The Passionless Presidency

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : Frank Moore's problems, too, were written off to anti-southern snobbery.
56% : I had no objections to Rafshoon's projects, because -- contrary perhaps to public impression -- they were so elementary and so dearly needed.
55% : I was not one of his confidants, and my intention to return to journalism was widely known; certain things were shielded from my view.
55% : As the plan took shape, Carter gave firm instructions to the Treasury; he had learned his lesson about dangers of deadlines and the need for political consultation.
53% : never again would he preach sweeping tax reform, scorn incrementalism, pretend that the government could be changed.
51% : In his ability to do justice case by case, he would be the ideal non-lawyer for the Supreme Court; if I had to choose one politician to sit at the Pearly Gates and pass judgment on my soul, Jimmy Carter would be the one.
48% : Then he would have demonstrated that economy in government was more than talk; instead, he bred skepticism outside the government and greed within.
47% : The last governor to become President was Franklin Roosevelt, and I told my friends that summer that Carter had at least the same potential to leave the government forever changed by his presence: not by expanding federal responsibilities, as Roosevelt had done, or by continuing the trend of the Great Society, but by transforming the government, as in the 1930s, to reflect the needs of these different times.
46% : I realize now how people were led on by these hints; I was led on myself by the hope that Carter might make sense of the swirl of liberal and conservative sentiment then muddying the political orthodoxy.
45% : When I heard him recommend, early in the campaign, junking the mortgage tax deductions I assumed that Carter must have thought deeply about the tax system, deeply enough to understand that the average man lost far more than he gained through this deduction, that he would come out far ahead if it and similar exemptions were removed and the general tax rates lowered.
39% : Carter did not choose the circumstances in which he operates: our dependence on foreign oil, our economic vulnerability to our allies, the resistance to military intervention left over from Vietnam.
36% : A big scandal might arise -- at the General Services Administration, for example, or at Labor or Health, Education and Welfare, where they seem to crop up regularly.

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