Excellent points, but I fear they broke the mold with Jimmy. I also worked briefly for Reagan. He was until his mind began to go, early in his second term, pretty good at acting the role that the neocons wrote for him. Here is my 2 cents on Carter: https://medium.com/@daneke/rest-in-piece-mr-president-jimmy-carter-vs-the-great-republican-dirty-tricks-and-war-machines-6cbc76ede5cc