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The career of Jimmy Carter, the U.S. President who died on Dec. 29 at age 100, will be remembered for many things: his peanut-farming background, his speedy rise to political fame and fall after ...
Former President Jimmy Carter, ... “In the presidency, he got a sense of the fact that the world can be changed, and it doesn’t take a government to change it; it can be changed one person at ...
People across the country and the world are reflecting on former President Jimmy Carter and his life, which was full of achievements. He died at the age of 100 at his longtime home in Plains, Georgia.
PLAINS, Ga. (AP) — Newly married and sworn as a Naval officer, Jimmy Carter left his tiny hometown in 1946 hoping to climb the ranks and see the world. Less than a decade later, the death of his father and namesake, a merchant farmer and local politician who went by “Mr. Earl,” prompted the submariner and his wife, Rosalynn, to return to the rural life of Plains, Georgia, they thought ...
Along with Carter, he sought to change U.S. policy towards Africa, emphasizing human rights concerns over Cold War issues. [11] In 1978, Carter became the first sitting president to make an official state visit to Sub-Saharan Africa , [ 12 ] a reflection of the region's new importance under the Carter administration's foreign policy. [ 13 ]
Jimmy Carter is much more highly regarded today than when he lost his bid for reelection in 1980. He has produced an exemplary post-presidency, and today there is an increased appreciation for the enormity of the task he took on in 1977, if not for the measures he took to deal with the crises that he faced.
The Global 2000 Report to the President was a 1980 report commissioned by President Jimmy Carter.It warned that world population growth, pollution and resource depletion would have dramatic consequences by the year 2000 if no changes in public policy were made.
Jimmy Carter, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning 39th president of the United States who transformed his legacy from one-term commander-in-chief to beloved humanitarian, died on Sunday, Dec. 29, at the ...