Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter (Archival): I promised you four years ago that I would never lie to you.
吉米·卡特（档案）：四年前我向你保证我永远不会对你撒谎。
So I can't stand here tonight and say it doesn't hurt.
所以今晚我不能站在这里说这不疼。
About an hour ago I called Governor Reagan in California and I congratulated him for a fine victory.
大约一个小时前，我给加利福尼亚州的里根州长打电话，祝贺他取得了巨大的胜利。
I look forward to working closely with him...
我期待着与他密切合作......
Dan T.
丹·T.
Carter, Historian: All his life he believed that if you worked hard enough at it, understood the issues, mastered information, then you would come out first.
卡特，历史学家：他一生都相信，如果你足够努力，理解问题，掌握信息，那么你就会成为第一。
I said to him, "It must have been hard to turn over the keys to Ronald Reagan." And he said, "You don't know how hard it was."
我对他说：“把钥匙交给罗纳德·里根一定很困难。”他说：“你不知道这有多难。”
Narrator: On January 20th, 1981, after one of the most humiliating defeats in American political history, President Jimmy Carter returned home to Plains, Georgia to what he called, "an altogether new, unwanted, and potentially empty life."
旁白：1981 年 1 月 20 日，在经历了美国政治史上最耻辱的失败之一后，吉米·卡特总统回到佐治亚州普莱恩斯的家中，过着他所说的“一种全新的、不受欢迎的、可能空虚的生活”。
Rosalynn Carter: He really was better than I was when we came home, because, um, I was so depressed about it that he was always trying to prop me up, [laughs].
罗莎琳·卡特：当我们回家时，他确实比我更好，因为，嗯，我对此感到非常沮丧，以至于他总是试图支撑我，[笑]。
Narrator: Four years before he had stunned the nation.
旁白：四年前，他震惊了全国。
Patrick Caddell, Pollster: Going from total anonymity, to being President of the United States in less than twelve months, is unprecedented in American history.
帕特里克·卡德尔（Patrick Caddell），民调专家：在不到十二个月的时间里从完全匿名到成为美国总统，这在美国历史上是前所未有的。
If it weren't for the country looking for something in '76, Carter could never have gotten elected.
如果不是国家在 76 年寻求某种东西，卡特永远不可能当选。
Douglas Brinkley, Biographer: He offered a biography of what we wanted to hear: a farmer, Main Street values, Plains.
传记作家道格拉斯·布林克利（Douglas Brinkley）：他提供了一本我们想听的传记：农民、大街价值观、平原。
And he carried that message through, it was the right message at the right time.
他传达了这个信息，这是在正确的时间发出的正确的信息。
Jimmy Carter (Archival): Our commitment to Human Rights must be absolute.
吉米·卡特（档案）：我们对人权的承诺必须是绝对的。
Narrator: He had promised a new beginning.
旁白：他许诺了一个新的开始。
To heal the wounds of Watergate and Vietnam.
治愈水门事件和越南战争的创伤。
A government "as good and decent and compassionate as the American people." But events would overwhelm him.
一个“像美国人民一样善良、正派和富有同情心的政府”。但事态的发展会让他不知所措。
An energy crisis.
能源危机。
Inflation.
通货膨胀。
An Islamic revolution.
一场伊斯兰革命。
And 53 Americans held hostage 444 days.
53 名美国人被扣押了 444 天。
Carter came to be regarded as a good and decent man who was in over his head.
卡特逐渐被认为是一个善良而正派的人，但他的能力却超出了他的能力范围。
Elizabeth Drew, Journalist: He's a very, very smart man.
伊丽莎白·德鲁，记者：他是一个非常非常聪明的人。
And very well-intentioned.
而且用意非常好。
But feel, feel is very, very important in politics, especially in a president.
但感觉，感觉在政治中非常非常重要，尤其是对于总统而言。
And Carter just didn't have very much of it.
而卡特却没有太多这样的东西。
Hendrik Hertzberg, Speechwriter: What he had was a moral ideology.
亨德里克·赫茨伯格，演讲撰稿人：他拥有的是一种道德意识形态。
And the issues where he proved successful, the Panama Canal treaties, the Human Rights crusades, peace in the Middle East, those were issues where his moral ideology guided him.
他在那些被证明是成功的问题上，巴拿马运河条约，人权运动，中东和平，这些都是他的道德意识形态指导他的问题。
Jimmy Carter (Archival): In a nation that was proud of hard work, strong families...
吉米·卡特（档案）：在一个以辛勤工作和强大家庭为荣的国家......
Narrator: "Carter was one of the more exasperating men ever to claim the White House," one journalist said.
旁白：“卡特是有史以来入主白宫最令人恼火的人之一，”一位记者说。
"His tenacity, so admirable, could shift to stubbornness; his religious faith to self-righteousness.
“他的坚韧如此令人钦佩，但也可能变成固执；他的宗教信仰可能变成自以为是。
His brilliant mind could be bound up by intricate details."
他聪明的头脑可能会被复杂的细节所束缚。”
Walter F.
沃尔特·F.
Mondale, Vice President: Many times the one argument that I would find would ruin a person's case is when he'd say, "This is good for you politically." He didn't want to hear that.
副总统蒙代尔：很多时候，我发现一个会毁掉一个人案子的论点是当他说“这在政治上对你有好处”时。他不想听这个。
He didn't want to think that way and he didn't want his staff to think that way.
他不想这么想，也不希望他的员工这么想。
He wanted to know what's right.
他想知道什么是对的。
Douglas Brinkley, Biographer: This is one of the most highly ambitious people you will ever meet.
传记作者道格拉斯·布林克利（Douglas Brinkley）：这是您见过的最雄心勃勃的人之一。
I mean you don't make it from Plains Georgia to the White House just on charm.
我的意思是，你不能仅仅靠魅力从佐治亚平原到白宫。
But what makes him complex is he's got that kind of hubris and arrogance, and also this Christian humbleness.
但让他变得复杂的是他有那种傲慢和傲慢，还有基督徒的谦卑。
That's the battle he's constantly finding himself in.
这就是他不断陷入的战斗。
Narrator: "As a child my greatest ambition was to be valuable around the farm and to please my father," Jimmy Carter wrote of his boyhood in rural Georgia.
旁白：“当我还是个孩子的时候，我最大的抱负就是在农场里变得有价值并取悦我的父亲，”吉米·卡特在谈到他在佐治亚州乡村的童年时说道。
"He was the center of my life and the focus of my admiration."
“他是我生活的中心，也是我钦佩的焦点。”
Dan T.
丹·T.
Carter, Historian: I can't believe that Jimmy Carter ever felt lost in the sense that he didn't know where his place was in the world.
卡特，历史学家：我不敢相信吉米卡特曾经因为不知道自己在世界上的位置而感到迷失。
And a lot of that comes from his father, who, not only was a well-respected, powerful figure in the community, but I think had a real sense of who he was.
其中很大一部分来自于他的父亲，他不仅是社区中一位受人尊敬、有权有势的人物，而且我认为他对自己是谁有真正的认识。
And that certitude and self-confidence was something that his son, I think, absorbed unconsciously.
我认为，他的儿子不知不觉地吸收了这种确定性和自信。
Narrator: By the standards of southwest Georgia, Earl Carter presided over a small empire.
旁白：按照乔治亚州西南部的标准，卡特伯爵统治着一个小帝国。
A staunch segregationist, he owned some 350 acres of land where he planted corn, cotton, and peanuts employing more than 200 workers at harvest time.
作为一名坚定的种族隔离主义者，他拥有约 350 英亩的土地，种植玉米、棉花和花生，在收获季节雇用了 200 多名工人。
Five sharecropper families who depended on him for their survival, lived year round at his farm in Archery.
五个佃农家庭依靠他生存，常年住在他位于射箭场的农场。
Carter's mother, Lillian, was an avid reader, loved traveling, and was known to enjoy a sip of Bourbon.
卡特的母亲莉莲是一位狂热的读者，热爱旅行，并以喜欢喝波本威士忌而闻名。
She put in long hours as a nurse at a nearby hospital and devoted much of her free time to helping sick neighbors.
她在附近一家医院担任护士，工作时间很长，并将大部分空闲时间用来帮助生病的邻居。
Chip Carter, Son: She got paid in chickens and vegetables and that kind of things, because she really helped and felt called to help those that had less than her.
奇普·卡特（Chip Carter）的儿子：她得到的报酬是鸡肉和蔬菜之类的东西，因为她确实乐于助人，并感到自己被召唤去帮助那些比她贫穷的人。
And I think she instilled that in all of her children.
我认为她把这一点灌输给了她所有的孩子。
Rosalynn Carter: She was the only person in Plains who would take up for Abraham Lincoln, if he was ever brought up.
罗莎琳·卡特：如果亚伯拉罕·林肯长大的话，她是普莱恩斯唯一愿意支持他的人。
Today it's unbelievable to think about that, but back then it was just a way of life.
今天想起来都难以置信，但在当时这只是一种生活方式。
And we never thought anything...we never thought it was really wrong.
我们从来没有想过任何事情……我们从来没有认为这真的是错误的。
Narrator: Lillian set for Jimmy the example of service to others.
旁白：莉莲为吉米树立了服务他人的榜样。
Earl put the steel in his character.
厄尔将钢铁赋予了他的性格。
Betty Glad, Political Scientist: He was very demanding.
贝蒂·格莱德（Betty Glad），政治学家：他的要求非常高。
He expected his children to be the very best.
他希望他的孩子成为最优秀的。
And in some ways they all had that built into them.
在某些方面，他们都具有这种特质。
Narrator: "I never remember him saying 'good job' when I did my best to fulfill his orders," Jimmy later said.
旁白：“当我尽力完成他的命令时，我从来不记得他说过‘干得好’，”吉米后来说。
"The punishments he administered remained vivid in my memory." A short distance from the Carter farm was Plains, Georgia, population 600.
“他所施加的惩罚在我的记忆中仍然历历在目。”距卡特农场不远的是佐治亚州普莱恩斯市，人口 600 人。
The only place for miles to get a cup of coffee, a haircut, buy or sell goods.
数英里内唯一可以喝咖啡、理发、买卖商品的地方。
It is the place Jimmy Carter always called home.
这是吉米·卡特一直称之为家的地方。
Where as a child he went to the all-white Baptist church on Sundays, and where he attended the all-white public school.
小时候，他每周日都会去全白人的浸信会教堂，并在那里的全白人公立学校上学。
Dan T.
丹·T.
Carter, Historian: Everybody knew that he was special.
历史学家卡特：每个人都知道他很特别。
He was somebody different.
他是一个与众不同的人。
Smarter than, worked harder than, did more than, ceaselessly working at improving himself even as a child.
比他更聪明，比他更努力，比他做得更多，甚至在小时候就不断地努力提高自己。
Narrator: Jimmy made all A's, he played basketball, and joined the book lover's club.
旁白：吉米成绩全优，他打篮球，还加入了读书爱好者俱乐部。
Read Shakespeare's King Lear, Ben Hur, the Hunchback of Notre Dame.
阅读莎士比亚的《李尔王》、《宾虚》、《巴黎圣母院的驼背》。
He dreamed of joining the Navy.
他梦想加入海军。
His uncle, Tom Gordy, had excited his imagination with tales of adventures and postcards and gifts from exotic faraway places.
他的叔叔汤姆·戈迪用冒险故事、明信片和来自异国他乡的礼物激发了他的想象力。
In June 1943, at age 18, the farm boy from Plains was admitted to the US Naval Academy at Annapolis -- the first Carter ever to leave Georgia to pursue a higher education.
1943 年 6 月，18 岁的这位来自普莱恩斯的农场男孩考入位于安纳波利斯的美国海军学院，成为第一位离开佐治亚州接受高等教育的卡特。
Rosalynn Carter: Jimmy's sister Ruth was my best friend and she had a picture of him on the wall in her bedroom.
罗莎琳·卡特：吉米的妹妹露丝是我最好的朋友，她卧室的墙上挂着一张他的照片。
I just thought he was the most handsome young man I had ever seen.
我只是觉得他是我见过的最英俊的年轻人。
One day I confessed to her that I wish she would let me take that photograph home.
有一天，我向她坦白，我希望她能让我把那张照片带回家。
Because I just thought I had fallen in love with Jimmy Carter.
因为我只是以为我爱上了吉米·卡特。
Narrator: Rosalynn Smith was shy, a dedicated student, read the bible daily and went to church on Sundays.
旁白：罗莎琳·史密斯很害羞，是一名专注的学生，每天读圣经，周日去教堂。
Her mother once described her as a girl who could wear a white dress all day and keep it clean.
她的母亲曾形容她是一个可以整天穿着白色连衣裙并保持干净的女孩。
E.
E.
Stanly Godbold, Historian: She was very bright.
斯坦利·戈德博尔德，历史学家：她非常聪明。
She was a reader.
她是一位读者。
She liked to look at maps.
她喜欢看地图。
She was always interested in seeing the world.
她总是对看看世界很感兴趣。
And she always wanted to get away.
而她却一直想逃离。
Rosalynn Carter: I went to a meeting at the church and I was standing outside, and Jimmy drove up with Ruth and her boyfriend, got out of the car and came up and asked me to go to the movie.
罗莎琳·卡特：我去教堂参加一个会议，我站在外面，吉米带着露丝和她的男朋友开车过来，下了车，过来约我去看电影。
He kissed me goodbye.
他吻别了我。
I was thrilled to death.
我激动得要死。
And then we started corresponding.
然后我们就开始对应了。
And by the time Christmas came, I was swept off my feet.
圣诞节到来的时候，我简直神魂颠倒。
Narrator: One month after his graduation from Annapolis, Jimmy and Rosalynn were married.
旁白：吉米从安纳波利斯毕业一个月后，他和罗莎琳结婚了。
She was18, he was 21.
她18岁，他21岁。
Two years after joining the Navy, Ensign Carter was accepted into the submarine service.
加入海军两年后，卡特少尉被接纳加入潜艇部队。
It was a way to advance rapidly in a highly competitive environment.
这是在竞争激烈的环境中快速进步的一种方式。
Douglas Brinkley, Biographer: The military was everything for Jimmy Carter.
道格拉斯·布林克利，传记作者：军队对吉米·卡特来说就是一切。
It's his training.
这是他的训练。
He's never a minute late for anything.
他做任何事都不会迟到一分钟。
Punctuality means everything.
准时意味着一切。
His sense of order -- there's no sense of a mess around Jimmy Carter.
他的秩序感——吉米卡特周围没有混乱的感觉。
It's a certain kind of person that works in a submarine.
这是在潜艇中工作的某种人。
It takes a kind of mental discipline.
这需要一种精神纪律。
After six years in the service, Lieutenant Carter earned one of the most coveted posts in the Navy.
服役六年后，卡特中尉获得了海军中最令人垂涎的职位之一。
Senior Officer of the USS Seawolf, on the vanguard of America's nuclear defense program.
美国核防御计划的先锋，美国海狼号航空母舰的高级军官。
Rosalynn Carter: He always had one of the best positions in the Navy.
罗莎琳·卡特：他一直是海军中最好的职位之一。
And I think it gave him a lot of confidence that he could do whatever he wanted to do.
我认为这给了他很大的信心，他可以做任何他想做的事情。
Narrator: In 1953, less than a year after he began duty on the Seawolf, Carter received a message from home.
旁白：1953 年，卡特开始在“海狼”号上执勤还不到一年，他收到了一条来自家里的消息。
His father had cancer and was not expected to live long.
他的父亲患有癌症，预计不会活太久。
Ten years had passed since Carter left Plains for a career in the Navy.
卡特离开普莱恩斯加入海军已经十年了。
Visits home had been rare.
回家探望的次数很少。
Father and son had grown distant.
父子俩渐行渐远。
As he sat by Earl's bedside, Jimmy discovered a side of his father he'd never seen before.
当吉米坐在厄尔的床边时，他发现了父亲从未见过的一面。
"Our long conversations were interrupted by a stream of visitors, black and white," Carter later wrote.
“我们漫长的谈话被一群黑人和白人访客打断了，”卡特后来写道。
"A surprising number wanted to recount how my father's personal influence and many secret acts of generosity had affected their lives."
“令人惊讶的是，有很多人想要讲述我父亲的个人影响力和许多秘密的慷慨行为如何影响了他们的生活。”
Betty Glad, Political Scientist: He saw that he had really built a community around himself.
贝蒂·格莱德（Betty Glad），政治学家：他发现自己确实在自己周围建立了一个社区。
A lot of people liked him, and came to see him when he was sick, and when he died, came to his funeral.
很多人喜欢他，他生病的时候来看他，他去世的时候也来参加他的葬礼。
And what Jimmy realized, he didn't have a community for himself.
吉米意识到，他没有自己的社区。
Peter Bourne, Biographer: He's actually said to me, "You know," he said, "I wondered at that time if I died, how many people would come to my funeral, or how many people would care if I died." And I think it made him, at a fairly fundamental level, examine what life is all about.
传记作家彼得·伯恩：他实际上对我说，“你知道，”他说，“我当时想知道如果我死了，有多少人会来参加我的葬礼，或者有多少人会关心我是否死了。”我认为这让他从一个相当基本的层面上审视了生活的意义。
Douglas Brinkley, Biographer: He was a shining star in the U.S. Navy who could have gone very, very far.
道格拉斯·布林克利（Douglas Brinkley），传记作者：他是美国海军中一颗闪亮的明星，本可以走得非常非常远。
He dropped all that to emulate his father, to take over his father's business.
他放弃了这一切，效仿他的父亲，接管他父亲的生意。
I don't think there's any higher tribute a son can make to his father than to say, "Now that you're dead, Daddy, I want to stand in your shoes."
我认为，对于一个儿子来说，没有什么比对父亲说“现在你死了，爸爸，我想站在你的立场上”更崇高的敬意了。
Narrator: When Jimmy told Rosalynn, she was furious.
旁白：当吉米告诉罗莎琳时，她非常愤怒。
"She almost quit me," he later said.
“她差点就离开我了，”他后来说。
Chip Carter, Son: Mom was kind of disappointed to be going back to Plains.
奇普·卡特（Chip Carter），儿子：妈妈对回到普莱恩斯感到有点失望。
She had worked a good bit of her life to get out of there.
为了离开那里，她付出了很大的努力。
And they were going back to take over a business that wasn't doing very well.
他们要回去接管一家业绩不佳的企业。
Narrator: Carter applied all his energies to peanuts.
旁白：卡特把所有的精力都用在了花生上。
"He was always experimenting," Rosalynn later wrote.
“他总是在尝试，”罗莎琳后来写道。
"Trying new things, dreaming up something else he wanted to do." "I had to admit I was enjoying life," Rosalynn later said.
“尝试新事物，梦想他想做的其他事情。” “我不得不承认我很享受生活，”罗莎琳后来说。
The Carters went fishing, played golf, took frequent vacations.
卡特一家去钓鱼、打高尔夫球、经常度假。
Jimmy served on the Sumter County Board of Education, taught Sunday School at the Plains Baptist Church, was scoutsmaster, Vice-President of the Lions Club.
