that when jimmy carter ran for president in 1976 he was the first post-watergate presidential candidate. gerald ford had been appointed president, because the president nixon and the vice president spiro agnew had been forced from office. gerald ford had been appointed but not elected and was running for reelection. and of course, gerald ford pardoned richard nixon, with much of the country did not like. the country was in much a different mood, with the slogan, some seek to make american great again. i seek to make america could again. that might seem like a silly and i need slogan today, but it was -- naive slowed in today, but it was good in post-watergate america where it seemed that something had gone wrong at the highest levels of government. maybe democracy was no longer functioning. here came jimmy carter, a big smile, sunny optimism, one of the first candidates i can remember who openly talked about his religion and being a born- again christian. now today a lot of candidates talk about that, but in 1976 and before, few candidates talk about that. when carter became president, he was beset by a huge number of crises. there was a hostage taking in tehran, but there was the ara