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1976 Election

Is Pete Buttigieg the New Jimmy Carter?

John Fea   |  February 13, 2020

Over at The Washington Post, historian J. Brooks Flippen compares the two Democratic political outsiders.  Here is a taste of his piece “Is Pete Buttigieg Jimmy Carter 2.0“: Like Carter, the former long-shot mayor has emerged as one of the front-runners by...

Jimmy Carter Beat 17 Competitors to Win the Democratic Nomination in 1976

John Fea   |  May 3, 2019

As Gillian Brockell notes at The Washington Post, the last time we had a very large Democratic primary field we got Jimmy Carter.  The Plains, Georgia peanut farmer emerged as the primary winner over Birch Bayh, Lloyd Bentsen, Jerry Brown, Henry...

Will Ted Cruz Be Reaganesque Tonight?

John Fea   |  July 20, 2016

Ted Cruz has yet to endorse Donald Trump.  Some of you may remember that during the campaign Trump liked to call Cruz “Lying Ted” and mocked the appearance of Cruz’s wife Heidi. Cruz called Trump a “pathological liar” and a...

That Time Gerald Ford Lost His Voice

John Fea   |  March 5, 2016

This past week at the Fred W. Smith Library at Mount Vernon I attended a discussion of American first ladies with C-SPAN’s Susan Swain and presidential historian Richard Norton Smith. The discussion was based on Swain’s book  First Ladies: Presidential...

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