吉米曾在萨姆特县教育委员会任职，在平原浸信会教堂教主日学校，担任童子军队长、狮子俱乐部副主席。
But he had "come to the point of boredom," Rosalynn remembered.
但罗莎琳回忆道，他已经“到了无聊的地步”。
And one weekday morning in 1962, "he got up and put on his Sunday pants."
1962 年的一个工作日早晨，“他起床穿上周日的裤子。”
Rosalynn Carter: I was really shocked.
罗莎琳·卡特：我真的很震惊。
I had no idea he was thinking about running for the State Senate.
我不知道他正在考虑竞选州参议员。
Narrator: The campaign that launched Jimmy Carter's political career lasted all of fifteen days.
旁白：开启吉米·卡特政治生涯的竞选活动持续了整整十五天。
There was no money and no staff -- only family and friends, and his own determination.
没有钱，没有工作人员——只有家人和朋友，以及他自己的决心。
Though he would always play the reluctant politician, even by his first campaign, Carter was no stranger to politics.
尽管卡特总是扮演不情愿的政治家，即使是在第一次竞选时，他对政治并不陌生。
Dan T.
丹·T.
Carter, Historian: Politics was something he lived and breathed from the time he was a child.
卡特，历史学家：政治是他从小就生活和呼吸的东西。
A kind of weekly, daily, even, during election season, interaction.
一种每周、每天、甚至在选举季节的互动。
Barbecues.
烧烤。
You gathered on the county courthouse grounds for speeches.
你们聚集在县法院大楼上发表演讲。
He talks about going to rallies with his father, remembering them very well.
他谈到与父亲一起参加集会的事，并记得非常清楚。
And I think he came to see politics as something not alien, not something he had to make a decision to do but was almost natural.
我认为他开始将政治视为一种并不陌生的东西，不是他必须做出决定才能做的事情，而是几乎是自然的事情。
Narrator: "I received a startling education," he said.
旁白：“我接受了令人震惊的教育，”他说。
"One that set the tone for my future career." On January 14, 1963, the morning after the traditional whiskey and barbecued wild hog dinner, Jimmy Carter was sworn in as a member of the Georgia Senate.
“这为我未来的职业生涯定下了基调。” 1963 年 1 月 14 日，在传统的威士忌和烤野猪晚餐后的第二天早上，吉米·卡特宣誓就任佐治亚州参议院议员。
He was one of 89 new legislators joining the Georgia Assembly.
他是加入佐治亚州议会的 89 名新议员之一。
Many of them determined to change the old ways of Georgia politics.
他们中的许多人决心改变格鲁吉亚政治的旧方式。
Leroy Johnson, Georgia State Senator: I had the good fortune of being the first black to be elected to the General Assembly of Georgia in 100 years.
佐治亚州参议员勒罗伊·约翰逊：我有幸成为 100 年来第一位当选佐治亚州议会议员的黑人。
Carter was one of those persons who came to the Senate at that time.
卡特是当时进入参议院的人之一。
And he was not a leader of the Senate.
而且他不是参议院领袖。
He was quiet.
他很安静。
He was effective.
他很有效。
He was deliberate and he made no waves.
他是故意的，没有掀起任何波澜。
Narrator: In 1966, after two terms in the Georgia Senate, Jimmy Carter jumped into the race for Governor of Georgia.
旁白：1966 年，在佐治亚州参议院连任两届之后，吉米·卡特加入了佐治亚州州长的竞选。
He ran well behind arch-segregationist Lester Maddox, famous for wielding an ax handle to keep blacks away from his chicken restaurant.
他远远落后于主要种族隔离主义者莱斯特·马多克斯(Lester Maddox)，莱斯特·马多克斯因挥舞斧柄阻止黑人进入他的鸡肉餐厅而闻名。
Carter promised better schools, better hospitals, better roads, and a more competent government.
卡特承诺提供更好的学校、更好的医院、更好的道路和更称职的政府。
"It is hard to hear Senator Carter talk about state government and not be impressed by his integrity," one reporter wrote.
一名记者写道：“每次听到卡特参议员谈论州政府，他的正直都会给他留下深刻的印象。”
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Carter, Historian: You're not gonna turn the apple cart upside down, but you're gonna bring changes, you're gonna bring improvements in the South.
卡特，历史学家：你不会把苹果车颠倒过来，但你会带来改变，你会为南方带来进步。
And you are going to do it by applying good sound business techniques to everything from the way you run your public institutions to the way you run your government.
为了做到这一点，你将通过将良好的商业技术应用于从公共机构的管理方式到政府的管理方式等各个方面。
Narrator: Carter took his message to every corner of Georgia.
旁白：卡特把他的信息带到了佐治亚州的每个角落。
"We never stopped," Rosalynn recalled, "no matter what." By Election Day, he was closing in on the lead.
“无论如何，我们从未停止过，”罗莎琳回忆道。到选举日，他已经接近领先优势。
Chip Carter, Son: We went to bed thinking we were going to win.
奇普·卡特（Chip Carter）的儿子：我们上床睡觉时以为我们会赢。
Had gotten up and gone to school the next day, being congratulated about my father winning the primary, and then Billy came to the, about 2 o'clock in the afternoon, and told us that Lester Maddox had beat us by less than a half of a percentage point.
第二天我起床去学校，祝贺我父亲赢得了初选，然后比利在下午两点左右来到学校，告诉我们莱斯特·马多克斯以不到半个百分点的优势击败了我们。
So it was very disheartening.
所以这是非常令人沮丧的。
Narrator: "We all felt sick," Rosalynn recalled.
旁白：“我们都感到恶心，”罗莎琳回忆道。
"We were 66,000 dollars in debt and Jimmy had lost twenty-two pounds." After all the miles traveled, the handshakes, the long days, Jimmy Carter was right back where he started when he first ran for the Senate in 1962.
“我们负债 66,000 美元，而吉米却减掉了 22 磅。”经过漫长的路程、握手和漫长的日子后，吉米·卡特又回到了 1962 年首次竞选参议员时的起点。
Weeks later, with the loss still fresh in his mind, Jimmy went for a walk with his sister Ruth, an evangelical Christian and spiritual healer.
几周后，吉米仍然对失去亲人的事记忆犹新，他和妹妹露丝一起散步，露丝是一位福音派基督徒和精神治疗师。
All of his life he had been a church-going Christian, but now felt that his faith had been superficial.
他一生都是一名去教堂的基督徒，但现在他觉得自己的信仰很肤浅。
"We are both Baptists," he said, "but what is it that you have that I haven't got?" "Total commitment," she replied.
“我们都是浸信会教徒，”他说，“但是你有什么是我没有的呢？” “完全的承诺，”她回答道。
"I belong to Jesus, everything I am." "Ruth," he answered, "that's what I want."
“我属于耶稣，我的一切都属于耶稣。” “露丝，”他回答道，“这就是我想要的。”
Douglas Brinkley, Biographer: At that point he decided that he'd always put Christ in his life first, and politics second.
道格拉斯·布林克利（Douglas Brinkley），传记作家：从那时起，他决定在生活中始终把基督放在第一位，然后再考虑政治。
But that's been a struggle for him because politics is the ego and Christ is the humbleness.
但这对他来说是一场斗争，因为政治是自我，而基督是谦卑。
Narrator: The "born again" Christian traveled north to blighted neighborhoods in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts as a "personal witness" for Jesus Christ.
旁白：这位“重生”的基督徒向北前往宾夕法尼亚州和马萨诸塞州的破败社区，作为耶稣基督的“个人见证人”。
Douglas Brinkley, Biographer: He would go door-to-door, getting people to witness Christ, take Jesus into their lives.
道格拉斯·布林克利（Douglas Brinkley），传记作者：他会挨家挨户地让人们见证基督，将耶稣带入他们的生活。
I mean, can you imagine ten years later this man is president of the United States, and he's banging on doors, asking people, "do you want a bible?
我的意思是，你能想象十年后这个人成为美国总统，他敲门问人们：“你们想要一本圣经吗？
Will you take God in your life?"
你愿意接受上帝进入你的生活吗？”
Narrator: In 1970, with renewed fervor, Carter ran for governor of Georgia a second time.
旁白：1970年，卡特怀着新的热情第二次竞选佐治亚州州长。
Jimmy Carter (Archival): I have been campaigning almost 18 hours a day without stopping for eight months.
吉米·卡特（档案）：八个月以来，我每天几乎不间断地竞选 18 个小时。
I've seen almost every factory shift in Georgia and been in almost every store.
我几乎见过佐治亚州的每一家工厂，也去过几乎每一家商店。
Rosalynn Carter: It was just kind of an obsession.
罗莎琳·卡特：这只是一种痴迷。
He had lost so we had to win.
他输了，所以我们必须赢。
And we worked as hard as we could.
我们尽我们所能地努力工作。
Narrator: It would not be the amateur run of 1966, but a well-coordinated effort.
旁白：这将不再是 1966 年的业余跑步，而是一次精心协调的努力。
Carter brought in two Southwest Georgia boys: Jody Powell as his personal assistant and Hamilton Jordan to manage the campaign.
卡特带来了乔治亚州西南部的两名男孩：乔迪·鲍威尔（Jody Powell）作为他的私人助理，汉密尔顿·乔丹（Hamilton Jordan）来管理竞选活动。
Advertising man Gerald Rafshoon would handle the media.
广告人杰拉尔德·拉夫肖恩 (Gerald Rafshoon) 负责管理媒体。
Bert Lance, a banker from Calhoun, played the role of advisor.
来自卡尔霍恩的银行家伯特·兰斯（Bert Lance）扮演了顾问的角色。
Bert Lance, Advisor: It was a tough, tough campaign.
伯特·兰斯，顾问：这是一场非常非常艰难的竞选活动。
And there were many who thought that Carter could not possibly win.
许多人认为卡特不可能获胜。
Narrator: Carter's rival for the Democratic nomination, Carl Sanders, enjoyed a commanding 20% lead.
旁白：卡特在民主党提名中的竞争对手卡尔·桑德斯以 20% 的领先优势领先。
He had the backing of the Atlanta business establishment, and the support of African Americans, voting in greater numbers since the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
他得到了亚特兰大商界的支持，也得到了非裔美国人的支持，自 1965 年投票权法案通过以来，投票人数不断增加。
Carter went after Sanders with a vengeance.
卡特对桑德斯进行了报复。
Carter Campaign Ad (Archival): Some candidates in this governor's race have large campaign contributions behind them.
卡特竞选广告（档案）：本次州长竞选中的一些候选人背后有大量竞选捐款。
Big money asking big favors.
大钱要大恩惠。
Jimmy Carter only has the people of Georgia...
吉米·卡特只有佐治亚州人民......
Narrator: Carter portrayed Sanders as a tool of the Atlanta business establishment and himself as a hard-working everyman.
旁白：卡特将桑德斯描绘成亚特兰大商界的工具，而自己则描绘成一个勤奋的普通人。
Carter Political Ad (Archival): No wonder Jimmy Carter has a special understanding of the problems facing everyone who works for a living.
卡特政治广告（档案）：难怪吉米·卡特对每个谋生的人所面临的问题有着特殊的理解。
Isn't it time somebody spoke up for you?
难道现在不该有人为你说话吗？
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Stanly Godbold, Historian: He wanted to appeal to the large middle class, blue collar type, predominantly white, and most of these people are going to be segregationists.
斯坦利·戈德博尔德，历史学家：他想吸引大量中产阶级、蓝领阶层，主要是白人，而这些人中的大多数人将成为种族隔离主义者。
Betty Glad, Political Scientist: He courted the racist vote.
政治科学家贝蒂·格莱德：他争取种族主义选票。
There were some radio ads that he ran in 1970.
1970 年他播放了一些广播广告。
He said that "Unlike Sanders, I am not trying to get the" and he sort of slid over whether it was "block" or "black" vote.
他说，“与桑德斯不同，我并不是想获得投票”，而且他对是“阻止”投票还是“黑人”投票犹豫不决。
But it sort of meant the same thing.
但它的意思是一样的。
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Stanly Godbold, Historian: Carter himself was not a segregationist in 1970.
历史学家斯坦利·戈德博尔德：卡特本人在 1970 年并不是种族隔离主义者。
But he did say things that the segregationists wanted to hear.
但他确实说了种族隔离主义者想听的话。
He was opposed to bussing.
他反对乘坐公共汽车。
He was in favor of private schools.
他赞成私立学校。
He said that he would invite segregationist governor George Wallace to come to Georgia to give a speech.
他表示，他将邀请种族隔离主义州长乔治·华莱士来佐治亚州发表演讲。
Leroy Johnson, Georgia State Senator: The only solace that we got and received was the fact that in private meetings, he convinced us that if he was given an opportunity he would make things better.
佐治亚州参议员勒罗伊·约翰逊：我们得到和收到的唯一安慰是，在私人会议中，他让我们相信，如果给他机会，他会让事情变得更好。
He always come up with this question of trust.
他总是提出这个信任问题。
Trust me.
相信我。
I believe in doing the right thing.
我相信做正确的事。
Betty Glad, Political Scientist: If you are really trying to accomplish good moral ends, you may have to be a low-life politician to get there.
政治学家贝蒂·格莱德：如果你真的想实现良好的道德目标，你可能必须成为一名出身低微的政治家才能实现这一目标。
And he didn't probably like doing it that much, but he was willing to do it.
他可能不太喜欢这样做，但他愿意这样做。
Jimmy Carter (Archival): At the end of a long campaign I believe I know our people...
吉米·卡特（档案）：在漫长的竞选结束后，我相信我了解我们的人民......
Narrator: On January 12, 1971, Jimmy Carter, age 46, was sworn in as governor of Georgia.
旁白：1971年1月12日，46岁的吉米·卡特宣誓就任佐治亚州州长。
In his inaugural address he revealed his true feelings on race.
他在就职演说中透露了自己对种族问题的真实感受。
Jimmy Carter (Archival): I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.
吉米·卡特（档案）：我很坦率地告诉你，种族歧视的时代已经结束了。
No poor, rural, weak, or black person should ever have to bear the additional burden of being deprived of the opportunity of an education, a job, or simple justice.
任何穷人、农村人、弱者或黑人都不应该承受被剥夺教育、工作或简单司法机会的额外负担。
Leroy Johnson, Georgia State Senator: We were extremely pleased.
佐治亚州参议员勒罗伊·约翰逊：我们非常高兴。
Many of the white segregationists were displeased.
许多白人种族隔离主义者对此感到不满。
And I'm convinced that those people that supported him, would not have supported him if they had thought that he would have made that statement.
我相信，那些支持他的人如果认为他会发表这样的声明，就不会支持他。
Dan T.
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Carter, Historian: I do remember reading his inaugural address and thinking this is wonderful.
卡特，历史学家：我确实记得读过他的就职演说，并认为这太棒了。
We've got a governor in a deep south state who is stating emphatically not just that it's time to accept change, but that it's time to really move far beyond that and end all forms of discrimination.
我们在南方腹地的一个州有一位州长，他强调，不仅是时候接受变革了，而且是时候真正超越这一点并结束一切形式的歧视了。
Narrator: Carter appointed an unprecedented number of women and African-Americans, stimulated foreign investment, reformed the state's criminal justice and mental health systems.
旁白：卡特任命了数量空前的女性和非裔美国人，刺激了外国投资，改革了该州的刑事司法和精神卫生系统。
Jimmy Carter (Archival): I see unfair taxes and government waste and I see runaway spending...
吉米·卡特（档案）：我看到不公平的税收和政府浪费，我看到失控的支出......
Narrator: The centerpiece of his agenda was a radical plan to streamline state government with savings at every level.
旁白：他议程的核心是一项激进的计划，旨在精简州政府，并在各个层面上节省开支。
Bert Lance, Advisor: Everybody had to pay for their own lunch.
伯特·兰斯（Bert Lance），顾问：每个人都必须自己支付午餐费用。
You know, we had to put $2 into the kitty.
你知道，我们必须给这只小猫投入 2 美元。
Mary Beasley, who was his secretary at the time, would ask you want you wanted, And so you felt honored to be able to go and spend money for a dried out sandwich.
玛丽·比斯利（Mary Beasley）当时是他的秘书，她会问你想要什么，所以你很荣幸能够去花钱买一个干三明治。
Narrator: The Governor's proposal to slash the number of government agencies provoked outrage.
旁白：总督削减政府机构数量的提议引起了公愤。
Jimmy Carter (Archival): I welcome confrontation with heads of departments.
吉米·卡特（档案）：我欢迎与部门负责人对抗。
I'm willing to fight with anybody who opposes a recommendation...
我愿意与任何反对建议的人战斗......
Leroy Johnson, Georgia State Senator: I saw a completely different side of Carter.
佐治亚州参议员勒罗伊·约翰逊：我看到了卡特完全不同的一面。
In the senate he was not assertive.
在参议院他并不自信。
As governor, he was assertive.
作为州长，他很自信。
He knew where he wanted to go, and he knew the direction he wanted to go in.
他知道自己要去哪里，也知道自己要往哪个方向走。
And he wanted complete compliance.
他希望完全遵守。
Narrator: By the time his reorganization bill reached the Senate floor, Carter had alienated most of the Assembly.
旁白：当他的重组法案到达参议院时，卡特已经疏远了议会的大部分成员。
But his bill squeaked through by a handful of votes.
但他的法案以少数票数勉强通过。
Warren Fortson, Lawyer: As I told the committee up there, he reminds me of a south Georgia turtle who's been blocked by a log.
沃伦·福特森（Warren Fortson）律师：正如我告诉委员会的那样，他让我想起了一只被圆木挡住的南乔治亚海龟。
And he just keeps pushing, pushing, pushing straight ahead, he doesn't go around here until he finally gets a soft spot in the log and right on through he goes.
他只是不断地推，推，一直向前推，他不会在这里绕过，直到他最终在圆木上找到一个软点，然后继续前进。
He is a man of great determination and steel.
他是一个意志坚强、意志坚强的人。
Narrator: Election season 1972, Jimmy Carter extended his hospitality to Democratic hopefuls.
旁白：1972 年选举季，吉米·卡特热情接待了民主党候选人。
Barely two years in the Governor's Mansion, he already had his eye on the White House.
在总督官邸呆了不到两年，他就已经把目光投向了白宫。
Chip Carter, Son: Every Democrat running for office came to Georgia.
奇普·卡特（Chip Carter）的儿子：每一位竞选公职的民主党人都来到了佐治亚州。
And every single one of them, Dad would ask to come and stay with him at the governor's mansion.
他们每一个人，爸爸都会要求来州长官邸和他一起住。
And we realized that they were just people like him.
我们意识到他们就是像他一样的人。
Narrator: That July, Carter led the Georgia delegation to the Democratic National Convention, hoping for the second spot on the ticket.
旁白：那年七月，卡特率领佐治亚州代表团参加了民主党全国代表大会，希望获得第二名。
Rosalynn Carter (Archival): I'm over here in the box and I really can't tell what's going on so much.
Rosalynn Carter（档案）：我在包厢里，我真的不知道发生了什么。
But, Jimmy comes over from the floor and kind of briefs me once in a while.
但是，吉米从地板上走过来，偶尔向我介绍情况。
It's just that it's the first time I've ever been to a convention and I'm just so excited about it.
