I voted Carter, since even Nixon is better than Reagan.
The man who told the nation to be careful over the man whose very model embraces greed and over-consumption.
The man who brokered Camp David, returned the Panama Canal Zone, normalized China relations, created the Department of Education, and came up with SALT II, and that's not counting draft pardons, environmental record, or mental health work that came of Rosalynn Carter.
Over the man who wasted billions and billions on "Star Wars", blamed trees for pollution, sabotaged Hostage Crisis talks the same way Nixon did in '68, allowed the Iran-Contra, supported Apartheid, and is pretty much to blame for the "Welfare Queen" rhetoric. And job growth was actually less than under Carter, and as Obama detractors say...what jobs did come back were abysmal ones. Oh and of course the Drug War idiocy.
Oh yeah and in conduct the former who respectfully thanked his opponent for the good, vs the latter who was somehow even nastier and less crediting than FDR was to Hoover.
For all the gaping flaws Carter had in execution, he's still ended up doing a lot more useful things than everyone succeeding him, and if it weren't for Reagan, most of his policies effects would've really brought things forward.
Nixon had more honor than the Gipper.
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