Jimmy Carter is an intelligent man. You don’t get to be a Chief engineer on a nuke boat without knowing a thing or two. Having said that, he was a slow motion, 3D, quadrophonic, panavision trainwreck of a president. The economy was so bad, economists had to invent new words to describe it (stagflation). Jimmah was so bad, his alcoholic “Good ‘ol boy” brother Billy was more popular than Jimmah. Interest on mortgages was so high you’d think guys nicknamed “Nicky the chin”, or “Joey no nose” were the ones setting the rates.
Bad, Bad, Bad.
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He felt as though he had to micro-manage all aspects of the federal government and wound up with "Analysis paralysis".
He was not chief engineer..... he spent six or eight weeks on a commissioning run Most of his service career is spent doing nothing