By Free Republic | Created at 2025-01-06 20:50:57 | Updated at 2025-01-08 03:05:58
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Jimmy Carter had little use for the presidents club but formed a friendship for the ages with Ford
wdio ^ | 01/06/2026 | CALVIN WOODWARD
Posted on 01/06/2025 12:41:36 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
WASHINGTON (AP) — Jimmy Carter and the man he beat for president, Gerald Ford, got so tight after office that their friendship became a kind of buddy movie, complete with road trips that were never long enough because they had so much to gab about.
Carter did not get along nearly so well with the other living presidents. The outsider president was an outlier after his presidency, too.
Nevertheless, past and present Oval Office occupants will attend Carter’s state funeral this week in what could be the largest gathering of the presidents club since five attended Washington services for George H.W. Bush in December 2018.
As a member of that elite, informal club, Carter was uniquely positioned to do important work for his successors, whether Democrat or Republican. He achieved significant results at times, thanks to his public stature as a peacemaker, humanitarian and champion of democracy, and his deep relationships with foreign leaders, troublemakers included.
But with Carter, you never knew when he’d go rogue. This was a man so self-confident, he described himself as “probably superior” to the other ex-presidents who were still knocking about. Ornery about taking orders, he could be invaluable to the man in office, exasperating, or both at once.
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KEYWORDS: carter; club; ford; presidents
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Carter tried to screw up the gulf war
To: ChicagoConservative27
It’s not hard to see why he was a one term potus.
2 posted on 01/06/2025 12:43:26 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
To: ChicagoConservative27
I was just going to say that I remember reading that Carter was angry when he was on Air Force one with the Bushes and Clinton and they kept him out of any discussions in regards to the Gulf War.
3 posted on 01/06/2025 12:44:16 PM PST by Jonty30 (Genghis Khan did not have the most descendants. His father had more. )
To: ChicagoConservative27
he had little use for the “ex presidents” club because he thought he could/should run US foreign policy, even after he was booted from office
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