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He was an absolute phony.' Jimmy Carter's smiling, man-of-the-people persona - that saw him famously carry his own luggage - was 'all show', reveal ex-Secret Service agents who say president was 'rude and short' and 'talked down' to the military
What Secret Service agents REALLY thought of Jimmy Carter
Ronald Kessler is a former Washington Post and Wall Street Journal investigative reporter and New York Times bestselling author of books on the White House, Secret Service, FBI, and CIA
After announcing his decision to live out his final days in hospice care at home, Jimmy Carter is being hailed as America's decent, humble president who cared about the so-called little people during his time in office.
And while his philanthropic work after leaving the White House speaks to that image, Secret Service agents who were on the 39th president's detail during his four-year term saw an entirely different man.
As revealed in my 2014 book, The First Family Detail: Secret Service Agents Reveal the Hidden Lives of the Presidents, agents actually knew Carter as a great actor in the public eye.
He cultivated the image of a jolly populist who grew up on a farm in Georgia, helped run his family's peanut business, and championed the working man.
The presidency 'is a place of compassion,' Carter famously said in accepting his nomination for a second term at the 1980 Democratic National Convention.
'My own heart is burdened for the troubled Americans. The poor and the jobless and the afflicted...' he added.
But behind the scenes, it was a different story.
Carter's staff knew him as a 'great actor,' according to Ronald Kessler's 2014 book, The First Family Detail: Secret Service Agents Reveal the Hidden Lives of the Presidents
In fact, 'Carter was just very short and rude most of the time,' according to one Secret Service agent.
'With agents, he'd just pretend like you were not around. You'd say hello, and he'd just look at you, like you weren't there, like you were bothering him.'
Carter actually told Secret Service agents and uniformed officers he did not want them to greet him on his way to the Oval Office.
It was apparently too much bother for him to have to say hello back to another human being.
Carter apparently did not have much use for the military either.
Although he was a Naval Academy graduate himself, he 'talked down to the military, just talked like they didn't know what they were talking about,' one agent said.
'Carter didn't want military aides to wear uniforms,' former agent Cliff Baranowski recalled.
His icy demeanor would make him the most detested commander-in-chief by Secret Service agents of all US presidents in recent memory.
He was an absolute phony.' Jimmy Carter's smiling, man-of-the-people persona - that saw him famously carry his own luggage - was 'all show', reveal ex-Secret Service agents who say president was 'rude and short' and 'talked down' to the military
What Secret Service agents REALLY thought of Jimmy Carter
Ronald Kessler is a former Washington Post and Wall Street Journal investigative reporter and New York Times bestselling author of books on the White House, Secret Service, FBI, and CIA
After announcing his decision to live out his final days in hospice care at home, Jimmy Carter is being hailed as America's decent, humble president who cared about the so-called little people during his time in office.
And while his philanthropic work after leaving the White House speaks to that image, Secret Service agents who were on the 39th president's detail during his four-year term saw an entirely different man.
As revealed in my 2014 book, The First Family Detail: Secret Service Agents Reveal the Hidden Lives of the Presidents, agents actually knew Carter as a great actor in the public eye.
He cultivated the image of a jolly populist who grew up on a farm in Georgia, helped run his family's peanut business, and championed the working man.
The presidency 'is a place of compassion,' Carter famously said in accepting his nomination for a second term at the 1980 Democratic National Convention.
'My own heart is burdened for the troubled Americans. The poor and the jobless and the afflicted...' he added.
But behind the scenes, it was a different story.
Carter's staff knew him as a 'great actor,' according to Ronald Kessler's 2014 book, The First Family Detail: Secret Service Agents Reveal the Hidden Lives of the Presidents
In fact, 'Carter was just very short and rude most of the time,' according to one Secret Service agent.
'With agents, he'd just pretend like you were not around. You'd say hello, and he'd just look at you, like you weren't there, like you were bothering him.'
Carter actually told Secret Service agents and uniformed officers he did not want them to greet him on his way to the Oval Office.
It was apparently too much bother for him to have to say hello back to another human being.
Carter apparently did not have much use for the military either.
Although he was a Naval Academy graduate himself, he 'talked down to the military, just talked like they didn't know what they were talking about,' one agent said.
'Carter didn't want military aides to wear uniforms,' former agent Cliff Baranowski recalled.
His icy demeanor would make him the most detested commander-in-chief by Secret Service agents of all US presidents in recent memory.
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