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...Carter??s address—entitled “Making History”—did not dwell on past achievements but focused instead on encouraging dialogue and engaging students in “provocative question raising,” as Carter said...
...Carter??s speech sparked an energetic dialogue with the audience, posing questions such as, “How do we cohere to achieve social justice?” and inviting audience members to ponder what their goals—as Harvard students and future leaders—should...
Just as Jimmy Carter??s campaign failed to learn from his 1976 near-loss and let Ronald Reagan define the terms of the 1980 debate … just as Walter Mondale’s campaign failed to learn from 1980’s vacillation and never projected consistency…just as Michael Dukakis’s campaign failed to learn from 1984’s interest group liberalism and ignored inoculating himself from appearing too far left…just as Al Gore’s campaign failed to learn from 1988 and neglected to respond...
...Republicans went to work. It was during this period that they invented direct mail fundraising, following such dramatic financial insolvency that the national headquarters of the president’s party was actually forced to close for a month. And after Jimmy Carter??s narrow victory in 1976 the Republicans—shut out of power in all three branches of national government—kept on rebuilding, and not just tactically...
...Jimmy Carter??s Nobel lets him say whatever he wants. (And saying Bush misled the American people—wow, that’s pretty hot stuff. Kudos to the convention’s planners for managing to make even so simple a factual criticism as this taboo for anyone but a former president...