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Carter's re-election campaign in 1980 was marred by fears of a recession. His administration struggled to deal with inflation at over 14% by 1980, caused by high energy prices after the 1979 gas ...
Former President Jimmy Carter — who died in his hometown of Plains, Ga., on Sunday — was reviled by Republicans and ridiculed by essentially everyone else after he left office in 1981.
Controversies related to the political administration of President Jimmy Carter (1977–1981). Subcategories. This category has only the following subcategory. ...
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.
April 20, 1979, White House photo of Carter and the rabbit from the Carter Library Close up of the rabbit cropped from the White House photo. The Jimmy Carter rabbit incident, sensationalized as the "killer rabbit attack" by the press, involved a swamp rabbit (Sylvilagus aquaticus) that aggressively swam toward U.S. president Jimmy Carter's fishing boat on April 20, 1979.
Yet Jimmy Carter's admirably brief inaugural struck a note of programmatic humility: "Even our great Nation has its recognized limits….We can neither answer all questions nor solve all problems.
Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid [1] is a book written by 39th president of the United States Jimmy Carter.It was published by Simon & Schuster in November 2006. [2]The book is primarily based on talks, hosted by Carter during his presidency, between Menachem Begin of Israel and Anwar Sadat of Egypt that led to the Egypt–Israel peace treaty.
Jimmy Carter was the perfect candidate for 1976, columnist George Skelton writes, and he was an exceptional ex-president. In between? That's the problem.