Jimmy Carter
Official portrait, 1977

39th President of the United States
In office January 20, 1977 – January 20, 1981
Vice President	Walter Mondale
Preceded by	Gerald Ford
Succeeded by	Ronald Reagan
76th Governor of Georgia
In office January 12, 1971 – January 14, 1975
Lieutenant	Lester Maddox
Preceded by	Lester Maddox
Succeeded by	George Busbee
Member of the Georgia State Senate from the 14th district
In office January 14, 1963 – January 9, 1967
Preceded by	James M. Dykes
Succeeded by	Hugh Carter

Personal details
Born	James Earl Carter Jr. (1924-10-01)October 1, 1924 Plains, Georgia, U.S.
Died	December 29, 2024(2024-12-29) (aged 100) Plains, Georgia, U.S.
Resting place	Jimmy Carter House, Plains
Political party	Democratic
Spouse	Rosalynn Smith (m. 1946; died 2023)
Children	4, including Jack and Amy
Parents	James Earl Carter Sr. Bessie Lillian Gordy
Relatives	Carter family
Education	United States Naval Academy (BS)
Occupation	Politician humanitarian author
Civilian awards	Full list
Signature
Military service
Branch/service	United States Navy
Years of service	1946–1953 (active) 1953–1961 (reserve)
Rank	Lieutenant
Battles/wars	World War II
Military awards	American Campaign Medal World War II Victory Medal China Service Medal National Defense Service Medal
Jimmy Carter's voice Carter speaking on the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan Recorded January 4, 1980

James Earl Carter Jr. (October 1, 1924 – December 29, 2024) was an American politician and humanitarian who served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981. A member of the Democratic Party, Carter served from 1971 to 1975 as the 76th governor of Georgia and from 1963 to 1967 in the Georgia State Senate. He was the longest-lived president in U.S. history and the first to reach the age of 100.

Born in Plains, Georgia, Carter graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1946 and joined the submarine service before returning to his family's peanut farm. He was active in the civil rights movement, then served as state senator and governor before running for president in 1976. He secured the Democratic nomination as a dark horse little known outside his home state before narrowly defeating Republican incumbent Gerald Ford in the general election.

As president, Carter pardoned all Vietnam draft evaders and negotiated major foreign policy agreements, including the Camp David Accords, the Panama Canal Treaties, and the second round of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, and he established diplomatic relations with China. He created a national energy policy that included conservation, price control, and new technology. He signed bills that created the Departments of Energy and Education. The later years of his presidency were marked by several foreign policy crises, including the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan (leading to the end of détente and the 1980 Olympics boycott) and the fallout of the Iranian revolution (including the Iran hostage crisis and 1979 oil crisis). Carter sought reelection in 1980, defeating a primary challenge by Senator Ted Kennedy, but lost the election to Republican nominee Ronald Reagan.

Polls of historians and political scientists have ranked Carter's presidency below average. His post-presidency—the longest in U.S. history—is viewed more favorably. After Carter's presidential term ended, he established the Carter Center to promote human rights, earning him the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize. He traveled extensively to conduct peace negotiations, monitor elections, and end neglected tropical diseases, becoming a major contributor to the eradication of dracunculiasis. Carter was a key figure in the nonprofit housing organization Habitat for Humanity. He also wrote political memoirs and other books, commentary on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, and poetry.

Early life

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James Earl Carter Jr. was born on October 1, 1924, in Plains, Georgia, at the Wise Sanitarium, where his mother worked as a registered nurse.^[1] Carter was the first U.S. president born in a hospital.^[2] He was the eldest child of Bessie Lillian Gordy and James Earl Carter Sr., and a descendant of English immigrant Thomas Carter, who settled in the Colony of Virginia in 1635.^[3]^[4] In Georgia, numerous generations of Carters worked as cotton farmers.^[5] Carter's father was a successful local businessman who ran a general store and was an investor in farmland;^[6] he had served as a reserve second lieutenant in the U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps during World War I.^[6]

During Carter's infancy, his family moved several times, settling on a dirt road in nearby Archery, which was almost entirely populated by impoverished Black families.^[2]^[7] His family eventually had three more children, Gloria, Ruth, and Billy.^[8] Carter had a good relationship with his parents, even though his mother was often absent during his childhood since she worked long hours. Although his father was staunchly pro-segregation, he allowed Jimmy to befriend the Black farmhands' children.^[9] Carter was an enterprising teenager who was given his own acre of Earl's farmland, where he grew and sold peanuts.^[10] Carter also rented out a section of tenant housing he had purchased.^[2]

Education

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Carter attended Plains High School from 1937 to 1941, graduating from the 11th grade; the school did not have a 12th grade.^[11] By that time, Archery and Plains had been impoverished by the Great Depression, but the family benefited from New Deal farming subsidies, and Carter's father became a community leader.^[10]^[12] Carter was a diligent student with a fondness for reading.^[13] According to a popular anecdote, he was passed over for valedictorian after he and his friends skipped school to venture downtown in a hot rod (although it is not clear he would otherwise have been valedictorian).^[14] Carter played on the Plains High School basketball team and joined Future Farmers of America, which helped him develop a lifelong interest in woodworking.^[15]

Carter had long dreamed of attending the United States Naval Academy.^[10] In 1941, he started undergraduate coursework in engineering at Georgia Southwestern College in nearby Americus, Georgia.^[16] The next year, Carter transferred to the Georgia School of Technology (now Georgia Tech) in Atlanta, where civil rights icon Blake Van Leer was president.^[17] While at Georgia Tech, Carter took part in the Reserve Officers' Training Corps.^[18] Van Leer encouraged Carter to join the Naval Academy.^[19] In 1943, he received an appointment to the Naval Academy from U.S. Representative Stephen Pace, and Carter graduated with a Bachelor of Science in 1946.^[20]^[18] He was a good student, but was seen as reserved and quiet, in contrast to the academy's culture of aggressive hazing of freshmen.^[21] While at the academy, Carter fell in love with Rosalynn Smith, a friend of his sister Ruth.^[22] The two wed shortly after his graduation in 1946, and were married until her death on November 19, 2023.^[23]^[24] Carter was a sprint football player for the Navy Midshipmen and a standout freshman cross country runner.^[25]^[26] He graduated 60th out of 821 midshipmen in the class of 1947^[a] with a Bachelor of Science degree and was commissioned as an ensign.^[28]

Naval career

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From 1946 to 1953, the Carters lived in Virginia, Hawaii, Connecticut, New York, and California, during his deployments in the Atlantic and Pacific fleets.^[29] In 1948, he began officer training for submarine duty and served aboard USS Pomfret.^[30] Carter was promoted to lieutenant junior grade in 1949. His service aboard Pomfret included a simulated war patrol to the western Pacific and Chinese coast from January to March of that year.^[31] In 1951, Carter was assigned to the diesel/electric USS K-1 (SSK-1), qualified for command, and served in several positions, including executive officer.^[32]

In 1952, Carter began an association with the Navy's fledgling nuclear submarine program, led by then-Captain Hyman G. Rickover.^[33] Rickover had high standards, and Carter later said that, next to his parents, Rickover had the greatest influence on his life.^[34] Carter 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.^[35]

On December 12, 1952, an accident with the experimental NRX reactor at Atomic Energy of Canada's Chalk River Laboratories caused a partial meltdown.^[36] Carter was ordered to Chalk River to lead a U.S. maintenance crew to assist in the shutdown of the reactor.^[37] The painstaking process required each team member to don protective gear and be lowered individually into the reactor for 90 seconds at a time, limiting their exposure to radioactivity while they disassembled the crippled reactor.^[38] 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 the development of a neutron bomb.^[39]

In March 1953, Carter began a six-month nuclear power plant operation course at Union College in Schenectady.^[29] His intent was to eventually work aboard USS Seawolf, which was intended to be the second U.S. nuclear submarine.^[40] His plans changed when his father died of pancreatic cancer in July, two months before construction of Seawolf began, and Carter obtained a release from active duty so he could take over the family peanut business.^[41]^[42] Deciding to leave Schenectady proved difficult, as Rosalynn had grown comfortable with their life there.^[43]^[44] She later said that returning to small-town life in Plains seemed "a monumental step backward".^[45] Carter left active duty on October 9, 1953.^[46]^[47] He served in the inactive Navy Reserve until 1961 and left with the rank of lieutenant.^[48] Carter's awards include the American Campaign Medal, World War II Victory Medal, China Service Medal, and National Defense Service Medal.^[49] As a submarine officer, he also earned the "dolphin" badge.^[50]

Farming

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After debt settlements and division of his father's estate, Jimmy inherited comparatively little.^[51] For a year, he, Rosalynn, and their three sons lived in public housing in Plains.^[b] Carter set out to expand the family's peanut-growing business.^[53] Transitioning from the Navy to farming was difficult as his first-year harvest failed due to drought, and Carter had to open several lines of credit to keep the farm afloat.^[54] He took classes and studied agriculture while Rosalynn learned accounting to manage the business's books.^[55] Though they barely broke even the first year, the Carters grew the business and became quite successful.^[52]^[55]

Early political career (1963–1971)

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Georgia state senator (1963–1967)

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As racial tension inflamed in Plains by the 1954 Supreme Court of the United States ruling in Brown v. Board of Education,^[56] Carter favored integration but often kept those feelings to himself to avoid making enemies. By 1961, Carter began to speak more prominently of integration as a member of the Baptist Church and chairman of the Sumter County school board.^[57]^[58] In 1962, he announced his campaign for an open Georgia State Senate seat.^[59] Rosalynn, who had an instinct for politics and organization, was instrumental in his campaign. While early counting of the ballots showed Carter trailing his opponent, Homer Moore, this was later proven to be the result of fraudulent voting.^[59] Another election was held, in which Carter defeated Moore as the sole Democratic candidate.^[60] He served in both the 127th Georgia General Assembly and the 128th Georgia General Assembly.

The civil rights movement was well underway when Carter took office. Carter remained relatively quiet on the issue at first, even as it polarized much of the county, to avoid alienating his segregationist colleagues. Carter did speak up on a few divisive issues, giving speeches against literacy tests and against an amendment to the Georgia Constitution that he felt implied a compulsion to practice religion.^[61] Carter entered the state Democratic Executive Committee two years into office, where he helped rewrite the state party's rules. He became the chairman of the West Central Georgia Planning and Development Commission, which oversaw the disbursement of federal and state grants for projects such as historic site restoration.^[62]

When Bo Callaway was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1964, Carter immediately began planning to challenge him. The two had previously clashed over which two-year college would be expanded to a four-year college program by the state, and Carter saw Callaway—who had switched to the Republican Party—as representing aspects of politics he despised.^[63] Carter was reelected to a second two-year term in the state Senate,^[64] where he chaired its Education Committee and sat on the Appropriations Committee. He contributed to a bill expanding statewide education funding and getting Georgia Southwestern State University a four-year program. He leveraged his regional planning work, giving speeches around the district to make himself more visible to potential voters. On the last day of the term, Carter announced his candidacy for the House of Representatives.^[65] Callaway decided to run for governor instead;^[66] Carter decided to do the same.^[67]

1966 and 1970 gubernatorial campaigns

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In the 1966 gubernatorial election, Carter ran against liberal former governor Ellis Arnall and conservative segregationist Lester Maddox in the Democratic primary. In a press conference, he described his ideology as "Conservative, moderate, liberal and middle-of-the-road ... I believe I am a more complicated person than that."^[68] He lost the primary but drew enough votes as a third-place candidate to force Arnall into a runoff election with Maddox, who defeated Arnall.^[69] In the general election, Republican nominee Callaway won a plurality of the vote but less than a majority, allowing the Democratic-majority Georgia House of Representatives to elect Maddox as governor.^[69] Maddox's victory—due to his segregationist stance—was seen as the worst outcome for the indebted Carter.^[69] Carter returned to his agriculture business, carefully planning his next campaign. This period was a spiritual turning point for Carter; he declared himself a born again Christian. His last child, Amy, was born during this time.^[70]^[71]

In the 1970 gubernatorial election, liberal former governor Carl Sanders became Carter's main opponent in the Democratic primary. Carter ran a more modern campaign, employing printed graphics and statistical analysis. Responding to polls, he leaned more conservative than before, positioning himself as a populist and criticizing Sanders for both his wealth and perceived links to the national Democratic Party. He also accused Sanders of corruption, but when pressed by the media, he did not provide evidence.^[72]^[73] Throughout his campaign, Carter sought both the black vote and the votes of those who had supported prominent Alabama segregationist George Wallace. While he met with black figures such as Martin Luther King Sr. and Andrew Young and visited many black-owned businesses, he also praised Wallace and promised to invite him to give a speech in Georgia. Carter's appeal to racism became more blatant over time, with his senior campaign aides handing out a photograph of Sanders celebrating with Black basketball players.^[72]^[73]

