decision making by the presidency. the next person who got elected was jimmy carter. and all he had was his peanut farm home in georgia. and honestly, he hated to give that up because he built that peanut farm with his own hands. but, of course, this was a time of acute ethical focus in the country after nixon and watergate, right, the orange nat watergate and all the rest of it. so even though jimmy carter hated to give up his peanut farm and this little business he d built up for himself, you just have to do that stuff when you become president. governor, a part of your life for so long, how do you feel about difbesting yourself of it? well, it was a hard decision for me to make and this is something that i ve had to face. i ve literally given up my own method of making a living here in the plain. a lot of this stuff i built with
by the time he became president he had a long time as vice president and when he became president his approach was basically just to cash out all of his assets. he didn t have a ton of asset, but he liquidated everything and put most of the resulting cash into buying himself a house. he bought a house in key biscayne, florida, and ultimately in california. his personal wealth were tied up in two pieces of real estate and thereby walled off from any decision making by the presidency. the next person who got elected was jimmy carter. and all he had was his peanut farm home in georgia. and honestly, he hated to give that up because he built that peanut farm with his own hands. but, of course, this was a time of acute ethical focus in the country after nixon and watergate, right, the original watergate and all the rest of
the next person who got elected was jimmy carter. and all he had was his peanut farm home in georgia. and honestly, he hated to give that up because he built that peanut farm with his own hands. but, of course, this was a time of acute ethical focus in the country after nixon and watergate, right, the original watergate and all the rest of it. so even though jimmy carter hated to give up his peanut farm and this little business he d built up for himself, you just have to do that stuff when you become president. governor, a part of your life for so long, how do you feel about divesting yourself of it? well, it was a hard decision for me to make and this is something that i ve had to face. i ve literally given up my own method of making a living here in the plain. a lot of this stuff i built with