Things were easier, he acknowledged, during the Carter years.
If nothing else, we should at least try to avoid the mistakes of the Carter years.
In the late Carter years the United States was actually running a trade surplus.
The author brought readers into the Carter years with a preface he added for the book's 25th anniversary re-issue.
The staff couldn't even send and receive e-mail, and the phone system hadn't been changed since the Carter years.
"If interest rates go back to what they were in the Carter years," he said, "then this will look ridiculous."
For these and other reasons, social programs have been growing at rates not seen since the Carter years.
Other energy initiatives from the Carter years, though, proved to be dead ends.
Like the Carter years, it has its highs and lows.
That was the experience in the Carter years.
Things were easier, he acknowledged, during the Carter years.
If nothing else, we should at least try to avoid the mistakes of the Carter years.
In the late Carter years the United States was actually running a trade surplus.
The author brought readers into the Carter years with a preface he added for the book's 25th anniversary re-issue.
The staff couldn't even send and receive e-mail, and the phone system hadn't been changed since the Carter years.
"If interest rates go back to what they were in the Carter years," he said, "then this will look ridiculous."
For these and other reasons, social programs have been growing at rates not seen since the Carter years.
Other energy initiatives from the Carter years, though, proved to be dead ends.
Like the Carter years, it has its highs and lows.
That was the experience in the Carter years.