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Speaker 2: Single best idea on a day of a funeral for
Speaker 2: a president. David Gura sent me the program for the funeral,
Speaker 2: which will occur across I'll say two hours, but it
Speaker 2: may be three hours. It is ample, and we note
Speaker 2: imagine John Lennon's imagine being sung by Garth Brooks and
Speaker 2: Tricia Yearwood with a pianist, but also the tributes and
Speaker 2: most importantly the homily by the Reverend Andrew Young always
Speaker 2: in Forever of Atlanta and Georgia, and of course the
Speaker 2: service to the Nations at the United Nations. Within the
Speaker 2: Carter administration, we decided to get perspective and particularly farther
Speaker 2: back on an early Jimmy Carter. It was an extraordinary story.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to go through it right now, but
Speaker 2: we are advantaged by Wendy Schiller of Brown University here
Speaker 2: in the past, from Vietnam and Watergate to the thirty ninth.
Speaker 1: President Flashboard ten years later, after the Kennedy's assassinated and
Speaker 1: the Johnson administration runs into trouble in Vietnam, there's just
Speaker 1: a really sour mood in the United States about the
Speaker 1: federal government and about politics in general, and at the
Speaker 1: same time it's running head on into social movements that
Speaker 1: are transformative, certainly the women's rights movement, certainly anti war movement.
Speaker 1: You're starting to see the gay rights movement. So Jimmy
Speaker 1: Carter comes along sort of then sees a window. First
Speaker 1: he's elected governor in nineteen seven, a believed in Georgia
Speaker 1: re elected, and then and then says a window for
Speaker 1: the Democratic Party to leave that behind and meld the
Speaker 1: southern strength of Democrats which were still voting for the
Speaker 1: Democrat Party, the southern side of Democrats with a new
Speaker 1: vision of where America could go. And I think that's
Speaker 1: what he sold.
Speaker 2: Really interesting interview. She expanded then upon the path to
Speaker 2: how Carter lost in the landslide to Ronald Reagan coming
Speaker 2: off the hostage crisis as well. Valuable interview. Wendy Schiller
Speaker 2: of Brown University, her textbook on Civics in America just
Speaker 2: definitive as well. My first request to our interns of
Speaker 2: who to have in honor of Jimmy Carter was Richard Haass.
Speaker 2: Of course, definitive, with the Consul on Foreign Relations. He's
Speaker 2: at c interview partners. I guess his first to claim
Speaker 2: would be Northern Ireland with a Republican administration. But before that,
Speaker 2: out of Oberlin, out of Oxford was Richard hass literally
Speaker 2: opening mail at the Pentagon. He was amazing today about
Speaker 2: his first days at the Pentagon. Is a very very young,
Speaker 2: just graduated, almost student. I would say, here is Richard
Speaker 2: hass On. Jimmy.
Speaker 3: I think it's pretty impressive. I mean, if you think
Speaker 3: about it. And I'll focus on foreign policy. It was
Speaker 3: an interesting mixture of idealism and realism. He put human
Speaker 3: rights squarely on the foreign policy agenda, something that Reagan
Speaker 3: obviously continued. But he also negotiated arts control agreements with
Speaker 3: Soviet Union. He normalized relations with communist China. He was
Speaker 3: a realist about what the United States had accept in
Speaker 3: terms of the nationalism and rights of others. So he
Speaker 3: returned the Panama Canal, by the way, on terms that
Speaker 3: have allowed us to use it ever since. He wasn't
Speaker 3: the pacifist, but he was a great believer in peace.
Speaker 3: He negotiated the Camp David Agreements, the Egypt Egyptian Peace Treaty.
Speaker 3: So I think I'll be seen as a president got
Speaker 3: an awful lot done in four years.
Speaker 2: Richard Hasson of you partners there, of course on mister Carter,
Speaker 2: and of course what's immediate. There is something we'll address
Speaker 2: into January. And it appears after the inauguration, something on
Speaker 2: the top of the pile for President Trump is Panama.
Speaker 2: And all of a sudden, when we look at what
Speaker 2: some people, not all people will say it was a
Speaker 2: giveaway of Panama to some entity of the Panama people,
Speaker 2: and our use of the Panama Canal really front and
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