只是这是我第一次参加大会，我对此感到非常兴奋。
Gerald Rafshoon, Media Advisor: I remember at the end of the McGovern speech at 3 o'clock in the morning, Hamilton Jordan and I were walking away from the convention hall, and I said, "You know, if Ed Muskie, Hubert Humphrey, Terry Sanford, Scoop Jackson, George Wallace, Ted Kennedy can run for president, Jimmy could run for president" And then of course we said, "And if these guys who are running these campaigns" -- like we met the people in the McGovern campaign -- "can run a campaign for president, hell, we could do that."
杰拉尔德·拉夫肖恩，媒体顾问：我记得凌晨 3 点麦戈文演讲结束时，汉密尔顿·乔丹和我正离开会议厅，我说，“你知道，如果埃德·马斯基、休伯特·汉弗莱、特里·桑福德、斯库普·杰克逊、乔治·华莱士、特德·肯尼迪可以竞选总统，吉米也可以竞选总统。”当然，我们说，“如果这些正在开展这些竞选活动的人”——就像我们在麦戈文竞选活动——“可以竞选总统，天哪，我们可以做到。”
Rosalynn Carter: I called Ruth, I said, "Jimmy's going to run for p-p-," I couldn't even say the word, it was so...
罗莎琳·卡特：我打电话给露丝，我说，“吉米要竞选 p-p-”，我什至无法说出这个词，事情是如此......
unreal to me.
对我来说不真实。
Narrator: Carter officially announced his candidacy in December 1974.
旁白：卡特于1974年12月正式宣布参选。
The one-term southern governor, was a long shot.
担任一届南方州长的可能性不大。
Douglas Brinkley, Biographer: Nobody knew him.
传记作者道格拉斯·布林克利：没有人认识他。
It was like picking a name out of the phone book.
这就像从电话簿中挑选一个名字一样。
I mean, it takes a bit of hubris to think you're the best person to be the President of the United States, because you were a one-term governor of Georgia.
我的意思是，因为你曾担任过一届佐治亚州州长，所以认为你是成为美国总统的最佳人选需要一点傲慢。
Campaign Song (Archival): "Once and for all, why not the best?"
竞选歌曲（档案）：“一劳永逸，为何不是最好的？”
Douglas Brinkley, Biographer: It's a kind of arrogance run amuck.
传记作者道格拉斯·布林克利：这是一种狂妄的傲慢。
Jimmy Carter (Archival): I want to see us once again have a nation, that's as good and honest and decent and truthful, and competent, and compassionate, and as filled with love, as are the American people...
吉米·卡特（档案）：我希望看到我们再次拥有一个国家，它像美国人民一样善良、诚实、正派、真实、有能力、富有同情心、充满爱......
John A.
约翰·A.
Farrell, Journalist: At that time character was a monumental issue.
记者法雷尔：当时性格是一个重大问题。
The country had been through a horrible time and Jimmy Carter represented honesty and decency.
这个国家经历了一段可怕的时期，吉米·卡特代表了诚实和正派。
Carter Campaign Ad (Archival): I will never tell a lie.
卡特竞选广告（档案）：我永远不会说谎。
I will never make a misleading statement.
我绝不会发表误导性言论。
I will never betray the confidence any of you has in me...
我永远不会辜负你们对我的信任......
Douglas Brinkley, Historian: Lyndon Johnson lied to us about Vietnam; Richard Nixon lied to us about Watergate.
历史学家道格拉斯·布林克利：林登·约翰逊在越南问题上对我们撒了谎；理查德·尼克松在水门事件上对我们撒了谎。
He's saying, "You know I'm not one of those turkeys whose messing things up up there."
他说：“你知道我不是那些把事情搞砸的火鸡之一。”
Narrator: Carter's campaign strategy was simple: run early and run hard.
旁白：卡特的竞选策略很简单：早跑，努力跑。
Before any other candidates even announced, Carter had traveled more than 50,000 miles, visited 37 states and delivered more than 200 speeches.
在任何其他候选人宣布之前，卡特已经行驶了 50,000 多英里，访问了 37 个州并发表了 200 多场演讲。
Peter Bourne, Biographer: He was a wonderful speaker before small groups.
传记作者彼得·伯恩：他在小团体面前是一位出色的演讲者。
He would get up and talk without notes with extraordinary passion.
他会站起来，带着非凡的热情，不做笔记地讲话。
Almost like a preacher really having the spirit with him.
几乎就像一个真正有精神的传教士。
Narrator: It was a grassroots effort, financed on a shoestring.
旁白：这是一项草根努力，资金有限。
Chip Carter, Son: We had all these stepping stones we had to do.
奇普·卡特（Chip Carter）的儿子：我们有所有必须做的垫脚石。
We had to qualify for federal matching funds by a certain point and we accomplished every one of them.
我们必须在一定程度上获得联邦配套资金的资格，并且我们完成了每一项。
And every time you accomplished one, it gave you more and more confidence.
每完成一项，你就会变得越来越有信心。
Rosalynn Carter: We had our boys out, we had Aunt Sissy out, we had his mother, all going in different directions.
罗莎琳·卡特：我们让我们的孩子出去，我们让茜茜阿姨出去，我们让他的母亲出去，所有人都朝着不同的方向前进。
Chip Carter, Son: At one point in the presidential campaign we had 11 family members in eleven different states at the same time.
奇普·卡特 (Chip Carter) 儿子：在总统竞选期间，我们有 11 名家庭成员同时分布在 11 个不同的州。
We were out every day, knocking on doors.
我们每天都出去敲门。
We knocked on 60,000 doors in New Hampshire.
我们敲开了新罕布什尔州的 60,000 扇门。
That was probably almost every Democratic household that we could identify in the whole state.
这可能是我们在全州能找到的几乎所有民主党家庭。
Walter Cronkite (Archival): Jimmy Carter took a long lead tonight in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.
沃尔特·克朗凯特（档案）：吉米·卡特今晚在民主党总统提名竞选中遥遥领先。
He won the New Hampshire primary handily...
他轻松赢得了新罕布什尔州的初选......
Jimmy Carter (Archival): I remember when we couldn't find a microphone...
吉米·卡特（档案）：我记得当我们找不到麦克风时......
[cheers]
[干杯]
Narrator: Carter's stamina seemed superhuman.
旁白：卡特的耐力似乎超人。
"Behind that Huckleberry Finn grin," one reporter observed, "there is a perfectionist campaign machine that shuts down only six hours out of twenty four.
“在哈克贝利·费恩的笑容背后，”一位记者观察到，“有一个完美主义的竞选机器，二十四小时中只关闭六个小时。
State by state, the delegates kept adding up.
一个州一个州，代表人数不断增加。
By the time the Democrats convened in New York in July 1976, Carter had a lock on the nomination.
1976 年 7 月民主党在纽约召开会议时，卡特已经锁定了提名。
Walter F.
沃尔特·F.
Mondale, Vice President: The fact that Carter could unite the nation, North and South, and give us a clean shot for the Presidency.
副总统蒙代尔：事实是，卡特可以团结全国，南北双方，让我们有机会竞选总统。
This was the culmination of my dreams.
这是我梦想的顶峰。
Jimmy Carter (Archival): My name is Jimmy Carter and I'm running for President.
吉米·卡特（档案）：我的名字是吉米·卡特，我正在竞选总统。
[cheers] And now I've come here to accept your nomination...[cheers]
[干杯] 现在我来这里接受你的提名...[干杯]
Betty Glad, Political Scientist: He'd pulled off a miracle.
政治学家贝蒂·格莱德：他创造了一个奇迹。
In the fall of 1975, he was barely visible as a candidate, below 5% in all the polls.
1975 年秋天，他几乎没有作为候选人出现，在所有民意调查中的支持率都低于 5%。
And suddenly, six months later he has the Democratic presidential nomination, and he is running 70% in the public opinion polls.
六个月后，他突然获得了民主党总统提名，并且在民意调查中获得了 70% 的支持率。
That is a miracle.
这是一个奇迹。
Now the problem was that he had his vulnerabilities, and they showed in the fall.
现在的问题是他有自己的弱点，这些弱点在秋天就显现出来了。
Jimmy Carter (Archival): This election means a lot to our country...
吉米·卡特（档案）：这次选举对我们的国家意义重大......
Narrator: Carter began the fall campaign against incumbent President Gerald Ford with a fifteen-point lead.
旁白：卡特以 15 个百分点的领先优势开始了与现任总统杰拉尔德·福特的秋季竞选活动。
Jimmy Carter (Archival): We've been disappointed, disillusioned, we've been kept out of government.
吉米·卡特（档案）：我们感到失望、幻灭，我们被排除在政府之外。
We've been embarrassed.
我们一直很尴尬。
Sometimes we've been ashamed...
有时候我们会感到羞耻...
Narrator: He returned to the themes of honesty and trust that had defined his primary campaign.
旁白：他回到了他初选竞选活动的诚实和信任主题。
Gerald Ford (Archival): Jimmy Carter will say anything, anywhere to be President of the United States.
杰拉尔德·福特（档案）：吉米·卡特为了成为美国总统，无论在任何地方都会说任何话。
Narrator: But as Election Day approached, he was pressured to take a stand on the issues.
旁白：但随着选举日的临近，他被迫在这些问题上表明立场。
Gerald Ford (Archival): He wanders, he wavers, he waffles, and he wiggles.
杰拉尔德·福特（档案）：他徘徊，他摇摆，他胡思乱想，他摇摆不定。
He isn't the man you want for President of the United States.
他不是你想要的美国总统。
Bert Lance, Advisor: He was a moderate to the moderates, he was a conservative to the conservatives, he was a liberal to the liberals.
伯特·兰斯，顾问：对温和派来说，他是温和派；对保守派来说，他是保守派；对自由派来说，他是自由派。
And in fact, he was all of those things.
事实上，他就是所有这些东西。
Jimmy Carter (Archival): We are going to have a fair government once again, we are going to have a government that's open and not secret once again.
吉米·卡特（档案）：我们将再次拥有一个公平的政府，我们将再次拥有一个公开而不秘密的政府。
Joshua Muravchik, Political Analyst: His standard line, when asked about his foreign policy was, that he wanted to provide a foreign policy as good as the American people.
政治分析师约书亚·穆拉夫奇克（Joshua Muravchik）：当被问及他的外交政策时，他的标准路线是，他希望提供与美国人民一样好的外交政策。
Well, gee, that's great, but what in the world does it mean?
嗯，哎呀，那太好了，但这到底意味着什么？
Jimmy Carter (Archival): You can depend on me.
吉米·卡特（档案）：你可以依靠我。
You help me, I'll help you...
你帮我，我也帮你……
Betty Glad, Political Scientist: The gist of what he presented was that he would be a centrist Democrat who had liberal values in his heart, as well as the desire for frugality and thrift and efficiency in government.
政治学家贝蒂·格莱德：他提出的要点是，他将成为一名中间派民主党人，内心拥有自由主义价值观，以及对政府节俭、节俭和高效的渴望。
And so he could appeal to people from all parts of the Democratic party.
这样他就可以吸引民主党各派人士。
But as Julian Bond said at one point, "The problem with this is, is that his support was an inch deep and a mile wide."
但正如朱利安·邦德曾说过的那样，“问题是，他的支持是一英寸深、一英里宽。”
Narrator: Alarmed that support among liberal Democrats was eroding, Carter's young staff made a bold move.
旁白：由于担心自由派民主党人的支持正在减弱，卡特的年轻幕僚采取了大胆的行动。
Patrick Caddell, Pollster: We did the Playboy interview to show that that being a born-again Christian, was not a threat to more secular Democrats and young people.
帕特里克·卡德尔（Patrick Caddell），民意调查者：我们接受《花花公子》采访是为了表明，作为一名重生的基督徒，不会对更世俗的民主党人和年轻人构成威胁。
Narrator: For five hours, Carter tried to explain his views on culture, politics and faith.
旁白：卡特用了五个小时试图解释他对文化、政治和信仰的看法。
Toward the end of the interview, exasperated at not being understood, he said, "I've looked on lot of women with lust.
采访快结束时，他因不被理解而感到恼火，他说：“我见过很多充满欲望的女人。
I've committed adultery in my heart many times."
我已经在心里犯过很多次奸情了。”
Patrick Caddell, Pollster: If you read the interview, the "lust in your heart" line was, to try to explain that he, too, was a sinner.
帕特里克·卡德尔（Patrick Caddell），民意调查者：如果你读过采访，你会发现“心中的欲望”这句话是为了试图解释他也是一个罪人。
But the language was, and I would see this all the time, Carter used language that was germane to his world, like we all do, to our own cultural context.
但卡特所使用的语言，我一直都会看到这一点，与他的世界密切相关，就像我们所有人一样，与我们自己的文化背景密切相关。
Betty Glad, Political Scientist: Here's a guy who is so moral that on the one hand he talks about, he's lusted after women in his heart, and he talks about shacking up, and he uses language that's going to really enrage and turn off a lot of people.
贝蒂·格莱德（Betty Glad），政治学家：这是一个非常有道德的人，一方面他谈论内心对女性的渴望，另一方面他谈论同居，他使用的语言会真正激怒并让很多人感到厌烦。
Douglas Brinkley, Biographer: Do not underestimate what a crisis that interview and the "lust in my heart" caused Carter.
传记作者道格拉斯·布林克利（Douglas Brinkley）：不要低估那次采访和“我内心的欲望”给卡特带来的危机。
It almost derailed the entire Carter campaign.
这几乎使整个卡特竞选活动脱轨。
They were in havoc over it.
他们为此陷入了严重破坏。
Patrick Caddell, Pollster: In retrospect it was kind of amusing.
帕特里克·卡德尔（Patrick Caddell），民意调查者：回想起来，这有点有趣。
It wasn't very funny at the time.
当时这并不好笑。
Trying to explain to people that Jimmy Carter was not some child molester, you know, I mean, or pervert.
试图向人们解释吉米卡特不是某个儿童猥亵者，我的意思是，或者变态。
Jimmy Carter (Archival): The Playboy thing has been of very very great concern to me.
吉米·卡特（档案）：《花花公子》的事情一直让我非常关心。
I don't know how to deal with it, exactly.
我不知道具体该如何处理。
I...
我...
Narrator: By the time Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford met in the first of two presidential debates, Carter's lead had evaporated.
旁白：当吉米·卡特和杰拉尔德·福特在两场总统辩论中的第一场会面时，卡特的领先优势已经消失。
The momentum belonged to Ford.
这一势头属于福特。
Two weeks later he blundered.
两周后，他犯了一个错误。
Gerald Ford (Archival): There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe, and there never will be under a Ford administration.
杰拉尔德·福特（档案）：苏联不存在对东欧的统治，在福特政府的领导下也永远不会出现这种情况。
Debate Panelist (Archival): Uh, I'm sorry, could I just follow, did I just understand you to say, sir, that the Russians are not using Eastern Europe as their own sphere of influence and...
辩论小组成员（档案）：呃，对不起，我能听懂吗？先生，我刚刚明白你的意思吗，俄罗斯人没有利用东欧作为自己的势力范围，而且……
Walter F.
沃尔特·F.
Mondale, Vice President: We knew that this was going to hurt.
蒙代尔，副总裁：我们知道这会造成伤害。
That a lot of people couldn't see how a president would say that.
很多人不明白总统会怎么说出这样的话。
It gave us about a week, as I recall, to pound away on this.
我记得，我们花了大约一周的时间来研究这个问题。
And you could just feel people moving on that question.
你可以感觉到人们正在讨论这个问题。
So what it did, I think, was rather than electing us, it stopped our slide.
所以我认为，它所做的并不是选举我们，而是阻止了我们的下滑。
Narrator: By Election Day, the polls showed a dead heat.
旁白：到了选举日，民调显示出不分胜负的结果。
It was not until 3 a.m.
直到凌晨3点才到。
that the networks announced the winner -- by one of the closest margins in American history.
电视网宣布了获胜者——这是美国历史上最接近的差距之一。
Patrick Caddell, Pollster: I look back now, I just-- I'm amazed.
帕特里克·卡德尔（Patrick Caddell），民意调查者：我现在回想起来，我只是——我很惊讶。
Going from total anonymity, to being President of the United States in less than twelve months, is unprecedented in American history.
从完全匿名到在不到十二个月的时间内就任美国总统，这在美国历史上是前所未有的。
If it weren't for the country looking for something in '76, Carter could never have gotten elected.
如果不是国家在 76 年寻求某种东西，卡特永远不可能当选。
He would never have been allowed out of the box.
他永远不会被允许脱离束缚。
Douglas Brinkley, Biographer: He offered a biography of what we wanted to hear: farmer, Main Street values, Plains.
传记作者道格拉斯·布林克利（Douglas Brinkley）：他提供了一本我们想听的传记：农民、大街价值观、平原。
It was the right message at the right time and it didn't happen by accident.
这是在正确的时间发出的正确的信息，而且它的发生并非偶然。
Carter created that message, knowing that that's what would win the day.
卡特创造了这条信息，因为他知道这将赢得胜利。
Jimmy Carter (Archival): I came all the way through the 22 months, and I didn't get choked up until I...
吉米·卡特（档案）：这22个月我一路走来，直到我……我才感到哽咽。
[he breaks down]
[他崩溃了]
Walter Cronkite (Archival): This was not planned, it was not scheduled, and whether this is Carter's surprise for his inaugural, by golly Bob...How 'bout that...
沃尔特·克朗凯特（档案）：这不是计划好的，也没有安排好的，这是否是卡特对他的就职典礼的惊喜，天哪，鲍勃……怎么样……
Narrator: The morning of January 20th, 1977, Jimmy Carter surprised the nation.
旁白：1977年1月20日早上，吉米·卡特令全国震惊。
Chip Carter, Son: I remember I was out there walking.
奇普·卡特（Chip Carter）的儿子：我记得我当时正在外面散步。
And you could hear Walter Cronkite over the loudspeaker saying, "The president is walking down the street!" It was a major moment of the Carter presidency symbolically.
你可以听到沃尔特·克朗凯特通过扩音器说：“总统正在街上行走！”这是卡特总统任期内具有象征意义的一个重要时刻。
It was great theater.
那是很棒的剧院。
Dan T.
丹·T.
Carter, Historian: Here was this tremendous breath of fresh air.
历史学家卡特：这里呼吸着巨大的新鲜空气。
He was going to bring something new to Washington.
他将为华盛顿带来一些新的东西。
Bring new people and new ideas.
带来新的人和新的想法。
Jimmy Carter (Archival): Our commitment to human rights must be absolute.
吉米·卡特（档案）：我们对人权的承诺必须是绝对的。
Our laws, fair.
我们的法律，公平。
Our natural beauty, preserved...
我们的自然之美，得以保存……
John A.
约翰·A.
Farrell, Journalist: It was so different from what had come before.
法雷尔，记者：这与以前的情况非常不同。
People were looking for something that was simple, something that was pure.
人们在寻找简单、纯粹的东西。
And it just struck a cord in the American people.
这件事触动了美国人民的心。
Jimmy Carter (Archival): ...more is not necessarily better.
吉米·卡特（档案）：……越多并不一定越好。
But even our great nation has its limits...
