Cspanshot. Org is cspans online store, our latest collection of cspan products, apparel, books home the core, accessories, theres something for every cspan fan and every purchase help support our nonprofit operations. Shop now or anytime, cspanshot. Org. Welcome to 4299 and students, i have enough handouts for you all, with readings to our friends watching us on the cspan lectures in history series. So, just a quick reminder thursday i will circulate the writing assignment and give back. I know we are getting close to spring break, if you are not able to make it you will have opportunities to get the assignment and ask plenty of questions and i will hand the exams back after the break as well. Any logistical questions about that . Okay. Then im going to get us started with our scheduled program here. Today we are talking the president ial legacy of jimmy carter, who was president from 1977 to 1981. Our lecture is titled why not the best which is also the title of carters campaign biography and really gives us some insight so keep the title in mind as we think about carters political project and legacy. I will start us off here, with jimmy carter in the news. A couple weeks ago it was announced former president carter, whose 98 years old, is going to look out the rest of his days in home hospice and this kicked off a lot of reassessment, a lot of conversation about carters president ial legacy and legacy in the world, some of which you read about today. Until this point carter set a negative legacy, at bottom of great president s. You see this here. Here are couple conservative news sites comparing democratic president s to jimmy carter teed to be unflattering sorts of comparisons you get lot of comparisons between carter, and comparisons with barack obama. Lately, as you saw in the piece that you read, reassessment and resurgence of thinking about the significance of jimmy carter as an individual and as a president , and kind of rethinking what happened not just in his postpresidency which has been very famous for all the Public Service he has done but also rethinking carters time in office and its significance. Anyone have any berliner questions or thoughts on this before i launch into the rest of it . Okay. We talked a couple weeks ago, what do we know about carter and i kept that in mind to keep us all together. I will start with a little personal 2006 story. And a doctoral dissertation and archival work at the president ial library, for speechwriters and communications team. The carter president ial library located in atlanta on the same ground as the Carter Center, election monitoring and other kind of global democracy promotion activity so it is a big center, new class of interns like yourselves arriving at the Carter Center and as i was reading the archives one d i thought i spent toouch time in the archiv a was hallucinating because im pretty sure i just saw president carter and his wife and so i s one of the archival stop walking out, did you see the president . Do you go say hi . Did you shake his hand and i saw security detail couple feet away and i was like that actually was president carter. I guess i should go say hi so i chased him down, which i dont recommend with former world leaders, went up and introduced myself to him and his wife rosalynn, introduced myself and immediately started babbling, which will probably not be surprising to any of you and said i have been reading a bunch of your speeches for my dissertation, im incredible and whatever and ive been reading of your of your speeches and he said im sorry to hear that. Which was very funny and kind of unexpected but kind of actionable he rang a bell in my head. This was 2006, think about the context. At that moment in time, you had a building cynicism, the administration of george w. Bush in the semester, about the way the administration, what they did and how they talked about what they did. There was a kind of growing sense that the public had been lied to, a growing sense that we werent really getting the full story about the kind of tradeoffs involved in governance and wasnt a lot of humility in that rhetoric and that what is what appealed to me as a grad student reading carters speeches that struck me. I dont have living memory of this administration but i was reading these speeches and carter talks about tradeoffs, he says here is sacrifices we have to make, here is what may work and what may not work and speaking about his own election to office he talked a lot about keeping campaign promises. He also kind of had this comment backandforth in the media where he says i didnt win by that much, it was a very close election and approach that with a sense of humility. We will break from the smirking history tv program, to the commit to covering congress. We take you to the floor of the u. S. Senate where lawmakers are holding a brief session. No votes are expected. August 18, 2023. To the senate under the provisions of rule 1, paragraph 3, of the standing rules of the senate, i hereby appoint the honorable tim kaine, a senator from the commonwealth of virginia, to perform the duties of the chair. Signed patty murray, president pro tempore. The presiding officer under the previous order, the senate stans adjourned until 2 00 p. M. On tuesday, august 22, 2023