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he had thought he was going to lead by rationale decisions, rationa rational and morale virtues, buto substitute for experience. it is clear carter knew he wasn't getting along well with congress because in his memoirs, he titled one chapter "my one week honeyman with congress." members of congress used to complain when you got a letter from jimmy carter, it was always dr. congressman, not dear joe. carter placed 25th on the cspan poll and 32nd in terms of his human aggressional relations. an interesting split in the carter years was that from truman on, presidents organized liaison around people, you cover the southwest, the northeast, you cover the far pacific west. you talk to those people on a daily basis and you cultivated them. even when you didn't need their vote, you talked to them and heard their complaints to bring back to the white house. carter didn't like the people-oriented liaison. he reorganized the system to an issue liaison. it makes sense, except that you didn't get to talk to members of congress until you are having trouble in that area. and you were not cultiva