(Steven Hayward) If you cast your mind back to 1979 or so, one of the signs that Jimmy Carter was washed up was a long cover story in The Atlantic by James Fallows, who had been one of Carter's speechwriters, called "The Passionless Presidency." "[T]here was a mystery to be explained about Jimmy Carter," Fallows wrote, "the contrast between the promise and popularity of his first months in office and the disappointment
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