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43. Pad 98, October 28, 1980.
44. Ibid., October 16, 1980.
45. Ibid., October 18, 1980.
46. Ibid., October 25, 1980.
47. Ibid.
48. Pad 98, October 26, 1980.
49. Ibid., October 19, 1980.
50. Ibid., October 26, 1980.
51. Ibid., October 27, 1980.
52. Jerry Rafshoon interviews, April 4, 2014, and October 18, 2015; and discussions with the author, June 17, 2013, and February 25, 2014.
53. www.pbs/org/wgbh/americanexperiencefeatures/general-article/carter-election1980.
54. Hendrick Hertzberg, interview with the author, April 27, 1992; exit interview by Marie Allen, Presidential Projects Papers; American Experience, “The Election of 1980, Carter Strategies,” November 11, 2002, www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/film/carter/.
55. Pad 99, October 31, 1980.
56. Ibid., November 3, 1980.
57. James Baker, interview with the author, May 29, 2013.
58. James Rowland, interview with the author, July 14, 1992; Jimmy Carter quote in Craig Shirley, “New Book Pins ‘debategate’ on Dem,” Politico, October 15, 2009.
59. James Baker interview, May 29, 2013; Craig Shirley, Ibid.
60. Adam Walinsky, interview with the author, September 19, 1992; Adam Walinsky, “I Was RFK’s Speechwriter. Now I’m Voting for Trump. Here’s Why,” Politico, September 21, 2016; Laurence I. Barrett, Gambling with History: Ronald Reagan in the White House (New York: Doubleday, 1983).
61. Craig Shirley, “New Book Pins ‘Debategate’ on Dem,” Politico, October 15, 2009, www.politico.com/story/2009/10/new-book-pins-debategate-on-dem-028317.
62. Jerry Rafshoon, University of Virginia’s Miller Center of Public Affairs, April 8, 1983.
63. Elizabeth Drew, “1980: The Election,” The New Yorker, December 1, 1980; also quoted in American Experience, “The Election of 1980,” www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/featuresgeneral-article/carter-election1980/; Elizabeth Drew, Portrait of an Election: The 1980 Presidential Election (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1981).
64. Pad 99, November 3, 1980; Samuel Popkin Popkin (professor at University of California, San Diego), interview with the author, November 11, 1991.
65. Pad 99, October 31, 1980.
66. Ibid., November 2, 1980, 25.
67. Rosalynn Carter, interview with the author, August 13, 2014.
68. Pad 99, November 2, 1980.
69. Ibid.
70. Ibid.
71. Walter Mondale, interview with the author, September 22, 2014.
72. Jerry Rafshoon interview, August 19, 2013.
73. Jerry Rafshoon, University of Virginia’s Miller Center of Public Affairs interview, April 8, 1983.
74. Jerry Rafshoon interviews, June 17, 2013, and February 25, 2014.
75. Pad 99, November 3, 1980.
76. Samuel Popkin interview, November 11, 1991; Pad 99, November 4, 1990.
77. Pad 99, November 4, 1980.
78. Ibid.
79. Jody Powell, interviews with the author, December 17, 18, 1981, and October 16, 1989.
80. Douglas Brinkley, The Unfinished Presidency: James Carter’s Journey Beyond the White House, www.nytimes.com/books/first/b/brinkley-unfinished.html.
81. Tip O’Neill, Man of the House: The Life and Political Memoirs of Speaker Tip O’Neill (New York: Random House, 1987), 329; Frank Moore, interview with the author, May 8, 2013.
