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Guardax OP t1_jdrd9zr wrote

Jimmy Carter had a very detailed knowledge about what he was protecting, and rebuffed GOP Alaska Senator Ted Stevens trying to sneak in changes to better help land developers:

> We never would have had the Alaska lands bill, which doubled the size of the National Park Service. Carter was down on his hands and knees with the maps on the floor of the Oval Office, and when Ted Stevens, the senator from Alaska, came in and tried to buffalo him and tell him, ‘I’ll vote for the bill if you exclude these areas,’ Carter said, ‘No, those are the headwaters of this, and there’s habitat there.’ In a limo on the way back to Capitol Hill, Stevens said to an aide, ‘That son of a bitch knows as much about my state as I do.’ If he hadn’t done that, that bill would have been gutted and the developers would have gotten their way.

Source: https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/environment/jimmy-carter-outdoors-president/

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Mello_Me_ t1_jdreagq wrote

I never knew this.

Thanks for informing us of this great, great accomplishment.

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DistortoiseLP t1_jdtpscq wrote

For both better and worse that was a characteristic part of his presidency in general. Carter was a micro manager that kept his eyes on a lot of details.

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baby_fart t1_jduq9yy wrote

The ANIL conservation act is my favorite accomplishment by Carter.

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EdwardOfGreene t1_jdsr1su wrote

People underestimated how smart Jimmy Carter was. The man studied nuclear science, and that isn't even his most impressive thing. Noggin wise.

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Sharp_Pride7092 t1_je1z2n0 wrote

One of the two most intelligent Prez. you guys have had. Nixon similar apparently.

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eyetracker t1_jdri35a wrote

Scooby Doo can doo-doo, but Jimmy Carter is smarter.

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Pushmonk t1_jdslapj wrote

>‘That son of a bitch knows as much about my state as I do.’

I'd wager Carter knew more than that asshat did.

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t-bonestallone t1_jdreurb wrote

He inherited a much greater mess than he was ever given credit.

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PM_ME_FUNFAX t1_jdrh3en wrote

Yes, and if it wasn't for the Iran hostage situation, he would be seen as one of the best presidents we ever had

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t-bonestallone t1_jdrhju0 wrote

Maybe. The malaise speech was a big mistake too.

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AllChem_NoEcon t1_jdsafov wrote

Telling people hard truths can be seen as a mistake, but that's only because the people he was telling were (and are) being dumb as fuck.

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Who_DaFuc_Asked t1_jds9pv4 wrote

..how was it a big mistake?

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cme884 t1_jduqnd2 wrote

A mistake politically, perhaps, as it’s widely seen as contributing to his election defeat. He was not wrong, however.

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t-bonestallone t1_jdsdfnl wrote

At the time he call the American public lazy. Not a thing any leader should do.

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spookyskost t1_jdsx8en wrote

Hard disagree. A leader should speak what they truthfully believe.

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Who_DaFuc_Asked t1_jdtbjw8 wrote

I seriously doubt he meant that in a Republican "it's your fault you are poor" way.

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SecretStonerSquirrel t1_jdulh0c wrote

He was the most forward thinking president we've ever had. If Reagan hadn't torpedoed literally everything he did related to energy, we would be independent from oil years ago.

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pichael289 t1_jds58ug wrote

His administration also removed lead from gasoline, which we know to be neurotoxic and the cause of developmental disabilities.

He also personally saved Canada from nuclear disaster. And his foundation has nearly eradicated the guinea worm, which is a horrifying parasite that plauged Africa. Remember on national geographic how people in villages would have worms sticking out of their legs, being slowly wound around a stick for two weeks? Yeah he said no to that nightmare

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FriendlyAndHelpfulP t1_jdstrdr wrote

It was actually under the Nixon administration that the relevant law was passed and ratified.

Nixon was the one who signed The Clean Air Act, the law that gave the EPA the right to regulate and limit the amount of lead in gasoline.

It was also under the Nixon administration that the plans for the lead phase-out were set into place. It was a gradual process, and the phase-out wouldn’t actually finish until 1996, fifteen years after Carter was out of office.

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newworkaccount t1_jdttnkq wrote

People would be shocked by the progressive legacy Nixon left behind, and his environmental legacy is part of that. Senator Nixon, for instance, also had the first federal bill for a nationalized healthcare scheme (sponsored with Ted Kennedy, no less). He intentionally had a huge and formal affirmative action policy for women for positions appointed by his administration, in addition to other notable civil rights firsts.

Hell, I bet very few people know that Nixon was instrumental in urging LBJ to sign the Civil Rights Act into law; LBJ was strongly considering vetoing it, and Nixon (among others) talked him out of it.

You know, Nixon. The racist homophobic paranoid misanthropic criminal. That guy. He did those things.

