Companion to Gerald R. Ford and Jimmy Carter

Scott Kaufman is Professor of History at Francis Marion University. He is the author of Rosalynn Carter: Equal Partner in the White House (2007), Plans Unraveled: The Foreign Policy of the Carter Administration (2008), and Project Plowshare: The Peaceful Use of Nuclear Explosives in Cold War America (2013).

• Notes on Contributors viiAcknowledgements xiIntroduction 1Scott Kaufman1 Détente’s Limits: Caught between Cooperation and Confrontation 5Vanessa Walker2 Beyond Narcissism: Politics and Popular Culture in the Age of Malaise 27Bradford Martin3 Gerald Ford: From Michigan to Washington 50Scott Kaufman4 From Plains to Atlanta, 1924–1974 64E. Stanly Godbold, Jr.5 The Presidency and the Pardon 80Andrew Downer Crain6 Gerald R. Ford’s Domestic Policy 95Yanek Mieczkowski7 US Intelligence Agencies during the Ford Years 114Kathryn S. Olmsted8 Détente’s Disintegration, Neoconservatism, and the Ford Presidency 130Binoy Kampmark9 Ford and the Armed Forces 149Ingo Trauschweizer10 Gerald R. Ford: The Press, Popular Culture, and Politics 166Raymond Haberski, Jr.11 Ford and Ford 181T. Alissa Warters12 Just a Caretaker? 196Jason Friedman13 Politics and the Public Mood in 1976 211Nicole L. Anslover14 Jimmy Carter’s 1976 Presidential Campaign: The Saint, the Sinner, and the Hopeless Dreamer 229Jeffrey Bloodworth15 The Transition 251John P. Burke16 Carter, the Soviet Union, Détente, and SALT II 272Jaclyn Stanke17 Trilateralism 290Kristin L. Ahlberg18 From East–West to North–South 312Andy DeRoche19 Carter’s Domestic Dilemmas, 1977–1978 335Timothy Stanley20 Mrs. President? 350Eryn Kane21 President Carter and the Press 364Jeffrey Crouch and Elise Tollefson22 Jimmy Carter, Congress, and the Supreme Court 379Leo P. Ribuffo23 1979: Year of Crises 410Blake W. Jones24 The Armed Forces during the Carter Years 430Robert T. Davis II and Scott Kaufman25 The Center of the Carter Conundrum: Human Rights and Foreign Policy 451William Steding26 The Election of 1980 470Andrew E. Busch27 Get Carter: Assessing the Record of the Thirty-Ninth President 491Joe Renouard28 The Post-Presidential Years of Gerald R. Ford 513Michael A. Davis29 A Presidency Lost, a Life Gained: Jimmy Carter’s Post-Presidency 532Frances M. Jacobson30 Agendas, Speakers, and Spokesmen 548John DumbrellIndex 567