Who is Jimmy Carter

James Earl Carter Jr. (born October 1, 1924) is an American former politician who served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the 76th governor of Georgia from 1971 to 1975 and as a Georgia state senator from 1963 to 1967. Since leaving office, Carter has remained engaged in political and social projects, receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 for his humanitarian work.

Born and raised in Plains, Georgia, Carter graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1946 with a Bachelor of Science degree and joined the United States Navy, serving on numerous submarines. After the death of his father in 1953, he left his naval career and returned home to Plains, where he assumed control of his family's p...
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Jimmy Carter Poems

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Jimmy Carter Quotes

• Testing oneself is best when done alone.
• Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.
• I separated from the Southern Baptists when they adopted the discriminatory attitude towards women, because I believe what Paul taught in Galatians that there is no distinction in God's eyes between men and women, slaves and masters, Jews and non-Jews - everybody is created equally in the eyes of God.
• Testing oneself is best when done alone.
• I don't want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He's a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach.

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Comments about Jimmy Carter

• Normaipresident: jimmy carter and bill clinton commemorate the 50th anniversary of the march on washington. 28th august, 2013.
• Jcfromks: meanwhile mother's, female teachers, and other women are being gunned down, or poisoned by train wrecks. this white house is 10x worse than jimmy carter?
• Charleyj68: bender: for doug burgum: no one thought jimmy carter could win either
• Antitoxicpeople: want to know how ridiculous it is to say a soon to be indicted trump will be the nominee and simultaneously write off undeclared desantis, 19 mos. before an election? in dec. 1975, 11 mos. before the election, hubert humphrey was leading the polls for dems w/jimmy carter at 3%.
• Jimgeraghty: i know, i know, "zombie reaganism," but read that speech from 1975. vast chunks of it could be given today, verbatim, because america’s problems under joe biden aren’t all that different from the ones under gerald ford — or, for that matter, jimmy carter.

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