Carter came ahead of Sanders in the first ballot, leading to a runoff election. The subsequent campaign was even more bitter. Despite his early support for civil rights, Carter's appeal to racism grew, and he criticized Sanders for supporting Martin Luther King Jr. Carter won the runoff election and won the general election against Republican nominee Hal Suit. Once elected, Carter began to speak against Georgia's racist politics. Leroy Johnson, a black state senator, voiced his support for Carter: "I understand why he ran that kind of ultra-conservative campaign. I don't believe you can win this state without being a racist."^[72]

Georgia governorship (1971–1975)

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Carter was sworn in as the 76th governor of Georgia on January 12, 1971. In his inaugural speech, he declared that "the time for racial discrimination is over",^[74] shocking the crowd and causing many segregationists who had supported his candidacy to feel betrayed. Carter was reluctant to engage with fellow politicians, making him unpopular with the legislature.^[75]^[76] He expanded the governor's authority by introducing a reorganization plan submitted in January 1972. Despite an initially cool reception in the legislature, the plan passed at midnight on the last day of the session.^[77] Carter merged about 300 state agencies into 22, although it is disputed whether that saved the state money.^[78] On July 8, 1971, during an appearance in Columbus, Georgia, he stated his intention to establish a Georgia Human Rights Council.^[79]

In a July 1971 news conference, Carter announced that he had ordered department heads to reduce spending to prevent a $57 million deficit by the end of the 1972 fiscal year, specifying that each state department would be affected and estimating that five percent over government revenue would be lost if state departments continued to fully use allocated funds.^[80] In January 1972, he requested that the state legislature fund an early childhood development program along with prison reform programs and $48 million (equivalent to $270 million in 2023) in paid taxes for nearly all state employees.^[81]

In March 1972, Carter said he might call a special session of the general assembly if the Justice Department struck down any reapportionment plans by either the House or Senate.^[82] He pushed several reforms through the legislature, providing equal state aid to schools, setting up community centers for mentally disabled children, and increasing educational programs for convicts.^[83]^[84] In one of his more controversial decisions, he vetoed a plan to build a dam on Georgia's Flint River, which attracted the attention of environmentalists nationwide.^[85]^[86]

Civil rights were a high priority for Carter, who added black state employees and portraits of three prominent black Georgians to the capitol building. This angered the Ku Klux Klan.^[86] He favored a constitutional amendment to ban busing for the purpose of expediting integration in schools on a televised joint appearance with Florida Governor Reubin Askew on January 31, 1973,^[87] and co-sponsored an anti-busing resolution with Wallace at the 1971 National Governors Conference.^[88]^[89] After the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Georgia's death penalty statute in Furman v. Georgia (1972), Carter signed a revised statute that reintroduced the practice. He later regretted endorsing the death penalty, saying, "I didn't see the injustice of it as I do now."^[90]

Ineligible for a second consecutive term under the 1945 Georgia Constitution, Carter considered running for president and engaged in national politics. He was named to several southern planning commissions and a delegate to the 1972 Democratic National Convention, where U.S. Senator George McGovern was the likely nominee. Carter tried to ingratiate himself with conservative and anti-McGovern voters. He was fairly obscure at the time, and his attempt at triangulation failed.^[91]^[c] On August 3, Carter met with Wallace in Birmingham, Alabama, to discuss preventing the Democrats from losing in a landslide,^[93] but they did.^[94]

Carter regularly met with his fledgling campaign staff and decided to start putting together a presidential campaign for 1976. He tried unsuccessfully to become chairman of the National Governors Association to boost his visibility. With David Rockefeller's endorsement, he was named to the Trilateral Commission in April 1973. The next year, he was named chairman of the Democratic National Committee's congressional and gubernatorial campaigns.^[95] In May 1973, Carter warned his party against politicizing the Watergate scandal,^[96] which he attributed to president Richard Nixon's isolation from Americans and secretive decision-making.^[97]

1976 presidential campaign

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On December 12, 1974, Carter announced his presidential campaign at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. His speech contained themes of domestic inequality, optimism, and change.^[98]^[99] Upon his entrance in the Democratic primaries, he was competing against sixteen other candidates and was considered to have little chance against the more nationally known politicians such as Wallace.^[100] His name recognition was very low, and his opponents derisively asked "Jimmy Who?".^[101] In response to this, Carter began to emphasize his name and what he stood for, stating "My name is Jimmy Carter, and I'm running for president."^[102]

This strategy proved successful. By mid-March 1976, Carter was not only far ahead of the active contenders for the presidential nomination, but led incumbent Republican president Gerald Ford by a few percentage points.^[103] As the Watergate scandal was still fresh in the voters' minds, Carter's position as an outsider proved helpful. He promoted government reorganization. In June, Carter published a memoir titled Why Not the Best? to introduce himself to the American public.^[104]

Carter and his running mate Walter Mondale at the Democratic National Convention in New York City, July 1976

Carter became the front-runner early on by winning the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary. His strategy involved reaching a region before another candidate could extend influence there, traveling over 50,000 miles (80,000 kilometres), visiting 37 states, and delivering over 200 speeches before any other candidate had entered the race.^[105] In the South, he tacitly conceded certain areas to Wallace and swept them as a moderate when it became clear Wallace could not win the region. In the North, Carter appealed largely to conservative Christian and rural voters. While he did not achieve a majority in most Northern states, he won several by building the largest singular support base. Although Carter was initially dismissed as a regional candidate, he would clinch the Democratic nomination.^[106] In 1980, Laurence Shoup noted that the national news media discovered and promoted Carter, and stated:

What Carter had that his opponents did not was the acceptance and support of elite sectors of the mass communications media. It was their favorable coverage of Carter and his campaign that gave him an edge, propelling him rocket-like to the top of the opinion polls. This helped Carter win key primary election victories, enabling him to rise from an obscure public figure to President-elect in the short space of 9 months.^[107]

During an interview in April 1976, Carter said, "I have nothing against a community that is... trying to maintain the ethnic purity of their neighborhoods."^[108] His remark was intended as supportive of open housing laws, but specifying opposition to government efforts to "inject black families into a white neighborhood just to create some sort of integration".^[108] Carter's stated positions during his campaign included public financing of congressional campaigns,^[109] supporting the creation of a federal consumer protection agency,^[110] creating a separate cabinet-level department for education,^[111] signing a peace treaty with the Soviet Union to limit nuclear weapons,^[112] reducing the defense budget,^[113] a tax proposal implementing "a substantial increase toward those who have the higher incomes" alongside a levy reduction on taxpayers with lower and middle incomes,^[114] making multiple amendments to the Social Security Act,^[115] and having a balanced budget by the end of his first term.^[116]

On July 15, 1976, Carter chose U.S. senator Walter Mondale as his running mate.^[117] Carter and Ford faced off in three televised debates,^[118] the first United States presidential debates since 1960.^[118]^[119]

For the November 1976 issue of Playboy, which hit newsstands a couple of weeks before the election, Robert Scheer interviewed Carter. While discussing his religion's view of pride, Carter said: "I've looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times."^[120]^[121] This response and his admission in another interview that he did not mind if people uttered the word "fuck" led to a media feeding frenzy and critics lamenting the erosion of boundary between politicians and their private intimate lives.^[122]

Election

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Map of the 1976 presidential election. Most western states are red while the majority of eastern states are blue. — The electoral map of the 1976 election

Carter once had a sizable lead over Ford in national polling, but by late September his lead had narrowed to only several points.^[123]^[124] In the final days before the election, several polls showed that Ford had tied Carter, and one Gallup poll found that he was slightly ahead.^[125] Most analysts agreed that Carter was going to win the popular vote, but some argued Ford had an opportunity to win the electoral college and thus the election.^[126]^[127]

Carter and Mondale ultimately defeated Ford and his runningmate (Senator Bob Dole), receiving 297 electoral votes and 50.1% of the popular vote.^[128] Carter's victory was attributed in part^[129] to his overwhelming support among black voters in states decided by close margins.^[130] In Ohio and Wisconsin, where the margin between Carter and Ford was under two points, the black vote was crucial for Carter; if he had not won both states, Ford would have won the election.^[130]^[131]

Transition

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Preliminary planning for Carter's presidential transition had been underway for months before his election.^[132]^[133] Carter had been the first presidential candidate to allot significant funds and a significant number of personnel to a pre-election transition planning effort, which then became standard practice.^[134] He set a mold that influenced all future transitions to be larger, more methodical and more formal than they were.^[134]^[133]

On November 22, 1976, Carter conducted his first visit to Washington, D.C. after being elected, meeting with director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) James Lynn and United States secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld at the Blair House, and holding an afternoon meeting with President Ford at the White House.^[135] The next day, he conferred with congressional leaders, saying that his meetings with cabinet members had been "very helpful" and that Ford had offered his assistance if he needed anything.^[136] Relations between Ford and Carter were relatively cold during the transition.^[137] During his transition, Carter announced the selection of numerous designees for positions in his administration.^[138]

A few weeks before his inauguration, Carter moved his peanut business into the hands of trustees to avoid a potential conflict of interest.^[139] He also asked incoming members of his administration to divest themselves of assets through blind trusts.^[140]

Presidency (1977–1981)

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Carter was inaugurated as the 39th president on January 20, 1977.^[141] One of Carter's first acts was the fulfillment of a campaign promise by issuing Proclamation 4483 declaring unconditional amnesty for Vietnam War–era draft evaders.^[142]^[143] Carter's tenure in office was marked by an economic malaise, a time of continuing inflation and recession and the 1979 energy crisis. Under Carter, in May 1980, the Federal Trade Commission became "apparently the first agency ever closed by a budget dispute", but Congress took action and the agency opened the next day.^[144]

Carter attempted to calm various conflicts around the world, most visibly in the Middle East with the signing of the Camp David Accords;^[145] giving the Panama Canal to Panama; and signing the SALT II nuclear arms reduction treaty with Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev. His final year was marred by the Iran hostage crisis, which contributed to his losing the 1980 election to Ronald Reagan.^[146] Whistleblowers have alleged, most recently in 2023, that people working on the Reagan campaign's behalf convinced Iran to prolong the crisis to reduce Carter's chance of reelection.^[147]

Domestic policy

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Holidays and proclamations

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In 1978, Carter signed into law a bill creating a celebration in May called Asian American Heritage Week. May 7 and 10 were designated for national observance and recognition of the contributions of Asian Americans and Asian immigrants to American society. In 1992, President George H. W. Bush signed a bill expanding the celebration into Asian American Heritage Month.^[148] In 2021, President Joe Biden signed a bill renaming this celebration Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month.^[149]

Economy

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The first two years of Carter's presidency were a time of intense stagflation, primarily due to recovery from a previous recession that had left fixed investment at extreme lows and unemployment at 9%.^[150] Under Carter, the unemployment rate declined from 8.1% when he took office to 5.7% by July 1978,^[151]^[152] but during the early 1980s recession it returned to its pre-1977 level.^[153] His last two years were marked by double-digit inflation, very high interest rates,^[154] oil shortages, and slow economic growth.^[155] Due to economic stimulus legislation, such as the Public Works Employment Act of 1977, proposed by Carter and passed by Congress, real household median income had grown by 5.2%, with a projection of 6.4% for the next quarter.^[156]

The 1979 energy crisis ended this period of growth, and as inflation and interest rates rose, economic growth, job creation and consumer confidence declined sharply.^[154] Federal Reserve Board chairman G. William Miller's relatively loose monetary policy had already contributed to somewhat higher inflation,^[157] rising from 5.8% in 1976 to 7.7% in 1978. The sudden doubling of crude oil prices^[158] forced inflation to double-digit levels, averaging 11.3% in 1979 and 13.5% in 1980.^[150] The sudden shortage of gasoline as the 1979 summer vacation season began exacerbated the problem and came to symbolize the crisis to the general public;^[154] the acute shortage, originating in the shutdown of Amerada Hess refining facilities, led the federal government to sue the company that year.^[159]

Environment

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During his 1976 campaign, Carter promised to sign into law any bills Congress passed to regulate strip mining.^[160] In 1977, Carter signed the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977, which regulated strip mining.^[161]

