Interviewees discuss the presidency of Jimmy Carter (1977-1981).
About
"We were having an oil problem and there were gas lines, and we had inflation. [President Carter] was, as Ted Kennedy had said, lurching from crisis to crisis...the lights were on at the White House every night, deep into the night." - Lesley Stahl, News Correspondent/Anchor
Highlights
Lesley Stahl on her start as CBS White House correspondent, covering the second half of Jimmy Carter's presidency
00:57
Ed Bradley on being one of the "boys on the bus" covering Jimmy Carter, and why Carter was a strong candidate
02:42
Sam Donaldson on the differences in how the Carter and Reagan administrations treated the press
00:48
Tom Freston on the Carter administration's clothing embargo that crippled Freston's foreign business
00:59
Don Ohlmeyer on the U.S. boycotting the 1980 Olympics in Moscow
01:44
Betty Cole Dukert on various Presidents and Meet the Press: Jimmy Carter
10:43
Who Talked about This Topic
Ed Bradley
Ed Bradley on covering the 1976 Democratic primary campaign for CBS
02:25
Ed Bradley on being one of the "boys on the bus" covering Jimmy Carter, and why Carter was a strong candidate
02:42
Sam Donaldson
Sam Donaldson on covering Jimmy Carters presidential campaign for ABC News
07:35
Sam Donaldson on covering Jimmy Carter's presidency as ABC's White House correspondent
14:02
Betty Cole Dukert
Betty Cole Dukert on various Presidents and Meet the Press: Jimmy Carter
10:43
Reuven Frank
Reuven Frank on the 1980 election between Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter and on calling elections early
02:46
Tom Freston
Tom Freston on the Carter administration's clothing embargo that crippled Freston's foreign business
00:59
Ted Koppel
Ted Koppel on America Held Hostag e (which reported on the Iran Hostage Crisis) becoming ABC News Nightline contd.
10:46
Don Mischer
Don Mischer on President Carter attending Kennedy Center Honors
00:51
Don Ohlmeyer
Don Ohlmeyer on the U.S. boycotting the 1980 Olympics in Moscow
01:44
Marty Pasetta
Marty Pasetta on directing Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan's Inaugural specials
02:47
Bob Schieffer
Bob Schieffer on covering Jimmy Carter as chief Washington correspondent for CBS News
01:24
Reese Schonfeld
Reese Schonfeld on CNN's relationship with the Carter administration
07:01
Howard K. Smith
Howard K. Smith on moderating presidential debates
01:21
Sanford Socolow
Sanford Socolow on CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite coverage of the Iran Hostage Crisis
03:19
Lesley Stahl
Lesley Stahl on how she found the Reagan Administration less "emotional" than the Carter Administration as CBS' White House Correspondent
01:32
Lesley Stahl on her start as CBS White House correspondent, covering the second half of Jimmy Carter's presidency
00:57
Brian Williams
Brian Williams on his time as a White House intern and getting into broadcasting
07:56