但即使我们伟大的国家也有其局限性......
Hendrik Hertzberg, Speechwriter: Jimmy Carter was exactly what the American people always say they want: above politics, determined to do the right thing regardless of political consequences, a simple person who doesn't lie, a modest man, not somebody with a lot of imperial pretenses.
亨德里克·赫茨伯格（Hendrik Hertzberg），演讲撰稿人：吉米·卡特正是美国人民总说的他们想要的人：凌驾于政治之上，决心做正确的事，不顾政治后果，一个不说谎的简单人，一个谦虚的人，而不是一个有很多帝国主义伪装的人。
That's what people say they want.
这就是人们所说的他们想要的。
And that's what they got with Jimmy Carter.
这就是他们与吉米卡特的关系。
Narrator: The Carter team arrived in Washington full of confidence, ready to take on the Washington insiders they had run against.
旁白：卡特团队满怀信心地抵达华盛顿，准备与他们的对手华盛顿内部人士较量。
Patrick Caddell, Pollster: I felt like the advance wave of the German army arriving in Paris in 1940.
Patrick Caddell（民调专家）：我感觉就像 1940 年德国军队的先头部队抵达巴黎。
I mean, this is a Democratic city.
我的意思是，这是一个民主城市。
And they were terrified.
他们很害怕。
I mean, terrified.
我的意思是，害怕。
You could feel it in the air.
你可以在空气中感受到它。
John A.
约翰·A.
Farrell, Journalist: They did not have a lot in common with the national political party.
记者法雷尔：他们与国家政党没有太多共同点。
They did not have a lot in common with the Congress.
他们与国会没有太多共同点。
They were a very close-knit band of brothers.
他们是一群关系非常亲密的兄弟。
And they were intensely loyal to Jimmy Carter.
他们对吉米·卡特非常忠诚。
And they were pretty cocky guys as well.
他们也是非常自大的人。
Jody Powell, Press Secretary: There was clearly some degree of suspicion and maybe and a little bit of resentment that, "Here come these folks riding in here, they didn't really pay their dues.
乔迪·鲍威尔，新闻秘书：显然存在一定程度的怀疑，也许还有一点怨恨，“这些人骑到这里来，他们并没有真正缴纳会费。
They're not us.
他们不是我们。
They're not our kind of folks." And all of a sudden they're in the White House, and "we'll show them that this town is tougher than they think."
他们不是我们这种人。”突然之间，他们就进了白宫，“我们会让他们知道这个小镇比他们想象的更艰难。”
Elizabeth Drew, Journalist: His top people had no experience in Washington.
记者伊丽莎白·德鲁（Elizabeth Drew）：他的高层没有在华盛顿的经验。
And they were sort of contemptuous of Washington.
他们有点蔑视华盛顿。
Well, it's one thing to sort of run against Washington, but you have to live there and you have to govern there, and you have to work with the people who are there.
嗯，与华盛顿竞争是一回事，但你必须生活在那里，你必须在那里治理，你必须与那里的人们合作。
And it really doesn't get you anywhere to have this attitude if you want to get anything done.
如果你想完成任何事情，这种态度真的不会给你带来任何好处。
Patrick Caddell, Pollster: You get things done by power.
帕特里克·卡德尔（Patrick Caddell），民意调查者：你可以通过权力来完成事情。
You get power from having public support.
你从公众的支持中获得力量。
My argument was that in order to maintain power we would have to reinforce constantly the message of what we were doing.
我的观点是，为了维持权力，我们必须不断强化我们正在做的事情的信息。
Jimmy Carter (Archival): Good evening.
吉米·卡特（档案）：晚上好。
Tomorrow it will be two weeks since I became president...
明天我就任总统两周了……
Narrator: On February 2, Carter addressed the nation in a fireside chat on energy.
旁白：2 月 2 日，卡特在一场关于能源的炉边谈话中向全国发表讲话。
The country had been through an oil scare in 1973.
1973 年，该国经历了石油恐慌。
To head off a new crisis, Carter appealed directly to Americans to rally around a new program.
为了阻止新的危机，卡特直接呼吁美国人团结起来实施一项新计划。
Jimmy Carter (Archival): All of us must learn to waste less energy.
吉米·卡特（档案）：我们所有人都必须学会减少浪费能源。
Simply by keeping our thermostats, for instance, at 65 degrees in the daytime and 55 degrees at night, we can save half the current shortage of natural gas.
例如，只需将恒温器保持在白天 65 度、夜间 55 度，我们就可以节省目前天然气短缺的一半。
If we learn to live thriftily and remember the importance of helping our neighbors, then we can find ways to adjust.
如果我们学会节俭生活并记住帮助邻居的重要性，那么我们就能找到调整的方法。
Narrator: Carter lead by example.
旁白：卡特以身作则。
He curtailed the use of limousines, cancelled magazine subscriptions, unplugged television sets, and put the presidential yacht Sequoia on the auction block.
他减少了豪华轿车的使用，取消了杂志订阅，拔掉了电视机的插头，并将总统游艇红杉号放在拍卖台上。
Walter F.
沃尔特·F.
Mondale, Vice President: He turned off the air conditioners, and it was so hot in the White House, people would come in there -- [laughs] It was unbelievable.
副总统蒙代尔：他关掉了空调，白宫里太热了，人们会走进去——[笑]这真是令人难以置信。
It would be a hundred above in there.
那里应该有一百以上。
Narrator: To save on staff overtime, all White House functions would end at midnight.
旁白：为了节省工作人员的加班费，白宫的所有活动都会在午夜结束。
No hard liquor would be served.
不提供烈性酒。
Hendrik Hertzberg, Speechwriter: Jimmy Carter is a Low Church Protestant, where it's a sin not to have a hard wooden bench to sit on in church.
亨德里克·赫茨伯格（Hendrik Hertzberg），演讲撰稿人：吉米·卡特（Jimmy Carter）是一名低等教会新教徒，在教堂里没有硬木长凳坐是一种罪过。
And he brought that simplicity to the White House.
他把这种简单性带到了白宫。
Dan Rostenkowski, U.S. Congressman: We were all invited down to the White House every other Tuesday.
丹·罗斯滕科斯基，美国国会议员：我们每隔一个星期二就被邀请到白宫。
We walked into the private dining room on the first floor just off the East Room.
我们走进一楼东厅旁边的包间。
We looked at the table and there were these little finger-tip cookies, and ...
我们看了看桌子，发现了这些小指尖饼干，然后……
Tip O'Neill looked at me and he said, "What's this?" And I said, "Well I guess that's breakfast." So the President walked in, you know, walked around the room and shook hands with everybody.
蒂普·奥尼尔看着我说：“这是什么？”我说：“好吧，我想这就是早餐。”所以总统走进来，在房间里走来走去，与每个人握手。
And O'Neill looked at the President and he says, "Mr. President, you know, we won the election."
奥尼尔看着总统说：“总统先生。”总统，你知道，我们赢得了选举。”
Narrator: Carter presented his agenda to the Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill.
旁白：卡特向众议院议长蒂普·奥尼尔介绍了他的议程。
Energy was Carter's number one priority, but it was competing with his long list of other legislation -- bills on hospital cost containment, urban policy, ethics in government.
能源是卡特的首要任务，但它与他一长串的其他立法竞争——有关医院成本控制、城市政策、政府道德的法案。
Tip O'Neill (Archival): ...you've brought enough for four years work...
Tip O'Neill（档案）：……你带来的钱足够四年的工作了……
Narrator: There was nothing in the package to grease the wheels of government.
旁白：一揽子计划中没有任何东西可以润滑政府的运转。
When Carter struck from his budget nineteen multi-million dollar water projects that had been approved by President Ford, Congressmen were furious.
当卡特从他的预算中取消了福特总统批准的 19 个耗资数百万美元的水利项目时，国会议员们感到愤怒。
Elizabeth Drew, Journalist: He was absolutely right to take it on, these sort of boondoggles and unnecessary, really pork-barrel things.
记者伊丽莎白·德鲁（Elizabeth Drew）：他接受这种做法是绝对正确的，这些都是无用功和不必要的、真正的猪肉桶事情。
But he didn't know how to take it on.
但他不知道该如何接受。
You have to build political capital, you have to build alliances, you have to make deals.
你必须建立政治资本，你必须建立联盟，你必须达成交易。
Bert Lance, Budget Director: The quid-pro-quo was not in him.
伯特·兰斯，预算总监：交换条件不在他身上。
If you came to him and said, "Look, we can get so-and-so to vote for us," he would turn a deaf ear.
如果你对他说：“看，我们可以让某某投票给我们。”他会充耳不闻。
Narrator: "He never understood how the system worked," Tip O'Neill would later complain.
旁白：“他从来不明白这个系统是如何运作的，”蒂普·奥尼尔后来抱怨道。
"And although this was out of character for Jimmy Carter, he didn't want to learn about it either."
“虽然这不符合吉米·卡特的性格，但他也不想了解这一点。”
Dan T.
丹·T.
Carter, Historian: If your job is to find the public good, to arrive at what the public good is and then to articulate it, and then you become the voice of the people.
历史学家卡特：如果你的工作是寻找公共利益，了解公共利益是什么，然后阐明它，那么你就成为人民的声音。
And when you do that, it becomes very difficult to compromise.
当你这样做时，妥协就变得非常困难。
Dan Rostenkowski, U.S. Congressman: On one occasion when I was talking to President Carter I said, "Mr. President, you know, I've had three presidents before you and I'll have several after you.
丹·罗斯滕科斯基，美国国会议员：有一次，当我与卡特总统交谈时，我说：“卡特先生。”总统，你知道，在你之前我已经有过三位总统，在你之后我还会有几位总统。
I'm telling you, from the vantage point of what I see in the legislative process, you will be able to do and what you won't be able to do.
我告诉你，从我在立法过程中看到的情况来看，你能做什么，不能做什么。
Now, you can accept that or not accept it." But Carter's attitude was members of the House and Senate are bad guys.
现在，你可以接受也可以不接受。”但卡特的态度是众议院和参议院的议员都是坏人。
John A.
约翰·A.
Farrell, Journalist: Carter put O'Neill and the others like him in the same category with the corrupt Georgia courthouse pols that he had been fighting for much of his life.
法雷尔，记者：卡特将奥尼尔和其他像他一样的人与他一生中大部分时间都在与之斗争的腐败的佐治亚州法院警察归为同一类。
The same kind of back-scratching, featherbedding pol worrying about the next election, worrying about their public opinion polls, coming in and not doing what was right.
同样是那些挖苦、敷衍的政治分子，他们担心下一次选举，担心他们的民意调查，进来却没有做正确的事。
Douglas Brinkley, Biographer: Often he wouldn't return phone calls of leading Senators.
传记作者道格拉斯·布林克利：他经常不回主要参议员的电话。
There was a kind of an abrasive attitude he had towards them.
他对他们有一种粗鲁的态度。
He never showed them respect.
他从未向他们表示尊重。
So they all eventually got bitter and turned on him.
所以他们最终都怨恨并背叛了他。
Dan T.
丹·T.
Carter, Historian: Even if he had had a personality transplant.
历史学家卡特：即使他进行了人格移植。
And he had spent three hours a night playing poker with Tip O'Neill, I don't think that would have made the difference.
他每晚都会花三个小时和蒂普·奥尼尔一起打扑克，我认为这不会产生什么影响。
I mean, he was faced with an extraordinarily difficult set of circumstances which in part sprang not only from the political situation, but from his, the lack of a connection between his own views, and those of his party.
我的意思是，他面临着极其困难的情况，这在一定程度上不仅源于政治局势，还源于他自己的观点与党派观点之间缺乏联系。
Narrator: "There will be no new programs implemented unless they are compatible with my goal of having a balanced budget by the end of my first term," he pledged.
旁白：“除非新计划符合我在第一个任期结束时实现预算平衡的目标，否则不会实施任何新计划，”他承诺道。
But liberal Democrats, eager to resume the social agenda of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, would not back away.
但渴望恢复林登·约翰逊伟大社会的社会议程的自由民主党不会后退。
Stuart Eizenstat, Domestic Policy Advisor: There had been an eight-year period when there had been no Democratic President.
国内政策顾问斯图尔特·艾森斯塔特（Stuart Eizenstat）：有八年时间没有出现民主党总统。
There were a lot of pent-up and legitimate desires by constituency groups for more investment in a whole range of programs.
选区团体有很多被压抑的合理愿望，要求对一系列项目进行更多投资。
Although he sympathized with much of it, all of his instincts were to cut budgets, reduce the deficit dramatically.
尽管他对其中大部分表示同情，但他的所有本能都是削减预算，大幅减少赤字。
But he was always under pressure from the left to have more spending.
但他总是面临左派要求增加支出的压力。
Narrator: At a breakfast meeting Carter berated the Congressional Democratic leadership for adding $61 billion dollars in new programs to his budget.
旁白：在一次早餐会上，卡特斥责国会民主党领导层在他的预算中增加了 610 亿美元的新项目。
"The Democratic Party needs to remove the stigma of unjustified spending," he said.
“民主党需要消除不合理支出的耻辱，”他说。
"Mr. President," Tip O'Neill reminded Carter, "the Democrats are the champions of the poor and the indigent."
“先生。总统先生，”蒂普·奥尼尔提醒卡特，“民主党是穷人和贫困者的捍卫者。”
Peter Bourne, Biographer: Carter thought that big social programs and large amounts of federal spending would bankrupt the country.
传记作者彼得·伯恩：卡特认为大型社会计划和大量联邦支出会让国家破产。
He could see, I think, very clearly where the world was going and that that old era had to be phased out.
我认为，他非常清楚地看到世界正在走向何方，那个旧时代必须被淘汰。
Elizabeth Drew, Journalist: Carter, looking back, was being very long-sighted in saying, you know, "We just don't have an open-ended, never-ending amount of money to spend.
记者伊丽莎白·德鲁：回顾过去，卡特非常有远见地说道，“我们只是没有无限的、永无休止的资金可花。
We have to get things in balance."
我们必须让事情保持平衡。”
Narrator: Carter's commitment to fiscal restraint appealed to a growing number of Americans.
旁白：卡特对财政紧缩的承诺吸引了越来越多的美国人。
"He brings to the office a refreshing habit of plain words and simple manners," wrote Newsweek.
《新闻周刊》写道：“他给办公室带来了一种令人耳目一新的习惯，即简单的言语和简单的举止。”
"A mind and discipline of tempered steel, and an insatiable appetite for work." Carter had entered the presidency with only 51% of the vote.
“钢铁般的思想和纪律，以及永不满足的工作欲望。”卡特仅以51%的选票就任总统。
By June, he enjoyed an approval rating of over 70 percent.
到6月，他的支持率已超过70%。
Then, came an event that rocked the foundation of the Carter Presidency.
然后，发生了一件动摇卡特总统任期根基的事件。
It was called the Lance Affair.
这就是所谓的“兰斯事件”。
In July 1977, Carter's budget director, Bert Lance, was accused of financial improprieties at his bank in Calhoun, Georgia.
1977 年 7 月，卡特的预算主管伯特·兰斯 (Bert Lance) 被指控其位于佐治亚州卡尔霍恩的银行存在财务不当行为。
A federal investigation cleared Lance of all illegal activity, but concluded that he had engaged in "unsafe and unsound banking practices."
联邦调查清除了兰斯的所有非法活动，但得出的结论是他从事“不安全和不健全的银行业务”。
Jimmy Carter (Archival): ...Bert Lance is a man of competence and a man of integrity.
吉米·卡特（档案）：……伯特·兰斯是一个有能力、正直的人。
Narrator: Believing the affair was behind him, Carter stood by his friend.
旁白：卡特相信这件事已经过去，他站在他的朋友一边。
Jimmy Carter (Archival): Bert Lance enjoys my complete confidence and support.
吉米·卡特（档案）：伯特·兰斯享有我完全的信任和支持。
I'm proud to have him as part of my administration.
我很自豪他能成为我政府的一部分。
Narrator: Carter had miscalculated.
旁白：卡特失算了。
To the press, the issue was ethics, not the law.
对于媒体来说，问题在于道德，而不是法律。
Sensing a scandal, they went on the attack.
他们察觉到了丑闻，于是继续发起攻击。
Jody Powell, Press Secretary: There were a lot of journalists who very much wanted to prove that they could be as tough on a Democratic president as they had been on- on a Richard Nixon.
乔迪·鲍威尔，新闻秘书：有很多记者非常想证明他们可以像对待理查德·尼克松那样对民主党总统采取强硬态度。
There was a-a real desire to make sure that it was clear that they were going to pursue this every bit as aggressively.
我们真的很想确保他们会积极地追求这一点。
Peter Bourne, Biographer : One of the things people like to go after more than anything else is what they perceive as hypocrisy.
传记作家彼得·伯恩：人们最喜欢追求的东西之一就是他们认为的虚伪。
So that you're judged by the standards that you set for yourself.
这样别人就会根据你为自己设定的标准来评判你。
And certainly Carter's talking about "I'll never tell you a lie," emphasizing honesty provided an easy opportunity.
当然，卡特正在谈论“我永远不会对你撒谎”，强调诚实提供了一个简单的机会。
Narrator: Carter's inner circle urged him to get rid of Lance.
旁白：卡特的核心圈子敦促他除掉兰斯。
But he was torn between loyalty to his friend, and his own reputation.
但他在对朋友的忠诚和自己的名誉之间左右为难。
For weeks he allowed the Lance Affair to fester.
几个星期以来，他任由兰斯事件恶化。
Bert Lance (Archival): (Q: Do you feel you were drummed up?) My statement speaks for itself.
Bert Lance（档案）：（问：你觉得自己被鼓动了吗？）我的发言不言而喻。
I have no comment about being drummed out.
对于被赶出去我没有任何评论。
I said in my statement that I had to analyze and question...
我在发言中说我必须分析和质疑......
Bert Lance, Former Budget Director: The day that I resigned, I came home and I was spent.
伯特·兰斯（Bert Lance），前预算主任：我辞职的那天，我回到家，我精疲力尽。
I lay down on the bed crying about the situation.
我躺在床上，为这件事哭泣。
Just from the stand-point of just having run out of any adrenaline or emotion or anything else.
只是从耗尽肾上腺素、情绪或其他任何东西的角度来看。
And so we had all that horde of media out on the front yard, that had been there constantly.
所以我们在前院放了一大群媒体，一直在那里。
I guess it was a suicide watch.
我猜这是一块自杀手表。
Elizabeth Drew, Journalist: Looking back he wasn't that big a deal.
记者伊丽莎白·德鲁（Elizabeth Drew）：回想起来，他并没有那么重要。
But what it did do at that time was give the first blow to the image that Carter was trying to project that his was a squeaky clean administration.
但它当时确实对卡特试图塑造的干净政府形象造成了第一次打击。
Jimmy Carter (Archival): Whether my own credibility has been damaged I can't say.
吉米·卡特（档案）：我不能说我自己的信誉是否受到损害。
I would guess to some degree.
我在某种程度上猜测。
An unpleasant situation like this.
遇到这样的情况，很不愉快。
Narrator: Carter's approval rating plunged 25 points.
