[Hunble]

all the icons of that era are passing away

Is Jimmy Carter next?

Seriously, I thought Maddox and Carter were two of the best Governors that Georgia ever had. As President, Carter was a disgusting failure, but Georgia loved him.

[AnAmericanMother]

You might not have said that if you had been working on the Hill. He like to drove us crazy, and it was the same micromanaging habits combined with the tendency to lose sight of the big picture that made him so annoying and ineffectual as president.

Just ONE example - towards the end of his term when the "energy crisis" was getting started (must have been 73 or 74) he would personally walk around the Capitol and the Legislative Office Building turning down thermostats "to save energy". But (as any employee of the GBA could have told him) the thermostats are balanced, so all he did was throw everything out of whack and make the GBA maintenance crew work overtime.