A different kind of president: How will history remember Jimmy Carter?

François PICARD | Alessandro XENOS | Rebecca GNIGNATI | Fraser JACKSON | Susan NEIMAN | Andrew YARROW | Bernard HARCOURT

Edité par France 24 - 2025

Carter's funeral comes in the final days before another one-term president leaves office. And just as Carter's loss begat the Reagan years and a backlash against his vision of the social contract between citizens and their government, what does the coming presidency mean at this moment, both for the US and for the world?

Produced by Alessandro Xenos, Rebecca Gnignati and Ilayda Habip. 

Note
  • Is it more than the final sendoff for a long-gone one-term president? With Jimmy Carter's passing, Washington is marking two legacies: that of a peanut farmer-turned-governor of a southern state whose rise to power embodied a backlash after the Vietnam War and Watergate scandal; and that of a leader voted out of the White House after a hostage and energy crisis but whose second act in life made him a moral authority on issues such as peacebuilding, election monitoring and affordable housing. 

Langue
anglais
Date de publication
09/01/2025
Collection
The Debate
Contributeurs
Fraser JACKSON FRANCE 24 Washington correspondent
Susan NEIMAN Director of the Einstein Forum
Andrew YARROW Author and Historian, Former Speechwriter for the Clinton Administration
Bernard HARCOURT Professor of Law and Political Science, Columbia University

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