旁白：卡特的支持率暴跌25点。
Jody Powell, Press Secretary: It would have been better for the President if we had brought that to an end sooner.
乔迪·鲍威尔，新闻秘书：如果我们早点结束这件事，对总统来说会更好。
It threw us off our stride.
它让我们失去了步伐。
It made it harder for us to talk about other things, and sort of played into questions about whether we could lead and run the country.
这让我们更难谈论其他事情，并引发了我们是否能够领导和管理国家的问题。
Patrick Caddell, Pollster: Until that moment, we had been driving the agenda.
帕特里克·卡德尔（Patrick Caddell），民意调查者：在那一刻之前，我们一直在推动议程。
Everyone danced to our tune.
每个人都随着我们的节奏跳舞。
After that, we danced to everybody else's tune.
之后，我们就跟着大家的节奏跳舞。
And that hurt us with the public, because now Jimmy Carter is not in charge.
这伤害了我们和公众，因为现在吉米·卡特不再负责。
Narrator: On May 22 1977, before the graduating class of the University of Notre Dame, President Jimmy Carter unveiled a new foreign policy for the United States.
旁白：1977年5月22日，在圣母大学毕业班前，吉米·卡特总统公布了美国新的外交政策。
Jimmy Carter (Archival): Being confident of our own future, we are now free of that inordinate fear of communism...
吉米·卡特（档案）：对我们自己的未来充满信心，我们现在摆脱了对共产主义的过度恐惧......
Narrator: Carter had come to office with no experience in foreign affairs, but determined to make his mark.
旁白：卡特上任时没有外交事务经验，但决心留下自己的印记。
In his first year alone, he met more than 40 heads of state.
仅在他上任的第一年，他就会见了40多位国家元首。
Resumed talks on diplomatic relations with China.
恢复与中国的外交关系会谈。
And with the Soviet Union on arms control.
并与苏联进行军备控制。
He launched a new peace process in the Middle East.
他启动了中东新的和平进程。
And signed a new canal treaty with Panama, transferring, after 75 years, ownership of the canal to the Panamanians.
并与巴拿马签署了新的运河条约，75年后将运河的所有权移交给巴拿马人。
But it was a principle straight from his heart that would redefine America's role in the world.
但这是他发自内心的原则，它将重新定义美国在世界上的角色。
Jimmy Carter (Archival): We have reaffirmed America's commitment to human rights as a fundamental tenant of our foreign policy.
吉米·卡特（档案）：我们重申了美国对人权的承诺，将其作为我们外交政策的基本支柱。
Gaddis Smith, Historian: That was his greatest speech standing up for our own values, and expecting, that the world would appreciate that, and that we would be, he didn't use this phrase, but it's an old phrase in American history, like the beacon on the hill, the beacon of freedom and liberty and democracy,
加迪斯·史密斯，历史学家：这是他最伟大的演讲，捍卫我们自己的价值观，并期望世界会感激这一点，我们也会感激这一点，他没有使用这句话，但这是美国历史上的一个古老短语，就像山上的灯塔，自由和民主的灯塔，
Betty Glad, Political Scientist: He will be remembered for putting on the agenda hereafter the whole issue of human rights.
政治学家贝蒂·格莱德：他将因将整个人权问题提上议程而被人们铭记。
We now assume that the goal of a State is not only to protect its national security interests.
我们现在假设国家的目标不仅仅是保护其国家安全利益。
It has an obligation to try to deal with human suffering where it has the ability to do that.
它有义务在有能力的情况下努力解决人类的苦难。
Jimmy Carter (Archival): I feel very deeply that when people are put in prison without trials, and tortured and deprived of basic human rights that the President of the United States ought to have a right to express displeasure and to do something about it.
吉米·卡特（档案）：我深深地感受到，当人们未经审判就被关进监狱，遭受酷刑并被剥夺基本人权时，美国总统应该有权表达不满并采取行动。
Walter F.
沃尔特·F.
Mondale, Vice President: His idea is that every child is a child of God and, based on his faith, entitled to the stature and respect and the rights of what that means.
蒙代尔，副总统：他的想法是，每个孩子都是上帝的孩子，基于他的信仰，都有权获得地位、尊重和权利。
Narrator: The biggest challenge to Carter's Human Rights policy would come in the Middle East.
旁白：卡特人权政策面临的最大挑战来自中东。
Jimmy Carter (Archival): Iran, because of the great leadership of the Shah, is an island of stability in one of the more troubled areas in the world.
吉米·卡特（档案）：由于国王的伟大领导，伊朗成为世界上最动荡地区之一的稳定之岛。
Narrator: Carter was aware of the brutality of Iran's secret police and of 2500 political prisoners held in Iran's jails.
旁白：卡特了解伊朗秘密警察的残暴行为以及伊朗监狱中关押的 2500 名政治犯。
But the Shah, installed to the throne in a U.S.-backed coup in 1953, had long been a trusted ally.
但在 1953 年美国支持的政变中登上王位的国王长期以来一直是值得信赖的盟友。
New Years' Eve 1977, in Teheran, Carter reaffirmed America's support.
1977 年除夕夜，卡特在德黑兰重申了美国的支持。
Narrator: One week after Carter's visit, anti-Shah demonstrations broke out.
旁白：卡特访问一周后，反沙阿示威活动爆发。
When Iranian secret police fired on the demonstrators and killed several students, religious leaders called the Shah's government anti-Islamic.
当伊朗秘密警察向示威者开枪并杀死几名学生时，宗教领袖称国王政府反伊斯兰。
Elizabeth Drew, Journalist: Iran was a very complicated situation.
记者伊丽莎白·德鲁：伊朗的局势非常复杂。
And the Shah was very useful to us.
国王对我们非常有用。
At the same time, something else was going on, something very powerful was going on in Iran.
与此同时，伊朗正在发生一些非常强大的事情。
And as I recall, we kind of missed it.
我记得，我们有点错过了。
Zbigniew Brzezinski, National Security Advisor: We knew there was some resentment, and we knew somewhat of the history of the country, but we were not conscious, nor were we informed, of the intensity of the feelings.
国家安全顾问兹比格涅夫·布热津斯基：我们知道存在一些不满情绪，我们也了解一些国家的历史，但我们没有意识到，也没有被告知这种情绪的强烈程度。
Narrator: Since the days of Plains and Peanuts, the marriage of Rosalynn and Jimmy Carter had blossomed into a full partnership.
旁白：自从《平原与花生》时代以来，罗莎琳和吉米·卡特的婚姻已经发展成为全面的伙伴关系。
E.
E.
Stanly Godbold, Historian: Some time before Carter became president he realized what a valuable advisor to him Rosalynn was.
斯坦利·戈德博德，历史学家：卡特就任总统之前的一段时间，他意识到罗莎琳对他来说是多么有价值的顾问。
She was a major player in the campaigns and she did have a good rapport with the people.
她是竞选活动的主要参与者，并且与人民关系融洽。
She of course was ambitious in her own right.
当然，她本身也是雄心勃勃的。
She wanted to be more than a fashion plate and somebody who gave teas.
她想要的不仅仅是一个时尚达人和一个送茶的人。
Rosalynn Carter: The first year Jimmy was in office I became so frustrated.
罗莎琳·卡特：吉米上任的第一年，我变得非常沮丧。
Every night Jimmy would get off the elevator at the White House and I would say, "why did you do this?" or "why did you do something?" And one day he finally said, "why don't you come to Cabinet meetings?
每天晚上吉米在白宫下电梯时我都会说：“你为什么这么做？”或“你为什么要做某事？”有一天，他终于说道：“你为什么不来参加内阁会议呢？
Then you'll know why we do these things." So I started going.
然后你就会知道我们为什么要做这些事情。”于是我开始了。
It was always on my calendar.
它一直在我的日历上。
And I just listened.
我只是听着。
I didn't participate.
我没有参加。
But I listened.
但我听了。
And then I knew why the decisions were made.
然后我就知道为什么要做这些决定了。
Narrator: The first child to live in the White House since the Kennedy years, nine-year-old Amy had the run of the place.
旁白：九岁的艾米是自肯尼迪时代以来第一个住在白宫的孩子，她掌管着这个地方。
She roller skated down the marble hallways, played in a tree house her father built for her, even got a new dog, named Grits.
她在大理石走廊上滑旱冰，在父亲为她建造的树屋里玩耍，甚至还养了一只新狗，名叫 Grits。
Douglas Brinkley, Biographer: She was the apple of her father's eye.
道格拉斯·布林克利，传记作者：她是她父亲的掌上明珠。
President Carter hadn't spent a lot of time with his three sons when they were growing up so he tried to put a lot of attention and energy into Amy.
卡特总统在三个儿子的成长过程中并没有花很多时间陪伴他们，所以他试图把很多注意力和精力放在艾米身上。
Narrator: In keeping with Carter's populist image, Amy was sent to public school.
旁白：为了符合卡特的民粹主义形象，艾米被送到公立学校。
The media made much of the fact that her best friend was the daughter of the cook at the Chilean embassy.
媒体大肆宣传她最好的朋友是智利大使馆厨师的女儿。
Douglas Brinkley, Biographer: She was such a shy, intelligent girl.
传记作者道格拉斯·布林克利（Douglas Brinkley）：她是一个害羞、聪明的女孩。
It was very hard, always having that media glare.
这非常艰难，总是受到媒体的关注。
And I think after the White House, she's tried her best to, stay out of the limelight.
我认为入主白宫后，她尽了最大努力，远离聚光灯。
Narrator: In 1978, the first signs of a gathering economic storm were becoming visible.
旁白：1978年，经济风暴聚集的最初迹象开始显现。
The stock market was at its lowest point in three years, the trade deficit growing, unemployment on the rise.
股市处于三年来的最低点，贸易逆差不断扩大，失业率不断上升。
Jimmy Carter (Archival): The most serious problem that our nation has is inflation.
吉米·卡特（档案）：我们国家面临的最严重的问题是通货膨胀。
And it's getting worse.
而且情况越来越糟。
It's absolutely imperative that Americans commit themselves, all of us, to a common sacrifice to control this rapid increase in prices.
美国人绝对有必要做出共同的牺牲来控制物价的快速上涨。
E.
E.
Stanly Godbold, Historian: Carter inherited a no-win economic situation.
历史学家斯坦利·戈德博尔德：卡特继承了一个双赢的经济形势。
I see him as the last presidential victim of the War in Vietnam.
我认为他是越南战争的最后一位总统受害者。
Every war this country has fought once it is over the economy has to readjust to a peacetime economy.
这个国家打过的每一场战争一旦结束，经济就必须重新调整到和平时期的经济。
And what always happens is runaway inflation.
而经常发生的就是失控的通货膨胀。
Narrator: Carter implored labor and business leaders to keep wages and prices down, and pressured Congress to cutback spending.
旁白：卡特恳求劳工和商界领袖降低工资和物价，并向国会施压削减开支。
But inflation kept rising, his words falling on deaf ears.
但通货膨胀不断上升，他的话无人理睬。
James Laney, Former President of Emory University: He has this enormous determination to go after and do what he thinks ought to be done.
埃默里大学前校长詹姆斯·莱尼：他有巨大的决心去追求并做他认为应该做的事情。
The capacity to explain, persuade, inspire, mobilize, energize the whole country.
解释、说服、激励、动员、激励整个国家的能力。
Jimmy Carter (Archival): I do not have all the answers nobody does.
吉米·卡特（档案）：我不知道没人知道的所有答案。
James Laney, Former President of Emory University: That was far more tenuous and uncertain.
詹姆斯·莱尼（James Laney），埃默里大学前校长：那要脆弱和不确定得多。
Jimmy Carter (Archival): But I want to let you know that fighting inflation will be a central...
吉米·卡特（档案）：但我想让你知道，对抗通货膨胀将是一个核心......
James Laney, Former President of Emory University: He thought people would just follow, but that didn't happen.
詹姆斯·莱尼（James Laney），埃默里大学前校长：他以为人们会效仿，但这并没有发生。
Jimmy Carter (Archival): ...and I want to arouse our nation to join me in this effort...
吉米·卡特（档案）：……我想唤醒我们的国家与我一起努力……
Narrator: There were growing doubts about Carter's leadership.
旁白：人们对卡特的领导能力越来越怀疑。
The President, most Americans believed, was too mired in details.
大多数美国人认为，总统过于拘泥于细节。
Was ineffective with Congress.
对国会无效。
Had attempted too much, and delivered too little.
尝试太多，但成果太少。
Stuart Eizenstat, Domestic Policy Advisor: This is a classic case where first impressions often sets in with people.
Stuart Eizenstat，国内政策顾问：这是一个典型的案例，人们往往会产生第一印象。
And the first impressions of that first year were too many things, lack of priorities, a lack of accomplishment.
第一年的第一印象是事情太多，缺乏优先事项，缺乏成就。
The fact is we actually had a good legislative record.
事实上，我们实际上拥有良好的立法记录。
But, we had thrown so much up that, in comparison to that, the accomplishments seemed to pale.
但是，我们付出了太多，与此相比，所取得的成就显得黯然失色。
Rosalynn Carter: I would sometimes say, "Why don't we do this in your second term?" And he would say, "What if I don't have a second term?" And I think he felt that way the whole time that if something needed to be done, it needed to be done.
罗莎琳·卡特：我有时会说，“为什么我们不在你的第二个任期内这样做呢？”他会说，“如果我没有第二个任期怎么办？”我认为他一直都有这样的感觉：如果需要做某事，就需要做。
Narrator: With an approval rating of only 33%, TIME Magazine concluded, "He has the potential for growing in the office, but he does not have a great deal of time left."
旁白：《时代》杂志的支持率只有33%，结论是“他有在办公室成长的潜力，但留给他的时间不多了”。
Nestled in the mountains of Maryland, Camp David was Jimmy Carter's refuge.
戴维营坐落在马里兰州的山区，是吉米·卡特的避难所。
It was the place where he and Rosalynn repaired to on weekends to get away from the pressures of Washington.
这是他和罗莎琳周末常去的地方，以摆脱华盛顿的压力。
In September 1978, Jimmy Carter would enshrine Camp David, and himself, in history.
1978 年 9 月，吉米·卡特将戴维营和他本人载入史册。
Walter F.
沃尔特·F.
Mondale, Vice President: He had spent a lot of time studying the Middle East.
蒙代尔，副总统：他花了很多时间研究中东。
He felt very deeply that we should try to find peace over there.
他深深地感觉到我们应该努力在那里找到和平。
And boy, he really bet his presidency on that.
天哪，他真的把自己的总统职位押在了这一点上。
Betty Glad, Political Scientist: He was already very low in the polls.
政治学家贝蒂·格莱德：他在民意调查中的支持率已经很低了。
He had practically nowhere to go but up.
除了向上，他几乎无处可去。
But he still, could possibly win a second term, and if he failed, that would that would certainly write him off.
但他仍然有可能赢得第二个任期，如果他失败了，那肯定会让他被淘汰。
Narrator: Since the creation of the State of Israel, every attempt to bring peace to the Middle East had failed.
旁白：自从以色列建国以来，为中东带来和平的每一次尝试都失败了。
Refugees, land disputes, terrorism plagued the region.
难民、土地纠纷、恐怖主义困扰着该地区。
Four wars, the last in 1973, had left a bitter legacy of hate and mistrust.
四场战争（最后一场发生在 1973 年）留下了仇恨和不信任的痛苦遗产。
Everyone urged Carter to stay away from what seemed an intractable situation, but he would not be deterred.
每个人都劝卡特远离这个看似棘手的局面，但他并不气馁。
"I slowly became hardened and as stubborn as at any other time I can remember," he wrote.
“我慢慢地变得冷酷和顽固，就像我记忆中的任何时候一样，”他写道。
Jody Powell, Press Secretary: The Middle East for years had been and was then the place where you thought if we're gonna end up blowing up the world that's where it will start.
乔迪·鲍威尔，新闻秘书：多年来，中东一直是、当时也是这样的地方，你会认为，如果我们最终要炸毁世界，那就是它开始的地方。
If there's gonna be a nuclear confrontation between the super-powers it's gonna come out of the Middle East.
如果超级大国之间发生核对抗，冲突就会从中东爆发。
So finding a way to temp that down was to him extremely important.
因此，找到一种方法来降低温度对他来说极其重要。
Narrator: Egyptian President Anwar Sadat took the first step toward peace in November 1977 when he became the first Arab leader to set foot on Israeli soil.
旁白：1977年11月，埃及总统安瓦尔·萨达特迈出了和平的第一步，成为第一位踏上以色列土地的阿拉伯领导人。
Carter seized the opportunity.
卡特抓住了这个机会。
The following September, he welcomed President Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin to Camp David to negotiate treaty that would lay the foundations for peace in the Middle East.
第二年九月，他欢迎萨达特总统和以色列总理梅纳赫姆·贝京来到戴维营谈判为中东和平奠定基础的条约。
Betty Glad, Political Scientist: He brought all of his skills and all the best sides of himself to the whole operation.
贝蒂·格莱德（Betty Glad），政治学家：他将自己所有的技能和自己最好的一面带到了整个行动中。
And all of the potential in Jimmy Carter was out there at Camp David.
吉米·卡特的所有潜力都在戴维营展现出来。
It was really an extraordinary time.
这真是一段非凡的时光。
Gaddis Smith, Historian: He had studied things so carefully.
加迪斯·史密斯，历史学家：他研究得很仔细。
He knew the population of every village in the West Bank and Israel.
他了解约旦河西岸和以色列每个村庄的人口数量。
Hard to think of a president in our history who had that much capacity to absorb and retain detail.
很难想象我们历史上有哪位总统有如此大的吸收和保留细节的能力。
Betty Glad, Political Scientist: He made a mistake at the very beginning.
政治学家贝蒂·格莱德：他一开始就犯了错误。
He thought and told his aides, "You know, we're just going to bring together Begin and Sadat, and they'll talk and they'll get to know each other and they'll understand each other." Well, he got them there, and it turned out after the first 3 meetings they were practically never talking to each other and things were going downhill very fast.
他想了想并告诉他的助手，“你知道，我们只是要把贝京和萨达特聚集在一起，他们会说话，他们会互相了解，他们会互相理解。”好吧，他把他们带到了那里，结果在前 3 次会议之后，他们几乎从不互相交谈，事情迅速走下坡路。
Narrator: "It was mean," Carter later recalled.
旁白：“这很卑鄙，”卡特后来回忆道。
"They were brutal with each other." Face-to-face discussions became an impossibility.
“他们彼此之间很残酷。”面对面的讨论变得不可能。
On day 3, the expected deadline for an agreement Carter had accomplished nothing.
第三天，在达成协议的预期期限内，卡特一无所获。
"There must be a way," he kept saying, "there must be a way." That night at dinner, alone with Rosalynn, he arrived at a solution.
“一定有办法，”他不断地说，“一定有办法。”那天晚上，在与罗莎琳共进晚餐时，他找到了一个解决方案。
If the two men could not talk to one another, they would have to talk through him.
如果这两个人无法互相交谈，就必须通过他来交谈。
Betty Glad, Political Scientist: He decided that essentially the Americans would draft the proposal and put the proposal on the table.
