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Jimmy, the first president to use his nickname in an official capacity, rather than his first name James. [155] Jimmy Cardigan, got the nickname after he wore a sweater instead of a suit one day [17] The Peanut Farmer, [156] he owned a peanut farm and fostered this image in his early campaigns, as a contrast to elite Washington insiders.
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.
On January 6, 2021, following the U.S. Capitol attack, along with the other three still living former presidents, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, and Bill Clinton, [409] Jimmy Carter denounced the attack, releasing a statement saying that he and his wife were "troubled" by the events, also stating that what had occurred was "a national tragedy ...
In the short story "Demarche to Iran" by Alexis A. Gilliland contained in the anthology Alternate Presidents edited by Mike Resnick, Jimmy Carter lost the 1976 election to Gerald Ford after Ford gives former president Richard Nixon a specific, rather than a general, pardon, thus keeping his popularity high enough that he re-elected president ...
Long before Jimmy became the 39th president of the United States, he met his future wife when he was 3 years old, as his mother, Lillian Carter, helped deliver Rosalynn in 1927. The two got ...
The first president, George Washington, won a unanimous vote of the Electoral College. [4] Grover Cleveland served two non-consecutive terms and is therefore counted as the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, giving rise to the discrepancy between the number of presidencies and the number of individuals who have served as president. [5]
President in: Shelley's Heart by Charles McCarry (1995 novel) Speaker of the House, he becomes president after the resignation of impeached President Bedford Forrest Lockwood. Next in line of succession due to the death of Vice President Williston Graves. His efforts resolve a Constitutional crisis due to an election stolen by computer fraud.
The presidential transition of Jimmy Carter began when he won the 1976 United States presidential election, becoming the president-elect, and ended when Carter was inaugurated on January 20, 1977.