Jimmy Carter | 60-Second Presidents | PBS

Here's everything you need to know about Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of the United States, in just 60 seconds.

60-Second Presidents is a collaboration between PBS LearningMedia and PBS Digital Studios, and is produced by Kornhaber Brown.

[HueyPLong-tisj]

The president with the longest life span.

[xavierlamar]

Under the Carter administrations the US military never dropped a single bomb or fired a single bullet, I feel that deserves a lot of credit and you also didn't mention the Camp David Accords.

[rohanindra]

Gets a lot of unfair criticism. Even Bill Clinton wouldn't have been able to deal with the global conditions of an OPEC oil crisis and a recalcitrant Iran

[AngryChristian]

He was kinda weak and thrust into rough times, so a lot of the criticism is kind of unfair. He did the best he could, so he certainly earns my respect.

[eunaekim]

As a person, he was very good. As a president, he just didn't know what to do, nor did he have the effectiveness. A for effort.

[Kerorofan]

Always seemed unfair that he did 99% of the work in getting those hostages freed, but Reagan gets all the credit for it.

[ShyGuy]

If it wasn't for the troubled times of the late 70s and early 80s, he could have a better president.

[davemustaki]

Carter was a good man he would be good if he was president in this day and age we need a gentle soul nowadays the world is full of greed and anger and hate it's gone too far!

[slyasleep]

Most underrated pres of the 20th century, and a true gent.

[nycgingercat]

He wasn't war mongering. I'd say he was the best president that we didn't fully appreciate or even deserved.

[BornToPeeForcedToDrinkIt]

I was devastated when I learned his peanut farm withered away and his peanuts went sour. :(

[UnclePlaysBadly]

It was nice to have a Christian politician who was not a hypocrite.

[johnharvey]

Here is a bit of a shock. AF1 landed in the Azores, Portugal and almost crashed on takeoff, June 1979. Had I not seen the flag still attached to the left outboard engine cowling. AF1 would have exploded halfway down the runway. Killing all 20+ people onboard. Glad I could help!!

[Fireglo]

I feel like the video should have mentioned Three Mile Island. The guy literally walked into a Nuclear Power Plant about to go into meltdown because he had a background in nuclear physics so could help.

[samuelspace]

I do believe Reagan was a much better president, and a much more qualified person for the financial crisis, but Carter has a lot of unfair blame, the financial crisis was insane and I doubt most presidents could have handled it, but my favorite thing about Carter is that he refused to shoot a single bullet even when American lives had been lost, he would rather take the hit then continue a longer war that would kill more people, he had amazing morals, and was very much against war.
He was a good man with good morals and not corrupt, just not fit for president with what they were facing.

[sydgvkx]

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[briankempgaming]

He's history's greatest monster!

[kdthecalis]

as a human being, he was good
but as a presisent he sucked but he tried, unlike Sleepy Joe

[davemustaki]

Everything went to sh!t after Kennedy!

[davemustaki]

Carter was an unknown to Congress then what was Trump?