Carter writes candidly about the crises that confronted him during his tenure as President of the United States and Leader of the free world, from 1977 to 1981. Vetoed nuclear breeder reactors but supported research.Summary: Keeping Faith is Jimmy Carter's account of the satisfaction, frustration, and solitude that attend the man in the Oval Office. Withdrew from Moscow Olympics to protest Afghan invasion.Ĭongress uses tax law as goodies for special interests. To Southerners, presidency represented political redemption. Urged deployment of neutron bombs in NATO's Europe. Lost to lobbyists on hospital-cost containment law. National health insurance addresses gross inequities on poor. Use the weapon of human rights in peaceful struggle.Ībuse of human rights still serious problem in many lands.ĭeregulate banks & airlines get rid of excessive regulation. Push USSR to allow reunification of Jewish emigre families. Move toward normalization with China, slowly & incrementally. Passed energy policy of some decontrol & some regulation.Įstablished "Superfund" to clean up toxic waste sites.Įnd CIA lies dedicate US to basic human rights & integrity.ĭeal with Taiwan, China & USSR separately, despite pressure. Jesse Gordon, OnTheIssues editor-in-chief, June 2012 An interesting method for historians, and also for voters. Carter selects excerpts from his presidential diary that he kept while in office, and then for each one comments in more detail about its context, and what happened afterwards. In this one, Carter reviews his presidency by post-presidential commentary (published January 2007) on his actual diary notes during his presidency and governorship. This book is Jimmy Carter's memoir - or one of his memoirs (several others are linked at the bottom of this page). OR click on an issue category below for a subset. (click a book cover for a review or other books by or about the presidency from )Ĭlick here for 19 full quotes from Jimmy Carter in the book Keeping Faith.
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