Not long after Jimmy Carter was elected, things began to go sour for his administration. Just about everything, including opposition from both Republicans and sometimes even the Democratic majority in Congress, bedeviled him.
Carter called longtime Democratic politician Bob Strauss into the Oval Office, after the Bert Lance scandal broke. Carter found the change in fortune puzzling, after a successful election campaign the year before.
Strauss told Carter: “You know what your problem is? You used up all your damn luck getting here.”
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