政治学家贝蒂·格拉德（Betty Glad）：他决定基本上由美国人起草该提案并将其放在桌面上。
You wouldn't have an Egyptian and an Israeli proposal.
你不会有埃及和以色列的提案。
You would have an American proposal.
你会有一个美国的建议。
Narrator: "I must admit that I capitalized on this situation," Carter later wrote.
旁白：“我必须承认我利用了这种情况，”卡特后来写道。
"It greatly magnified my own influence." Carter devoted himself to drafting an agreement.
“这极大地放大了我自己的影响力。”卡特致力于起草一份协议。
With more than 50 issues to be resolved, the work was painstaking.
需要解决的问题有50多个，工作十分艰巨。
Zbigniew Brzezinski, National Security Advisor: He was remarkably tenacious, persistent, persuasive, tough-minded, tough both with Sadat on some occasions, and with Begin on other occasions.
兹比格涅夫·布热津斯基，国家安全顾问：他非常顽强、坚持、有说服力、意志坚强，无论是在某些场合对萨达特，还是在其他场合对贝京都非常强硬。
Douglas Brinkley, Biographer: That people trusted him as an honest broker came to play in a very magical and important way.
道格拉斯·布林克利（Douglas Brinkley），传记作者：人们信任他作为一个诚实的经纪人，以一种非常神奇和重要的方式发挥作用。
He is seen as somebody who is not a cheat or a liar.
他被视为不是骗子或说谎者。
He is somebody who puts his money where his mouth is.
他是一个说到做到的人。
Narrator: "My world became the negotiating rooms, the study where I poured over my notes and maps of the Middle East." he recalled "Between sessions I craved intense exercise and lonely places where I could think, and sometimes pray."
旁白：“我的世界变成了谈判室，变成了我翻阅笔记和中东地图的书房。”他回忆道，“在治疗期间，我渴望进行剧烈的锻炼，渴望在孤独的地方思考，有时甚至祈祷。”
Rosalynn Carter: He had things scheduled after the first week, and I was going into Washington to do some of the things he was supposed to do.
罗莎琳·卡特：第一周后他就安排了一些事情，我要去华盛顿做一些他应该做的事情。
And when I would leave to go in, they would say, "don't smile because everybody will think it will be all right.
当我要离开进去时，他们会说：“不要微笑，因为每个人都会认为一切都会好起来的。
Don't look grim because they'll think it's failing." That was hard.
不要表现得很严肃，因为他们会认为它失败了。”那很难。
It was from the depths to the heights all the time, at Camp David.
在戴维营，一切都是从深处到高峰。
One minute you would think it was going to pass and everything was so exciting, and then and another-another time it would be just hopeless.
前一分钟你还以为一切都会过去，一切都那么令人兴奋，然后再过一分钟，你就会绝望了。
Jody Powell, Press Secretary: It always seemed to me that the odds were against success; it always seemed like a long shot, so I spent a good bit of my time thinking about: How are we going to deal with this thing if it collapses?
乔迪·鲍威尔，新闻秘书：在我看来，成功的可能性总是不大。看起来总是希望渺茫，所以我花了很多时间思考：如果它倒塌了，我们该如何处理？
Narrator: Shuttling back and forth between Sadat and Begin, Carter began to put together an agreement.
旁白：卡特在萨达特和贝京之间来回穿梭，开始起草一份协议。
A framework for negotiations in the Middle East, which would address the fate of the Palestinians and the future of Gaza and the West Bank.
中东谈判框架，将解决巴勒斯坦人的命运以及加沙和西岸的未来。
And a separate peace treaty between Egypt and Israel.
埃及和以色列之间还有一项单独的和平条约。
Israel would return the Sinai territories occupied since the 1967 war.
以色列将归还自 1967 年战争以来占领的西奈领土。
Egypt would recognize the right of Israel to live in peace.
埃及将承认以色列和平生活的权利。
On September 14th, day ten, Carter turned to the issue he knew could derail any progress made so far: the dismantling of Israeli settlements in the Sinai.
9 月 14 日，也就是第十天，卡特转向了他知道可能破坏迄今为止取得的任何进展的问题：拆除以色列在西奈半岛的定居点。
Peter Bourne, Biographer: Carter was unable to get Begin to make any concessions that would really have locked up an agreement, to the point where Sadat just got fed up and said, "Well, I'm going home." You know.
传记作者彼得·伯恩：卡特无法让贝京做出任何真正能达成协议的让步，以至于萨达特厌倦了说：“好吧，我要回家了。”你知道。
"I'm just not going to wait and be here any longer," and-and literally sort of had his coat on and was out the door.
“我不会再在这里等待了，”然后——实际上，他已经穿上了外套，出了门。
Narrator: Carter begged Sadat to stay, appealing to their friendship and mutual trust, and reminding him of Egypt's good relations with the United States.
旁白：卡特恳求萨达特留下来，呼吁他们的友谊和相互信任，并提醒他埃及与美国的良好关系。
Sadat decided to remain at Camp David.
萨达特决定留在戴维营。
Saturday, September 16th, Brzezinki wrote in his diary: "The President is driving himself mercilessly.
9月16日星期六，布热津基在日记中写道：“总统无情地逼迫自己。
He has single-handedly written the proposed document for the settlements on the Sinai." Carter presented the formula to Begin.
他一手撰写了西奈半岛定居点的拟议文件。”卡特向贝京提出了这个公式。
At first he called the demands on Israel "excessive," "political suicide." But in the end he relented, agreeing to submit the question of the Jewish settlements to the Israeli parliament.
起初，他称对以色列的要求“过度”、“政治自杀”。但最终他态度软化，同意将犹太人定居点问题提交以色列议会。
Betty Glad, Political Scientist: Jimmy Carter saw a picture of the three major participants on his desk.
贝蒂·格莱德，政治学家：吉米·卡特在他的办公桌上看到了三位主要参与者的照片。
And he told his secretary to find out the names of Begin's grandchildren.
他让秘书查出贝京孙辈的名字。
And so then he wrote little notes, putting in the names of all the grandchildren.
然后他写了一些小纸条，写下了所有孙辈的名字。
He went over to Begin and said, "You know, this is not just for us.
他走到贝京身边说道：“你知道，这不仅仅是为了我们。
This is for our grandchildren.
这是为了我们的孙子们。
And let me give this to you." And Begin was profoundly moved by this.
让我把这个给你。”贝京对此深受感动。
Narrator: The Camp David Accords were hailed as a monumental triumph of diplomacy, "With his brilliant success and inspired leadership, Carter has taken "a first, big step toward realizing the promise of his presidency," was the verdict of the press.
旁白：戴维营协议被誉为外交上的巨大胜利，媒体评价说：“卡特凭借其辉煌的成功和鼓舞人心的领导，“朝着实现其总统任期的承诺迈出了第一步，迈出了一大步”。
Jimmy Carter (Archival): These negotiations provides that Israel may live in peace within secure and recognized borders.
吉米·卡特（档案）：这些谈判规定以色列可以在安全和公认的边界内和平生活。
And this great aspiration of Israel has been certified, without constraint, with the greatest degree of enthusiasm, by President Sadat, the leader of one of the greatest nations on earth." [applause]
地球上最伟大国家之一的领导人萨达特总统以最大程度的热情毫无限制地证明了以色列的这一伟大愿望。” [鼓掌]
Douglas Brinkley, Biographer: There will never be a history in the Middle East written without Jimmy Carter's name in the index.
传记作者道格拉斯·布林克利（Douglas Brinkley）：如果没有吉米·卡特的名字出现在索引中，中东的历史就永远不会存在。
A hundred years from now, two hundred years from now, people will be talking about the Camp David process that began in those Maryland mountains.
一百年后，两百年后，人们将谈论始于马里兰州山区的戴维营进程。
Peter Bourne, Biographer: Camp David was the plum of his administration.
传记作者彼得·伯恩：戴维营是他政府的得力助手。
This was the crowning glory, and it enshrined him in history.
这是至高无上的荣耀，也将他载入史册。
Jimmy Carter (Archival): ...to these two friends of mine, the words of Jesus: "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be the children of God." [applause]
吉米·卡特（档案）：...对我的这两个朋友，耶稣的话：“和平缔造者有福了，因为他们将成为上帝的孩子。” [鼓掌]
Narrator: Sadat and Begin were awarded the Nobel Prize for their contribution to peace.
旁白：萨达特和贝京因对和平的贡献而被授予诺贝尔奖。
Cape David became the touchstone for all future negotiations on the Middle East.
戴维角成为未来所有中东谈判的试金石。
Yet Carter's great success did nothing to improve his standing with the American people.
然而卡特的巨大成功并没有提高他在美国人民心目中的地位。
Walter F.
沃尔特·F.
Mondale, Vice President: There was something about how we had slipped in the eyes of the American people that prevented us from getting what should have been an enormous lift out of this incredible diplomatic feat.
副总统蒙代尔：我们在美国人民眼中的失落使我们无法从这一令人难以置信的外交壮举中获得本应获得的巨大提升。
We thought, "Boy, this shows we can get things done.
我们想，“天哪，这表明我们可以把事情做好。
It does bring peace in a crucial area." And there was no movement at all.
它确实给一个关键地区带来了和平。”而且一点动静都没有。
It was very dispiriting.
这非常令人沮丧。
Narrator: At home President Carter's leadership was in question.
旁白：卡特总统在国内的领导力受到质疑。
On the world stage he kept piling up accomplishments.
在世界舞台上，他不断取得成就。
In January 1979, he received Chinese Vice-Premier, Deng Xiaoping in Washington to celebrate the establishment of formal relations between the United States and China.
1979年1月，他在华盛顿接见了中国副总理邓小平，庆祝中美建交。
In June, he met Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev in Vienna, to sign the SALT II Arms Control Agreement.
6月，他在维也纳会见苏联总理勃列日涅夫，签署《SALT II军控协议》。
From there, it was on to Tokyo for a major economic Summit.
从那里出发，前往东京参加一次重要的经济峰会。
Patrick Caddell, Pollster: The country is having this terrible domestic problem and the president is somewhere out on the other side of the world.
帕特里克·卡德尔（Patrick Caddell），民意调查者：这个国家正在面临这个可怕的国内问题，而总统却在世界另一端的某个地方。
And it's not for a couple of days.
而且还不是几天。
For weeks.
持续数周。
And I remember getting on the phone and saying, "you people got to come home now."
我记得我在电话里说：“你们现在必须回家了。”
Narrator: In one year, the American economy had spun out of control.
旁白：一年之内，美国经济失控。
Gasoline prices had more than doubled, mortgage rates pushed 20%.
汽油价格上涨了一倍多，抵押贷款利率上涨了 20%。
Unemployment kept on rising.
失业率持续上升。
Bert Lance, Former Budget Director: There were just so many forces at work When inflation becomes rampant interest rates are high, and the business cycle is turning against you, it becomes almost impossible.
伯特·兰斯，前预算主任：有太多的力量在起作用。当通货膨胀猖獗、利率很高、商业周期对你不利时，这几乎是不可能的。
Narrator: Of all the problems facing the nation, most Americans now agreed, inflation was the most urgent.
旁白：现在大多数美国人都同意，在国家面临的所有问题中，通货膨胀是最紧迫的。
In the Summer of '79, fueled by rising oil prices, it surged to 14%.
79 年夏天，在油价上涨的推动下，这一数字飙升至 14%。
Roger Wilkins, Journalist: Inflation makes you doubt the future.
记者罗杰·威尔金斯：通货膨胀让你怀疑未来。
When you have inflation you don't see as much building going on.
当通货膨胀时，你不会看到那么多的建筑。
You don't see as much investment going on.
你看不到那么多的投资。
You don't see as much hiring going on.
你看不到那么多的招聘活动。
People weren't seeing their savings growing and as a matter of fact people were terrified that inflation would impoverish them in their old age.
人们没有看到自己的储蓄增长，事实上，人们担心通货膨胀会让他们在晚年陷入贫困。
Narrator: Carter acted decisively.
旁白：卡特行动果断。
To reduce the budget deficit and bring inflation under control he cut into social programs.
为了减少预算赤字并控制通货膨胀，他削减了社会计划。
"New realities," explained the White House, "must temper our nation's commitment to the poor."
白宫解释说：“新的现实必须缓和我们国家对穷人的承诺。”
Peter Bourne, Biographer: It stirred up a hornet's nest of opposition from the Ted Kennedy people, from the traditional FDR coalition.
传记作者彼得·伯恩：它激起了泰德·肯尼迪家族、传统罗斯福联盟的反对派的马蜂窝。
They were very, very angry.
他们非常非常生气。
Narrator: African American leaders felt betrayed, and vowed to wage an all out fight on what they called, "Carter's immoral, unjust and inequitable budget cuts."
旁白：非裔美国领导人感到自己被背叛了，并发誓要全力反对他们所谓的“卡特不道德、不公正和不公平的预算削减”。
Roger Wilkins, Journalist: The leader who most encapsulated the goals that I wanted was Martin King, at the end of his life, saying to the country, we have to do something about poor Americans.
罗杰·威尔金斯（Roger Wilkins），记者：最能体现我想要的目标的领导人是马丁·金（Martin King），他在生命的最后阶段对国家说，我们必须为贫穷的美国人做点什么。
We're the richest country on the face of the Earth, and we've got to do something.
我们是地球上最富有的国家，我们必须做点什么。
Every time I vote for a Democrat I want that Democrat to have Martin's spirit about poverty in his soul.
每次我投票给民主党人时，我都希望那个民主党人的灵魂里有马丁关于贫困的精神。
Jimmy Carter ran away from that.
吉米卡特逃离了这一点。
Narrator: Across America, frustration was reaching a breaking point.
旁白：在整个美国，挫败感已经达到了临界点。
In Levittown, Pennsylvania, truckers barricaded expressways to protest high fuel prices, setting off riots, which left 100 injured and led to more than 170 arrests.
在宾夕法尼亚州莱维敦，卡车司机封锁高速公路以抗议高油价，引发骚乱，导致 100 人受伤，170 多人被捕。
Patrick Caddell, Pollster: I thought in '79 we were really headed down the tubes.
Patrick Caddell，民意测验专家：我认为 79 年我们真的陷入了困境。
I now thought we were in deep, deep trouble and I thought the president was becoming irrelevant.
我现在认为我们陷入了深深的麻烦，我认为总统变得无关紧要。
Narrator: Polls showed Carter falling behind Ted Kennedy as the preferred candidate among Democratic voters, and even losing trial heats to the likely Republican nominee, Ronald Reagan.
旁白：民意调查显示，卡特在民主党选民中的首选候选人中落后于特德·肯尼迪，甚至在预选赛中输给了可能获得共和党提名的罗纳德·里根。
Voices of People on the Street (Archival):
街上人们的声音（档案）：
"I don't think he has control of the situation.
“我认为他无法控制局势。
I think he's a very religious man, a very nice man, but I just don't think he's capable of the job."
我认为他是一个非常虔诚的人，一个非常好的人，但我只是认为他没有能力胜任这份工作。”
"A lot of people think he's shaky, you know, and I'm one of them, I think he's kind of shaky."
“很多人认为他不稳定，你知道，我也是其中之一，我认为他有点不稳定。”
"I think he's a real floundering leader, I don't see him as a leader, and I don't look to him for leadership."
“我认为他是一个真正陷入困境的领导者，我不认为他是一个领导者，我也不指望他发挥领导作用。”
Narrator: President Carter's approval rating was 25%, lower than President Richard Nixon's at the time of Watergate.
旁白：卡特总统的支持率为25%，低于水门事件时理查德·尼克松总统的支持率。
"It all seems to be falling down around me in the White House," he told a friend.
“在白宫，我周围的一切似乎都在崩溃，”他告诉一位朋友。
"I don't know what to do."
“我不知道该怎么办。”
Walter F.
沃尔特·F.
Mondale, Vice President: I think he was losing some of that essential nerve that he has in such abundance.
蒙代尔，副总统：我认为他正在失去他所拥有的一些重要的勇气。
Just for a brief moment there it was really uh I was heartsick and I felt so sorry for him.
就在那一刻，我真的很伤心，我为他感到难过。
Narrator: Carter groped for a way to reassert his leadership.
旁白：卡特摸索着重新确立自己领导地位的方法。
One advisor suggested that he give a major speech on energy, and put the full blame of the economic crisis on the high price of Middle East oil.
一位顾问建议他就能源问题发表一次重要讲话，并将经济危机的全部责任归咎于中东石油价格高企。
Stuart Eizenstat, Domestic Policy Advisor: When we drew the outlines up he was really quite disgusted.
Stuart Eizenstat，国内政策顾问：当我们制定轮廓时，他真的很反感。
This is just more of the same.
这只是更多的相同。
It doesn't address the basic problems.
它没有解决基本问题。
People will see this as pabulum.
人们会将此视为食物。
We need something more.
我们还需要一些东西。
Rosalynn Carter: Jimmy had made several speeches on energy.
罗莎琳·卡特：吉米曾多次就能源问题发表演讲。
He was trying to impress upon people the fact they needed to conserve and it just seemed to be going nowhere with the public.
他试图让人们记住他们需要保护的事实，但公众似乎对此毫无兴趣。
And so he just said I'm not going to make the speech.
所以他只是说我不会发表演讲。
Hendrik Hertzberg, Speechwriter: So he got on a conference call with his senior staff, and the way he put it very pungently was, "I just don't want to bullshit the American people."
亨德里克·赫茨伯格（Hendrik Hertzberg），演讲撰稿人：因此，他与高级职员召开了电话会议，他的措辞非常尖刻，“我只是不想对美国人民说废话。”
Narrator: Carter retreated to Camp David.
旁白：卡特撤退到戴维营。
For the next ten days businessmen, labor leaders, governors, pop psychologists and clergy were called to the mountain top to participate in one of the most extraordinary episodes of presidential soul searching in American history.
在接下来的十天里，商人、劳工领袖、州长、流行心理学家和神职人员被召集到山顶，参加美国历史上最非凡的总统自我反省活动之一。
Hendrik Hertzberg, Speechwriter: Basically this was a kind of a self-psychoanalysis by Carter and the Administration.
演讲撰稿人亨德里克·赫茨伯格：基本上，这是卡特和政府的一种自我精神分析。
He sat up there and listened to the most scalding critiques of his presidency.
他坐在那里，聆听着对其总统任期最尖锐的批评。
Narrator: "They told me that I seemed bogged down in details," Carter wrote.
旁白：“他们告诉我，我似乎陷入了细节之中，”卡特写道。
"That the public acknowledged my intelligence and integrity, but doubted my capacity to follow through with a strong enough thrust to succeed." Within Carter's own staff a fierce debate raged over what had gone wrong and what President Carter should say to the American people.
“公众认可我的智慧和正直，但怀疑我是否有能力以足够强大的推动力来取得成功。”卡特自己的幕僚内部就出了什么问题以及卡特总统应该对美国人民说些什么进行了激烈的争论。
Carter's pollster argued the President should address a subject deeper than energy or the economy.
卡特的民意调查专家认为，总统应该讨论一个比能源或经济更深入的话题。
That there was a crisis of the American spirit.
