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After Gerald Ford's defeat by Jimmy Carter in the 1976 presidential election, she delivered her husband's concession speech because he had lost his voice while campaigning. [3] [16] The speech was delivered on the day after the election. This is the only time that a major United States presidential candidate's spouse has delivered their ...
Carter (left) at the 1977 National Women's Conference with former first ladies Betty Ford (center), and Lady Bird Johnson (right) In 1977, Carter was a speaker at the 1977 National Women's Conference among other speakers including Betty Ford , Bella Abzug , Lady Bird Johnson , Barbara Jordan , Audrey Colom, Claire Randall, Gerridee Wheeler ...
Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 2, 1976. The Democratic ticket of Jimmy Carter, the former governor of Georgia, and his runningmate Walter Mondale, the senior senator from Minnesota, narrowly defeated the Republican ticket of Gerald Ford, the incumbent president, and his runningmate Bob Dole, the junior senator from Kansas.
Jimmy Carter was the right presidential candidate for his time in 1976 — a smiling, homespun, anti-Washington outsider promising truth and decency.
President-elect Carter and Rosalynn Carter meets with outgoing President Gerald Ford and First lady Betty Ford. The presidential transition of Jimmy Carter was the first systematic exercise in transition planning. He started his effort in the spring of 1976 when he became the presumptive Democratic nominee. [86]
Rosalynn Carter, Barbara Bush, Betty Ford, Nancy Reagan, and Hillary Clinton at the 20th anniversary celebration for the Betty Ford Center in January 2003. David Hume Kennerly - Getty Images.
However, there was frigid relationship between the Carter and President Ford during the transition. [11] The Fords welcome the Carters to the White House on November 22. During the transition, the outgoing first lady (Betty Ford) postponed scheduled plans to give a tour of the White House to the incoming first lady (Carter's wife, Rosalynn ...
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 ...