The American Presidency: Jimmy Carter - Professor Vernon Bogdanor

Jimmy Carter saw himself as the antithesis to Nixon - he wanted to be the president who would restore morality to American life. An outsider in Washington, he sought to base his policies on human rights rather than on they brute facts of power politics. Yet his presidency saw the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the revolution in Iran. Heavily defeated by Ronald Reagan in 1980, will the Carter presidency go down in history as a failed presidency?