farewell address. it s like ike s, beware the military industrial complex. this is one of the farewell speeches that i think will stand the test of time. listen to why jimmy carter wanted to be president and what he believed in. i wanted to lay aside my role as leader of one nation and speak to you as a fellow citizen of the world about three issues, three difficult issues the threat of nuclear destruction, our stewardship or the physical resources of our planet, and the preeminence of the basic rights of human beings. for this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival. liberty is human rights. the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishmentof its inhabitants. he didn t have the moxie to
perhaps be a great president in that way. as a salesman he wasn t a great one. but his values. your thoughts. nuclear proliferation which still scares the heck out of us from iran. energy dependence what we re facing with fossil fuels and that bedrock of what we believe in, hugh man rights. yeah, that was a speech to be proud of. i ll give you another example of pure jimmy, though. i have a copy of that speech on my wall that carter inscribed. he wrote, not bad for a tenth draft. maybe we should have worked a little harder on earlier speeches and saved this one four more years. what do you make of that? what s that jimmy all about because he s still around. he s out there selling his new book, the diary. the man was difficult to deal with. he was not a team member. what was he? i love jimmy carter. i respect jimmy carter. i revere jimmy carter. but jimmy carter is kind of an
politically what was going on there. this isn t exactly new. he said essentially almost word for word in that memoir that he wrote of keeping faith. that came out in 1982 and it was based partly or largely, i guess, on the diaries that are now being published. that was an emotional outburst. the truth is really that neither kennedy s plan nor carter s plan really had a chance of passage. that s what paul starr says in his book. and carter thought it happens to be true when carter did get around to proposing a comprehensive health care plan, it only took three or four hours for ted kennedy to come out and say he was against it, he was going to vote against it. of course that made it dead in the water. but it was probably going to be dead in the water anyway. let s talk about something good while you re on. i think you re proud of this because you had a hand in it. i am too. here is president carter s
war-wary folks and gave us a boost of encouragement when we needed it and she was a vote against the politics of personal destruction. let s take a look at a national map to get a sense of how wide the power is, i think, of sarah palin. we ve got a map here, just like in the election time. look at those greens. those are the primary picks that she picked across the country, and the green spots is where she picked a winner. coast to coast. numerically, she had 25 wins, 11 losses, seven no contests. but richard wolf, and schuhshona, 50 candidates. a big help in helping out. and when they lose a better help next time around because they ve got nothing to do but help you win the next presidential election by the way. it s sometimes smarter, we ll talk aboutiumy carter later, he built a presidential campaign by backing people that lost races. look it s an interesting mix. endorsements the old-style politics, right? aren t supposed to count for much. but in this new world she can
morning. the last word premieres monday the 27th a great day to start 10:00 eastern time. up next. they re back again. the sunshine boys all at it again. former president carter. who carter says blocked the president s proposals out of personal spike. well, we ll get into that when we return. this is hardball.