Unironically, he was one of the best, and absolute worst, presidents we have ever had.

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Sharp_Pride7092 t1_je1zrv0 wrote

Not American, knew that + feel he was an equal to Carter. Intellectually, also. Just too many personal paranoiac tendencies.

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VAGentleman05 t1_jdui5yx wrote

If God didn't want us to have lead in our gasoline, he wouldn't have put it there for us!

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Prestigious_Cheek_52 t1_jdri0dq wrote

More I hear about him, more I am convinced he was way ahead of his time.

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mydadthepornstar t1_jdtyp1x wrote

Jimmy Carter was a Cold War foreign policy hawk no different than Ronald Reagan or any of the other neo liberals and neo conservatives. At every turn he chose to arm and support far right regimes against leftist activists. He supported the Suharto regime commit genocide against the people of East Timor. He aided the Somoza Regime of Nicaragua. He aided the Mujahideen who would later go on to become parts of Al Qaeda and the Taliban. He supported Khmer Rouge of Cambodia. The list goes on and on.

Edit: Funny this gets so many downvotes but nobody can make excuses for Carter’s monstrous foreign policy

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Keikobad t1_jdrnsfi wrote

Interesting to see that the final legislation was passed and signed after Carter lost re-election, and before the Republicans would have taken over majority control of the senate in January 1981. A major piece of lame-duck legislation.

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Beginning-Marzipan28 t1_jdsu8ae wrote

Fun fact, the next 2 president for expanding protected areas are Nixon and W Bush

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wolfie379 t1_jdsvwcl wrote

When Yellowstone was set aside as a National Park, there were people complaining about it being too big. Now, scientists are saying it’s too small - because areas critical to the continued functioning of the geysers are outside the park boundaries.

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Landlubber77 t1_jdrr40r wrote

They wanted to build a massive pipeline through those lands and Jimmy wasn't Inuit and would have Nunavut.

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Lavatis t1_jdso9h5 wrote

This reads like more than half the us national park area is in Alaska. Is that the case?

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calmtigers t1_jdsz3ob wrote

I’m sorry but I keep reading ANIL coneservation act

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Tutorbin76 t1_jdt2drm wrote

Good move.

But isn't he a bit old and retired to be signing such things? Or was it more of a symbolic gesture?

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rightioushippie t1_jdszxgv wrote

And Biden announces the Willow project while he’s in hospice. A travesty.

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Page100 t1_jdtxh3p wrote

I met him!! He was in my area signing a book. He’s soooo cool. President Carter btw is the proper way to refer to him. Not that I’m proper.

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RepleteDivide t1_jduyhtx wrote

Alaska is a lot of wilderness. Charlotte, North Carolina has more people in it than the entire state of Alaska does (Alaska, which is about half of the size of the continental United States).

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Due_Platypus_3913 t1_jdsywcr wrote

A truly great man. And America chose Reagan(cuz they made a dirty deal with Iran)

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[deleted] t1_jdu2wae wrote

Mondale: Hello, Jimmy, I love you. I am going to make a delicious dinner meal.

Reagan turns around and shoots Mondale in the head

Mondale fucking dies

Reagan: Jimmy, your VP is dead. Do an order of peanuts for dinner.

Carter: Okay, Raygun.

Carter: Hello, can I get a box of peanuts for 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue?

Reagan awkwardly caresses Carter

Reagan: Now, it is time for Democrat - Republican bonding. Bond with me, Jimmy.

Carter and Reagan sit down to watch the tube, Reagan is holding a pistol in his left hand

Doorbell rings

Carter answers the door

Deliveryman: Here are your peanuts.

The peanuts fly from the Deliveryman's hands, decapitating Reagan

Reagan: Oh, shit.

Reagan fucking dies

Carter: Just another day in the Carter Administration.

Carter wins a second term

Rod Serling: (narrating as the ending credits roll) You unlock this door with a key of imagination, beyond this is another dimension. A dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind. You are moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas, you've just crossed over into THE TWILIGHT ZONE. DUN DUN. YEAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH

Brief shot of Horatio Caine donning his favorite sunglasses

THE END

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jjjdddmmm t1_jduh5tl wrote

How’s that working out for us?

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SecretStonerSquirrel t1_jduldnx wrote

Oil companies are responsible for most things thought about Jimmy Carter

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mydadthepornstar t1_jdtypql wrote

Jimmy Carter was a Cold War foreign policy hawk no different than Ronald Reagan or any of the other neo liberals and neo conservatives. At every turn he chose to arm and support far right regimes against leftist activists. He supported the Suharto regime commit genocide against the people of East Timor. He aided the Somoza Regime of Nicaragua. He aided the Mujahideen who would later go on to become parts of Al Qaeda and the Taliban. He supported Khmer Rouge of Cambodia. The list goes on and on.

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