Krull: Carter's legacy extends to many presidents - Evansville Courier & Press
INDIANAPOLIS — Jimmy Carter now battles cancer. None of the talk really has captured Carter's true significance. To understand why Carter looms large in our history, we need to remember how he captured the White House. It was 1976 and the nation still was reeling from a series of sledgehammer blows that nearly tore us apart — the upheaval associated by the Civil Rights movement, the turmoil caused by the Vietnam War, Watergate, Richard Nixon's resignation and... Carter came to power promising to heal us as a nation. The men who occupied the Oval Office before Carter — John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Nixon, and Ford — all had been creatures of Washington, D. C. Three had served in both the U. S. House of Representatives and the U. S. Senate and the other had... He ran not from a base of power in Washington, but against Washington. Carter ran to win. Four years after Carter, Ronald Reagan ran an even better outsider's campaign than. Source: www.courierpress.com
