Critics saw him as weak, but in his one term in office Carter had significant achievements in foreign affairs and environmental and energy policy.
In their surprisingly short history, presidential debates have never lived up to our expectations—yet they’ve always proved invaluable
The “loser decade” that at first seemed nothing more than a breathing space between the high drama of the 1960s and whatever was coming next is beginning to reveal itself as a bigger time than we thought
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