It didn't start out that way, but Utah's relationship with former President Jimmy Carter grew warmer over the years.
SALT LAKE CITY — Imagine a time when oil was growing more expensive and even scarce, where the relationship with Moscow was on a razor's edge, the U.S. was reeling from an administration born in controversy and where the west was trying to figure out how to get enough water.Carter stepped into office as the conservative Christian Democrat: a Navy man, peanut farmer, and Georgia governor.
Adding fuel to the fire was the MX missile project, a proposed system of intercontinental ballistic missiles on rails that was supposed to be in south central Utah and Nevada. It was never built, but was the subject of an intense fight with Matheson, Carter's usual ally. But when Carter visited Utah 13 ago, he signed books at the King's English Bookstore in Salt Lake City where hundreds of residents showed up to get their copy's signed.
Carter believes Republicans have obstructed bi-partisanship, but he likes a Utah republican, namely Senator Orrin Hatch.
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