Affiliated that is simply false. In that way get away from that question in the further we are. But carters campaign is the reversal in the fact that we spoke about it so freely with his appeal. Ive loved your closing sentence. Maybe he was the last one to no. Whats was his feedback . Steve is more likely to review the and i am. We just sent it to him last week. Iodine to space make city is not the last one. [laughter] but to be clearer that carter is animated or of assessed at dont think that is the bad thing. The world is of better place i dont question that for a moment. But even approaching 90 years old has no indication to lets up. But i think of the most recent book he has not been an advocate for choice. Carters relationship with the Southern Baptist convention by rights is a dysfunctional marriage in the then occasional attempts at reconciliation. It began to go south and he saw that as the real wakeup call. One of the Southern Baptist leaders comes shortly thereafter and his c
He was doing everything humanly possible working as hard as he could to solve these problems. After serving his defeat carter reaffirmed his commitment as a way to redeem his losses and the Carter Center would be an activist institution and habitat for humanity was not nothing if not an activist organization in the former president would not retire quietly into private life and there was work to be done eradicating disease monitoring elections elections, building houses and Teaching Sunday School with military confrontations and making peace. If carter could work hard enough he could accumulate enough merit to cut the balance of history in his favor. To a remarkable degree his commitment was success although they continued to criticize and ridicule his presidency the story is regarded more favorably. Of his activities after leaving office earned him praise and grudging admiration with that ultimate delegation and at what point does he earned a reprieve . When can he relaxed . Certainly
They were always very welcoming to me. And i have to tell you that publishers and authors do all kinds of sorts of things to be able to speak at this marvelous place. And it was lovely and as david said, brad and melissa had carried on the wondrous tradition that began with the energy and ingenuity. And they are keeping going and tonight is a testimony to the job that they do and the reverend that they did for books that we all share. Richard nixon is a hard man to let go of. [laughter] i first remember him as a child in a blackandwhite fuzzy television, seeing this odd man. He was on the ticket with general eisenhower. There was some problem of taking money from this secret funds. He was blaming his daughters dog. And i thought, isnt he interesting. Well, he never stopped being interesting. Richard nixon was never boring. And if david mentioned, he was probably as interesting in his after presidency as he was during his presidency. I chronicled in the book, beginning when spiro agnew
Falwell has his own Segregation Academy and this is what gets him and others motivated. As the architect of the religious right has corroborated is emphatic about this point i was trying to kick these people ever since of Goldwater Campaign and i tried everything i could think of. School prayer, prayer, abortion, nothing got their attention until the school issue and that is what galvanized them into a political movement. The second part of the story , the bob dylan case with the evangelical leaders but was also savvy enough to realize he needed day different issue to have grass roots evangelicals from the religious right and in 1978 the answer finally comes to him and particularly in minnesota and iowa something remarkable happens there are three seats up for office. And the governorship rollup for grabs. And in iowa dick clark was the incumbent and going into the election no poll showed clark ahead by fewer than 10 Percentage Points during those final. But what happens in iowa and mi
Wasnt mentioned tonight. And i wonder where can we learn how to be better statesman unaware is statesmanship being talked anyplace in the country that you can sit on as fulfilling that role that was developed in your own writing over the years that reflected on this book. Thats a very important question because statesmanship consists of helping to lead your society from where it is to where it hasnt been switched me the combination of courage and character and above all since the trends of the period our society is extremely pragmatic and continuous problemsolving rather than the reflection of the historical revolution as its principal objective. There are two other obstacles were two other problems we face. Our process is getting so complicated and so expensive that leaders have to spend so much of their time on the process and raising money and answering questions on Television Shows that there isnt enough time to reflect about the direction of the future. If you look in the 19th cen