SAN FRANCISCO
Lee Heidhues 12.29.2024
I didn’t appreciate Jimmy Carter until he was long gone from office.
I voted for Jimmy Carter enthusiastically in 1976 when he ousted Gerald Ford. The Republican congressman President Nixon picked as his successor. Nixon resigned in disgrace in August 1974 rather than face Impeachment for his myriad abuses of power accentuated by the Watergate scandal.
In 1980 I could not support President Carter’s reelection after he withdrew the American team from the 1980 Olympics in Moscow. In protest of Russia’s invasion of Afghanistan. I would never vote for Ronald Reagan. Instead, I voted for the Independent candidate, John Anderson the Republican congressman from Illinois.
My vote was a stupid vote. Reagan won the presidency.
Lee's Perspective 