here i want to talk a little bit before we get into policy, aboucaer's approach to the presidency. this is a lot of what w researching and writing about back in the day. this is rt with his office of management and budget director, bert lance, a friend from georgia who came with him. carter again had run in the nominati race, had run in the general as i am going to be a leader of good government, clean government, not corrupt government honest. and then get implicated in the banking scandal. the highest economic in the administration and he gets accused of some financial corruption back in georgia. he gets cleared of a couple years later in 1980 carter can't wait around for that so bert lance resigns because his alleged behavior has already undermined his promise. promising were going to be transparent, accountable, not corrupt at all times turned out to be very tall order in politics so carter has already set himself up challenges. there is also this imagery element that is quite fascinating. carter tries to bring down the level of the image of the white house. using a lot of publ