Judy Woodruff: Jimmy Carter Was ‘Someone Who Was Constantly Underestimated’
‘He could fixate those blue eyes on you as if you were the only person in the room’
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WOODRUFF: “He wasn't a natural politician and he's not somebody who loved going around shaking hands, but when you were with him, he had -- he could fixate those blue eyes on you as if you were the only person in the room. And that was a gift that I know served him well as he then went on, and as you know, in 1976, to run for president, winning the Iowa caucuses, going practically door-to-door, spending the night in people's homes in Iowa, coming in second, I should say, after un -- after undeclared in Iowa, but that was enough to catapult him. And again, defeating all expectations. He was someone who was constantly underestimated.”
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