In 1978, Carter declared a federal emergency in the Love Canal neighborhood of Niagara Falls, New York. More than 800 families were evacuated from the neighborhood, which was on top of a toxic waste landfill. The Superfund law was created in response to the situation.^[162] Federal disaster money was appropriated to demolish about 500 houses and two schools built atop the dump, and to remediate the dump and construct a containment area for the hazardous waste. This was the first time such a process had been undertaken. Carter acknowledged that several more "Love Canals" existed across the country, and that discovering such hazardous dump sites was "one of the grimmest discoveries of our modern era".^[163]

In December 1978, Carter used the 1906 Antiquities Act and his executive order power to designate 56,000,000 acres (23,000,000 ha) of land in Alaska as a national monument. This executive order protected the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge until Congress codified it into law with the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act of 1980, which doubled the amount of public land set aside for national parks and wildlife refuges.^[164]^[165]

U.S. energy crisis

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Moralism typified much of Carter's action.^[166] On April 18, 1977, he delivered a televised speech declaring that the energy crisis was the "moral equivalent of war". He encouraged energy conservation and installed solar water heating panels on the White House.^[167]^[168] He wore a cardigan^[169] to offset turning down the heat in the White House.^[170] On August 4, 1977, Carter signed the Department of Energy Organization Act of 1977, forming the Department of Energy, the first new cabinet position in eleven years.^[171]

Carter emphasized that the House of Representatives had "adopted almost all" of the energy proposal he had made five months earlier and called the compromise "a turning point in establishing a comprehensive energy program."^[172] The next month, he called energy "the most important domestic issue that we will face while I am in office".^[173]

On January 12, 1978, Carter said the continued discussions about his energy reform proposal had been "long and divisive and arduous".^[174] In an April 11, 1978, news conference, Carter said his biggest surprise "in the nature of a disappointment" since becoming president was the difficulty Congress had in passing legislation, citing the energy reform bill in particular.^[175] After much deliberation and modification, Congress approved the Carter energy legislation on October 15, 1978. It deregulated the sale of natural gas, dropped a longstanding pricing disparity between intra- and interstate gas, and created tax credits to encourage energy conservation and the use of non-fossil fuels.^[176]

On March 1, 1979, Carter submitted a standby gasoline rationing plan per the request of Congress.^[177] On April 5, he delivered an address in which he stressed the urgency of energy conservation and increasing domestic production of energy sources such as coal and solar.^[178]

On July 15, 1979, Carter delivered a nationally televised address in which he identified what he believed to be a "crisis of confidence" among American people,^[179] under the advisement of pollster Pat Caddell who believed Americans faced a crisis in confidence from events of the 1960s and 1970s, before his presidency.^[180] Some later called this his "malaise speech",^[179] memorable for mixed reactions^[181]^[182] and his use of rhetoric.^[180] The speech's negative reception centered on a view that he did not emphasize his own efforts to address the energy crisis and seemed too reliant on Americans.^[183]

Relations with Congress

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Carter typically refused to conform to Washington's rules.^[184] He avoided phone calls from members of Congress and verbally insulted them. He was unwilling to return political favors. His negativity led to frustration in passing legislation.^[185] During a press conference on February 23, 1977, Carter stated that it was "inevitable" that he would come into conflict with Congress and added that he had found "a growing sense of cooperation" with Congress and met in the past with congressional members of both parties.^[186] Carter developed a bitter feeling following an unsuccessful attempt at having Congress enact the scrapping of several water projects.^[187]

As a rift ensued between the White House and Congress afterward, Carter noted that the Democratic Party's liberal wing opposed his policies the most ardently, attributing this to Ted Kennedy's wanting the presidency.^[188] Thinking he had support from 74 Congressmen, Carter issued a "hit list" of 19 projects that he claimed were "pork barrel" spending that he said he would veto if they were included in legislation.^[189] He found himself again at odds with Congressional Democrats, as House Speaker Tip O'Neill found it inappropriate for a president to pursue what had traditionally been the role of Congress. Carter was also weakened by signing a bill that contained many of the "hit list" projects he had intended to veto.^[190]

In an address to a fundraising dinner for the Democratic National Committee on June 23, 1977, Carter said, "I think it's good to point out tonight, too, that we have evolved a good working relationship with the Congress. For eight years we had government by partisanship. Now we have government by partnership."^[191] At a July 28 news conference, assessing the first six months of his presidency, Carter spoke of his improved understanding of Congress:

I have learned to respect the Congress more in an individual basis. I've been favorably impressed at the high degree of concentrated experience and knowledge that individual members of Congress can bring on a specific subject, where they've been the chairman of a subcommittee or committee for many years and have focused their attention on this particular aspect of government life which I will never be able to do.^[192]

On May 10, 1979, the House voted against giving Carter authority to produce a standby gas rationing plan.^[193] The following day, Carter described himself as shocked and embarrassed for the U.S. government by the vote and concluded "the majority of the House Members are unwilling to take the responsibility, the political responsibility for dealing with a potential, serious threat to our Nation." He added that most House members were placing higher importance on "local or parochial interests" and challenged the House to compose its own rationing plan in the next 90 days.^[194]

Carter's remarks were met with criticism by House Republicans, who accused his comments of not befitting the formality a president should have in their public remarks. Others pointed to 106 Democrats voting against his proposal and the bipartisan criticism potentially coming back to haunt him.^[195] At a news conference on July 25, 1979, Carter called on believers in the future of the U.S. and his proposed energy program to speak with Congress as it bore the responsibility to impose his proposals.^[196] Amid the energy proposal opposition, The New York Times commented that "as the comments flying up and down Pennsylvania Avenue illustrate, there is also a crisis of confidence between Congress and the President, sense of doubt and distrust that threatens to undermine the President's legislative program and become an important issue in next year's campaign."^[197]

Deregulation

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In 1977, Carter appointed Alfred E. Kahn to lead the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB). He was part of a push for deregulation of the industry, supported by leading economists, leading think tanks in Washington, a civil society coalition advocating the reform, the head of the regulatory agency, Senate leadership, the Carter administration, and even some in the airline industry. This coalition swiftly gained legislative results in 1978.^[198]

Carter signed the Airline Deregulation Act into law on October 24, 1978. The main purpose of the act was to remove government control over fares, routes and market entry (of new airlines) from commercial aviation. The Civil Aeronautics Board's powers of regulation were to be phased out, eventually allowing market forces to determine routes and fares. The Act did not remove or diminish the Federal Aviation Administration's regulatory powers over airline safety.^[199]

In 1978, Carter signed a bill into law "allowing homebrewing and small-scale craft brewing to operate legally".^[200] The new law deregulated the American beer industry by making it legal to sell malt, hops, and yeast to American home brewers for the first time since the 1920 beginning of prohibition in the United States.^[201] This deregulation led to an increase in home brewing that by the 2000s had developed into a strong craft microbrew culture in the United States.^[202]

Chrysler bailout

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In the late 1970s, the Chrysler Cooperation—one of the "Big Three" automakers in the U.S.—faced near-certain bankruptcy as it projected a loss of $1 billion.^[203] Carter proposed that the company forgo salary increases and bonuses, saying that it might be done "without decimating the company or putting it on its knees", but the company had already frozen wage increases and bonuses months before, to no avail.^[204] In 1979, Congress began working on a bailout plan for Chrysler, led by Congressman James J. Blanchard. Carter assembled a team that included Vice President Mondale and Assistant Domestic Policy Adviser David Rubenstein to secure a $1.5 billion loan guarantee.^[205]

In December, Congress passed the Chrysler Corporation Loan Guarantee Act of 1979 to bail Chrysler out with $3.5 billion (equivalent to $10.9 billion in 2023) in aid.^[206] The bill turned over $162 million in stock to Chrysler's workers, eliminated around $125 million in wage increases, and gave Chrysler $500 million in bank loans.^[203] Carter, who had initially opposed the bailout of corporations,^[205] signed it into law in January, saying that the bill saved thousands of jobs.^[203] The bailout was successful at the time, but Chrysler would eventually file for bankruptcy during the 2008 financial crisis.^[205]

Healthcare

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During his presidential campaign, Carter embraced healthcare reform akin to the Ted Kennedy–sponsored bipartisan universal national health insurance.^[207] Carter's proposals on healthcare while in office included a 1977 mandatory health care cost proposal,^[208] and a 1979 proposal that provided private health insurance coverage.^[209] The 1977 mandatory health care cost proposal was passed in the Senate,^[210] but later defeated in the House.^[211] During 1978, he met with Kennedy over a compromise healthcare law that proved unsuccessful.^[212] He later said Kennedy's disagreements thwarted his plan to provide a comprehensive American health care system.^[213]

In 1980, Carter signed into law the Mental Health Systems (MHSA) Act, which allocated block grants to states to bolster community health services and provided funding to states to create and implement community-based health services. The MHSA was considered landmark legislation in mental health care.^[214] By September 1981, the Reagan administration had repealed most of the law.^[215]

Education

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Early into his term, Carter collaborated with Congress to fulfill his campaign promise to create a cabinet-level education department. In an address from the White House on February 28, 1978, Carter argued "Education is far too important a matter to be scattered piecemeal among various government departments and agencies, which are often busy with sometimes dominant concerns."^[216] On February 8, 1979, the Carter administration released an outline of its plan to establish an education department and asserted enough support for the enactment to occur by June.^[217] On October 17, the same year, Carter signed the Department of Education Organization Act into law,^[218] establishing the United States Department of Education.^[219]

Carter added 43,000 children and families to the Head Start program,^[220] while the percentage of nondefense dollars spent on education was doubled.^[221] In a speech on November 1, 1980, Carter stated his administration had extended Head Start to migrant children.^[222]

LGBTQ rights

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During Carter's administration, the United States Foreign Service "lifted its ban on gay and lesbian personnel". In 1977, the Carter administration became the first U.S. presidential administration to invite gay and lesbian rights activists to the White House to discuss federal policy with regard to ending employment discrimination in the federal government on the basis of sexual orientation and related issues.^[223]

Foreign policy

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Israel and Egypt

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From the onset of his presidency, Carter attempted to mediate the Arab–Israeli conflict.^[224] After a failed attempt to seek a comprehensive settlement in 1977 (through reconvening the 1973 Geneva conference),^[225] Carter invited the Egyptian president Anwar Sadat and Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin to the presidential lodge Camp David in September 1978, in hopes of creating a definitive peace. While the two sides could not agree on Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank, the negotiations resulted in Egypt formally recognizing Israel, and the creation of an elected government in the West Bank and Gaza. This resulted in the Camp David Accords, which ended the war between Israel and Egypt.^[226]

The accords were a source of great domestic opposition in both Egypt and Israel. Historian Jørgen Jensehaugen argues that by the time Carter left office in January 1981, he was "in an odd position—he had attempted to break with traditional U.S. policy but ended up fulfilling the goals of that tradition, which had been to break up the Arab alliance, sideline the Palestinians, build an alliance with Egypt, weaken the Soviet Union and secure Israel."^[227]

Africa

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In an address to the African officials at the United Nations on October 4, 1977, Carter stated the U.S.'s interest to "see a strong, vigorous, free, and prosperous Africa with as much of the control of government as possible in the hands of the residents of your countries" and pointed to their unified efforts on "the problem of how to resolve the Rhodesian, Zimbabwe question."^[228] At a news conference later that month, Carter said the U.S. wanted to "work harmoniously with South Africa in dealing with the threats to peace in Namibia and in Zimbabwe in particular", to do away with racial issues such as apartheid, and to work for equal opportunities in other facets of society in the region.^[229]

Despite human rights concerns, Carter continued U.S. support for Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire.^[230] Zaire received nearly half the foreign aid Carter allocated to sub-Saharan Africa.^[231] Under Carter an alliance with Liberia's Samuel Doe, who had come to power in a 1980 coup, was pursued.^[232]

Carter visited Nigeria from March 31 to April 3, 1978, to improve relations,^[233] the first U.S. president to do so.^[234] He reiterated interest in convening a peace conference on Rhodesia that involved all parties.^[235]

The elections of Margaret Thatcher as prime minister of the United Kingdom^[236] and Abel Muzorewa for Prime Minister of Zimbabwe Rhodesia,^[237] South Africa turning down a plan for South West Africa's independence, and domestic opposition in Congress were seen as a heavy blow to the Carter administration's policy toward South Africa.^[238] On May 16, 1979, the Senate voted in favor of lifting economic sanctions against Rhodesia, seen by some Rhodesians and South Africans as a potentially fatal blow to joint diplomacy efforts and any compromise between the Salisbury leaders and guerrillas.^[239] On December 3, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance promised Senator Jesse Helms that when the British governor arrived in Salisbury to implement an agreed Lancaster House settlement and the electoral process began, the President would take prompt action to lift sanctions against Zimbabwe Rhodesia.^[240]

