BTW, it should be noted that although Jackson was the neocons' first choice in 1976, some of them did hold out hopes for Carter--after all, he was from the traditionally hawkish South, and on foreign policy he had attacked Ford from the right as well as the left. But after his election they presented him with a list of candidates for jobs, and were terribly disillusioned by the outcome--Peter Rosenblatt got a job as an envoy to Micronesia, and that was it. As Elliott Abrams put it, "We got one unbelievably minor job. It was a special negotiator position. Not for Polynesia. Not even for Macronesia. But Micronesia!"
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