It was likely in the fall of 1978 that the following anecdote happened.
(I.e., it was well BEFORE the Iran hostage crisis.)
I was in an American school in Europe.
There was a framed photo of Jimmy Carter hanging in one of the
classrooms.
One day, some of the older kids - in their mid-teens, I'm guessing -
started throwing pieces of molding clay at it. Of course, the pieces
stuck.
Many years later, I told my mother about that.
She said: "I KNEW some of those kids' families were fascists!"
In the meantime, here's a relevant comic strip from September of 1980:
https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/1980/09/14
You'll have to enlarge it. (I couldn't find a bigger image - let me know
if you can.)
And, in the near half-century since that strip, it can be argued that
Carter has been one of the most positive ex-Presidents ever.
(He also wrote at least 30 books.)
I remember reading in Sarah A. Lanier's fascinating 2000 book, "Foreign
to Familiar," that Carter's Southern upbringing helped him as a diplomat
in his later years, since hot-climate societies - like his home state of
Georgia - very often have similar mores. (He was only briefly mentioned,
IIRC.)
Check out this preface to Lanier's book:
https://flatlanderfaith.com/2014/10/28/foreign-to-familiar/
(It's worth mentioning that yes, there ARE very different social mores,
sometimes, even between two hot-climate cultures - as you'll see when
you read the preface. But as most Americans know, even in the U.S.,
there are big differences between the etiquette systems of the Northeast
and the Deep South.)