East Asia

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Carter sought closer relations with the People's Republic of China (PRC), continuing the Nixon administration's drastic policy of rapprochement. The two countries increasingly collaborated against the Soviet Union, and the Carter administration tacitly consented to the Chinese invasion of Vietnam. In December 1978, he announced the United States' intention to formally recognize and establish full diplomatic relations with the PRC starting on January 1, 1979, while severing ties with Taiwan, including revoking a mutual defense treaty with the latter.^[241]^[242] In 1979, Carter extended formal diplomatic recognition to the PRC for the first time. This decision led to a boom in trade between the United States and the PRC, which was pursuing economic reforms under the leadership of Deng Xiaoping.^[243] Carter supported the China-allied Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia fighting the Soviet-backed Vietnamese invasion.^[244]

After the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Carter allowed the sale of military supplies to China and began negotiations to share military intelligence.^[245] In January 1980, Carter unilaterally revoked the Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty with the Republic of China (ROC). Conservative Republicans challenged Carter's abrogation of the treaty in court, but the Supreme Court ruled that the issue was a non-justiciable political question in Goldwater v. Carter. The U.S. continued to maintain quasi-diplomatic contacts with the ROC through the 1979 Taiwan Relations Act.^[246]

During Carter's presidency, the U.S. continued to support Indonesia under Suharto as a Cold War ally, despite human rights violations in East Timor. The violations followed Indonesia's December 1975 invasion of East Timor. Under Carter's administration military assistance to Indonesia increased, peaking in 1978.^[247]^[248] This was antithetical to Carter's stated policy of "not selling weapons if it would exacerbate a potential conflict in a region".^[249]^[250] In the Philippines, Carter supported the regime of President Ferdinand Marcos.^[251]

During a news conference on March 9, 1977, Carter reaffirmed his interest in having a gradual withdrawal of American troops from South Korea.^[252] On May 19, The Washington Post quoted Chief of Staff of U.S. forces in South Korea John K. Singlaub as criticizing Carter's withdrawal of troops from the Korean peninsula.^[253] Carter relieved Singlaub of his duties on May 21.^[254]^[255]

During a news conference on May 26, 1977, Carter said South Korea could defend itself with reduced American troops in case of conflict.^[256] From June 30 to July 1, 1979, Carter held meetings with president of South Korea Park Chung Hee for a discussion on relations between the U.S. and South Korea as well as Carter's interest in preserving his policy of worldwide tension reduction.^[257] On April 21, 1978, Carter announced a reduction in American troops in South Korea scheduled to be released by the end of the year by two-thirds, citing lack of action by Congress in regard to a compensatory aid package for the South Korean government.^[258] He supported South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan during the suppression of the Gwangju Uprising in May 1980.^[259] South Korean pro-democracy activist Kim Dae-jung was sentenced to death in September 1980, but his sentence was commuted after the intervention of presidents Carter and Reagan.^[260]

Iran

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On November 15, 1977, Carter pledged that his administration would continue positive relations between the U.S. and Iran, calling its contemporary status "strong, stable and progressive".^[261] On December 31, 1977, he called Iran under the Shah an "island of stability".^[262]^[263] Carter praised the Shah's "great leadership" and spoke of "personal friendship" between them.^[264] American support for the unpopular Shah increased anti-American sentiment in Iran, which intensified after the Shah, who was dying of cancer, left Iran for the last time in January 1979 and Carter allowed him to be admitted to the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York on October 22, 1979.^[265]

On November 4, 1979, a group of Iranian students took over the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. The students belonged to the Muslim Student Followers of the Imam's Line and supported the Iranian revolution.^[266] Fifty-two American diplomats and citizens were held hostage for the next 444 days. They were freed immediately after Ronald Reagan succeeded Carter as president on January 20, 1981. During the crisis, Carter remained in isolation in the White House for more than 100 days.^[267]

A month into the affair, Carter announced his commitment to resolving the dispute without "any military action that would cause bloodshed or arouse the unstable captors of our hostages to attack them or to punish them".^[268] On April 7, 1980, he issued Executive Order 12205, imposing economic sanctions against Iran,^[269] and announced further government measures he deemed necessary to ensure a safe release.^[270]^[271]

On April 24, 1980, Carter ordered Operation Eagle Claw to try to free the hostages. The mission failed, leaving eight American servicemen dead and two aircraft destroyed.^[272]^[273] The failure led Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, who had opposed the mission, to resign.^[274]

Released in 2017, a declassified memo produced by the CIA in 1980 concluded "Iranian hardliners—especially Ayatollah Khomeini" were "determined to exploit the hostage issue to bring about President Carter's defeat in the November elections." Additionally, Tehran in 1980 wanted "the world to believe that Imam Khomeini caused President Carter's downfall and disgrace."^[275]

Soviet Union

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On February 8, 1977, Carter said he had urged the Soviet Union to align with the U.S. in forming "a comprehensive test ban to stop all nuclear testing for at least an extended period of time", and that he was in favor of the Soviet Union ceasing deployment of the RSD-10 Pioneer.^[276] At a June 13 press conference, he announced that the U.S. would "work closely with the Soviet Union on a comprehensive test ban treaty to prohibit all testing of nuclear devices underground or in the atmosphere", and that Paul Warnke would negotiate demilitarization of the Indian Ocean with the Soviet Union.^[277]

At a December 30 news conference, Carter said that during "the last few months, the United States and the Soviet Union have made great progress in dealing with a long list of important issues, the most important of which is to control the deployment of strategic nuclear weapons", and that the two countries sought to conclude SALT II talks by the spring of the next year.^[278] The talk of a comprehensive test ban treaty materialized with the signing of the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty II by Carter and Leonid Brezhnev on June 18, 1979.^[279]^[280]

Carter meeting with Chilean leader Augusto Pinochet, in Washington, D.C., September 6, 1977. Pinochet was an ally of the United States in the fight against Soviet-backed communist movements in Latin America.

In 1979, the Soviets intervened in the Second Yemenite War. The Soviet backing of South Yemen constituted a "smaller shock", in tandem with tensions that were rising due to the Iranian Revolution. This played a role in making Carter's stance on the Soviet Union more assertive, a shift that finalized with the impending Soviet-Afghan War.^[281]

In his 1980 State of the Union Address, Carter emphasized the significance of relations between the two regions: "Now, as during the last 3½ decades, the relationship between our country, the United States of America, and the Soviet Union is the most critical factor in determining whether the world will live at peace or be engulfed in global conflict."^[282]

Soviet invasion of Afghanistan

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Communists under the leadership of Nur Muhammad Taraki seized power in Afghanistan on April 27, 1978.^[283] Due to the regime's improvement of secular education and redistribution of land coinciding with mass executions and political oppression, Taraki was deposed by rival Hafizullah Amin in September.^[283]^[284]^[285] Amin was considered a "brutal psychopath" by foreign observers and had lost control of much of the country, prompting the Soviet Union to invade Afghanistan on December 24, 1979, execute Amin, and install Babrak Karmal as president.^[283]^[284]

In the West, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan was considered a threat to global security and the oil supplies of the Persian Gulf, as well as the existence of Pakistan.^[284]^[286] These concerns led Carter to expand collaboration between the CIA and Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), which had begun in July 1979, when the CIA started providing $695,000 worth of non-lethal assistance to the Afghan mujahideen.^[287] The modest scope of this early collaboration was likely influenced by the understanding, later recounted by CIA official Robert Gates, "that a substantial U.S. covert aid program" might have "raise[d] the stakes", thereby causing "the Soviets to intervene more directly and vigorously than otherwise intended."^[286]^[288]

According to a 2020 review of declassified U.S. documents by Conor Tobin in the journal Diplomatic History:

The primary significance of this small-scale aid was in creating constructive links with dissidents through Pakistan's ISI that could be utilized in the case of an overt Soviet intervention ... The small-scale covert program that developed in response to the increasing Soviet influence was part of a contingency plan if the Soviets did intervene militarily, as Washington would be in a better position to make it difficult for them to consolidate their position, but not designed to induce an intervention.^[287]

On December 28, 1979, Carter signed a presidential finding explicitly allowing the CIA to transfer "lethal military equipment either directly or through third countries to the Afghan opponents of the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan" and to arrange "selective training, conducted outside of Afghanistan, in the use of such equipment either directly or via third country intermediation."^[287] His finding defined the CIA's mission as "harassment" of Soviet troops; at the time, "this was not a war the CIA expected to win outright on the battlefield," in the words of Steve Coll.^[289]

Carter was determined to respond harshly to what he considered a dangerous provocation. In a televised speech on January 23, 1980, he announced sanctions on the Soviet Union, promised renewed aid and registration to Pakistan and the Selective Service System, and committed the U.S. to the Persian Gulf's defense.^[286]^[288]^[290]^[291] Carter imposed an embargo on grain shipments to the USSR, tabled SALT II, requested a 5% annual increase in defense spending,^[292]^[293] and called for a boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, which was ultimately joined by 65 other nations.^[294]^[295]^[296]

In early 1980, Carter determined the thrust of U.S. policy for the duration of the war: he initiated a program to arm the mujahideen through Pakistan's ISI and secured a pledge from Saudi Arabia to match U.S. funding for this purpose. Despite huge expenditure, the Soviet Union was unable to quell the insurgency and withdrew from Afghanistan in 1989.^[297]^[286] The routing of U.S. aid through Pakistan led to some controversy, as weapons sent to Karachi were frequently controlled by Pakistan, whose government influenced which rebels received assistance. Despite this, Carter has expressed no regret over his decision to support what he considered the Afghan freedom fighters.^[286]

International trips

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Carter made twelve international trips to 25 countries as president.^[298] He was the first president to make a state visit to Sub-Saharan Africa when he went to Nigeria in 1978.^[234] He made several trips to the Middle East to broker peace negotiations. His visit to Iran from December 31, 1977, to January 1, 1978, took place less than a year before the overthrow of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.^[299] Carter gave his "Island of Stability" speech during this visit.

Allegations and investigations

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On September 21, 1977, the Carter administration's OMB director Bert Lance resigned amid allegations of improper banking activities before his tenure.^[300] United States Attorney General Griffin Bell appointed Paul J. Curran as a special counsel to investigate loans made to the peanut business Carter owned by a bank controlled by Lance,^[301]^[d] and Carter became the first sitting president to testify under oath as part of an investigation of him.^[302]^[303] In October 1979, Curran announced that no evidence had been found to support allegations that funds loaned from the National Bank of Georgia had been diverted to Carter's 1976 presidential campaign, ending the investigation.^[304]

1980 presidential campaign

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Carter and Reagan debating in Cleveland, Ohio, on October 28, 1980

Carter's reelection campaign was based primarily on attacking Ronald Reagan. The campaign frequently pointed out and mocked Reagan's proclivity for gaffes, using his age and perceived lack of connection to his native California voter base against him.^[305] Later, the campaign used similar rhetoric as Lyndon Johnson's 1964 presidential campaign, portraying Reagan as a warmonger who could not be trusted with the nuclear arsenal.^[306] Carter attempted to deny the Reagan campaign $29.4 million (equivalent to $91 million in 2023) in campaign funds, due to dependent conservative groups already raising $60 million to get him elected—an amount that exceeded the limit of campaign funds. Carter's attempt was later denied by the Federal Election Commission.^[307]

Carter announced his reelection campaign in December 1979.^[308] A month earlier, Senator Ted Kennedy had announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination.^[309] During the Democratic presidential primaries, questions about Kennedy were a frequent subject of Carter's press conferences.^[310]^[311] Despite winning key states such as California and New York, Kennedy surprised his supporters by running a weak campaign. Carter won most of the primaries and secured renomination. He later wrote that the strongest opposition to his policies came from the Democratic Party's liberal wing, which he attributed to Kennedy.^[312] Kennedy had mobilized the liberal wing, which weakened Carter's support in the general election.^[313]

Carter and Mondale were formally nominated at the 1980 Democratic National Convention in New York City.^[314] Carter delivered a speech notable for its tribute to the late Hubert Humphrey, whom he initially called "Hubert Horatio Hornblower",^[315] and Kennedy made "The Dream Shall Never Die" speech, in which he criticized Reagan and did not endorse Carter.^[316]

Electoral Map of the 1980 election. Almost all the states are Red. — Electoral map of the 1980 election

