re: Older folks: is this what Carter was like?

I know a guy who basically did the 70's equivalent of tech work for the government back then. He said things got so bad with Carter that they cleared out some space in the capitol and basically set up an alternative White House with Tip O'Neil and some other influential legislators running the executive branch. The guy I know worked on the project with a bunch of other workers setting up the red phones, teletypes, etc. and whenever he went to service things it was White House security protocols. Carter was basically a bumbling figurehead by the end of his only term.