Where Would America Be if Carter Didn't Have 4 Years Experience as Governor?

Question

Didn't those 4 years make him worthy of Mt. Rushmore once he became president?

Answer 1

lmao

Answer 2

[edit] Naval career

He attended Georgia Tech and Georgia Southwestern State University before receiving an appointment to the United States Naval Academy where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1946 and is the only graduate of the Naval Academy to become President.[6] Carter finished a high 59th out of his Academy class of 820. Carter served on surface ships and on diesel-electric submarines in the Atlantic and Pacific fleets. As a junior officer, he completed qualification for command of a diesel-electric submarine.

He applied for the U.S. Navy's fledgling nuclear submarine program run by then Captain Hyman G. Rickover. Rickover's demands on his men and machines were legendary, and Carter later said that, next to his parents, Rickover had the greatest influence on him.



Jimmy Carter as a Midshipman at the US Naval AcademyCarter has said that he loved the Navy, and had planned to make it his career. His ultimate goal was to become Chief of Naval Operations. Carter felt the best route for promotion was with submarine duty since he felt that nuclear power would be increasingly used in submarines. After six years of military service, Carter earned the position of senior officer on the USS Seawolf.[7] During service on the diesel-electric submarine, USS Pomfret, Carter was almost washed overboard.[8] Carter completed a non-credit introductory course in nuclear reactor power at Union College starting in March 1953. This followed Carter's first-hand experience as part of a group of American and Canadian servicemen who took part in cleaning up after a nuclear meltdown at Canada's Chalk River Laboratories reactor.[9][10]

Upon the death of his father, James Earl Carter, Sr., in July 1953, however, Lieutenant Carter immediately resigned his commission, and he was discharged from the Navy on 9 October 1953. [11][12] This cut short his nuclear power training school, and he was never able to serve on a nuclear submarine, since the first boat of that fleet, the USS Nautilus, was launched on 17 January 1955, over a year after his discharge from the Navy.[13]

[edit] State Senate

Jimmy Carter started his career by serving on various local boards, governing such entities as the schools, hospital, and library, among others. In the 1960s, he served two terms in the Georgia Senate from the fourteenth district of Georgia.

His 1962 election to the state Senate, which followed the end of Georgia's County Unit System (per the Supreme Court case of Gray v. Sanders), was chronicled in his book Turning Point: A Candidate, a State, and a Nation Come of Age. The election involved corruption led by Joe Hurst, the sheriff of Quitman County; system abuses included votes from deceased persons and tallies filled with people who supposedly voted in alphabetical order. It took a challenge of the fraudulent results for Carter to win the election. Carter was reelected in 1964, to serve a second two-year term.

[edit] Campaigns for Governor

Main article: Georgia gubernatorial election, 1966

In 1966, during the end of his career as a state senator, he flirted with the idea of running for the United States House of Representatives. His Republican opponent dropped out and decided to run for Governor of Georgia. Carter did not want to see a Republican Governor of his state, and, in turn, dropped out of the race for Congress and joined the race to become Governor. Carter lost the Democratic primary, but drew enough votes as a third place candidate to force the favorite, Ellis Arnall, into a runoff election, setting off a chain of events which resulted in the election of Lester Maddox.

Main article: Georgia gubernatorial election, 1970

For the next four years, Carter returned to his agriculture business and carefully planned for his next campaign for Governor in 1970, making over 1,800 speeches throughout the state.

During his 1970 campaign, he ran an uphill populist campaign in the Democratic primary against former Governor Carl Sanders, labeling his opponent "Cufflinks Carl". Carter was never a segregationist, and refused to join the segregationist White Citizens' Council, prompting a boycott of his peanut warehouse. He also had been one of only two families which voted to admit blacks to the Plains Baptist Church.[16] However, he "said things the segregationists wanted to hear," according to historian E. Stanly Godbold.[17] Also, Carter's campaign aides handed out a photograph of his opponent celebrating with black basketball players.[18][19] Following his close victory over Sanders in the primary, he was elected Governor over Republican Hal Suit.