Along with Reagan and Kennedy, Carter was opposed by centrist John B. Anderson, who had previously contested the Republican presidential primaries, and upon losing to Reagan, reentered the race as an independent. Anderson advertised himself as a more liberal alternative to Reagan's conservatism.^[317] As the campaign went on, Anderson's polling numbers dropped and his base was gradually pulled to Carter or Reagan.^[318] Carter had to run against his own "stagflation"-ridden economy, while the hostage crisis in Iran dominated the news. He was attacked by conservatives for failing to "prevent Soviet gains" in less-developed countries, as pro-Soviet governments had taken power in countries including Angola, Ethiopia, Nicaragua and Afghanistan.^[319] His brother, Billy Carter, caused controversy due to his association with Muammar Gaddafi's regime in Libya.^[320] Carter alienated many liberal college students, who were expected to be one of his strongest support bases, by reactivating the Selective Service System on July 2, 1980, reinstating registration for the military draft. His campaign manager, Timothy Kraft, stepped down five weeks before the general election amid what turned out to be an uncorroborated allegation of cocaine use.^[321]

On October 28, Carter and Reagan participated in the sole presidential debate of the election cycle in which they were both present, due to Carter refusing to participate in debates that included Anderson.^[322] Though initially trailing Carter by several points,^[323] Reagan experienced a surge in polling after the debate.^[324] This was in part influenced by Reagan deploying the phrase "There you go again", which became the election's defining phrase.^[325] It was later discovered that in the final days of the campaign, Reagan's team acquired classified documents Carter used to prepare for the debate.^[326]

Reagan and his running mate (George H. W. Bush) defeated Carter and Mondale in a landslide, winning 489 electoral votes. The Senate went Republican for the first time since 1952.^[327] Carter's 49 electoral votes were the second-fewest for an incumbent president seeking reelection. In his concession speech, Carter admitted that he was hurt by the election's outcome but pledged "a very fine transition period" with President-elect Reagan.^[328]

Post-presidency (1981–2024)

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Shortly after losing reelection, Carter told the White House press corps that he intended to emulate the retirement of Harry S. Truman and not use his subsequent public life to enrich himself.^[329]

Diplomacy

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Diplomacy was a large part of Carter's post-presidency. These diplomatic efforts began in the Middle East, with a September 1981 meeting with prime minister of Israel Menachem Begin,^[330] and a March 1983 tour of Egypt that included meeting with members of the Palestine Liberation Organization.^[331]

In 2018, official files revealed that, in January 1993, Carter had been suggested for a Northern Ireland peace process role by president-elect Bill Clinton amid speculation that Clinton would appoint a special envoy for Northern Ireland.^[332]

In 1994, Clinton sought Carter's assistance in a North Korea peace mission, during which Carter negotiated an understanding with Kim Il Sung.^[333]^[334] Carter outlined a treaty with Kim, which he announced to CNN without the Clinton administration's consent to spur American action.^[335]

In March 1999, Carter visited Taiwan and met with President Lee Teng-hui. During the meeting, Carter praised the progress Taiwan made in democracy, human rights, economy, culture, science, and technology.^[336] But Carter remained a controversial figure in Taiwan for having ended U.S. diplomatic relations with the Republic of China (Taiwan).^[337]

In 2003, Carter championed a plan to hold elections in Venezuela amid protests aimed at doing so.^[338] Ultimately, no elections were held.

In 2006, Carter stated his disagreements with Israel's domestic and foreign policy while saying he supported the country,^[339]^[340] extending his criticisms to Israel's policies in Lebanon, the West Bank, and Gaza.^[341]

In July 2007, Carter joined Nelson Mandela in Johannesburg, South Africa, to announce his participation in The Elders, a group of independent global leaders working together on peace and human rights issues.^[342]^[343] After the announcement, Carter participated in visits to Darfur,^[344] Sudan,^[345]^[346] Cyprus, the Korean Peninsula, and the Middle East, among others.^[347] He attempted to travel to Zimbabwe in 2008, but was stopped by President Robert Mugabe's government.^[348] In December 2008, Carter met with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad,^[349]^[350] and in a June 2012 call with Jeffery Brown, he stressed that Egyptian military generals could take full executive and legislative power to form a new constitution favoring themselves if their announced intentions came true.^[351]

On August 10, 2010, Carter traveled to North Korea and negotiated the release of Aijalon Gomes.^[352]^[353] In 2017, as tensions between the U.S. and North Korea persisted, Carter recommended a peace treaty between the two nations,^[354] and confirmed that he had volunteered to the Trump administration to be a diplomatic envoy to North Korea.^[355]

Views on later presidents

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Carter began his first year out of office with a pledge not to critique the Reagan administration, saying it was "too early".^[356] He sided with Reagan on issues like building neutron arms after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan,^[357] but frequently spoke out against his administration, denouncing many of its actions in the Middle East.^[358] He condemned the handling of the Sabra and Shatila massacre,^[359] the lack of efforts to rescue and retrieve four American businessmen from West Beirut in 1984,^[360] Reagan's support of the Strategic Defense Initiative in 1985,^[361] and his claim of an international conspiracy on terrorism.^[362] In 1987 he criticized Reagan for conceding to terrorist demands,^[363] nominating Robert Bork for the Supreme Court,^[364] and his handling of the Persian Gulf crisis.^[365]

On January 16, 1989, before the inauguration of George H. W. Bush, Carter told Gerald Ford that Reagan had experienced a media honeymoon, saying that he believed Reagan's immediate successor would be less fortunate.^[366]

Carter had a mostly poor relationship with Bill Clinton, who snubbed him from his inauguration ceremony. He questioned the Clinton administration's morality, particularly with respect to the Clinton–Lewinsky scandal and the pardon of Marc Rich.^[367]

In July 2001, Carter said he was "disappointed in almost everything" President George W. Bush had done, but after the September 11 attacks, he offered only praise, calling on Americans to support Bush with "complete unity".^[368] Later, Carter opposed the Iraq War^[369] and what he considered an attempt by Bush and Tony Blair to oust Saddam Hussein with "lies and misinterpretations".^[370] In 2004, Carter said he believed Bush had exploited the September 11 attacks.^[371] In 2007, Carter said the Bush administration "has been the worst in history" on foreign affairs;^[372] he later said he was just comparing Bush's tenure to Nixon's.^[373] On the Bush administration's behalf, Tony Fratto responded that Carter's comments increased his irrelevance.^[374]

Though he praised President Barack Obama in the early part of his tenure,^[375] Carter stated his disagreement with using drone strikes against suspected terrorists, Obama's choice to keep Guantanamo Bay detention camp open,^[376] and the federal surveillance programs Edward Snowden revealed.^[377]^[378]

During Donald Trump's presidency, Carter spoke favorably of the chance for immigration reform^[379] and criticized Trump for his handling of the U.S. national anthem protests.^[380] In an October 2017 interview with The New York Times, he said the media had covered Trump more harshly "than any other president certainly that I've known about".^[381]^[382] In 2019, Trump called Carter and expressed concern that China was "getting ahead" of the United States. Carter agreed, saying that China's strength came from its lack of involvement in armed conflict and calling the U.S. "the most warlike nation in the history of the world."^[383]

In July 2021, Carter gave his final recorded interview and said that President Joe Biden "has done very well" in office.^[384]

Presidential politics

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Carter was considered a potential candidate in the 1984 presidential election.^[385]^[386] In May 1982, Carter ruled out another run, and instead endorsed Mondale for the Democratic presidential nomination.^[387] After Mondale secured the nomination in the Democratic primaries, Carter critiqued the Reagan campaign,^[388] spoke at the 1984 Democratic National Convention, and advised Mondale about his campaign.^[389] After the election, in which Reagan defeated Mondale, Carter said the loss was predictable because Mondale's platform included raising taxes.^[390]

In March 1987, Carter ruled himself out as a candidate in the 1988 presidential election.^[391] Ahead of the 1988 Democratic National Convention, Carter predicted that the convention would see party unity^[392] after tensions arose between presumptive nominee Michael Dukakis and runner-up Jesse Jackson.^[393] Carter delivered an address at the convention.^[394]

Carter spoke of the need for the 1992 Democratic National Convention to address certain issues not focused on in the past,^[395] and campaigned for Clinton after he became the Democratic nominee,^[396] publicly stating his expectation to be consulted during Clinton's presidency.^[397]

Carter endorsed Vice President Al Gore, the Democratic nominee, days before the 2000 presidential election,^[398] and in subsequent years voiced his opinion that Gore won the election,^[399] despite Republican nominee George W. Bush having been certified the victor following the Supreme Court's ruling in Bush v. Gore.^[400]

In the 2004 presidential election, Carter endorsed the Democratic nominee John Kerry and spoke at the 2004 Democratic National Convention.^[401] He also voiced concern about another voting mishap in Florida.^[402]

During the 2008 Democratic presidential primaries, it was speculated that Carter would endorse Barack Obama over his main primary rival Hillary Clinton, as Carter and other members of the Carter family had spoken favorably of Obama.^[403]^[404] Although he did not endorse Obama during the primaries, he said in late May 2008 that Clinton should end her bid and concede to Obama after the final primaries on June 3.^[405] On June 3, Carter endorsed Obama, and said he would vote for Obama as a superdelegate to the 2008 Democratic National Convention^[406] (as a former president, Carter was entitled to hold one of 20 superdelegate slots reserved for "distinguished party leaders").^[407] Before this, he had remained publicly neutral.^[406] During the general election campaign, Carter criticized John McCain, the Republican nominee.^[408]^[409] Once Obama became the presumptive nominee, he advised Obama not to select Clinton as his running mate.^[410]

Ahead of the primaries of the 2012 presidential election, Carter expressed his preference for Mitt Romney to win the Republican nomination, though he clarified that he preferred Romney because he believed him to be the prospective Republican nominee who would most assure Obama's reelection.^[411] Carter recorded an address that was shown at the 2012 Democratic National Convention.^[412]

In the 2016 presidential election, Carter was critical of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump shortly after Trump entered the primary, predicting that he would lose.^[413]^[414] As the primary continued, Carter said he preferred Trump to his main rival, Ted Cruz,^[415] though he rebuked the Trump campaign during the primary^[416] and in his address to the 2016 Democratic National Convention.^[417] In August 2016, Carter endorsed the presumptive Democratic nominee, Hillary Clinton.^[418] He again expressed his support of Clinton in his speech to the Democratic convention, which he delivered by video.^[417]^[419] In 2019, Carter said that Trump would not have been elected without Russia's interference in the 2016 election.^[420] When questioned, he agreed that Trump is an "illegitimate president".^[421]^[422] In a 2017 discussion with Senator Bernie Sanders, Carter said he voted for Sanders in the 2016 Democratic Party presidential primaries.^[423]

Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter delivered a recorded audio message endorsing Joe Biden for the virtual 2020 Democratic National Convention. On January 6, 2021, after the U.S. Capitol attack,^[424] Carter released a statement that he and his wife were "troubled" by the events, that what had occurred was "a national tragedy and is not who we are as a nation", and that "having observed elections in troubled democracies worldwide, I know that we the people can unite to walk back from this precipice to peacefully uphold the laws of our nation".^[425] Carter recorded an audio message for Biden's inauguration on January 20, 2021, as the Carters could not attend the ceremony in person.^[426]

In November 2022, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit overruled a three-judge panel of the court and scheduled a rehearing of the case against the Trump administration–proposed land swap in Alaska to allow a road through the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge. In an unusual action, Carter had filed an opinion in support of a lawsuit by environmental groups, saying the swap violated the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act passed near the end of his presidency. Carter said the act "may be the most significant domestic achievement of my political life".^[427]

In August 2024, Carter's son Chip said his father wanted to live to 100 to vote for Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election.^[428] He did so on October 16.^[429]^[430]

Hurricane relief

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Carter criticized the Bush administration's handling of Hurricane Katrina,^[431] and built homes in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.^[432] He also partnered with former presidents to work with One America Appeal to help the victims of Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma in the Gulf Coast and Texas communities,^[433] in addition to writing op-eds about the goodness seen in Americans who assist each other during natural disasters.^[434]

Other activities

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Carter discussing his legacy and the work of the Carter Center on the eve of his 95th birthday

The Carter family's peanut business accumulated a $1 million debt in 1981. Carter began writing books to pay off this debt. As of July 2019, he had "published more than 30, from a children's book to reflections on his presidency".^[435] After he left the White House, "[o]n average, he completed just about one book per year over those 35 years, including many bestsellers, a novel and a children's book."^[436]

In 1982, Carter founded the Carter Center,^[437] a non-governmental and nonprofit organization with the purpose of advancing human rights and alleviating human suffering.^[438] Among these efforts has been working with the World Health Organization to eradicate dracunculiasis, also called Guinea worm disease. The incidence of this disease has decreased from 3.5 million cases in the mid-1980s^[439]^[440] to four in the first seven months of 2024, according to the Carter Center's statistics.^[441]

