libertybelle,
Nonsense!! Carter had zero integrity. Perhaps you do not remember his years well. In the year leading up to the 1980 election, Carter only did something to advance his standing to look good to gain votes in primaries. He was a COMPLETE INCOMPETENT. I was a Dem at the time, and he nauseated me to no end!!
Academically, he was super brilliant. I worked with two clients that had MIT Engineering degrees and Harvard MBAs, truly brilliant, but they both were lucky to get the correct shoe on each foot daily. One guy ran a valve and pump plant for TRW that had not made a profit in five years, and the average shipment went out TWO YEARS LATE. No joke. Five months in, I had them at record shipments, nine months record profits. And I was a novice with systems at the time, and that was a huge part of their problems, systems that were totally FUBAR. Academic brilliance isn't worth a cup of coffee if one cannot apply it to solve problems and lead others.