82. Pad 99, November 11, 1980.
31. Final Days
1. Pad 99, November 11, 1980.
2. Pad 100, November 13, 1980.
3. Pad 103, January 14, 1981.
4. Public Papers of the Presidents, Jimmy Carter, Vol. III, 1980–1981, January 14, 1981, 2889–93.
5. Pad 99, November 5, 1980.
6. Ibid., November 11, 1980.
7. Jerry Rafshoon, interview with the author, October 18, 2015.
8. Charlie Palmer, interview with the author, December 11, 2013; and in conversations, October 21, 22, 2015.
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Aaron, David
ABC
Abdel-Meguid, Ahmed Asmat
Abolhassan, Bani-Sadr
Abourezk, James
Abramowitz, Morton
Abrams, Elliott
Abrams, Robert
Abzug, Bella
Adams, Brock
Ad Hoc Energy Committee
Admiralty Island
Advisory Committee on Women
Affordable Care Act (Obamacare)
Afghanistan
Soviet invasion of
AFL-CIO
Africa
Agah, Ali
Age Discrimination Act
Agent Orange
Agnew, Spiro
Agriculture, Department of
Agudath Israel of America
Air Force One
Air Force Two
Air France
airlines
Airlines for America
Airline Transport Association (ATA)
Akins, James
al-Aqsa Mosque
Alaska
oil drilling
Alaska Lands Act
Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act
Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act
Albert, Carl
Alexander, Clifford
Alfonsín, Raúl
Algeria
Ali, Kamal Hassan
Ali, Muhammad
Allende, Salvador
Alm, Alvin L.
Al Qaeda
Altman, Roger
Amazon Basin
American Airlines
American Bar Association
American Federation of Hospitals
American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees
American Federation of Teachers
American-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)
American Jewish Committee
American Jewish community
Carter’s loss of support in
discrimination against
voting by
American Jewish Congress
American Jewish leaders
American Jewish organizations, civil rights position of
American Legion
American Medical Association (AMA)
Americans for Democratic Action
American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T)
American Trucking Association
American Zionist Federation
Amitay, Morris
Amnesty International
Amoco
Anderson, Glenn
Anderson, John
Anderson, Martin
Anderson, Patrick
Andropov, Yuri
Andrus, Cecil
Anglo-Iranian Oil Company
Angola
Annenberg, Walter
Anti-Arab Boycott
Anti-Defamation League
anti-Semitism
“Anybody but Carter” (ABC)
Arab leaders
Arab League
Arab nations
Arabs
Arab Summit
Arafat, Yāsir
Archery, Georgia
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
Argentina
Arizona
Arledge, Roone
Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
arms limitation agreements
Army Corps of Engineers
Ashkenazi Jews
Ashley, Thomas “Lud”
Asia
Askew, Reubin
Aspin, Les
Assad, Hefez el
Association for Computer Machinery
Atlanta, Georgia
Atlantic Monthly
Atlantic Richfield
Audubon Society
Australia
automobile industry
Aviation Consumer Action Project
Avineri, Shlomo
Avner, Yehuda
Axilrod, Steve
Azhari, Reza
B-1 bomber
B-52 bombers
Bagley, Smith
Baker, Howard
Baker, James A.
Bakhtiar, Shapour
Bakke, Allan
Ball, George
banks
Bannon, Steve
Baptists
Barak, Aharon
Barak, Ehud
Barnett, Bob
Barnwell nuclear waste site
Bar-On, Hanon
Baroni, Geno
Bartholomew, Reginald
Basket III
Bay of Pigs
Baz, Osama el
Bazargan, Mehdi
Beame, Abe
Beasley, Mary
Beckwith, Charles
Begin, Aliza
Begin, Menachem
Beheshti, Mohammed
Beirut
Bell, Daniel
Bell, Griffin
Bellamy, Carol
Ben-Gurion, David
Bentsen, Lloyd
Berglund, Bob
Berman, Michael
Bernard, Dr. Jean
Bevill, Thomas
Biden, Joe
Bigel, Jack
Billygate
Bingham, Eula
bin Laden, Osama
Bishara, Abdullah
Bismarck, Otto von
blacks
and Carter
church affiliations
in Georgia
public education for
Southern
voters
Blackwelder, Brent
Blanchard, James
Bloom, Robert
Blum, Yehuda
Blumenthal, W. Michael
Bob Jones University
Boeing
Boies, David
Boland, Edward
Bolivia
Bolling, Landrum
Bolling, Richard
Bolshevik Revolution of 1917
Bonn Summit
Bookbinder, Hyman
Booner, Yelena
Boren, David
Borman, Frank
Boston, Massachusetts
Bosworth, Barry
Bourguet, Christian
Bourne, Peter
Boutros-Ghali
BP
Brademas, John
Bradshaw, Thornton
Brady, James
Braniff
Brazil
Breyer, Stephen
Brezhnev, Leonid
Brezhnev Doctrine
bribery
Briscoe, Dolph
Britain
Broder, David
Brody, David
Bromberg, Michael
Brooke, Edward
Brookings Institution
Brown, Ben
Brown, Clarence
Brown, Harold
Brown, Jerry
Brown, Sam
Brown, Wesley A.
