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There He Goes Again: Jimmy Carter, our 'model ex-president'.

National Review

| May 20, 2002 | NORDLINGER, JAY | COPYRIGHT 2002 National Review, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

If there's one thing everyone "knows" about Jimmy Carter, it's that he's been an excellent ex-president -- a "model ex-president," everyone says. But some of us have to wonder, sometimes.

Carter has resurfaced in recent weeks, sounding off on the Middle East and preparing for a trip to Castro's Cuba. The 39th president is never far from the surface, of course. He has often been an irritant to his successors in the White House. He exasperated Clinton on North Korea and Haiti, and he appalled the first Bush. In the run-up to the Gulf War, as the administration was trying to assemble a coalition against Iraq, Carter sent a letter to members of the U.N. Security ...

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