Carter attended the dedication of his presidential library^[442] and those of Presidents Ronald Reagan,^[443] George H. W. Bush,^[444] Bill Clinton,^[445]^[446] and George W. Bush.^[447] He delivered eulogies at the funerals of Coretta Scott King,^[448] Gerald Ford,^[449]^[450] and Theodore Hesburgh.^[451]

In 2007, Carter founded the New Baptist Covenant organization for social justice.^[452]^[453]

In 2013, Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter, their son Chip, and Chip's wife Becky traveled to the neighborhood of Queens Village in New York City. They worked on five housing construction projects with Habitat for Humanity.^[454]

As of August 2019,^[update] Carter was Honorary Chair of the World Justice Project.^[455] He was formerly an honorary chair of the Continuity of Government Commission.^[456] He continued to occasionally teach Sunday school at Maranatha Baptist Church as of 2019.^[457] Carter also taught at Emory University, and in 2019 was awarded tenure for 37 years of service.^[458]

Israel and Palestine

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Carter's 2006 book Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, a New York Times Best Seller, generated controversy for characterizing Israel's policies in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip as amounting to apartheid.^[459] In remarks broadcast over radio, he said that Israel's policies amounted to an apartheid worse than South Africa's:^[460]

When Israel does occupy this territory deep within the West Bank, and connects the 200 or so settlements with each other, with a road, and then prohibits the Palestinians from using that road, or in many cases even crossing the road, this perpetrates even worse instances of apartness, or apartheid, than we witnessed even in South Africa.^[460]

Carter defended himself against accusations of antisemitism by saying "the hope is that my book will at least stimulate a debate, which has not existed in this country. There's never been any debate on this issue of any significance."^[460] He said that Israel would not have peace until it agreed to withdraw from the occupied territories, adding, "the greatest commitment in my life has been trying to bring peace to Israel."^[460]

In a 2007 speech at Brandeis University, Carter apologized for wording in the book that suggested that Palestinian suicide terror attacks were justified as a political tool. "That sentence was worded in a completely improper and stupid way. I've written my publishers to change that sentence immediately in future editions of the book. I apologize to you personally and to everyone here."^[461]^[462]^[463]^[464]

In his 2010 book We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land, Carter cites Israel's unwillingness to withdraw from the occupied Palestinian territories and settlement expansion as the primary obstacle to peace in the Middle East.^[465]

Personal life

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Carter had three younger siblings, all of whom died of pancreatic cancer: Gloria Spann, Ruth Stapleton, and Billy Carter.^[466] He was a first cousin of politician Hugh Carter and a distant cousin of the Carter family of musicians.^[467]

Carter married Rosalynn Smith on July 7, 1946, in the Plains Methodist Church, the church of Rosalynn's family.^[468] They had three sons, John "Jack", James III "Chip", and Donnel "Jeff", and a daughter, Amy.^[469] Mary Prince (an African American woman wrongly convicted of murder, and later pardoned) was their daughter Amy's nanny for most of the period from 1971 until Carter's presidency ended.^[470]^[471]^[472] Carter had asked to be designated as her parole officer, helping enable her to work in the White House.^[471]^[e]

On October 19, 2019, the Carters became the longest-wed presidential couple, having overtaken George and Barbara Bush at 26,765 days.^[475] After Rosalynn's death on November 19, 2023, Carter released the following statement:

Rosalynn was my equal partner in everything I ever accomplished. She gave me wise guidance and encouragement when I needed it. As long as Rosalynn was in the world, I always knew somebody loved and supported me.^[476]

The Carters' eldest son, Jack Carter, was the 2006 Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Nevada and lost to Republican incumbent John Ensign. Jack's son Jason Carter is a former Georgia state senator^[477] who in 2014 was the Democratic nominee for governor of Georgia, losing to the Republican incumbent, Nathan Deal. On December 20, 2015, while teaching a Sunday school class, Carter announced that his 28-year-old grandson Jeremy Carter had died of unspecified causes.^[478]

Interests, friendships and hobbies

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Carter's hobbies included painting,^[479] fly fishing, woodworking, cycling, tennis, and skiing.^[480] He also had an interest in poetry, particularly the works of Dylan Thomas.^[481] During a state visit to the UK in 1977, Carter suggested that Thomas should have a memorial in Poets' Corner at Westminster Abbey;^[482] this came to fruition in 1982.^[481]^[483] In 1994, Carter published a book of poetry, Always a Reckoning and Other Poems, illustrated by his granddaughter Sarah Chuldenko.^[484]

Carter was a personal friend of Elvis Presley, whom he and Rosalynn met on June 30, 1973.^[485] They remained in contact by telephone two months before Presley's sudden death in August 1977. According to Carter, Presley was almost incoherent because of barbiturates; although he phoned the White House several more times, that was the last time they spoke.^[486] The day after Presley's death, Carter issued a statement and said Presley had "changed the face of American popular culture".^[487]

Carter filed a report with both the International UFO Bureau and the National Investigations Committee On Aerial Phenomena^[488] saying that he saw an unidentified flying object in October 1969.^[489]^[490]^[491] Records showed that Carter got the date wrong, and it was in fact on January 6, 1969. In 2016, a former Air Force scientist found old government reports about a scientific project that on that date launched a barium cloud to examine the upper atmosphere. It would have appeared in the sky at an elevation of 33 degrees, which is almost exactly what Carter had speculated.^[492]

Beliefs

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From a young age, Carter showed deep commitment to evangelical Christianity.^[493]^[494] He taught Sunday school at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains.^[495] At a private inauguration worship service, the preacher was Nelson Price, the pastor of Roswell Street Baptist Church of Marietta, Georgia.^[496] An evangelical Christian, Carter appealed to voters after the scandals of the Nixon Administration, and is credited with popularizing the term "born again" into American lexicon during his 1976 presidential campaign.^[494]^[497]^[498]^[499] As president, Carter prayed several times a day, and said Jesus was the driving force in his life. He was greatly influenced by a sermon he had heard as a young man that asked: "If you were arrested for being a Christian, would there be enough evidence to convict you?"^[500] In 2000, after the Southern Baptist Convention announced it would no longer permit women to become pastors, he renounced his membership, saying: "I personally feel that women should play an absolutely equal role in service of Christ in the church."^[501] He remained a member of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship.^[493] Carter's support for the Equal Rights Amendment^[502] led many evangelical conservatives to leave the Democratic Party, contributing to the development of the Christian right in American politics.^[503]

Health

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Carter riding a bicycle — Carter in Plains, Georgia, 2008

On August 3, 2015, Carter underwent elective surgery to remove a small mass on his liver, and his prognosis for a full recovery was initially said to be excellent. On August 12, he announced he had been diagnosed with cancer that had metastasized.^[504] On August 20, Carter said that melanoma had been found in his brain and liver and that he had begun treatment.^[505] On December 5, he announced that his medical scans no longer showed any cancer.^[506]

Carter broke his hip in a fall at his Plains home on May 13, 2019, and underwent surgery the same day at the Phoebe Sumter Medical Center in Americus, Georgia.^[507] On October 6, an injury above his left eyebrow sustained in another fall at home required 14 stitches^[508] and resulted in a black eye.^[509] On October 21, Carter was admitted to the Phoebe Sumter Medical Center after sustaining a minor pelvic fracture from falling at home for the third time in 2019.^[510]

On November 11, 2019, Carter was hospitalized at the Emory University Hospital in Atlanta for a procedure to relieve pressure on his brain caused by bleeding connected with his falls.^[511]^[512] He was released from the hospital on November 27.^[513]^[511] On December 2, 2019, Carter was readmitted to the hospital for a urinary tract infection. He was released on December 4.^[514]^[515]

On February 18, 2023, the Carter Center announced that following a "series of short hospital stays", Carter decided to "spend his remaining time at home with his family" in Plains to "receive hospice care"^[516]^[517] for an unspecified illness.^[518]^[519]

Longevity

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A video published by Joe Biden wishing Carter a happy 100th birthday in 2024

At 100 years old, Carter was the longest-lived former U.S. president.^[520] He was the earliest-serving living former president since Gerald Ford's death in 2006. In 2012, he surpassed Herbert Hoover as the longest-retired president. In 2017 and 2021, he became the first president to live to the 40th anniversary of his inauguration and post-presidency, respectively. In 2017, Carter, then 92, became the oldest former president ever to attend an American presidential inauguration.^[521]^[522] On March 22, 2019, he became the longest-lived U.S. president.^[523] He said in a 2019 interview with People that he never expected to live as long as he had and that the best explanation for longevity was a good marriage.^[524]

The Carter Center announced Jimmy Carter 100: A Celebration in Song, an event concert to celebrate Carter's 100th birthday that featured appearances by musicians and celebrities. The event took place on September 17, 2024, at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta.^[525] On October 1, 2024, Carter turned 100, the first U.S. president to do so.^[526] Local events celebrating his birthday included a F-18 Super Hornet flyover formation by eight Navy pilots from Naval Air Station Oceana, which Carter viewed from his backyard, and a naturalization ceremony for 100 new citizens at Plains High School, which Chip Carter attended.^[527]^[528]

Carter made arrangements to be buried in front of his home at 209 Woodland Drive in Plains. In 2006, he said that a funeral in Washington, D.C., with visitation at the Carter Center, was also planned.^[529] Carter asked President Biden to deliver his eulogy.^[530]

Death and funeral

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Carter died at his home in Plains, Georgia, on December 29, 2024, at the age of 100.^[531]^[532]^[533]

Shortly after the announcement, President Joe Biden released a statement honoring Carter's legacy, calling him a "man of principle, faith, and humility".^[534] The nation held an official state funeral and day of mourning for Carter on January 9, 2025. All five living U.S. presidents—Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, president-elect Donald Trump, and incumbent Biden—attended Carter's funeral.^[535]

Legacy

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Assessments

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When Carter left office in 1981, scholars and even many Democrats viewed his presidency as a failure.^[536]^[537]^[538]^[539] Betty Glad, a political scientist at the University of Illinois, summarized the public consensus on Carter: "he didn't have a well-developed political philosophy and gave people a feeling he didn't quite know where he was headed."^[540]

Historians have ranked Carter's presidency as below average.^[541]^[542] After leaving office, he told allies he predicted history would be kinder to him than voters were in the 1980 election.^[540] In a 1982 Chicago Tribune survey, when 49 historians and scholars were asked to rank the best and worst U.S. presidents, Carter was ranked the tenth worst.^[543] In 2006, conservative British historian Andrew Roberts ranked Carter the worst U.S. president.^[544] Yet some of Carter's policy accomplishments have been more favorably received.^[545] The 2009 documentary Back Door Channels: The Price of Peace credits Carter's efforts at Camp David, which brought peace between Israel and Egypt, with bringing the only meaningful peace to the Middle East.^[546]^[547] Stuart E. Eizenstat, who served as Carter's chief White House domestic policy adviser, wrote, "Carter's accomplishments at home and abroad were more extensive and longer lasting than those of almost all modern presidents."^[548]

While historians generally consider Carter a below-average president, his post-presidency activities have been universally praised, including his peacekeeping and humanitarian efforts.^[541]^[542] The Independent wrote in 2009, "Carter is widely considered a better man than he was a president."^[549]

Public opinion

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In exit polls from the 1976 presidential election, many voters still held Ford's pardon of Nixon in 1974 against him.^[550] By comparison, Carter was viewed as a sincere, honest, and well-meaning southerner.^[549] During his presidency, polls generally showed that most Americans saw Carter as likable and "a man of high moral principles".^[551] In the 1980 election, Reagan projected an easy self-confidence, in contrast to Carter's serious and introspective temperament. Carter was portrayed as more pessimistic and indecisive than Reagan, who was known for his charm and delegation of tasks to subordinates.^[552] Reagan used the economic issues, the Iran hostage crisis, and the lack of Washington cooperation to portray Carter as a weak and ineffectual leader. Carter was the first elected incumbent president since Herbert Hoover in 1932 to lose a reelection bid.^[553]

