In no way am I claiming Carter led the charge on any of this, but he did sign off on all of it. Nobody else can claim anything like that. It's like the Clinton thing and the balanced budget...sure, Republicans drove all of that, but BC still signed off on it. We don't really live in a world where presidents allow an opposing congress to have victories like that. Carter put traditional liberal politics aside three times.
If Ford is president, I'm not even sure congress has the same motivation to try to pass them all in the first place.
I'm not sure any president has signed off on such important deregulation in any one industry, and it happened in three (airlines, trucking, finance).
I don't think Carter was that smart. I just love the idea that he kinda went along with things and ended up being a good POTUS (tho not at all revered because of the optics of his presidency). It's like Mr. Deeds getting elected President.