Jimmy Carter didn't get his good reputation as an effective leader from being a good (as in capable of successful leadership) President, as he pretty much had his hands tied during his single term of office.
However, the Presidency was a way to help him to (as we say in Internet language today) go viral and become a true leader in his years after the four years of drama in The White House.
He did what he could while he was there as well--but just had been put at the disadvantage of trying to serve his term with all sorts of personal agendas of other people putting stumbling blocks in his way.
Ainsley Jo Phillips
May 14, 2013
