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Listed below are executive orders numbered 11967–12286 signed by United States President Jimmy Carter (1977–1981). He issued 320 executive orders. [9] His executive orders are also listed on Wikisource, along with his presidential proclamations and presidential review memorandums. Signature of Jimmy Carter
A 2017 C-SPAN poll of historians also ranked Carter as the 26th best president. [259] Some critics have compared Carter to Herbert Hoover, who was similarly a "hardworking but uninspiring technocrat." [260] Robert A. Strong writes: Jimmy Carter is much more highly regarded today than when he lost his bid for reelection in 1980.
President Jimmy Carter and Soviet general secretary Leonid Brezhnev sign the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT II) treaty, June 18, 1979, in Vienna Although his campaign platform in 1976 called for a reduction in defense spending, Carter called for a 3 three percent increase in the defense budget.
U.S. President Jimmy Carter works on a speech for television in the Oval Office of the White House, February 2, 1977. Carter's post-presidency work Carter remained in the public eye after defeat.
Former President Jimmy Carter would attend President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration in January - were it not for health issues, a spokesperson for the Carter Center told USA TODAY. The 100-year ...
President Jimmy Carter first formalized human rights in our foreign policy in 1977. ... Carter sought to institutionalize human rights within our foreign-policy decision-making structures, so that ...
Although Carter was personally opposed to abortion, he supported legalized abortion after the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, 410 US 113 (1973). [2] Early in his term as governor, Carter had strongly supported family planning programs including abortion to save the life of a woman, birth defects, or in other extreme circumstances.
The table below shows that the two groups had only small differences in ranking the best and worst presidents. Both groups agreed on the composition of nine of the top ten presidents (and were split over the inclusion of either Lyndon B. Johnson or Dwight D. Eisenhower) and six of the worst seven (split over Jimmy Carter or Calvin Coolidge).