美国精神出现了危机。
Patrick Caddell, Pollster: The first time, we actually got numbers where people no longer believed that the future of America was going to be as good as it was now.
帕特里克·卡德尔（Patrick Caddell），民意测验专家：我们第一次得到的数据显示，人们不再相信美国的未来会像现在一样美好。
Never in the history of American polling had that ever existed.
在美国民意调查历史上从未存在过这种情况。
That Americans ever if they believed it ever evidenced would say, "Oh, my children are have it worse than I am.
美国人如果相信这一点有证据的话就会说：“哦，我的孩子们的情况比我还要糟糕。
The country's going to get worse.
国家会变得更糟。
We already had our heyday.
我们已经度过了全盛时期。
And that really shook me, because it was so anti-American.
这真的让我震惊，因为它是如此反美。
Stuart Eizenstat, Domestic Policy Advisor: I made the point, and Mondale made the point, that if there was a problem with the American spirit, it was because of the underlying problems of inflation and energy not because there was something wrong with the American people.
国内政策顾问斯图尔特·艾森斯塔特（Stuart Eizenstat）：我指出了这一点，蒙代尔也指出了这一点，如果美国精神存在问题，那是因为通货膨胀和能源的根本问题，而不是因为美国人民出了问题。
Walter F.
沃尔特·F.
Mondale, Vice President: I argued that there were real problems in America that were not mysterious, that were not rooted in some kind of national psychosis or breakdown, that there were real gas lines, there was real inflation, that people were worried in their real lives about keeping their jobs.
蒙代尔，副总统：我认为，美国存在一些真正的问题，这些问题并不神秘，也不是源于某种全国性的精神错乱或崩溃，有真正的天然气管道，有真正的通货膨胀，人们在现实生活中担心保住工作。
Patrick Caddell, Pollster: The Vice President of the United States was looking at me, basically accused me of being insane.
帕特里克·卡德尔（Patrick Caddell），民意调查者：美国副总统看着我，基本上指责我疯了。
So, you had this real division.
所以，你们之间存在着真正的分裂。
And then Jimmy Carter ended it by saying, uh, and, and this moment I'll never forget it.
然后吉米·卡特最后说，呃，而且，这一刻我永远不会忘记。
He ends the thing saying, he said, "I just wanted to hear what you all said.
他结束了这件事，他说：“我只是想听听你们都说了什么。
I've decided.
我已经决定了
I'm going to do everything that Pat said."
我会按照帕特说的一切去做。”
Jimmy Carter (Archival): Good evening.
吉米·卡特（档案）：晚上好。
This is a special night for me.
这对我来说是一个特别的夜晚。
Narrator: On July 15 after a ten-day retreat, Jimmy Carter descended from the mountains of Maryland to deliver the most controversial speech of his administration.
旁白：7月15日，经过十天的静修后，吉米·卡特从马里兰州的山上下来，发表了他的政府中最具争议的演讲。
Jimmy Carter (Archival): I want to speak to you first tonight about a subject even more serious than energy or inflation.
吉米·卡特（档案）：今晚我想先和你们谈谈一个比能源或通货膨胀更严肃的话题。
I want to talk to you right now about a fundamental threat to American democracy.
我现在想和你们谈谈对美国民主的根本威胁。
The threat is nearly invisible in ordinary ways.
这种威胁在平常情况下几乎是看不见的。
It is a crisis of confidence.
这是一场信任危机。
It is a crisis that strikes at the very heart and soul and spirit of our national will.
这是一场冲击我们国家意志的核心、灵魂和精神的危机。
Hendrik Hertzberg, Speechwriter: The speech was more like a sermon than a political speech.
亨德里克·赫茨伯格（Hendrik Hertzberg），演讲撰稿人：这次演讲更像是一场布道，而不是一场政治演讲。
And it had the themes of confession, redemption, and sacrifice.
它的主题是忏悔、救赎和牺牲。
And he was bringing the American people into this spiritual process that he had been through, and presenting them with an opportunity for redemption as well as redeeming himself.
他正在将美国人民带入他所经历的精神进程中，为他们提供救赎的机会，也为他自己提供救赎的机会。
Jimmy Carter (Archival): In a nation that was proud of hard work, strong families, close-knit communities and our faith in God, too many of us now tend to worship self-indulgence and consumption.
吉米·卡特（档案）：在一个以辛勤工作、强大的家庭、紧密的社区和对上帝的信仰为荣的国家，我们中有太多人现在倾向于崇拜自我放纵和消费。
Human identity is no longer defined by what one does but by what one owns...
人类的身份不再由一个人做了什么来定义，而是由一个人拥有什么来定义......
John A.
约翰·A.
Farrell, Journalist: The speech unfairly was labeled "the malaise speech," because it talked about the fact that the country was in a difficult situation, which it was.
法雷尔，记者：这篇演讲被不公平地贴上了“萎靡不振的演讲”的标签，因为它谈到了这个国家正处于困境的事实，事实也确实如此。
But, Americans don't always want their public leaders to come to them and say, "Hey, we're in a bunch of trouble."
但是，美国人并不总是希望他们的公共领导人来找他们说：“嘿，我们遇到了很多麻烦。”
Roger Wilkins, Journalist: When your leadership is demonstrably weaker than it should be you don't then point at the people and say, "It's your problem." If you want the people to move, you move them the way Roosevelt moved them, or you exhort them the way Kennedy or Johnson exhorted them.
记者罗杰·威尔金斯：当你的领导力明显弱于应有的水平时，你就不会指着人们说：“这是你的问题。”如果你想让人们行动起来，你就可以像罗斯福那样行动，或者像肯尼迪或约翰逊那样劝告他们。
You don't say, "it's your fault."
你不会说：“这是你的错。”
Douglas Brinkley, Biographer: The op-ed pieces started spinning out saying there's nothing wrong with the American people.
传记作者道格拉斯·布林克利（Douglas Brinkley）：专栏文章开始流传，说美国人民没有任何问题。
We're a great people.
我们是一群伟大的人。
Maybe the problem's in the White House.
也许问题出在白宫。
Maybe we need new leadership to guide us.
也许我们需要新的领导来指导我们。
It boomeranged on him.
这对他来说是自食其果。
Jody Powell, Press Secretary: If you make a bold stroke like that you do have to think about how do you follow it up?
乔迪·鲍威尔，新闻秘书：如果你做出这样的大胆举动，你必须考虑如何跟进？
What is day 3 and day 4 and day 5 look like.
第 3 天、第 4 天和第 5 天是什么样子的？
How do you translate that into additional steps?
您如何将其转化为额外的步骤？
And we botched that.
我们搞砸了。
Narrator: To give the impression of a fresh start, Carter asked his entire cabinet to submit their resignations.
旁白：为了给人一种重新开始的印象，卡特要求整个内阁递交辞呈。
Five were accepted.
五个被接受。
John A.
约翰·A.
Farrell, Journalist: By firing the cabinet the way he did, Carter just telegraphed to the country that he wasn't up for the job.
法雷尔，记者：卡特以他的方式解雇内阁，只是向全国发出电报，表明他不适合这份工作。
It was a sign of panic.
这是恐慌的迹象。
It looked like this was a President who was thrashing about looking for other people to blame.
看起来这位总统正绞尽脑汁地寻找其他人的罪魁祸首。
Narrator: Carter's approval rating dropped even lower.
旁白：卡特的支持率更低了。
"After all the Camp David meetings, the dramatic speech on July 15, and the cabinet firings, he is back where he began," one analyst wrote, "a chief executive rejected by his ultimate constituency, the American people."
一位分析师写道：“在所有戴维营会议、7 月 15 日的戏剧性演讲以及内阁解雇之后，他又回到了起点，一位被他的最终选区——美国人民拒绝的首席执行官。”
Narrator: That fall, the liberal wing of the Democratic Party finally broke with the President, throwing its support behind Ted Kennedy.
旁白：那年秋天，民主党的自由派最终与总统决裂，转而支持特德·肯尼迪。
The Senator from Massachusetts would wage a brutal campaign for the Democratic Nomination.
这位来自马萨诸塞州的参议员将为民主党提名发起一场残酷的竞选活动。
For Jimmy Carter, nothing seemed to be going right.
对于吉米·卡特来说，似乎一切都不顺利。
He collapsed while running a 10-kilometer race.
他在跑10公里赛跑时摔倒了。
It was taken as a sign of weakness.
这被视为软弱的表现。
He became the butt of jokes when a story broke that he'd been attacked by a giant rabbit while fishing in Georgia.
当他在佐治亚州钓鱼时被一只巨型兔子袭击的消息传出后，他成为了笑柄。
Even the Carter family, once thought fun and colorful, was becoming a liability.
就连曾经被认为有趣而多彩的卡特家族也开始成为一种负担。
Billy was investigated for accepting a bribe from the Libyan government.
比利因接受利比亚政府贿赂而受到调查。
Furious, Carter distanced himself from Billy.
卡特勃然大怒，与比利保持距离。
"I have no control over my brother and he has no control over me." He said.
“我无法控制我的兄弟，他也无法控制我。”他说。
On November 4, 1979, it would all seem trivial.
1979 年 11 月 4 日，这一切看起来都微不足道。
A few days earlier, 3,500 Iranian students had marched toward the American Embassy in Teheran, threatening to overtake it.
几天前，3500名伊朗学生向美国驻德黑兰大使馆游行，威胁要超越它。
The anti-Shah movement which had begun in early 1978 had grown into a full-fledged Islamic Revolution.
1978 年初开始的反国王运动已发展成为一场成熟的伊斯兰革命。
The Shah was driven into exile, and the Ayatollah Khomeini, became the leader of a new and mysterious Islamic Republic.
国王被流放，阿亚图拉霍梅尼成为一个新的、神秘的伊斯兰共和国的领导人。
Zbigniew Brzezinski, National Security Advisor: I never had any illusions about Khomeini.
国家安全顾问兹比格涅夫·布热津斯基：我对霍梅尼从来不抱任何幻想。
I didn't have much familiarity with fundamentalist Islam.
我对伊斯兰教原教旨主义不太熟悉。
But I knew he would be a menace.
但我知道他会是一个威胁。
Gaddis Smith, Historian: If Carter had been more critical of the Shah, conceivably it would have been a little more difficult for the Ayatollah Khomeini to identify the United States as the great Satan, and to say everything that is wrong in Iran is basically the fault of the United States.
历史学家加迪斯·史密斯：如果卡特对国王更加批评，可以想象，阿亚图拉霍梅尼就更难将美国视为大撒旦，并说伊朗的一切问题基本上都是美国的错。
Maybe the fact that the United States had been a significant player in Iran since 1945 was such that it was too late for Carter or anybody to change the deeply hostile nature of the of the Iranian revolution.
也许美国自 1945 年以来一直是伊朗的重要参与者，这一事实对于卡特或任何人来说要改变伊朗革命的深刻敌对本质都为时已晚。
But it might have made a difference.
但这可能会有所作为。
Narrator: In the first few months of the Revolution, Carter had worked to build a relationship with the Khomeini regime.
旁白：在革命的头几个月里，卡特致力于与霍梅尼政权建立关系。
But the history of U.S.-Iranian relations would soon catch up with him.
但美伊关系的历史很快就会追上他。
For months, the deposed Shah of Iran had wandered the Middle East, then Latin America.
几个月来，被废黜的伊朗国王游历了中东，然后是拉丁美洲。
Ill with cancer, he asked permission to come to the United States for medical treatment.
他患有癌症，请求允许来美国接受治疗。
Walter F.
沃尔特·F.
Mondale, Vice President: There were several of us sitting around the table, talking about whether the President should permit the re-entry of the Shah.
蒙代尔，副总统：我们几个人围坐在桌子旁，讨论总统是否应该允许国王重新入境。
We had people tell us that if we let the Shah in, there could be a real negative repercussion in Iran.
人们告诉我们，如果我们让国王进来，可能会对伊朗产生真正的负面影响。
But the Shah was sort of pathetically flying around the world.
但国王有点可悲地在世界各地飞行。
And here's this great country saying, "Well, we won't even let you come to one of our hospitals." He went around the room, and a lot of the people said, "Let him in."
这个伟大的国家说：“好吧，我们甚至不会让你来我们的医院。”他在房间里转了一圈，很多人都说：“让他进来吧。”
Zbigniew Brzezinski, National Security Advisor: I argued that he should be allowed in because we treated him as an ally in good times and I felt it was our responsibility to treat him as a former ally, but a friend in bad times.
兹比格涅夫·布热津斯基（Zbigniew Brzezinski），国家安全顾问：我认为应该允许他进入，因为我们在顺境时把他当作盟友，我觉得我们有责任把他当作前盟友，但在逆境时把他当作朋友。
I felt American credibility was at stake.
我觉得美国的信誉受到威胁。
Walter F.
沃尔特·F.
Mondale, Vice President: And he said, "And if then this revolution moves in a way to take our employees in our embassy hostage, then what would be your advice?" And the room just fell dead.
蒙代尔，副总统：他说，“如果这场革命最终将我们大使馆的员工劫持为人质，那么你有什么建议呢？”房间里一片死寂。
The Shah arrived in the United States on October 22nd.
国王于10月22日抵达美国。
Two weeks later, Iranian students seized the American Embassy.
两周后，伊朗学生占领了美国大使馆。
53 Americans were to be held hostage until the United States returned the Shah to Iran.
53 名美国人将被扣为人质，直到美国将国王归还伊朗。
Everyone awaited word from Khomeini.
每个人都在等待霍梅尼的消息。
Seeing an opportunity to consolidate his revolution, the Ayatollah gave his blessing, calling the U.S. Embassy "a den of spies."
阿亚图拉看到了巩固革命的机会，给予了他祝福，称美国大使馆为“间谍巢穴”。
Jimmy Carter (Archival): The United States of America will not yield to international terrorism or to blackmail.
吉米·卡特（档案）：美利坚合众国不会屈服于国际恐怖主义或勒索。
Patrick Caddell, Pollster: It was a defining event.
帕特里克·卡德尔（Patrick Caddell），民意调查专家：这是一个决定性的事件。
This is the entire United States government captured, and held illegally under international law and being taunted everyday.
这是整个美国政府根据国际法被抓获、非法关押，每天都受到嘲笑。
Roger Wilkins, Journalist: The whole world saw these images of these people burning American flags, stomping on images of Carter and the most rancid sort of disrespect and hatred of the United States, on television, around the world, all the time.
记者罗杰·威尔金斯：全世界都在电视上、全世界各地都看到了这些人焚烧美国国旗、践踏卡特形象的画面，以及对美国最恶劣的不尊重和仇恨。
Narrator: "I would lie awake at night, trying to think of steps I could take to gain the hostages' freedom, without sacrificing the honor and security of our nation," the President wrote.
旁白：“我会彻夜难眠，试图思考可以采取哪些措施来获得人质的自由，同时又不牺牲我们国家的荣誉和安全，”总统写道。
Carter rejected all military options as too risky.
卡特拒绝了所有军事选择，因为风险太大。
"The problem," he said, "is that we could feel good for a few hours until we found that they had killed our people."
“问题是，”他说，“我们可能会感觉良好几个小时，直到我们发现他们杀了我们的人。”
Douglas Brinkley, Biographer: He was determined to bring every one of those men back alive.
传记作者道格拉斯·布林克利（Douglas Brinkley）：他决心将这些人中的每一个人都活着救回来。
You see the moralism of Carter, the Christianity affecting his foreign policy making.
你可以看到卡特的道德主义，基督教影响了他的外交政策制定。
His belief in each human life having a great sanctity to it.
他相信每个人的生命都具有极大的神圣性。
His not wanting to have blood on his hands.
他不想手上沾满鲜血。
Roger Wilkins, Journalist: Successful statesmen have to balance risks, and sometimes, sometimes a risk to a relatively limited number of lives, down the road saves many, many more lives.
记者罗杰·威尔金斯：成功的政治家必须平衡风险，有时，有时，虽然对相对有限的生命构成风险，但最终却可以拯救更多的生命。
Jody Powell, Press Secretary: To react in a way that was strong and powerful would have set us off down a road that no man could say where it might lead.
乔迪·鲍威尔，新闻秘书：以强有力的方式做出反应将使我们走上一条无人能说通向何方的道路。
Narrator: (News Voices) As spring 1980 approached the hostages had grown into a national obsession.
旁白：（新闻声音）随着 1980 年春天的临近，人质问题已成为全国性的关注焦点。
Their memory kept alive by millions of yellow ribbons.
数以百万计的黄丝带使他们的记忆永存。
News Anchor (Archival): After 100 days the hostages are still in captivity and the nation shares their ordeal.
新闻主播（档案）：100 天后，人质仍被囚禁，全国人民都在承受着他们的磨难。
Narrator: No stone was left unturned trying to bring them home.
旁白：不遗余力地想把他们带回家。
While Secretary of State Cyrus Vance dealt with Iranian government officials, Hamilton Jordan met secretly with anyone, who held out hope.
当国务卿赛勒斯·万斯与伊朗政府官员打交道时，汉密尔顿·乔丹秘密会见了任何抱有希望的人。
"Our lives became a seesaw of emotions as scheme after scheme fell apart," Rosalynn later recalled.
“随着一个又一个计划的失败，我们的生活变成了情感的跷跷板，”罗莎琳后来回忆道。
"Every time we saw the hostages on television, I counted them.
“每次我们在电视上看到人质时，我都会数数。
Rosalynn Carter: No one can know how much pressure there was on Jimmy to do something about that.
罗莎琳·卡特：没有人知道吉米为此付出了多大的压力。
And I would say, "Why don't you do something?" And he said, "What would you want me to do?" I said, "Mine the harbors." He said, "Okay, suppose I mine the harbors, and they decide to take one hostage out every day and kill him.
我会说：“你为什么不做点什么呢？”他说：“你想让我做什么？”我说：“在港口开采地雷。”他说：“好吧，假设我在港口布雷，他们决定每天劫持一名人质并杀死他。
What am I going to do then?"
那我该怎么办？”
Elizabeth Drew, Journalist: Fairly or not, it came to symbolize the question of whether Carter was a leader, whether he was competent, whether he was strong.
记者伊丽莎白·德鲁：不管公平与否，它象征着卡特是否是一个领导者、他是否有能力、他是否强大的问题。
Narrator: By April, pressure was growing intense and the situation increasingly hopeless.
旁白：到了四月份，压力越来越大，形势越来越绝望。
"We could no longer afford to depend on diplomacy," Carter was forced to conclude.
“我们不能再依赖外交，”卡特被迫得出结论。
"I knew from an intelligence report that there was little prospect of the hostages' release for the next five or six months...
“我从一份情报报告中得知，未来五六个月内人质获释的可能性很小......
I decided to act." It was called Desert 1.
我决定采取行动。”它被称为沙漠1。
It required six C-130 transport planes, a ninety-man rescue team, two C-141 Starlifters, eight helicopters, and nearly impossible logistics.
它需要六架 C-130 运输机、一支 90 人的救援队、两架 C-141 Starlifter、八架直升机以及几乎不可能的后勤保障。
Betty Glad, Political Scientist: It was a highly risky operation.
政治学家贝蒂·格莱德：这是一次风险极高的行动。
The CIA even talked about the number of people, including the hostages, who might be killed.
