This Future POTUS Appeared on 'What’s My Line?'—And the Panel Had No Clue
In 1973, Governor Jimmy Carter appeared on CBS' What’s My Line?, and the panel failed to guess him, unknowingly foreshadowing his rise to POTUS.
Although recency bias may bring Joe Biden immediately to mind, the most famed one-term President of the United States would arguably be James Earl Carter Jr., or, as he's most commonly known, Jimmy Carter. The former president, whose time in the Oval Office, from 1977 to 1981, was a mixed bag of notable achievements and tenure-defining shortcomings. That time is largely superseded by his post-presidency, which ABC News hailed as the most consequential in U.S. history, with the decorated philanthropist continuing his humanitarian efforts into his final days, passing away at the age of 100 on December 29th, 2024. But before Habitat for Humanity, before being sworn in as the 39th President, Carter was an unknown commodity who came to the attention of Americans through the game show What's My Line?.
