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VIEWPOINT | Jimmy Carter - A dignified president when America needed one
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VIEWPOINT | Jimmy Carter - A dignified president when America needed one

Guest column by David Adler, The Alturas Institute

Dec 30, 2024
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There is no system in place in America to dial up the president that the nation most needs at a given juncture. It is true that most delegates at the Constitutional Convention believed that George Washington would be our first president, assuming the sovereign people ratified the proposed Constitution and elected the country’s most famous citizen, the hero of the Revolutionary War, adjudged by everyone, everywhere to be our greatest leader. Washington didn’t disappoint his countrymen, unless you factor in the widespread disappointment registered in reaction to his unwillingness to serve a third term in the Office of the Presidency.

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