These proceedings have been arranged in a topical order that differs from the
sequence of the panels at the conference. In addition, the quantity of the materials
offered at the Carter Conference compelled their division into two separate and
distinct volumes. The first, The Presidency and Domestic Policies of Jimmy Carter,
deals with Jimmy Carter's political history and emergence, and with his management of
domestic politics. The second volume, titled Jimmy Carter: Foreign Policy and Post-
Presidential Years, is devoted to foreign policy and to the unique postpresidential
years. In each volume, the topical arrangement is natural and customary, and within
each topical category, the subjects addressed by scholars and commentators range very
widely. This pattern is the felicitous consequence of our particular approach to
organizing these presidential conferences: With few exceptions, no control is
exercised in advance over the issues or topics that scholars wish to address. The call
for papers is broadcast over a wide geographical area and among scholars from many
disciplines. The resulting papers tend to fall into well-known categories, even while
they are diverse in content and approaches. We do try to ensure that certain
significant questions are addressed by inviting a limited number of well-known
scholars to submit papers dealing with specific matters.

The present volumes are the outcomes of the labors of many people, apart from
the core of scholars and commentators whose contributions constitution the contents
of the proceedings.

While the names of all those who made the conference possible are too numerous
to be listed here, two such persons cannot go unmentioned: A happy circumstance has
reunited the original Presidential Conference team of 1981-82 in the persons of Natalie
Datlof, Alexej Ugrinsky, and the undersigned. We worked together well and happily,
turning even the occasional frictions to the solid advantage of this conference, and we
emerged from the renewed experience unscathed and enriched.

This coeditor has especially valued the partnership of Alexej Ugrinsky in the
production of this volume. It was an easy collaboration, with a clear and
complementary division of labor. These volumes mark a happy ending to the work of
two years and the partnerships that produced it.

Herbert D. Rosenbaum
Conference Director

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