Carter's efforts in the Middle East did more to bring civility to the region than anything else. It's unfortunate that Sadat was murdered, but anything he did at the time would have angered somebody, and that's the way they deal with problems there.

                Carter established the Department of Energy, and tried to put into place all of the alternative sources that are being talked about today. If he'd been able to serve a second term, I doubt very seriously that we'd even be talking about energy now.

                He also established the Department of Education. And if he hadn't been bushwhaked by Teddy Kennedy, the Ayotollah Khomeini, and others, and had been allowed to serve a second term, we wouldn't be worrying about letting in more foreign workers under the H1-B visa program. The high-tech industries would be very happy to simply hire American workers.

                The world would be a much better place today if the US had not subjected the world to 8 years of Ronald Reagan.