Don't ferget Jimmy boy in '76. Widely ballyhooed as the modt intellgent president we've ever had.
Yes, the smart candidate chose Bob Schrum to manage his campaign, someone who had a lengthy un-broken record of failure.
They portrayed Reagan as a stupid man and a lightweight who surrounded himself with smart people and 'handlers'. Yet everyone of those smart people when they wrote their books praised Reagan’s intelligence, leadership and insight.
Carter never said he was smarter than Ford, only holier and more devout. Eisenhower was probably smarter than Adlai, but never wore his brain on his sleeve.