I agree that Carter was (is) a very good man...a so-so President. Nixon could've been a great president had he not been, as Kendall indicated above, shifty and paranoid! :-)

Clinton was a great politician and survivor, while at the same time he had certain...um...foibles which proved publicly embarrassing...

It's a tough job.

Doug - I would indeed be interested in that book. I like to hear different viewpoints, and I'll check it out. Thanks for the tip. I was earlier tonight looking at letters from Anna Maria, who was a young woman during Castro's revolution, and she still believes in it with all her heart, and is living in Cuba right now doing her best to benefit society through her church and educational work, so there are many different viewpoints on this kind of thing. The position a person is in when a revolution happens can tremendously color their reaction to it, needless to say. For Anna Maria, it was the salvation of the country, and its deliverance into a far more just system in every way.

Tell ya what, here's a deal. I'll read that one, and then I'll suggest one or two you can read on the same subject, and we can compare notes, okay? :-)

- LH