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Carter took office during the Cold War, a sustained period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, relations between the two superpowers had improved through a policy known as detente. In a reflection of the waning importance of the Cold War, some of Carter's contemporaries ...
Carter took office during the Cold War, a sustained period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, relations between the two superpowers had improved through a policy known as detente. In a reflection of the waning importance of the Cold War, some of Carter's contemporaries ...
Signed into law by President Jimmy Carter on March 31, 1980 The Depository Institutions Deregulation and Monetary Control Act of 1980 ( H.R. 4986 , Pub. L. 96–221 ) (often abbreviated DIDMCA or MCA ) is a United States federal financial statute passed in 1980 and signed by President Jimmy Carter on March 31. [ 1 ]
During his four years in office, Carter's administration battled inflation and record-high interest rates — but a whole manner of controversies would eclipse even some of the most challenging ...
President Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981 and awarded the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, photographed at the Peninsula Hotel in New York on March 26, 2018. Carter ...
Early in his presidency, in May 1977, then-President Jimmy Carter gave a commencement speech at the University of Notre Dame that outlined a new approach to America’s role in the world: Carter ...
Under Carter, the unemployment rate declined from 8.1% when he took office to 5.7% by July 1978, [153] [154] but during the early 1980s recession it returned to its pre-1977 level. [155] The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) measured a 6.6% unemployment rate average during the Carter administration. [ 156 ]
Numerous setbacks, both domestic and international, contributed to President Jimmy Carter's 1980 defeat at the hands of GOP challenger Ronald Reagan, making Carter a one-term president