Carter was almost certainly America’s most tech-savvy president. He received some training in nuclear engineering just before leaving the Navy - although he wasn’t a nuclear engineer and never served aboard a nuclear sub - two common myths. I’m pretty sure he wasn’t a climate change denier or an anti-vaxxer, and that he never thought the Internet was “a series of tubes” (Ted Stevens, R-Alaska), or that rape victims don’t need abortions because, “If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.” (Todd Akin, R-Missouri).
Jimmy Carter also understood the risks of nuclear power and had NASA design massive orbital solar panels
Carter was almost certainly America’s most tech-savvy president. He received some training in nuclear engineering just before leaving the Navy - although he wasn’t a nuclear engineer and never served aboard a nuclear sub - two common myths. I’m pretty sure he wasn’t a climate change denier or an anti-vaxxer, and that he never thought the Internet was “a series of tubes” (Ted Stevens, R-Alaska), or that rape victims don’t need abortions because, “If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.” (Todd Akin, R-Missouri).
Don’t sleep on Hank Johnson (D-Georgia) who was worried that putting too much American military on Guam might make the island “tip over”.