Why did Jimmy Carter have such limited susses as President?

President Carter made a number of controversial decisions, such as pardoning draft dodgers, imposing a grain embargo on the Soviet Union and leading a boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. He was also blamed for the 1979 oil crisis and the capture of American hostages in Iran.

Explanation:

Jimmy Carter was generally unknown to most Americans outside of Georgia when he began running for president. He became well-known for his smile and his desire to end racial segregation and bring about a peace treaty between Egypt and Israel. Despite his good intentions, he did not have the undivided support even of many in his own Democratic party. Many saw his meekness as weakness.

in his book, the riddle of the rosetta stone, james giblin talks about how there was a young british polymath and physician named thomas young who made a lot of advances on the deciphering of the rosetta stone. he says that even though young made a lot of mistakes because he was working under false assumptions, he also made huge contributions like deciphering three out of the seven symbols (more than anyone else before him). young published his findings and continued his good work but he wasn't able to progress much further due to some unfavorable situations, he still laid the basis for many other scholars and of course for the man who has been generally known to have deciphered it, jean-françois champollion

it is a : ) always outside of government control