Dominic Sandbrook
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People say, oh, isn't that nice?
That's what we want.
So he wins the nomination and then he wins the presidency.
He beats Gerald Ford.
So now Carter is president.
And is he good at it?
I mean, I think you don't even have to be a critic of Jimmy Carter to say he's actually not really good at it.
He doesn't have any contacts on Capitol Hill.
He finds it really hard to work with Congress.
He's not naturally charming.
I mean, he doesn't exude warmth.
Everybody sort of says this in Capitol Hill.
He's stubborn.
He doesn't like compromising.
He works incredibly hard, but it's the classic story.
It's a bit Rishi Sunak or something.
He works almost too hard.
You know, he thinks if he stays up till 3 o'clock in the morning doing his paperwork, he'll be a better president.
And actually, that means he just massively overprepares and overthinks everything.
He'll kind of rock up at 9 o'clock in the morning and say, overnight I've dreamt up a 455-point plan to fight inflation or something.