Column: Jimmy Carter was the right candidate for 1976, but was he the right president?
LA TimesDemocratic presidential nominee Jimmy Carter and wife Rosalynn, from left, with running mate Walter Mondale and wife Joan after accepting the party’s nomination at the Democratic National Convention in New York City. On the 1976 campaign trail, Carter’s stock speech included this solemn declaration: “I want a government as full of compassion and decency and openness and honesty and brotherhood and love as are the American people.” In 1980, Republican candidate Ronald Reagan turned that against the incumbent and found a receptive audience: “Mr. “My name is Jimmy Carter, and I’m running for president,” the initially little-known candidate began each stump speech, always with a folksy grin. Presidential candidate Jimmy Carter and Mayor Richard J. Daley at the Illinois State Democratic Convention in Chicago on Sept. 9, 1976.
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