Walter Mondale
Vice President Walter Mondale wrote a memo to President Jimmy Carter at the start of their term outlining Mondale’s ideas on what he might productively do as veep.
My favorite passage:
The biggest single problem of our recent administrations has been the failure…
The latest economic headlines conjure up memories of Jimmy Carter in a sweater. Inflation is up. Gasoline prices are hitting records. The economy is sputtering. The ayatollahs are misbehaving. If you change the channel, you almost expect to see the Fonz.
For…
In a 1980 presidential debate, Ronald Reagan famously demolished then-President Jimmy Carter with a question directed at the American people:
“Are you better off than you were four years ago? Is it easier for you to go and buy things in…
