My Jimmy Carter Story

When Carter was president, I was working for the US Census Bureau in Suitland Md. During his presidency, there was an oil embargo and Carter, through executive order, reduced the temperature in all government offices to the mid-fifties. So, we sat there freezing for a couple of days getting no work done. Then someone figured out how to break into the office heaters and by the end of the week the temperature was back to normal and we could work again.

So Carter, at least at the Census Bureau, disrupted work for a couple of days, and probably made a number of people sick.

Mason