Ford and Carter also struggled with bad approval ratings. Here’s how they reacted.
be enough for a good midterm performance, which might save him from the fate Ford and Carter suffered as unpopular first-termers? Only time will tell.Vice presidents who ascend to the highest office inherit a powerful tool: nostalgia.
recognized his strategy: When Reagan, “the Trumpet of law and order,” was asked whether Nixon, on whom he had been “strangely mute,” had cast a shadow over the primaries, he issued a damning redirect: “You have to ask the man who pardoned him.” Ford’s defense was comparatively milquetoast.
“is that he promised to have George Wallace address the state legislature.” If Carter’s racist supporters hoped Wallace, the governor of Alabama, would get his speechwriter, Ku Klux Klan leader Asa Earl Carter, to write something along the lines of his infamous 1963 inaugural speech—“I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever”—they were disappointed. When Carter made it to the governor’s mansion, he declared that “the time for racial discrimination is over.
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