Patients and health care advocates said the abrupt decision to halt U.S. funding for a lifesaving H.I.V. program led to widespread confusion. The backtracking didnβt help.
With a recipient list stocked with old-guard icons and political backers, the president is signaling support for the establishment his successor wants to tear down.
Jimmy Carterβs relationship with his successors in the Oval Office, both Republicans and fellow Democrats, was generally tense because of his outspokenness. That never mattered to him.