Jimmy Carter Presidency

[Name of the Institute]Jimmy Carter Presidency

Introduction

Jimmy Carter was the 39th President of the United States of America. He served US as a president from 1977 to 1981. He is positively remembered by US citizens for the positive changes he brought about in the country. Authors and critics across the nation have portrayed Carter according to their own viewpoints. Some of them emphasize on his achievements whereas the others focus on his mismanagements in various issues of US.

Discussion

Jimmy Carter's presidency has been remembered over years due to the overwhelming events that took place during his era. These overwhelming events were related to energy crisis, inflation, hostages in Iran, war in Afghanistan and so forth. After one term of Carter in office, the voters of US rejected the honest outlook of Jimmy Carter (Hochman, 2013). They got in favor of another new prospect Ronald Reagan. In spite of that there has been a widespread recognition that Jimmy confronted many enormous problems and issues with immense courage, steadiness, and idealism despite the fact that he had a lack of experience for dealing with such issues. He also deserves credit as he restored the balance to the legal system of US after the excesses of Nixon's and Johnson's imperial presidency era.

In 1972, Carter planned to stand in the elections as a different version of Democratic President to spread democracy in the country and work for the betterment of US. This step was a very risky one for him as he did not have any recognition on the national level. Still, he managed to sneak a narrow victory over his competitor.

According to Sidey, Carter has an enormous amount of achievements (Sidey, 1980). These include deregulation of financial institutes, reform of civil service, treaties of Panama Canal, restored relations with China, commendable program ...