Jimmy Carter Was Actually a Very Good Foreign Policy President

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : The one foreign policy issue that dogged and ultimately played a significant role in Carter's being a one-term president was Iran.
49% : Inheriting a country that was being buffeted by an OPEC oil squeeze and energy company profiteering, Carter sought to promote energy independence, actively embraced conservation (though ridiculed for it by the likes of Reagan who made a show of removing solar panels Carter had placed on the roof of the White House) and put into place a windfall profits tax on oil companies.
49% : Former hostages arriving in the United States on Jan. 25, 1981, five days after being released by Iran.
40% : Following the advice of his foreign policy team to let the Shah of Iran into the U.S. and then witnessing the subsequent Iranian Revolution, Carter was then bedeviled by the actions of the new regime, which took 66 Americans hostage in November 1979.
37% : © Provided by The Daily Beast President Jimmy Carter announces new sanctions against Iran in retaliation for taking U.S. hostages in 1980.

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