DELICIOUS - AT 8:05 P.M. ET:  We mention Jimmah Carter here a great deal, but only because we have to.  The man is a genuine threat to civilization, although he does well by peanuts. 

Here is a message we recently received from an excellent source who, for reasons you will understand, wishes to remain anonymous.  Let's just say he had intimate familiarity with the Carter White House.  Enjoy:

Sometime during 1980 I was in NYC staying at the Sheraton Center.  Carter was making an appearance of some sort there, but I don't remember the occasion.  

One of the mess stewards told me that Carter and Rosalynn were having lunch when Chip (the son) showed up with his kids.  The kids were totally ignored and left out in a separate room.  The stewards pooled some cash and went to a deli for sandwiches for the children as Carter refused to let them in to join them for dinner.  
 
On a visit to London in 1978 or 79 the staff emptied out all the alcohol from the ambassador's residence where the president always stays.  Carter sent the military aide back to Air Force One to get a bottle of whisky, but didn't want anyone to know about it.  He was a drinker, but tried to hide it.  Everyone knew he drank, but it didn't fit the Sunday school teacher persona.  
 
His senior staff set the bar for being jerks.  Some of the traveling staff were good people, but they were in the minority.  Luckily I was only there for just over a year under the Carter administration.

COMMENT:  There's more where this comes from.  I guarantee it. 

September 21, 2009