Carter began his presidency with an approval rating between 66% and 75%.^[554]^[555] He maintained approval ratings above 50% until March 1978,^[555] and the following month his approval rating fell to 39%,^[556] primarily due to the declining economy.^[557] His ratings briefly rebounded after the Camp David Accords in late 1978^[558] but dipped during the 1979 energy crisis and got as low as 28% in July 1979.^[559] At the beginning of the Iran hostage crisis, his approval rating surged to 61%, up 23 points from his pre-crisis rating.^[560] Polls also found that up to 77% of Americans approved of Carter's initial response to the crisis,^[560] but by June 1980, amid heated criticism from across the political spectrum^[561] for his failure to free the hostages, his approval rating slumped to 33%; that same month Reagan surpassed Carter in pre-1980 election polling.^[562] As Carter was leaving office, a Gallup poll found that 48% of Americans thought he had been an "average" or "above average" president, 46% said he had been "below average" or "poor", and only 3% thought he had been "outstanding".^[563] His average approval rating during his entire presidency was 46%,^[564]^[565] and he left office as one of the most unpopular U.S. presidents in history.^[566]

In a 1990 Gallup survey, 45% of respondents said they approved of the overall job Carter did as president, leaving only Nixon and Lyndon B. Johnson with lower ratings.^[567] In a 2006 poll, 61% of respondents said they approved of the job Carter did as president, his highest rating since 1979.^[568] In a 2021 survey, 27% of respondents said he had been an "outstanding" or "above average" president, 43% regarded him as "average", and only 24% said he had been "below average" or "poor".^[569]

Awards and honors

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Carterpuri, a village in Haryana, India, was renamed in his honor after he visited in 1978.^[570]^[571]

Carter received the American Academy of Achievement's Golden Plate Award in 1984.^[145]

The Jimmy Carter Library and Museum was opened in 1986.^[572] The following year, buildings connected to Carter's life were granted status as National Historic Sites^[573] and in 2021 were collectively renamed the Jimmy Carter National Historic Park.^[574]

In 1991, Carter was made an honorary member of Phi Beta Kappa at Kansas State University,^[575] and was elected to the American Philosophical Society.^[576] In 1998, the U.S. Navy named the third and final Seawolf-class submarine USS Jimmy Carter.^[577]

Carter received the United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights, given in honor of human rights achievements,^[578] and the Hoover Medal, recognizing engineers who have contributed to global causes.^[579] Carter's 2002 Nobel Peace Prize^[580] was partially a response to president George W. Bush's threats of war against Iraq and Carter's criticism of the Bush administration.^[581]

In 2009, the Souther Field Airport in Americus, Georgia, was renamed Jimmy Carter Regional Airport.^[582]

In November 2024, Carter received his 10th nomination for the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for audio recordings of his books. He won four times—for Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis (2007), A Full Life: Reflections at 90 (2015), Faith: A Journey For All (2018), and Last Sunday in Plains: A Centennial Celebration (2024).^[583]^[584]^[585]^[586]^[587]^[588] He is the most nominated and awarded recipient in the category.

On February 21, 2024, the White House Historical Association unveiled its official 2024 White House Christmas ornament honoring Carter's naval service and efforts for peace. This was the first time a president being honored was alive at the time of the unveiling.^[589]

See also

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Electoral history of Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter rabbit incident – Swamp rabbit attack on the American president
List of centenarians (politicians and civil servants)
List of members of the American Legion
List of peace activists
List of presidents of the United States
List of presidents of the United States by previous experience
"Mush from the Wimp" – Joke headline from The Boston Globe in a 1980 op-ed
Political positions of Jimmy Carter

Notes

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^ The Naval Academy's Class of 1947 graduated in 1946 as a result of World War II.^[27]
^ Carter was the only U.S. president to have lived in subsidized housing before he took office.^[52]
^ Eagleton was later replaced on the ticket by Sargent Shriver.^[92]
^ Curran also investigated President Jimmy Carter's family peanut business for the Justice Department in 1979, and thus became the first lawyer to examine a sitting president under oath.
^ After working in the Georgia governor's mansion as a trustee prisoner, Prince had been returned to prison in 1975 when Carter's term as governor ended, but intervention on her behalf by both Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter, with Jimmy Carter asking to be designated as her parole officer, enabled her to be reprieved and to work in the White House.^[473]^[471]^[474]

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"Plains High School". National Park Service. October 14, 2020. Archived from the original on July 17, 2022. Retrieved July 17, 2022.
Rattini, Kristin Baird (2020). "Jimmy Carter". Georgia Tech Alumni Association. Archived from the original on November 6, 2023. Retrieved August 21, 2023.
"Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter Passes Away at Age 96". Carter Center. November 19, 2023. Archived from the original on November 19, 2023. Retrieved November 19, 2023.
"Jimmy Carter's Naval Service". Jimmy Carter Library and Museum. November 19, 2004. Archived from the original on November 16, 2015. Retrieved November 24, 2015.
"James Earl Carter, Jr". Naval History and Heritage Command. October 19, 1997. Archived from the original on February 20, 2023. Retrieved February 20, 2023.
Eckstein, Megan (March 9, 2015). "From Ensign to Commander-in-Chief: A Look at the Presidents Who Served in the U.S. Navy Reserve". USNI News. United States Naval Institute. Archived from the original on August 16, 2021. Retrieved August 30, 2021.
"Lieutenant James Earl Carter Jr., USN". Naval History and Heritage Command. March 3, 2023. Archived from the original on August 16, 2021. Retrieved August 30, 2021.
Donica, Adrienne; Piccotti, Tyler (March 27, 2018). "Jimmy Carter". Biography.com. Archived from the original on June 6, 2021. Retrieved December 21, 2020.
"Members Of The General Assembly Of Georgia: State Senate and Hous of Representatives – Term 1965–1966". Georgia General Assembly. February 1965. Archived from the original on February 16, 2020. Retrieved May 12, 2018.
Sidey, Hugh S. (January 22, 2012). "Carter, Jimmy". World Book. Archived from the original on April 27, 2012.

Further reading

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Andelic, Patrick. Donkey Work: Congressional Democrats in Conservative America, 1974–1994 (2019) excerpt Archived March 31, 2021, at the Wayback Machine
Berggren, D. Jason; Rae, Nicol C. (2006). "Jimmy Carter and George W. Bush: Faith, Foreign Policy, and an Evangelical Presidential Style". Presidential Studies Quarterly. 36 (4): 606–632. doi:10.1111/j.1741-5705.2006.02570.x. ISSN 0360-4918.
Bird, Kai (2021). The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter (First hardcover ed.). New York: Crown. ISBN 978-0-451-49523-5. OCLC 1280936868. In-depth biography focused on the presidency. Excerpt; Archived January 25, 2022, at the Wayback Machine.
Busch, Andrew E. (2005). Reagan's Victory: The Presidential Election of 1980 and the Rise of the Right. University Press of Kansas.
Clymer, Kenton (2003). "Jimmy Carter, Human Rights, and Cambodia". Diplomatic History. 27 (2): 245–278. doi:10.1111/1467-7709.00349. ISSN 0145-2096. JSTOR 24914265.
Daigle, Craig. "Beyond Camp David: Jimmy Carter, Palestinian Self-Determination, and Human Rights." Diplomatic History 42.5 (2018): 802–830.
Dumbrell, John (1995). The Carter Presidency: A Re-evaluation (2nd ed.). Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press. ISBN 978-0-7190-4693-3.
Fink, Gary M.; Graham, Hugh Davis, eds. (1998). The Carter Presidency: Policy Choices in the Post-New Deal Era. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. ISBN 978-0-7006-0895-9.
Flint, Andrew R.; Porter, Joy (March 2005). "Jimmy Carter: The re-emergence of faith-based politics and the abortion rights issue". Presidential Studies Quarterly. 35 (1): 28–51. doi:10.1111/j.1741-5705.2004.00234.x.
Freedman, Robert (2005). "The Religious Right and the Carter Administration". The Historical Journal. 48 (1): 231–260. doi:10.1017/S0018246X04004285. ISSN 0018-246X. S2CID 154791980.
Gillon, Steven M. (1992). The Democrats' Dilemma: Walter F. Mondale and the Liberal Legacy. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-07630-2.
Glad, Betty (1980). Jimmy Carter: In Search of the Great White House. New York: W. W. Norton. ISBN 978-0-393-07527-4.
Hahn, Dan F. (1992). "The rhetoric of Jimmy Carter, 1976–1980". In Windt, Theodore; Ingold, Beth (eds.). Essays in Presidential Rhetoric (3rd ed.). Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt. pp. 331–365. ISBN 978-0-8403-7568-1.
Hargrove, Erwin C. (1988). Jimmy Carter as President: Leadership and the Politics of the Public Good. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. ISBN 978-0-8071-1499-5.
Harris, David (2004). The Crisis: the President, the Prophet, and the Shah – 1979 and the Coming of Militant Islam. Little, Brown. ISBN 978-0-316-32394-9.
Jensehaugen, Jørgen. Arab-Israeli diplomacy under Carter: the US, Israel and the Palestinians (Bloomsbury, 2018).
Jones, Charles O. (1988). The Trusteeship Presidency: Jimmy Carter and the United States Congress. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. ISBN 978-0-8071-1426-1.
Jorden, William J. (1984). Panama Odyssey. Austin: University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-292-76469-9.
Keys, Barbara J. (2014). Reclaiming American Virtue: The Human Rights Revolution of the 1970s. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-72603-1. Retrieved March 21, 2022.
Kucharsky, David (1976). The Man From Plains: The Mind and Spirit of Jimmy Carter. New York: Harper & Row. ISBN 978-0-06-064891-6.
Mattson, Kevin (2010). What the Heck Are You Up To, Mr. President?. Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-1-60819-206-9. Retrieved March 21, 2022.
Morgan, Iwan (2004). "Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and the New Democratic Economics". The Historical Journal. 47 (4): 1015–1039. doi:10.1017/S0018246X0400408X. ISSN 0018-246X. S2CID 159975563.
Reichard, Gary W. "Early Returns: Assessing Jimmy Carter" Presidential Studies Quarterly 20#3 (Summer 1990) 603–620. online Archived May 13, 2021, at the Wayback Machine
Ribuffo, Leo P. (1989). "God and Jimmy Carter". In M. L. Bradbury and James B. Gilbert (ed.). Transforming Faith: The Sacred and Secular in Modern American History. New York: Greenwood Press. pp. 141–159. ISBN 978-0-313-25707-0.
Ribuffo, Leo P. (1997). "'Malaise' revisited: Jimmy Carter and the crisis of confidence". In John Patrick Diggins (ed.). The Liberal Persuasion: Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and the Challenge of the American Past. Princeton: Princeton University Press. pp. 164–185. ISBN 978-0-691-04829-1.
Rosenbaum, Herbert D.; Ugrinsky, Alexej, eds. (1994). The Presidency and Domestic Policies of Jimmy Carter. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. pp. 83–116. ISBN 978-0-313-28845-6.
Schram, Martin (1977). Running for President, 1976: The Carter Campaign. New York: Stein and Day. ISBN 978-0-8128-2245-8.
Schmitz, David F.; Walker, Vanessa (2004). "Jimmy Carter and the Foreign Policy of Human Rights: the Development of a Post-cold War Foreign Policy". Diplomatic History. 28 (1): 113–143. doi:10.1111/j.1467-7709.2004.00400.x. ISSN 0145-2096.
Strong, Robert A. (Fall 1986). "Recapturing leadership: The Carter administration and the crisis of confidence". Presidential Studies Quarterly. 16 (3): 636–650.
Strong, Robert A. (2000). Working in the World: Jimmy Carter and the Making of American Foreign Policy. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. ISBN 978-0-8071-2445-1.
"Topics; Thermostatic Legacy". The New York Times. January 1, 1981. Section 1, Page 18, Column 1. Archived from the original on October 9, 2021. Retrieved March 21, 2022.
Vogel, Steve (May 4, 2000). "Remembering Failed Iranian Mission". The Washington Post.
White, Theodore H. (1982). America in Search of Itself: The Making of the President, 1956–1980. New York: Harper & Row. ISBN 978-0-06-039007-5.
Williams, Daniel K. The Election of the Evangelical: Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, and the Presidential Contest of 1976 (University Press of Kansas, 2020) online review Archived August 20, 2021, at the Wayback Machine
Witcover, Jules (1977). Marathon: The Pursuit of the Presidency, 1972–1976. New York: Viking Press. ISBN 978-0-670-45461-7.
"Jimmy Carter: Life After the Presidency". Miller Center. October 4, 2016. Archived from the original on September 22, 2018. Retrieved September 22, 2018.