中央情报局甚至谈到了可能被杀害的人数，包括人质。
But it was doing something.
但它正在做某事。
Narrator: South of Teheran, in the Iranian desert, the rescue mission turned into a disaster.
旁白：在德黑兰南部的伊朗沙漠中，救援任务变成了一场灾难。
Two helicopters failed, another crashed into a C130 in a sandstorm.
两架直升机失事，另一架在沙尘暴中撞上了一架 C130。
Eight men died in Desert 1.
八人死于沙漠一号。
Three more were severely burned.
还有三人被严重烧伤。
Jimmy Carter (Archival): It was my decision to attempt the rescue operation.
吉米·卡特（档案）：尝试救援行动是我的决定。
It was my decision to cancel it when problems developed.
当问题出现时，我决定取消它。
The responsibility is fully my own.
责任完全由我个人承担。
Jody Powell, Press Secretary: I sort of thought at the time, "Well, people will give the president credit for trying." But I also realized that now the chances of being able to get those people out anytime in the near future was very, very slim and that from a political standpoint that was going to be a heavy burden to bear.
乔迪·鲍威尔，新闻秘书：我当时想，“好吧，人们会赞扬总统的努力。”但我也意识到，现在能够在不久的将来将这些人救出来的机会非常非常渺茫，从政治角度来看，这将是一个沉重的负担。
Narrator: In August 1980, President Carter survived the challenge from Senator Edward Kennedy for the Democratic nomination.
旁白：1980 年 8 月，卡特总统在民主党提名的参议员爱德华·肯尼迪的挑战中幸存下来。
The campaign had been bitter and divisive, but in the end, Kennedy had seemed too liberal and too tainted by scandal.
竞选活动是激烈且分裂的，但最终，肯尼迪似乎过于自由主义，而且受到丑闻的玷污。
Stuart Eizenstat, Domestic Policy Advisor: The attack from the left was extremely debilitating and the fact that we had a divided party going into the general election in 1980 against Ronald Reagan was an additional albatross beyond the hostage crisis and beyond inflation.
斯图尔特·艾森斯塔特（Stuart Eizenstat），国内政策顾问：来自左翼的攻击极大地削弱了我们的力量，事实上，在 1980 年大选中，我们党派分裂，反对罗纳德·里根，这一事实是人质危机和通货膨胀之外的另一个沉重负担。
Ronald Reagan (Archival): Jimmy Carter's administration tells us that the descendants of those who sacrificed to start again in this land of freedom may have to abandon the dream that drew their ancestors to a new life in a new land.
罗纳德·里根（档案）：吉米·卡特政府告诉我们，那些为了在这片自由的土地上重新开始而牺牲的人们的后代可能不得不放弃让他们的祖先在新的土地上开始新生活的梦想。
Narrator: Republican candidate Ronald Reagan launched his campaign on Labor Day with a broadside attack delivered before an audience of working class Americans.
旁白：共和党候选人罗纳德·里根在劳动节发起了他的竞选活动，在美国工人阶级观众面前进行了猛烈攻击。
Ronald Reagan (Archival): The Carter record is a litany of despair, of broken promises, of sacred trusts abandoned and forgotten.
罗纳德·里根（档案）：卡特的记录是一连串的绝望、违背的承诺、被放弃和遗忘的神圣信托。
Roger Wilkins, Journalist: Reagan was the very formidable fellow.
罗杰·威尔金斯，记者：里根是一个非常令人敬畏的人。
The combination of his beliefs, which were not numerous, but they were clear, and his acting skills really made people sit up and say, "this is, this guy means and believes what he's saying."
他的信念组合，数量不多，但却很明确，加上他的演技，着实让人刮目相看：“这就是，这家伙说的是实话，也相信他说的。”
Narrator: Carter trailed Reagan by more than twenty points.
旁白：卡特落后里根二十多个百分点。
With the Soviets in Afghanistan, the hostages in Iran, and the economy in shambles, he was vulnerable.
由于苏联人在阿富汗，人质在伊朗，经济陷入混乱，他很脆弱。
Bert Lance, Former Budget Director: We were still going through tough economic circumstances.
伯特·兰斯，前预算主任：我们仍在经历艰难的经济形势。
People were hurting.
人们很受伤。
Interest rates were higher, unemployment was higher, inflation was greater.
利率更高，失业率更高，通货膨胀也更大。
Campaign Ad (Archival): When you come right down to it, what kind of a person should occupy the Oval Office?
竞选广告（档案）：归根结底，什么样的人应该占据椭圆形办公室？
Should it be a person who like Ronald Reagan has proposed...
如果是像罗纳德·里根这样的人提议的……
Narrator: Unable to run on his record, Carter went on the attack portraying Reagan as trigger-happy cowboy with his finger on the nuclear button.
旁白：由于无法继续他的记录，卡特继续攻击，将里根描绘成手指放在核按钮上的好动的牛仔。
Campaign Ad (Archival): "Occupation forces" to Rhodesia, and a destroyer to Ecuador to deal with a fishing controversy?
竞选广告（档案）：“占领军”前往罗得西亚，一艘驱逐舰前往厄瓜多尔，以应对捕鱼争议？
Patrick Caddell, Pollster: We didn't have any cards to play because there wasn't any cards to play.
帕特里克·卡德尔（Patrick Caddell），民意调查者：我们没有任何牌可打，因为没有任何牌可打。
We were now trapped by events, trapped by a government that couldn't come up with any ideas, and, and basically we were frustrating the hell out of people.
我们现在被事件所困，被一个无法提出任何想法的政府所困，而且，基本上我们让人们感到沮丧。
But, they still trusted Jimmy Carter not to blow the world up.
但是，他们仍然相信吉米卡特不会炸毁世界。
And that was our only hope.
这是我们唯一的希望。
Narrator: On October 28, 100 million viewers, the largest audience ever to watch a presidential debate, tuned in.
旁白：10月28日，一亿观众收看总统辩论，这是有史以来观看总统辩论的最多观众。
The candidates were running neck and neck.
候选人们势均力敌。
Jimmy Carter (Archival): ...very high medical bill then the insurance would help pay for it.
吉米·卡特（档案）：……医疗费用非常高，那么保险将帮助支付。
These are the kind of elements of a national health insurance important to the American people.
这些是对美国人民来说很重要的国民健康保险要素。
Governor Reagan again typically is against such a proposal.
里根州长再次典型地反对这样的提议。
Ronald Reagan (Archival): There you go again.
罗纳德·里根（档案）：又来了。
When I opposed Medicare...
当我反对医疗保险时...
Patrick Caddell, Pollster: He had won it in the first half-hour, by not being crazy.
帕特里克·卡德尔（Patrick Caddell），民意调查者：他在前半小时内就赢得了胜利，因为他没有疯狂。
What had happened was you could see the shift in the beginning of the debate, over 90 minutes was a sense of he's not dangerous.
所发生的事情是，你可以在辩论开始时看到转变，超过 90 分钟的时间让人们感觉他并不危险。
That's all he had to do.
这就是他所要做的。
Dan Rather (Archival): Today, the vigil of the hostages lengthens to one whole year...
丹·拉瑟（档案）：今天，人质的守夜时间延长了一整年......
Narrator: The Monday before Election Day played like a nightmare for Jimmy Carter.
旁白：选举日之前的星期一对吉米·卡特来说就像一场噩梦。
(News Voices)
（新闻之声）
Jody Powell, Press Secretary: A good portion of that weekend leading up to it and all day Monday, Americans were literally having their nose rubbed in this embarrassing, irritating, humiliating situation.
新闻秘书乔迪·鲍威尔：在这之前的周末和周一一整天的大部分时间里，美国人都在这种尴尬、恼人、羞辱的情况下摸着鼻子。
Narrator: Carter campaigned all day and into the night in Mississippi, Oregon, Washington.
旁白：卡特在密西西比州、俄勒冈州、华盛顿州进行了一天到晚的竞选活动。
He arrived in Seattle at 3 a.m.
他于凌晨 3 点抵达西雅图。
-- the last rally, the last speech.
——最后一次集会，最后一次演讲。
Jody Powell, Press Secretary: I had stayed on the plane, to finish up something.
乔迪·鲍威尔，新闻秘书：我留在飞机上，是为了完成一些事情。
Before I could get off, the phone rang.
还没等我下车，电话就响了。
And it was Hamilton Jordan and Pat Caddell back in Washington.
那是回到华盛顿的汉密尔顿·乔丹和帕特·卡德尔。
They had seen the tracking polls from that day, and they said, "It's basically over."
他们看到了那天的跟踪民意调查，他们说，“基本上结束了。”
Jimmy Carter (Archival): Tomorrow vote for yourselves, vote democratic, help us, God be with you.
吉米·卡特（档案）：明天为自己投票，为民主投票，帮助我们，上帝与你们同在。
Jody Powell, Press Secretary: I went to hear his speech, thinking that I was the only person there who knew that basically the election was over.
乔迪·鲍威尔，新闻秘书：我去听了他的演讲，以为我是那里唯一知道选举基本上已经结束的人。
And that we had- that we had lost.
我们曾经拥有——但我们却失去了。
Narrator: It was a landslide.
旁白：这是一场山体滑坡。
Carter won only six states.
卡特只赢得了六个州。
For the first time in twenty-eight years, the Democratic Party lost control of the Senate.
民主党二十八年来首次失去了对参议院的控制权。
On the last day of his presidency, Jimmy Carter stayed up through the night.
在总统任期的最后一天，吉米·卡特彻夜未眠。
A deal with Iran had been reached.
与伊朗达成协议。
The release of the hostages was imminent.
人质获释迫在眉睫。
A crew from ABC News stood by to record the historic moment.
美国广播公司新闻频道的工作人员在现场记录了这一历史性时刻。
Walter F.
沃尔特·F.
Mondale, Vice President: He wanted to get these hostages home on his watch.
副总统蒙代尔：他希望在他的监督下将这些人质带回家。
And this was not about getting re-elected anymore.
这不再是为了连任。
This was about getting this done because he felt so deeply about it.
这是为了完成这件事，因为他对此感触很深。
We were in the Oval Office around maybe two in the morning.
大约凌晨两点，我们来到了椭圆形办公室。
And nothing happening.
却什么也没发生。
Dead silence.
死一般的寂静。
But we got to the time where it was nine in the morning and we had to be at the inaugural.
但我们到了早上九点，我们必须参加就职典礼。
The new president was coming in at eleven.
新总统十一点就到任。
And finally we all started running off.
最后我们都开始逃跑。
And we still had one officer back there with a phone, the hotline, in case there was any news.
我们还有一名警官在后面，拿着电话、热线电话，以防有任何消息。
Reporter (Archival): Is there any word about the hostages, have they taken off?
记者（档案馆）：有没有关于人质的消息，他们已经起飞了吗？
Walter F.
沃尔特·F.
Mondale, Vice President: And he was in contact with Carter all the way up the inaugural route and on the platform.
蒙代尔，副总裁：他在首航路线和站台上一直与卡特保持着联系。
So if there was anything that was positive or negative he'd hear about it.
因此，如果有任何积极或消极的事情，他都会听到。
And of course the story was that Khomeini released them the minute after Reagan was president.
当然，故事是霍梅尼在里根就任总统后立即释放了它们。
Narrator: January 20, 1981, three thousand people gathered at the old train depot in Plains to welcome the Carters home.
旁白：1981年1月20日，三千人聚集在普莱恩斯的旧火车站，欢迎卡特一家回家。
Betty Pope, Friend: There was a sea of umbrellas, out there in the public, standing in the cold and the rain, waiting for him.
贝蒂·波普（Betty Pope），朋友：外面的公共场所，有一片雨伞的海洋，站在寒冷和雨中，等待着他。
And it was a bittersweet day.
这是苦乐参半的一天。
Chip Carter, Son: I think they reacted just like anybody else would, they'd just been rejected by 200 million people.
奇普·卡特（Chip Carter）之子：我认为他们的反应就像其他人一样，他们刚刚被两亿人拒绝了。
It was one of the toughest times they've ever been through, I think.
我认为这是他们经历过的最艰难的时期之一。
Rosalynn Carter: He really was better than I was when we came home because I was so depressed about it that he was always trying to prop me up.
罗莎琳·卡特：当我们回家时，他确实比我好，因为我对此感到非常沮丧，以至于他总是试图支持我。
Narrator: The Carters settled in to write their memoirs, and to make plans to build a presidential library.
旁白：卡特夫妇定居下来写回忆录，并计划建造一座总统图书馆。
But Carter had little enthusiasm for building what he called "a monument to myself."
但卡特对于建造他所谓的“我自己的纪念碑”并没有什么热情。
Rosalynn Carter: One night I woke up and Jimmy was sitting straight up in the bed.
罗莎琳·卡特：一天晚上我醒来，发现吉米笔直地坐在床上。
This is after we'd been home about a year.
这是我们回家一年后的事了。
And I said, "What's the matter?" I thought he was sick because he always sleeps all night, even in the White House.
我说：“怎么了？”我以为他病了，因为他总是整夜睡觉，即使在白宫也是如此。
He can turn things off and go to sleep.
他可以关掉所有东西然后去睡觉。
And he said, "I know what we can do at the library.
他说：“我知道我们可以在图书馆做什么。
We can have a place to resolve conflicts." And so that was the germ of the idea for what became the Carter Center.
我们可以有一个地方来解决冲突。”这就是卡特中心的想法的萌芽。
Narrator: Inspired by his success in the Camp David Accords, Carter envisioned a place where he could host world leaders and mediate civil wars and political disputes.
旁白：受到戴维营协议成功的启发，卡特设想了一个可以接待世界领导人并调解内战和政治争端的地方。
At a cost of 28 million dollars, the Carter Center would span 35 acres, include an arboretum, a lake, and room enough for a staff of more then a hundred.
卡特中心耗资 2800 万美元，占地 35 英亩，包括植物园、湖泊和足够容纳 100 多名员工的空间。
Ronald Reagan (Archival): When we dedicate this center, Mr. President, we dedicate an institution that testifies as does your life itself to the goodness of God and to the blessings he bestows upon those who do their best to walk with him.
罗纳德·里根（档案）：总统先生，当我们落成这个中心时，我们落成的机构就像您的生命本身一样，见证了上帝的良善以及他赐予那些竭尽全力与他同行的人的祝福。
Narrator: In 1986, at the inauguration of the Carter Center, President Reagan expressed the growing respect many now felt for the man they had once rejected.
旁白：1986 年，在卡特中心落成典礼上，里根总统表达了许多人对这位他们曾经拒绝的人日益增长的敬意。
Through the Carter Center, Jimmy Carter would launch his new career as an elder statesman.
通过卡特中心，吉米·卡特将开启他作为一名资深政治家的新职业生涯。
In his travels throughout the world, Carter has championed the cause of the poor and the disenfranchised.
在他的世界各地旅行中，卡特捍卫了穷人和被剥夺权利者的事业。
Hendrik Hertzberg, Speechwriter: Being a good post-president doesn't retrospectively make you a better president.
亨德里克·赫茨伯格（Hendrik Hertzberg），演讲撰稿人：成为一名优秀的后总统并不会让你成为一名更好的总统。
What a post-presidency can do though is to illuminate which aspects of a president's character were real and which were phony.
然而，卸任总统后所能做的就是阐明总统性格的哪些方面是真实的，哪些方面是虚假的。
All of his strengths, perseverance, dedication, integrity, those have all turned out to be very, very real.
他所有的优点，毅力，奉献，正直，这些都被证明是非常非常真实的。
Bert Lance, Former Budget Director: He never lied to the American people.
伯特·兰斯，前预算主任：他从未对美国人民撒过谎。
He kept the peace.
他维持了和平。
He brought the hostages home without loss of life.
他将人质带回家，没有造成人员伤亡。
All the things he said he was going to do.
所有他说他要做的事情。
It was a time when we needed that sort of person as president, that people could put some faith and trust in.
那是一个我们需要这样的人担任总统的时代，人们可以给予他一些信心和信任。
Douglas Brinkley, Biographer: What was Carter?
传记作家道格拉斯·布林克利：卡特是什么？
He never had a kind of nutshell program.
他从来没有制定过简单的计划。
He had no interest in either the new deal tradition of Franklin Roosevelt, or the New Frontier tradition of John Kennedy, or the Great Society of Lyndon Johnson.
他对富兰克林·罗斯福的新政传统、约翰·肯尼迪的新边疆传统或林登·约翰逊的伟大社会都不感兴趣。
He never crystallized a great agenda of what he wanted to do.
他从未将自己想做的事情具体化为一个伟大的议程。
He simply tackled issues as they confronted him one by one by one.
他只是将遇到的问题一一解决。
Hendrik Hertzberg, Speechwriter: I think history is going to look at him in a kindlier light than his contemporaries did.
亨德里克·赫茨伯格（Hendrik Hertzberg），演讲撰稿人：我认为历史会比他的同时代人更加友善地看待他。
His values, his devotion to peace and human rights, keep on resonating in a way that his failures and weaknesses don't.
他的价值观、他对和平与人权的奉献不断引起共鸣，而他的失败和弱点则不然。
In December 1979, Jimmy Carter made history as the first president to mark Hanukkah at the White House, lighting both the (electric) National Menorah in Lafayette Park and a smaller menorah in an outdoor ceremony.
1979 年 12 月，吉米·卡特 (Jimmy Carter) 创造了历史，成为第一位在白宫庆祝光明节的总统，点燃了拉斐特公园的（电动）国家烛台，并在户外仪式上点燃了一个较小的烛台。
Scroll through a gallery of Hanukkah “firsts” at the White House.
滚动浏览白宫光明节“第一”的画廊。
Jimmy Carter delivered this televised speech on July 15, 1979.
吉米·卡特于 1979 年 7 月 15 日发表了这篇电视讲话。
Jimmy Carter delivered this televised speech on October 24, 1978.
吉米·卡特于 1978 年 10 月 24 日发表了这篇电视讲话。
Carter attempted to stop runaway inflation with a White House press conference in 1978.
1978 年，卡特在白宫举行新闻发布会，试图阻止失控的通货膨胀。
What would come Carter's greatest foreign policy achievement nearly ended in failure.
卡特最伟大的外交政策成就几乎以失败告终。
Americans were held hostage at the US Embassy in Iran in 1979.
1979 年，美国人在美国驻伊朗大使馆被扣为人质。
Carter asked Americans to cut down their energy usage during a fireside chat in 1977.
1977 年，卡特在一次炉边谈话中要求美国人减少能源消耗。
Rosalynn Carter was a major figure in her husband's campaigns and policy meetings.
罗莎琳·卡特是她丈夫竞选活动和政策会议的主要人物。
Mounting pressure to rescue hostages in Iran led Jimmy Carter to order a rescue operation.
伊朗营救人质的压力越来越大，导致吉米·卡特下令开展营救行动。
Jimmy Carter learned punctuality, discipline, and order from his time in the Navy.
吉米·卡特从海军服役期间学到了守时、纪律和秩序。
Carter campaigned on a platform on honesty at a time when the nation sorely needed it.
在国家迫切需要诚实的时候，卡特以诚实为竞选纲领。