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What are the main reasons that Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter each lost popularity while serving as president?
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∙ 12y ago
In Ford's case, he pardoned Nixon. That was very unpopular with a large part of the American people. In Jimmy Carter's case, he wound up looking weak and ineffective with the Iran Hostage situation.
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∙ 10y agoGerald Ford became President when Nixon resigned. One of his first acts as President was to pardon Nixon. I think many people thought that is was time for a change-- that the Republicans should pay for what Nixon did as President and they wanted to see Nixon tried and sent to jail.
Jimmy Carter was a Washington outsider- he did not the political connections in Washington that many Presidents have. Moreover he had bad luck with the economy- high inflation and little economic growth. Then his efforts to spring the hostages in Iran failed. He gave away the Panama Canal. US prestige sunk in the world. I think people decided that it was time to change back- that the US needed a strong military and that Reagan would be better than four more years of Carter.
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Iran
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He looked weak and ineffective. *APEX*
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Iran
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Iran
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