C-span recently ranked President, Jimmy Carter, 26th out of the 43 presidents in a presidential historians ranking survey. In my opinion, his ranking was not a justified ranking for many reasons. After Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford served as presidents with their ups and downs, Carter had the mindset of changing America for the better with the intent on fixing the wrong that presidents before him had created. Throughout Carter’s presidency he had also made many mistakes but diligently tried to fix them. On the C-span poll, Carter scored about half in 8 out of 10 leadership characteristics categories, some being international relations and visions or setting an agenda. He also had some rankings that were below half, on average, like how he pursued
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The ways he dealt with his international relations throughout his presidency shows to me that he wanted to get things done that would benefit him before Americans or other nations. One way we see this is through his foreign policy that was characterized by idealism. “Carter’s motto was ‘fairness, and not force,’ and he preferred to use diplomacy instead of military intervention.” (Jimmy Carter’s foreign policy, document 5) Carter thought as though trying to promote justice and equality by using fairness and not force was the best way to go about things, which sounds like the right thing to do when the president is trying to create peace. A strength that came from Carter’s motto and actions was that there was very little violence to show a general idea of peace, but a weakness in using fairness and not force is that now Carter along with the U.S. government and citizens are all seen as scared and weak. This is not good because other nations and countries think that they are stronger than us, giving them the mindset of being able to start a war against the U.S. thinking they will win, totally overlooking Carter’s intentions of his …show more content…
Stagflation was a big problem before Carter even thought about going into presidency, but the results of inflation increasing 14% in 10 years after he was elected shows that Carter was trying to make stagflation stop but nothing he did or tried to do seemed to work. Soon after Carter took office in 1977, he had planned to relieve the nation’s dependence on foreign oils with the National Energy Act. This “offered incentives and benefits to people who conserved energy or invested in alternative energy sources like solar power” (National Energy Act, document 3). The National Energy Act did not go the way Carter had planned because he tried to just jump in and switch everyone from their use of foreign oils to solar power, instead Americans got even more caught up in foreign oils and they were not able to get out of or avoid the use of foreign oils before using solar
The ways he dealt with his international relations throughout his presidency shows to me that he wanted to get things done that would benefit him before Americans or other nations. One way we see this is through his foreign policy that was characterized by idealism. “Carter’s motto was ‘fairness, and not force,’ and he preferred to use diplomacy instead of military intervention.” (Jimmy Carter’s foreign policy, document 5) Carter thought as though trying to promote justice and equality by using fairness and not force was the best way to go about things, which sounds like the right thing to do when the president is trying to create peace. A strength that came from Carter’s motto and actions was that there was very little violence to show a general idea of peace, but a weakness in using fairness and not force is that now Carter along with the U.S. government and citizens are all seen as scared and weak. This is not good because other nations and countries think that they are stronger than us, giving them the mindset of being able to start a war against the U.S. thinking they will win, totally overlooking Carter’s intentions of his …show more content…
Stagflation was a big problem before Carter even thought about going into presidency, but the results of inflation increasing 14% in 10 years after he was elected shows that Carter was trying to make stagflation stop but nothing he did or tried to do seemed to work. Soon after Carter took office in 1977, he had planned to relieve the nation’s dependence on foreign oils with the National Energy Act. This “offered incentives and benefits to people who conserved energy or invested in alternative energy sources like solar power” (National Energy Act, document 3). The National Energy Act did not go the way Carter had planned because he tried to just jump in and switch everyone from their use of foreign oils to solar power, instead Americans got even more caught up in foreign oils and they were not able to get out of or avoid the use of foreign oils before using solar