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51 years ago, Hunter S. Thomp-son wrote Fear and Loathing on the Cam-paign Trail ’72, which “is still con-sid-ered a kind of bible of polit-i-cal report-ing,” not-ed Matt Taib-bi in a 40th anniver-sary edi-tion of the book. Fear and Loathing ’72 entered the canon of Amer-i-can polit-i-cal writ-ing for many rea-sons. But if you’re look-ing for one bot-tom-line expla-na-tion, it prob-a-bly comes down to this: Says Taib-bi, “Thomp-son stared right into the flam-ing-hot sun of shame-less lies and cyn-i-cal horse-shit that is our pol-i-tics, and he described exact-ly what he saw—probably at seri-ous cost to his own men-tal health, but the ben-e-fit to us was [his leg-endary book].”

Thomp-son may have reached some jour-nal-is-tic apogee with his cov-er-age of the ’72 Nixon-McGov-ern cam-paign. But his polit-i-cal writ-ing hard-ly stopped there. The Gonzo jour-nal-ist cov-ered the ’76 elec-tion for Rolling Stone mag-a-zine. And inevitably he crossed paths with Jim-my Carter (RIP), the even-tu-al win-ner of the elec-tion. Above, Thomp-son recalls the day when Carter first made an impres-sion upon him.

It hap-pened at the Uni-ver-si-ty of Geor-gia School of Law on May 4, 1974. Speak-ing before a gath-er-ing of alum-ni lawyers, Carter upset their cel-e-bra-to-ry occa-sion when he dis-man-tled the crim-i-nal jus-tice sys-tem they were so proud of. And Carter par-tic-u-lar-ly caught Thomp-son’s atten-tion when he traced his sense of social jus-tice back to a song writ-ten by Bob Dylan:

The oth-er source of my under-stand-ing about what’s right and wrong in this soci-ety is from a friend of mine, a poet named Bob Dylan. After lis-ten-ing to his records about “The Bal-lad of Hat-tie Car-ol” and “Like a Rolling Stone” and “The Times, They Are a?Changing,” I’ve learned to appre-ci-ate the dynamism of change in a mod-ern soci-ety.

I grew up as a landown-er’s son. But I don’t think I ever real-ized the prop-er inter-re-la-tion-ship between the landown-er and those who worked on a farm until I heard Dylan’s record, “I Ain’t Gonna Work on Mag-gie’s Farm No More.” So I come here speak-ing to you today about your sub-ject with a base for my infor-ma-tion found-ed on Rein-hold Niebuhr and Bob Dylan.

You can read the full text of Carter’s speech here. It’s also worth watch-ing a relat-ed clip below, where Thomp-son elab-o-rates on Carter, his famous speech and his alleged mean streak that put him on the same plane as Muham-mad Ali and Son-ny Barg-er (the god-fa-ther of The Hells Angels).

Note: An ear-li-er ver-sion of this post first appeared on our site in 2012. With the pass-ing of Pres-i-dent Carter, it seemed like a good time to bring it back.

Relat-ed Con-tent 

The 2,000+ Films Watched by Pres-i-dents Nixon, Carter & Rea-gan in the White House

Hear the Uncen-sored Orig-i-nal Ver-sion of “Hur-ri-cane,” Bob Dylan’s Protest Song About Jailed Box-er Rubin “Hur-ri-cane” Carter (1976)

Hunter Thomp-son Explains What Gonzo Jour-nal-ism Is, and How He Writes It (1975)