Brown, William
Brown v. Board of Education
Brzezinski, Tadeusz
Brzezinski, Zbigniew
Bunker, Ellsworth
Burger, Warren
Burns, Arthur
Burns, James MacGregor
Burton, Phil
Busbee, George
Bush, George H. W.
accomplishments of
history’s view of
Bush, George W.
Business Roundtable
Butler, Landon
Byrd, Harry
Byrd, Robert C.
Cabinet
Cable, Bill
Caddell, Patrick
Caldwell, Philip
Calhoun Bank
Califano, Joe
California
Callaghan, James
Cambodia
Cambridge Survey Research
Camp David
“Domestic Summit” (April 1979)
summits at
Camp David Accords
Camp David II
Canada
Cannon, Howard
Cannon, James
Carey, Hugh
Cargill
Carney, John T. Jr.
Carp, Bert
Carson, Johnny
Carson, Rachel
Carswell, Robert
Carter, Amy Lynn
Carter, Billy
Carter, Don (cousin)
Carter, Donnel Jeffrey (“Jeff”) (son)
Carter, Hugh
Carter, Jack
Carter, James Earl, Sr.
Carter, James Earl (“Chip”) III
Carter, Jay
Carter, Jimmy
(1962) state senator
(1964) state senator, reelected
(1966) gubernatorial race
(1970) gubernatorial campaign
(1974) announcing his candidacy
(1976) presidental election campaign
(1976) presidential election
(1980) Democratic nomination
(1980) Democratic primaries
(2002) Nobel Peace Prize
ability to bounce back
accomplishments of
almost lost at sea
anti-inflation message
anti-Israel positions after he left office
antisocial tendency
approval ratings
attitude after defeat
autobiography
Baptist upbringing
base voters
birth and background
born-again faith of
both a moralist and a realist
both a visionary and a detail man
campaign book
campaigning
Camp David meeting
carrying his own luggage
church affiliation
clothing, favored faded blue jeans
compartmentalizing of decisions
consumer-friendly policies
“Crisis of Confidence” (malaise) speech, July 1979
criticized as naive
critique by his own Cabinet
curiosity about facts
daily schedule
decency of, perhaps too strong
defense policy
and deregulation
detail-oriented
distaste for give-and-take
doing the “right thing”
domestic policy
economic philosophy
environmental policy
exaggeration, a characteristic trait
farewell address
final days as president
final year as president
fireside chat
first hundred days
first year in office
fiscal conservatism of
governorship race
as governor
Hawaiian vacation
honest administration of
I’d-rather-be-right-than-reelected stance
“I’m not going to give another energy speech”
inaugural address
integrity
Iranians’ contempt for
iron bladder
lack of political sensitivity
lack of priorities
legislative successes
marriage to Rosalynn
message of sacrifice and pain
as a micromanager
military background
mistranslated remarks in Poland
&
nbsp; moralistic bent
name recognition
nationwide address
Naval Academy speech (1978)
in the Navy
negotiating prowess
never asked Washington insiders to the White House
never drank
never lost his composure or seemed depressed
not one American soldier died in combat during his term
Notre Dame speech
not waiting until a second term
an outdoorsman
overestimated Arabs
personality of
political cost of actions
and the political game
political standing of, Rosalynn’s protection of
and politics, dislike of
popularity
populism of
preoccupation with peace
presidency of, successes and flaws of
priorities of
private life in the White House
problem-solving skill
rarely personalized letters
refusal to subordinate principle to political success
religious beliefs
religious motivation, to bring peace to the Holy Land
returns to Plains
schooling
self-critique
separated politics from policy
as Southern liberal
speaking style
speeches
as a sportsman
State of the Union Address (1978)
stocktaking meetings with Cabinet
stubbornness and tenacity
tax code, a disgrace to the human race
teaching Sunday school
three characteristics of
transformation from dove to hawk
travel to Israel and Egypt
unpopularity of
vice presidential choice
and the Washington establishment
weak on defense, seen as
Carter, John William “Jack”
Carter, Lillian
Carter, Rosalynn
Carter, Ruth
Carter administration
accomplishments of
unraveling of
Carter Bonds
Carter Center
Carter Doctrine
Carter’s Peanut Warehouse
Case, Clifford
Casey, William
Castro, Fidel
Castro, Raúl
Catholic Church
CBS
Ceauşescu, Nicolae
Center for the Study of Responsive Law
Central Arizona Project
Central Intelligence Agency