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Jimmy Carter: How Not to Defend Your Legacy

By Jeremy Lott
A recent issue of Foreign Policy magazine features two full body images of our 39th and 44th presidents, both walking toward the camera. Barack Obama is in full color; Jimmy Carter, in a very seventies-looking suit, in black and white. There is an equals sign between them (so Obama = Carter) with the caveat, “Well, maybe.” The article, by historian Walter Russell Mead, titled... (Read Full Article)
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