It's also true that Herbert Hoover and Jimmy Carter looked bad at 18 months, only to look even worse at 48 months.

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Jimmy Carter farmed successfully and Herbert Hoover made his huge construction fortune as a young man.

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After all, Barack Obama had delivered the worst economic performance since Jimmy Carter (if not Herbert Hoover), and he still won a clear victory.

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Among them, Lloyd George's grandson, Viscount Tenby, and Lady Bonham-Carter, great-granddaughter of LG's great Liberal rival Herbert Henry Asquith.

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