[edit] Governor of Georgia

Carter was sworn-in as the 76th Governor of Georgia on January 12, 1971 and held this post for one term, until January 14, 1975. Governors of Georgia were not allowed to succeed themselves at the time. His predecessor as Governor, Lester Maddox, became the Lieutenant Governor. However, Carter and Maddox found little common ground du

Answer 3

Well at least he was more than a community organizer

Answer 4

So I am assuming you are being sarcastic and comparing Palin's experience to Carters.  I think you should look  more closely at your candidate, Obama, because his policies are in line with Carter's.

Answer 5

Yeah, definitely. Apparently some, like Obama, think he did a heck of a job because he wants to do it all again. Thank God that this time he won't get the chance.

Answer 6

I was in law enforcement at that time and assigned to a unit that worked with Federal Officers from all over the country. Those that I deveoped professional and personal relationships with called him "Carter and the Georgia Mafia". At that time Georiga had the reputation for having the most corrupt law enforcement in the Nation. If you were driving up interstate 95 and did not have a Georgia plate on your car, you could pretty much count on being stopped and issued a citation and either had to pay it on the spot, which the money was never turned in, or follow the officer into town and be held up there by suspender wearing, pig farmer judges. Carter was the only thing that could have stopped him from being a complete failure. He succeeded at failing better than most. The only President to get in a fight with a rabbit while he was fishing in a row boat.

Here is the search page link to any number of articles on the rabbit attack. Tammy Bruce has a humorus article.

http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=Jimmey+...

Additional: For Ford Perfect. What President do you thing stopped any futher development of Nuclear power plants when the French knew how to recycle the waste. Some nuclear engineer he was.

Answer 7

Carter was the worst President in my lifetime and also the worst ex president, he is a national disgrace. No amount of experience or training can fix stupid.

Answer 8

Carter can't be completely held to blame for gaqs prices he had help from Nixon and the executive order that froze gas prices and wages.

The wage freeze is why insurance became mainstream and doctors became so expensive.

Carter and Carter alone is responsible of the chaos in Iraq as far as the U.S. goes. His weakness and appeasement lost those people a year of their life and made America a laughing stock.

The left is so worried about Europe's view of us they would rather us be as weak as them than have the respect and fear of those wishing to do us harm.

Answer 9

Carter ? quick what year is it  

Answer 10

We'd have at least 2-3x the GDP we do now!  Plus Iran would be a free, law abiding country, and terrorism would probably not be a threat to the world.

Peace

Answer 11

Carter really didn't do all that much to create any kind of legacy for himself as President.  

He did try to further the cause of peace in the Middle East, but it wasn't successful.  

He was also ineffectual when it came to resolving the Iran Hostage Crisis.  

Inflation and recession were rampant during the Carter administration.  

Gas prices were higher than they'd ever been, and there were literal gasoline shortages.  People would line up outside gas stations for miles hoping to get enough gas in their cars so that they could get to work.

Worthy of Mt. Rushmore???  Don't make me laugh.  He was mediocre, at best.

I do respect him on a personal level for his dedication to humanitarian efforts like Habitat for Humanity, but as a President, he really wasn't all that great.

Answer 12

Carter was beyond doubt the worst President in my lifetime.

Answer 13

What made Carter worthy was his character, his life experience, his military service.

Palin has NONE of that. Even more importantly- she is corrupt, currently involved in a scandal, and ALREADY has a big fat reputation as a flip flopper.

"Oh, the Bridge to Nowhere? I was for it before I was against it."

President Carter was a man of integrity and character - no smears any of you spew will ever detract from that.

Answer 14

The only monument that Carter belongs on is atop the local Bob's Big Boy restaurant.....holding a burger special plate.

Answer 15

Eight years as Governor wouldn't have helped him.  He was feckless.  You may not be old enough to remember there were 50some Americans held hostage in Iran for 444 days.  He was and still is a complete loser.