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 public facing symbolism to respond to this political environment of watergate, vietnam and the sense that the government, in touch with the people and out of control so carter is inaugurated wearing a regular suit and not a more formal kind of attire. he's the first president to get out of the motorcade and just walk along pennsylvania avenue to the inaugural parade which is now, and carter did it and it was a little innovation, i'm just out here with the people. he sold the president will yacht, the sequoia, not only a nod to be less fancy but more frugal, more careful with public money, to give that kind o

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you look at his administration, there was no corruption with the one exception of bert lance who did go to jail. you compare president carter and his administration to the trump administration were many have gone to jail. you look at president carter's christian faith, he never shied away from his faith which was his moral compass. whether it was the negotiations for peace in the middle east and other times where he spoke with leaders of other nations, he always brought his faith into the picture. look at what he did for the carter center, monitoring elections. and look at what he did in terms of once again, not lying and the comparison to the over 30,000 lives that have been documented to the former president. this is a quantum disparity. it's easy for me to model for morality in leadership is president jimmy carter and the model for immorality as donald trump and look at how many in his administration have been brought to jail. now we have 4 indictments and adjust speaks to itself. host: bradley from marietta, georgia. caller: yes, hello. i probably would've said years ago that it