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Controversies related to the political administration of President Jimmy Carter (1977 – 1981). See also the preceding Category:Ford administration controversies and the succeeding Category:Reagan administration controversies
During President Jimmy Carter's presidency, he nominated four people for four different federal appellate judgeships who were not processed by the Democratic-controlled Senate Judiciary Committee before Carter's presidency ended. None of the four nominees were renominated by Carter's successor, President Ronald Reagan.
Carter is the longest-lived president in U.S. history and the first to live to 100 years of age. Carter was born and raised in Plains, Georgia. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1946 and joined the U.S. Navy's submarine service. Carter returned home after his military service and revived his family's peanut-growing business.
Jimmy Carter took full advantage of the enhanced primary system in 1976 and went all the way. The former one-term governor of Georgia made his bones by running in all primaries and caucuses, which ...
In November 1979, a number of U.S. hostages were captured in Iran during the Iranian Revolution.The Iran hostage crisis continued into 1980; as the November 1980 presidential election approached, there were concerns in the Republican Party that a resolution of the crisis could constitute an "October surprise" which might give incumbent Jimmy Carter enough of an electoral boost to be re-elected ...
As Jimmy Carter’s epic journey is almost at a close at age 98, it’s a good time to begin a long-overdue reassessment of this misunderstood man and his much-maligned presidency.
President Jimmy Carter first formalized human rights in our foreign policy in 1977. Prior to that, our government didn’t even pretend to factor it in. Though Carter’s foreign policy will be ...
The book Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2006) by former president Jimmy Carter has been highly controversial and attracted a wide range of commentary. The reception of the book has itself raised further controversy, occasioning Carter's own subsequent responses to such criticism.