History question?

Question

Detail the administrations of Ford and Carter, what successes did they enjoy and what kept them from being "memorable" Presidents?

Answer 1

Ford is largely forgetten because he was never elected in a general election. He probably would have been had he not pardoned Nixon, but looking back now I think most people agree that it was the right thing to do. The last thing we needed after Nixon's resignation were years of trials and investigations. Ford did the right thing in pardoning Nixon. It brought closure to the Watergate era.

Carter is largely forgetten because he was an idiot. What we are dealing with in Iran today is squarely to blame on Jimmy Carter. He abandoned the Shah of Iran, a secular, democratically elected ruler and allowed the Ayatollah to take grasp of those people. Now we are paying the price. It is sad that people forget about Jimmy Carter because we should all remember what an idiot he was.

Answer 2

I don't believe either had any successes. Mr. Ford pardoned Richard Nixon, and that was not received well by the citizenry. Further, he was approved as a replacement for Spiro Agnew after he told House Democrats he would not run for the Presidency. He did run for the Presidency and lost to Jimmy Carter.
I think Mr. Carter was a total failure as President. He botched the Iran hostage affair. The US economy went into the tank, causing high inflation, high interest rates, high unemployment.

Answer 3

I'm going to answer you in reverse order: both were less than memorable because they served only one term apiece, and that came as a direct result of their poor performances in office. Both lacked credibilty - Carter because of the Iran hostage crisis and Ford due to his pardon of Richard M. Nixon. Carter's big success was the signing of the Camp David treaty between Israel and Egypt, after he brought Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat together for negotiations. Ford's was probably the signing of the Helsinki Accords, which recognized the Soviet Union's absorption of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia some 30 years earlier, in return for human rights concessions by the Soviets. But both Presidents struggled with their respective Congresses, limiting their ability to accomplish much else that was significant.

Carter had run his campaign on an "anti-Washington" platform that certainly hurt his popularity once he arrived in D.C., and he appointed many of his staffers who followed him from the Georgia statehouse, giving his administration a provincial character not unlike Bush's, only far more liberal - an unprecedented number of black people were brought into the higher levels of the Executive Branch. Ford was a moderate Republican who inherited Nixon's team, and he kept perhaps too many of them, in light of the scandals taking place. Both men were intelligent and good people who simply did not match the times in which they were called upon to serve.

Answer 4

Girlfriend learn how to shorten your homework up by using The Time Life Almanac Time line. It includes the presidential Highlights and stop stressing. The answers are in it.

Answer 5

Ford pardoned draft dogers, and Carter farmed pea-nuts.

Answer 6

ford set an unbreakable world record for pardons (though some think they should put an asterisk by his name because he used incompetence-enhancing drugs).

carter healed the hungry and fed the blind. but history hates him because he didnt succeed in freeing the hostages. well, because that crew of special forces didnt succeed in freeing the hostages. i guess ol' jimmy shoulda flown that helicopter himself! (poor ol' hick!)

Answer 7

I would rather watch Hamsters eat breakfast than discuss those inept wastes.

Answer 8

Sounds like you're quoting from an exam paper. Do some research yourself. If you get someone else to do it on here for you you're only deceiving yourself. Good luck

Answer 9

In term of saving American lives and money yes.

Answer 10

memorable?
You've got to be kidding!