Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter And Ronald Regan Analysis

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Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and Ronald Regan all had a vision as to how fix situations when it came to the different issues the US faced while each one was in office.American citizens all had their opinion on each one of them. With Jimmy Carter despite the lack of experience when he had to face huge problems of steadiness while at the same time trying to be encouraging. Ronald Regan many felt as if he did care for the people. With Gerald Ford when he came into office the US was already in a feeling of distrust with the government after Nixon and the Watergate Scandal to add fire to the flame Ford had pardoned Nixon from any wrong doing which gave Americans a thought what in the world was going on with this president who was not elected …show more content…
During this administration it was the only one that did not raise minimum wage. (Wikipedia). When the tax cut was introduced there was not too much support for it. More importantly, Regan had looked out for elderly individuals he had vowed to protect those entitlements medicare and social security (university of texas)

Jimmy Carter was strong on the passage of HR 39 Alaska national interest lands conservation act there was no need for an executive order. In the reading, there were some interesting points but at the same time confusing when it came to the average of deliberation of a bill the statistics. Congress was not believed to be polarized on the issue of the passing of the HR 39. Supposedly, President Carter had dealt with a plot that was against him due to disagreement among congress and the fact that congress was mostly democrats.In my opinion between all three presidents congress was largely made up of mostly democrats. When congress shot down bills that Carter had supported then Carter would veto legislation that congress supported which seems a bit childish which is the same thing that Gerald Ford would do. In Carters case congress seemed polarized.A

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