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    George Skelton: Jimmy Carter was good fit for post-Watergate America

    by George Skelton, Los Angeles Times Feb 23, 2023 3 minutes
    Political memorabilia is displayed for sale at the Plains Trading Post in the hometown of former U.S. President Jimmy Carter on Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2023, in Plains, Georgia.

    SACRAMENTO, Calif. — "My name is Jimmy Carter, and I'm running for president." And he'd grin. Always that friendly, down-home grin.

    That's how the Georgia peanut farmer and former governor began every campaign speech I heard during the unique election year of 1976.

    And I heard many of them while covering Carter for The Times from early January through the Democratic convention in mid-July. After that, I covered Carter's November opponent, Republican President Gerald Ford, whom the sure-footed Washington outsider narrowly defeated.

    I've thought a lot about 1976 since the announcement last weekend that the 98-year-oldat home and decided to forgo "additional medical intervention."

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