[Bernard Marx]

There was more, but that's enough to give you the picture, why many of us- myself included- swore Mr. Carter had to go.

The "more" I remember included Carter's headlong push to allow the Soviets to exert their influence all over the world, especially in our spheres of influence;

His apparent naivete(?) about Soviet front groups working to subvert American opinion here and in western Europe;

His complete wussiness and incompetence over the Iranian hostage mess;

His refusal to increase American military might even as the Russkies were flexing their muscle with increasingly heavier missiles aimed at western Europe and at us;

His derailing of the neutron bomb as a viable American weapon (now the Chinese are threatening to use it on us thanks to Wen Ho Lee and his predecessors at Berkeley, New Mexico);

And there's more yet, but I get depressed and almost homicidal every time I think of Jimmah the Commie.

[backhoe]

Thanks for the extra stuff on Carter- I remember all that far too well.

When he was Governor here he merely seemed incompetent, but the passage of time revealed a more malicious streak- he took weak, largely powerless beauracracies and centralized them in Atlanta, and this is finally bearing bitter fruit.