Jimmy Carter, Deregulator Extraordinaire

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : Regulation dating from the 1930s guaranteed certain carriers with routes and a healthy price stricture.
57% : Historian Thomas H. McCraw put it this way in Prophets of Regulation, his Pulitzer Prize book of 1985: "by restricting economic competition," federal regulation "encouraged greater competition in frills: fancier in-flight food and drink, more movies, additional attendants -- all minor forms of service to the customer."
57% : The big bang of deregulation happened the year Ronald Reagan won office.
54% : Kahn coupled an academic's understanding of the inefficiencies of regulation with an uncanny knack to deal with officeholders and agency personal in Washington, and business leaders across the country.
51% : In the 1970s, the blanket-like regulatory apparatus of the New Deal still dominated the operations of air travel and trucking.
47% : Prior to Carter's taking office, there had been a bipartisan push to discard these costly leftovers of the New Deal.
47% : Carter gave Reagan the phenomenal gift of deregulation.
46% : Because he was embarrassed by it -- and he felt, correctly, that deregulation would temper inflation.
43% : Carter brought zeal to his causes, and one of them was deregulation.

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