Reply #51: Please be specific. [View All]

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I've always remembered Carter to be ethical and farsighted in all
that he did. Perhaps a little politically naive, and a bit gentle
when he should have been firmer, but always a Democrat.
Where did he begin deregulation? In terms of tight money, that was
a place where he was responding, rather then being proactive. There
was an oil crisis, inflation was high, interest rates were in double
digits, there wasn't a hell of a lot of wiggle room for him to do much