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Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of the United States
James Earl Carter Jr. (born October 1, 1924) is an American retired politician who served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981. A Democrat, he previously served as the 76th governor of Georgia from 1971 to 1975 and as a Georgia state senator from 1963 to 1967. Born and raised in Plains, Georgia, Carter graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1946 and joined the United States Navy, serving on numerous submarines. Afterward, he returned home to Plains, where he regrew his family's peanut-growing business. During this period, he opposed racial segregation, supported the growing civil rights movement and became an activist within the Democratic Party. From 1963 to 1967, he served in the Georgia State Senate and, in 1970, was elected governor of Georgia, remaining in that capacity until 1975. As a dark horse candidate who was not well known outside of Georgia, Carter won the 1976 Democratic presidential nomination and then narrowly defeated incumbent Republican president Gerald Ford in the 1976 United States presidential election. On his second day as president, Carter pardoned all Vietnam War draft evaders. During his presidency, the United States Department of Energy and the Department of Education were established. He created a national energy policy that included conservation, price control, and new technology. Carter pursued the Camp David Accords, the Panama Canal Treaties, and the second round of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks. He also confronted stagflation. The end of his presidency was marked by the 1979–1981 Iran hostage crisis, the 1979 energy crisis, the Three Mile Island accident, the Nicaraguan Revolution, and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. In response to the invasion, he escalated the Cold War when he ended détente, imposed a grain embargo against the Soviets, enunciated the Carter Doctrine, and led the 1980 Summer Olympics boycott. In the 1980 Democratic presidential primaries, Carter took the nomination over United States senator Ted Kennedy at the 1980 Democratic National Convention, but then lost the presidential election in a landslide to Republican nominee Ronald Reagan. (because of a failed attempt ordered by Carter to rescue the hostages in Iran, failed due to a freak sand storm which grounded the rescue helicopters.) He was portrayed as a failure. That is why now we have back up helicopters on every mission. Carter left office in 1981 as the only American president to have served a full term in office and not have appointed a justice to the Supreme Court of the United States. In 1982, he established the Carter Center to promote and expand human rights, which earned him a Nobel Peace Prize in 2002. He traveled extensively to conduct peace negotiations, monitor elections and further the eradication of infectious diseases. He is a key figure in the nonprofit organization Habitat for Humanity and has written numerous books, ranging from political memoirs to poetry, while continuing to comment on global affairs, including two books on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, in which he criticized Israel's treatment of Palestinians as apartheid. Polls of historians and political scientists generally rank Carter as a below-average president, although his post-presidential activities are viewed more favorably. From 1946 to 1953, Carter and Rosalynn lived in Virginia, Hawaii, Connecticut, New York and California, during his deployments in the Atlantic and Pacific fleets.] In 1948, he began officer training for submarine duty and served aboard USS Pomfret. He was promoted to lieutenant junior grade in 1949, and his service aboard Pomfret included a simulated war patrol to the western Pacific and Chinese coast from January to March of that year.[23] In 1951 he was assigned to the diesel/electric USS K-1, the USS Barracuda, qualified for command, and served in several positions, to include executive officer. In 1952, Carter began an association with the Navy's fledgling nuclear submarine program, led then by Captain Hyman G. Rickover. Rickover had high standards and demands for his men and machines, and Carter later said that, next to his parents, Rickover had the greatest influence on his life. He was sent to the Naval Reactors Branch of the Atomic Energy Commission in Washington, D.C. for three-month temporary duty, while Rosalynn moved with their children to Schenectady, New York. On December 12, 1952, an accident with the experimental NRX reactor at Atomic Energy of Canada's Chalk River Laboratories caused a partial meltdown, resulting in millions of liters of radioactive water flooding the reactor building's basement. This left the reactor's core ruined. Carter was ordered to Chalk River to lead a U.S. maintenance crew that joined other American and Canadian service personnel to assist in the shutdown of the reactor. The painstaking process required each team member to don protective gear and be lowered individually into the reactor for a few minutes at a time, limiting their exposure to radioactivity while they disassembled the crippled reactor. During and after his presidency, Carter said that his experience at Chalk River had shaped his views on atomic energy and led him to cease development of a neutron bomb. Carter left active duty on October 9, 1953. He served in the inactive Navy Reserve until 1961, and left the service with the rank of lieutenant. His awards include the American Campaign Medal, World War II Victory Medal, China Service Medal, and National Defense Service Medal.[40] As a submarine officer he also earned the "dolphin" badge. Carter's father died of pancreatic cancer in July 1953, having recently been elected to the Georgia House of Representatives. After debt settlements and division of his estate among its heirs, Jimmy inherited comparatively little. For a year, he, Rosalynn and their three sons lived in public housing in Plains. Carter was knowledgeable in scientific and technological subjects, and he set out to expand the family's peanut-growing business. The transition from Navy to agri-businessman was difficult. His first-year harvest failed due to a drought, and Carter had to open several bank lines of credit to keep the farm afloat. Meanwhile, he took classes and read up on agriculture while Rosalynn learned accounting to manage the business's books. Though they barely broke even the first year, the Carters grew the business and became quite successful. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The first time I was eligible to vote for president of the United States in 1976, Jimmy Carter was the Democratic candidate. I cast my vote for him, I was and still proud to this day that I did. Carter has been deemed as a poor president but as time goes on historians are changing their minds on his accomplishments. Jimmy Carter is an honorable man, and an honest man, that why he suffered in his political career. He served the country in time of war WWII. He is the only president that did not become rich after leaving office, the Carters instead gave their lives to work on building houses for Habitat for Humanity. And carter was still working on these houses until he was 98 years old. I am very sad that his time on this earth is nearly over, but we all must go at some point in time. When President Carter did an interview or spoke people listened and gave him much respect, he was also respected throughout the world. His comments about the fear of losing our democracy to MAGA’s and Trump are words which we should listen to very carefully and heed. So to you Mr. President, thank you for your service to our country for these many, many, decades, and when the time comes for you to leave us here on earth. Gods Speed Mr. President. Tammy Article taken from Wikipedia
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