the Khomeini Revolution and hostage crisis in Iran

• The "malaise speech": why Carter made it, and the effect it had on his failed presidency

• Global 2000: the doom-and-gloom study that Carter released shortly before leaving the presidency -- how most of its predictions have turned out to be wildly wrong

• Why the Carter Administration believed that the old Cold War strategy of containment was no longer necessary

• How Carter made direct contacts with Soviet officials to try to subvert President Reagan's anti-Communist policies

• Revealed: the shocking extent of Carter's clandestine efforts to sabotage the first Gulf War in 1990

• The Clinton Administration: how it became Carter's virtual second term, despite Slick Willie's disdain for Carter

• How Carter's perspective has become dominant among contemporary liberals and his Democratic Party successors

• Carter's Nobel Prize: how a Nobel official inadvertently revealed that it was actually meant as a slap in the face of the American people

• Carter the meddling ex-president: how, in the words of Time magazine's Lance Morrow, some of his "Lone Ranger work has taken him dangerously close to the neighborhood of what we used to call treason"

• Bank robber Willie Sutton's assessment of Carter: "I've never seen a bigger confidence man in my life, and I've been around some of the best in the business"

  Steven Hayward demonstrates again and again that Jimmy Carter's failures weren't just accidents of history. They're rooted in the character and ideology of the man himself. This wouldn't concern anyone except Rosalynn and Amy if it weren't for the fact that Carter continues to insert himself in the nation's business, both at home and around the world. But The Real Jimmy Carter proves that the Emperor from Plains has no clothes -- and never has.
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   Chris Queen
  I was just a kid when Jimmy Carter was president, so my memories of his term in office were vague at best, even though he was from my home state. Steven Hayward's book brought to light for me the truth of Carter's terms as governor of Georgia and as President in so many ways. Hayward covers Carter's post-presidential career as well. I had always seen Carter as a dangerous liberal, but this book opened my eyes to just how scary Carter and his ideas are.

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  Not Rated  Michael Thayer
  This book is riveting to me because I lived through all the events. This book is not a positional polemic. Hayward runs a logical thread through Carter's career and replays it with clarity. What emerges is a "plan" that is either the product of total ineptitude or gross malfeasance. Hayward points out from scores of quotes from such right wing sources as Daniel Patrick Moynihan, The New Republic, and Tip O'Neill that Carter's "policies" as president were nothing more than series of "choose and lose" blunders, a potpourri of esoteric mushy/moralistic wishes and noble intentions that were light years from what Jack Welch calls "The Reality Principle." Carter SAYS he is a Christian but an examination of the proof points for that assertion shows this may be a simple storefront to mask his meglomania. As Bob Hope used to joke about Danny Thomas wearing "stained glass contact lenses" Carter is all show. His favorite word is the personal pronoun " I " and he is the hero of every story he tells. This book shows how Carter is addicted to flattery - even from the coarsest dictators, that he is a mean-spirited and detached loner who puts up with others only if they genuflect to his syrupy guile. If Carter is a Christian, then Yasser Arafat is Francis of Assisi. At least, this is how Carter sees this murderous thug who masquerades as a "head of state." His other close buddies? Mostly Stalinists like Kim Jong Il and his predecessor, Mohammed Fara Aidid, and others of the same ilk. Truly amazing. After seeing the wonderful tribute to Reagan at his passing, the contrast to Carter is larger than ever. Carter preyed on the minds of the American people to give him another chance after he took the American people to task for their materialism in 1979 rather than taking responsibility for the disasterous conditions HIS amateurish policies brought about. Thankfully, the American people didn't buy it and the current generation was providentially delivered from disaster in the election of 1980. This book is a recap of what REALLY happened. It is long overdue to isolate and advertise Carter's record and along with Soviet Communism consign it to the ash heap of history.

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  I've never thought Jimmy Carter was who he claimed to be and still does. He was a cold, cunning egotist while in the White House and his arrogance sealed his fate for good as an unsuccessful president. Hayward goes into detail regarding the cold Carter.

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