Talk:Jimmy Carter

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Audio File says “Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan” but Carter also talks about the Iranian Hostage Crisis in the clip ~2026-40092-22 (talk) 18:44, 15 July 2026 (UTC)

Including More Favorable Analyses of His Presidency

I came to this Wikipedia page to understand more of how Carter's presidency was misunderstood (i.e., Carter, a great man, and well-meaning president who was rail-roaded by others in power so as to avoid future presidents being like him).

Someone included an article written by some British guy named Andrew Roberts in which he ranks Carter as 'the worst U.S. president.' This same clown, Andrew Roberts, ranks Ronald MF Reagan 'as one of the best 3 U.S. presidents.' As such, this Andrew Robert's opinion and article should be striken from this Wikipedia article on Jimmy Carter.

This Wikipedia article does Jimmy Carter and this country a great disservice. There is no analyses on how although at the time he served he was viewed as a "failure," he was actually ahead of his time.

Furthermore, as I've mentioned, many in the U.S. government couldn't allow Carter to succeed (I'd like to see information on this included in this article). Take for example his trying to rescue the hostages from Iran. It is well-known military officials worked against Carter and failed purposely so thus to make Carter look like a weak leader.

Overall, this article needs a lot of work.

For those of you who are interested in making this article more fair and accurate, here's some great information that can serve to guide you: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/why-jimmy-carter-may-be-the-most-misunderstood-president-in-american-history

Hoping we can pay better respect to undoubtedly one of the best human beings to have ever served as a U.S. President. Perhaps he didn't have the most firm and most clear outlook on how to accomplish the good he meant to accomplish, but his intent and his work have to count for something!

To those of you in agreement and working towards improving this article: Thank you. ~2026-45994-06 (talk) 20:36, 23 August 2026 (UTC)

Wikipedia articles must be written from a neutral point of view, which means representing fairly, proportionately, and, as far as possible, without editorial bias, all the significant views that have been published by reliable sources on a topic. I happen to agree that Carter's presidency has been under-appreciateed, but my opinion does not count in Wikipedia. Only what has been published in reliable sources counts in Wikipedia. Wikipededia is not the place to right great wrongs. Donald Albury 16:42, 24 August 2026 (UTC)

Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 28 August 2026

Remover reference to Andrew Roberts'opinion. It is unnecessarily opinionated and erroneous. ~2026-46982-48 (talk) 02:14, 28 August 2026 (UTC)

 Not done Roberts' opinion is attributed and cited to his book. That you don't like it is not sufficient reason to remove it from the article. Donald Albury 16:58, 28 August 2026 (UTC)

Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 26 September 2026

Request: In the section Post-presidency (1981–2024) -> Other activities, please replace the paragraph that currently reads:

"In 2013, Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter, their son Chip, and Chip's wife Becky traveled to the neighborhood of Queens Village in New York City. They worked on five housing construction projects with Habitat for Humanity." (together with its qchron.com citation)

with the following paragraph:

Carter was a longtime volunteer with Habitat for Humanity, the nonprofit housing organization founded by Linda and Millard Fuller in 1976 and based in nearby Americus, Georgia. Carter neither founded nor ran the organization, but its leadership has credited him with putting it "on the map". In September 1984, the Carters led dozens of Georgia volunteers on a bus trip to New York City to renovate a six-story Lower East Side tenement known as Mascot Flats, the first of what became the annual Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work Project. Over the following 35 years the Carters worked alongside more than 100,000 volunteers to help build, renovate or repair 4,390 homes in 14 countries. At the 2019 project in Nashville, the 95-year-old Carter worked the day after a fall at home that required 14 stitches, telling reporters that his "No. 1 priority" had been to come and build houses.

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Rationale: The lead states that Carter "was a key figure in the nonprofit housing organization Habitat for Humanity", but the body currently supports that with only the single 2013 sentence above. Per MOS:LEAD, the body should cover what the lead summarizes. BillCramer (talk) 17:18, 26 September 2026 (UTC)

I am not convinced that "the nonprofit housing organization founded by Linda and Millard Fuller in 1976 and based in nearby Americus, Georgia" is necessary. I do agree that the Carter's participation in Habitat for Humanity deserves significant coverage in this article. I am tired right now, but will return here tomorrow to see if whether or not this has been resplved. Donald Albury 00:55, 27 September 2026 (UTC)