Stuart Eizenstat, chief White House domestic policy advisor in the Carter administration and senior counsel at Covington & Burlington, joins CNBC's 'Squawk Box' to reflect on Jimmy Carter's legacy.
Carter’s Chief White House Domestic Policy Advisor calls him America’s “most accomplished one-term modern president.”
Conventional wisdom holds that Jimmy Carter was a failure as a president, redeemed only by his philanthropy and efforts to promote democracy in his post-presidential years. This is palpably wrong. Carter’s accomplishments at home and abroad were more extensive and longer lasting than those of almost all modern presidents.
At first, Jimmy Carter was a political wizard. But he couldn’t keep the magic act going.
Carter was the greatest environmental president since Teddy Roosevelt and achieved the greatest feat of personal presidential diplomacy in US history.
Former President Jimmy Carter grinned in the Oval Office in January 2009 for a photograph, a visible gap separating him from four of his successors. As the others stood shoulder to shoulder, he positioned himself off to the side, a hand in one pocket, as if to distance himself just slightly from that most exclusive club.
David Lauderdale writes that Jimmy Carter touched a lot of lives, but none quite like South Carolina’s own Jimmy Baker of Okatie.
One of the most enduring aspects of Jimmy Carter's presidency is his green ... Carter's chief White House domestic policy adviser, Stuart E. Eizenstat, told CBS News that by the time he got ...
President Biden is yet another one-term Democrat hurt by inflation and struggling to free hostages before leaving office. But Carter’s enhanced reputation offers hope that he too may be remembered more favorably.
Jimmy Carter with his mother Lilian ... Jimmy refused to do so, with Stuart E. Eizenstat, a senior adviser to the President, telling The New York Times that they had an “intense” loyalty to each other. While Jimmy knew Rosalynn since the day she ...
Stuart Eizenstat, a policy advisor to former President Jimmy Carter, discusses Carter's achievements and challenges during his presidency.