Lol. Still he literally took a hammer and used it. Plus exposure was a positive. I was in second grade when he finished his presidency so I have no idea what his attributes were. Just his after life which wasn’t wasted. Even Reagan didn’t accomplish a thing after his presidency except build a museum to himself.
Big difference on what they did after office. Carter was healthy and in his 50’s when he left office. Reagan was almost 80 and was in the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease. IMHO it’s way more important as to what a president accomplished in office not after.
Reagan was older than Crater after his presidency and he didn’t live that long until the onset of alzheimer’s and then death.
Reagan was 77 when he left office and 6 years later was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, and we don’t know what he was doing as an ex-president who had accomplished so much as a man of history.
Carter had never done anything useful and being a showy do-gooder was his stock and trade, he was always portraying his supposed devout Christianity as holier than thou, but there is a reason that Christians respected Reagan’s deep faith and its reflection in his life of service and self-sacrifice and humility and did not accept Carter’s phony yet showy Christian image he had adopted early in his political life.
Picking up that very public hammer is so very typical of Carter’s lifelong image management just like his hand carrying his empty luggage to the helicopters.
Ask the secret service about the two men and which
one was deep and authentic, caring and thoughtful, and which one was shallow, pretentious, and phony.