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First I have heard of this. Appears Carter was a far better "actor" then President.
1 posted on 03/03/2023 8:21:49 AM PST by traderrob6
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"very short and rude most of the time."

That appears to be the entire story here. No other details. That's it.

The news profession is pitiful.

2 posted on 03/03/2023 8:26:33 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (“You want it one way, but it's the other way”)
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Fine time to spill.


3 posted on 03/03/2023 8:27:23 AM PST by Irenic
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There was an incident where “man of the people” carried his own suitcase down the stairs of Air Force One. It later came to be known the bag was empty; it was all for “show”.


4 posted on 03/03/2023 8:27:53 AM PST by jttpwalsh
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I’ve heard this for at least 20 years.


5 posted on 03/03/2023 8:28:41 AM PST by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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6 posted on 03/03/2023 8:29:44 AM PST by Bratch
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Small picture President not built for the executive job and the miserable results in office are testimony to this fact.


7 posted on 03/03/2023 8:29:59 AM PST by chuckee ( )
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Carter was in over his head. I imagine the frustration caused him to be irritable with people. Kamala, anyone?


10 posted on 03/03/2023 8:31:54 AM PST by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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He tried to kill that little rabbit.


11 posted on 03/03/2023 8:32:49 AM PST by jeffersondem
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He had me fooled a bit but he was a dim and his Presidency was a disaster. HIs post Presidency revealed to me a bitter person. I read enough about him here on FR to not exactly like him although some here do.


12 posted on 03/03/2023 8:33:31 AM PST by xp38
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Why do you guys direct FR to MSN?

Why won’t you send us to the actual source?


14 posted on 03/03/2023 8:34:30 AM PST by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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Its interesting what Secret Service say about those they protect. For the most part, politicians are polite and nice, but the rare ones, like Carter and Hillary for example, are known for being rude and even abusive.


15 posted on 03/03/2023 8:34:30 AM PST by KC_Conspirator
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I knew an older guy who was on the president’s Secret Service detail.

Me: Who was your favorite president to work for?
Him: That was Ronald Reagan, easily. He was always friendly with us. Here’s just one example. Reagan kept a record of the birthdays of all our children. And on that day he’d convey his birthday wishes.

Me: Who was your least favorite president to work for?
Him (smiling): I’d rather not say.

So I got at least half the story.


19 posted on 03/03/2023 8:39:41 AM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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And some SS agents should learn to keep their traps shut.


20 posted on 03/03/2023 8:40:52 AM PST by gloryblaze
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"Short and rude" -- Who cares? As much as I didn't like his politics or presidency, the man took on extremely tough jobs for demanding bosses and was good at it. To be a high performer, people generally become "short and rude." It's hard to let that psyche go in your later years.

I just looked up his Naval career and found this which I never knew before:

Profile in courage: When Jimmy Carter helped save a nuclear reactor

On Dec. 12, 1962, the NRX research reactor at Chalk River, Ontario, in Canada had suffered a partial meltdown. Ruptured radioactive fuel rods were stuck inside the reactor core. Radioactive water filled the reactor building’s basement.

Lieutenant Carter was an officer in the Navy’s nuclear submarine program and thus an expert on reactors and nuclear physics. He led a 23-person Navy crew charged with helping in the Chalk River cleanup. They were told that due to exposure to radioactivity, it was possible they would never have children.

He brought to the task precision, intelligence, and dedication – qualities that would later make him, if not a great president, perhaps the most consequential ex-president in American history. His famously demanding Navy boss, nuclear sub pioneer Adm. Hyman G. Rickover, later praised the work Lieutenant Carter did and said it laid the ground for his larger understanding of atomic science.

“He did an outstanding job,” said Admiral Rickover at the 1977 commissioning of a nuclear-powered cruiser. “In the process, he learned much about the practical aspects of nuclear power.”

It's a fascinating story that I've never heard before. I'm not an apologist for Carter. I'm just pointing out he took on tough assignments for ultra-demanding bosses early in his career that would make you "rude and short."
21 posted on 03/03/2023 8:41:55 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (There is lots of money and power in Green Communism and we all know where Communism ends.)
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Typical Democrat attitude.


23 posted on 03/03/2023 8:42:29 AM PST by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie. )
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This was well known at the time—like everything else in the mass media his positive “reputation” was a lie.


25 posted on 03/03/2023 8:44:39 AM PST by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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The question we should be asking ourselves is, why is MSN pushing this narrative at this time? Just some speculative possibilities:

1) Carter is white, so we can’t mourn his passing. (The same will be true when Bill Clinton enters his final days.)

2) Carter was a liberal without being a leftist. For all of his stupid moves, and there were many, among other things he deregulated communications and transportation, laying the foundation for decades of technological innovation in phones, cable and later internet, and air travel. All of that is counterrevolutionary, and we can’t have that.

3) Carter is a Christian, again liberal without being leftist, so his Christian beliefs are not revolution-promoting enough to let him be thought of kindly.

4) Any moment spent dissing Carter is one less moment necessary to keep people from dissing Brandon, and we must keep people from dissing Brandon.

I’m sure there are other possibilities, but I have to get back to work...


27 posted on 03/03/2023 8:45:52 AM PST by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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I don’t care who the president is, the Secret Service agent should keep their mouth shut. There is no excuse to soil Carter’s reputation especially while he is on his death bed. And if someone thinks it is, just wait until the same happens to Trump.


35 posted on 03/03/2023 8:53:15 AM PST by Reno89519 (DeSantis or Sanders, Anyone But Trump in 2024. Time for Trump to Stand Aside and Retire.)
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Had a buddy whose brother was SS on FLOTUS detail at the time. He insisted one of his partners was shtupping Rosalyn.😳


37 posted on 03/03/2023 8:55:05 AM PST by Hatteras
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From what I have seen , read, and heard Jimmy Carter was a nice Christian man who had absolutely no business in the Oval Office.


38 posted on 03/03/2023 8:55:48 AM PST by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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