Primary sources

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Califano, Joseph A. Jr. (2007) [1981]. Governing America: An Insider's Report from the White House and the Cabinet. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4165-5211-6.
Carter, Jimmy (1977). Why Not the Best?.
Carter, Jimmy (1982). Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President; excerpt; Archived January 8, 2016, at the Wayback Machine.
Carter, Jimmy (1978–1981). Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Jimmy Carter, 1977. Annual compilation of all his public documents.
Carter, Jimmy (2001). An Hour Before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhood. Excerpt; Archived August 8, 2022, at the Wayback Machine.
Carter, Jimmy (2002). The Nobel Peace Prize Lecture: Delivered in Oslo on December 10, 2002.
Carter, Jimmy (2003). Negotiation: The Alternative To Hostility; excerpt; Archived August 30, 2022, at the Wayback Machine.
Carter, Jimmy (2005). Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis. Excerpt; Archived August 10, 2023, at the Wayback Machine.
Carter, Jimmy (2006). Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid.
Carter, Jimmy (2007). Beyond the White House: Waging Peace, Fighting Disease, Building Hope.
Carter, Jimmy (2011). White House Diary.
Carter, Jimmy (2015). A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety.
Jordan, Hamilton (1982). Crisis: The Last Year of the Carter Presidency. Putnam. ISBN 978-0-399-12738-0.
Lance, Bert (1991). The Truth of the Matter: My Life In and Out of Politics. Summit. ISBN 978-0-671-69027-4.

External links

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39th President of the United States (1977–1981) 76th Governor of Georgia (1971–1975) Georgia State Senator (1963–1967)
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Post-presidency	Carter Center Presidential Library and Museum Habitat for Humanity Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work Project The Elders Jimmy Carter National Historical Park Jimmy Carter House Nairobi Agreement, 1999 One America Appeal Continuity of Government Commission Death and state funeral
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Peace	Jimmy Carter (United States)
Physics	Raymond Davis Jr. (United States) Masatoshi Koshiba (Japan) Riccardo Giacconi (Italy, United States)
Physiology or Medicine	Sydney Brenner (United Kingdom) H. Robert Horvitz (United States) John E. Sulston (United Kingdom)
Economic Sciences	Daniel Kahneman (Israel) Vernon L. Smith (United States)
Nobel Prize recipients 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007

Jefferson Awards for Public Service

U.S. Senator John Heinz Award for Outstanding Public Service by an Elected or Appointed Official

S. Roger Horchow Award for Outstanding Public Service by a Private Citizen

Outstanding Public Service Benefiting the Disadvantaged

Samuel S. Beard Award for Outstanding Public Service by an Individual 35 Years or Under

Joseph Yablonski
Maynard Jackson
Emmett Tyrrell
Vilma S. Martinez
Max Cleland
Bernard Powell
Denis Hayes
1980 US Olympic Hockey Team
David Stockman
Henry Cisneros
Jan Scruggs
Sally Ride
Trevor Ferrell
Robert Hayes
Steve Jobs
Marlee Matlin
Marc Buoniconti
Anne Donahue
Wendy Kopp
Michael Brown, Alan Khazei
Mary Taylor
Wayne Meisel
Stacey Bess
Andrea Jaeger
Michael Danziger
Bobby Jindal
Anthony Shriver
Faith Hill
Lance Armstrong
Chad Pregracke
Matthew Meyer
Kirsten Lodal, Brian Kreiter
Benjamin Shuldiner
Peyton Manning
Lindsay Hyde
Ocean Robbins
Jennifer Staple
Tad Skylar Agoglia
Brittany Bergquist, Robbie Bergquist
Amber Lynn Coffman
Neilesh Patel
Jack Andraka
Lauren Bush
The Young American Soldier
Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza, Ayọ Tometi

Outstanding Public Service in Professional Sports

Lifetime Achievement in Public Service
Ray Chambers Marlo Thomas Craig Hatkoff, Jane Rosenthal, Robert De Niro The Robin Hood Foundation Tom Brokaw Billie Jean King Harry Belafonte

Outstanding National or Global Service by a Young American 25 Years or Under

Outstanding Public Service by a Corporation
Prudential, Starkey Laboratories Pfizer General Electric Weyerhaeuser Target Corporation Salesforce Warby Parker

Cabinet of President Jimmy Carter (1977–1981)

Cabinet
Vice President	Walter Mondale (1977–1981)
Secretary of State	Cyrus Vance (1977–1980) Edmund Muskie (1980–1981)
Secretary of the Treasury	W. Michael Blumenthal (1977–1979) G. William Miller (1979–1981)
Secretary of Defense	Harold Brown (1977–1981)
Attorney General	Griffin Bell (1977–1979) Benjamin Civiletti (1979–1981)
Secretary of the Interior	Cecil Andrus (1977–1981)
Secretary of Agriculture	Robert Bergland (1977–1981)
Secretary of Commerce	Juanita M. Kreps (1977–1979) Philip Klutznick (1980–1981)
Secretary of Labor	Ray Marshall (1977–1981)
Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare	Joseph A. Califano Jr. (1977–1979) Patricia Roberts Harris (1979–1980)
Secretary of Health and Human Services	Patricia Roberts Harris (1980–1981)
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development	Patricia Roberts Harris (1977–1979) Moon Landrieu (1979–1981)
Secretary of Transportation	Brock Adams (1977–1979) Neil Goldschmidt (1979–1981)
Secretary of Energy	James R. Schlesinger (1977–1979) Charles Duncan Jr. (1979–1981)
Secretary of Education	Shirley Hufstedler (1979–1981)

Cabinet-level
Director of the Office of Management and Budget	Bert Lance (1977) James T. McIntyre (1977–1981)
Trade Representative	Robert S. Strauss (1977–1979) Reubin Askew (1979–1980)
Ambassador to the United Nations	Andrew Young (1977–1979) Donald McHenry (1979–1981)
National Security Advisor	Zbigniew Brzezinski (1977–1981)
Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers	Charles Schultze (1977–1981)

v t e Time Persons of the Year
1927–1950	Charles Lindbergh (1927) Walter Chrysler (1928) Owen D. Young (1929) Mohandas Gandhi (1930) Pierre Laval (1931) Franklin D. Roosevelt (1932) Hugh S. Johnson (1933) Franklin D. Roosevelt (1934) Haile Selassie (1935) Wallis Simpson (1936) Chiang Kai-shek / Soong Mei-ling (1937) Adolf Hitler (1938) Joseph Stalin (1939) Winston Churchill (1940) Franklin D. Roosevelt (1941) Joseph Stalin (1942) George Marshall (1943) Dwight D. Eisenhower (1944) Harry S. Truman (1945) James F. Byrnes (1946) George Marshall (1947) Harry S. Truman (1948) Winston Churchill (1949) The American Fighting-Man (1950)
1951–1975	Mohammed Mosaddeq (1951) Elizabeth II (1952) Konrad Adenauer (1953) John Foster Dulles (1954) Harlow Curtice (1955) Hungarian Freedom Fighters (1956) Nikita Khrushchev (1957) Charles de Gaulle (1958) Dwight D. Eisenhower (1959) U.S. Scientists: George Beadle / Charles Draper / John Enders / Donald A. Glaser / Joshua Lederberg / Willard Libby / Linus Pauling / Edward Purcell / Isidor Rabi / Emilio Segrè / William Shockley / Edward Teller / Charles Townes / James Van Allen / Robert Woodward (1960) John F. Kennedy (1961) Pope John XXIII (1962) Martin Luther King Jr. (1963) Lyndon B. Johnson (1964) William Westmoreland (1965) The Generation Twenty-Five and Under (1966) Lyndon B. Johnson (1967) The Apollo 8 Astronauts: William Anders / Frank Borman / Jim Lovell (1968) The Middle Americans (1969) Willy Brandt (1970) Richard Nixon (1971) Henry Kissinger / Richard Nixon (1972) John Sirica (1973) King Faisal (1974) American Women: Susan Brownmiller / Kathleen Byerly / Alison Cheek / Jill Conway / Betty Ford / Ella Grasso / Carla Hills / Barbara Jordan / Billie Jean King / Susie Sharp / Carol Sutton / Addie Wyatt (1975)
1976–2000	Jimmy Carter (1976) Anwar Sadat (1977) Deng Xiaoping (1978) Ayatollah Khomeini (1979) Ronald Reagan (1980) Lech Wałęsa (1981) The Computer (1982) Ronald Reagan / Yuri Andropov (1983) Peter Ueberroth (1984) Deng Xiaoping (1985) Corazon Aquino (1986) Mikhail Gorbachev (1987) The Endangered Earth (1988) Mikhail Gorbachev (1989) George H. W. Bush (1990) Ted Turner (1991) Bill Clinton (1992) The Peacemakers: Yasser Arafat / F. W. de Klerk / Nelson Mandela / Yitzhak Rabin (1993) Pope John Paul II (1994) Newt Gingrich (1995) David Ho (1996) Andrew Grove (1997) Bill Clinton / Ken Starr (1998) Jeff Bezos (1999) George W. Bush (2000)
2001–present	Rudolph Giuliani (2001) The Whistleblowers: Cynthia Cooper / Coleen Rowley / Sherron Watkins (2002) The American Soldier (2003) George W. Bush (2004) The Good Samaritans: Bono / Bill Gates / Melinda Gates (2005) You (2006) Vladimir Putin (2007) Barack Obama (2008) Ben Bernanke (2009) Mark Zuckerberg (2010) The Protester (2011) Barack Obama (2012) Pope Francis (2013) Ebola Fighters: Dr. Jerry Brown / Dr. Kent Brantly / Ella Watson-Stryker / Foday Gollah / Salome Karwah (2014) Angela Merkel (2015) Donald Trump (2016) The Silence Breakers (2017) The Guardians: Jamal Khashoggi / Maria Ressa / Wa Lone / Kyaw Soe Oo / Staff of The Capital (2018) Greta Thunberg (2019) Joe Biden / Kamala Harris (2020) Elon Musk (2021) Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Spirit of Ukraine (2022) Taylor Swift (2023) Donald Trump (2024)

(← 1972) 1976 United States presidential election (1980 →)

Democratic Party

Candidates

Nominee: Jimmy Carter
- campaign
VP nominee: Walter Mondale

Republican Party

Convention Primaries
Candidates	Incumbent nominee: Gerald Ford campaign VP nominee: Bob Dole Other candidates: James L. Buckley Ronald Reagan campaign positions Harold Stassen

Third-party and independent candidates
American Party	Nominee: Thomas J. Anderson
American Independent Party	Nominee: Lester Maddox
Communist Party	Nominee: Gus Hall VP nominee: Jarvis Tyner
Libertarian Party	Nominee: Roger MacBride VP nominee: David Bergland
People's Party	Nominee: Margaret Wright VP nominee: Benjamin Spock
Prohibition Party	Nominee: Ben Bubar VP nominee: Earl Dodge
Socialist Workers Party	Nominee: Peter Camejo VP nominee: Willie Mae Reid
U.S. Labor Party	Nominee: Lyndon LaRouche

Other 1976 elections: House
Senate
Gubernatorial

(← 1976) 1980 United States presidential election (1984 →)

Republican Party

Convention Primaries results
Candidates	Nominee: Ronald Reagan campaign positions VP nominee: George H. W. Bush Other candidates John B. Anderson Howard Baker George H. W. Bush (campaign) John Connally Phil Crane Bob Dole Ben Fernandez Harold Stassen

Democratic Party

Convention Primaries results
Candidates	Incumbent nominee: Jimmy Carter campaign Incumbent VP nominee: Walter Mondale Other candidates: Jerry Brown Ted Kennedy campaign speech Ron Dellums

Independent

Candidate: John B. Anderson
Running mate: Patrick Lucey

Other independent and third-party candidates
Libertarian Party	Nominee Ed Clark VP nominee David Koch
Citizens Party	Nominee Barry Commoner VP nominee LaDonna Harris
Communist Party	Nominee Gus Hall VP nominee Angela Davis
Peace and Freedom Party	Nominee: Maureen Smith VP Nominee: Elizabeth Cervantes Barron
Prohibition Party	Nominee Ben Bubar VP nominee Earl Dodge
Socialist Party	Nominee David McReynolds VP nominee Diane Drufenbrock
Socialist Workers Party	Nominee Andrew Pulley Alternate nominees Richard Congress Clifton DeBerry
Workers World Party	Nominee Deirdre Griswold VP nominee Gavrielle Holmes
Independents and other candidates	Lyndon LaRouche Warren Spannaus

Other 1980 elections: House; Senate; Gubernatorial

v t e The Elders
Chair	Juan Manuel Santos
Deputy Chairs	Ban Ki-moon Graça Machel
Members	Gro Harlem Brundtland Helen Clark Elbegdorj Tsakhia Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein Hina Jilani Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Denis Mukwege Mary Robinson Ernesto Zedillo
Former Members	Martti Ahtisaari Kofi Annan (former chair) Ela Bhatt Lakhdar Brahimi Fernando Henrique Cardoso Jimmy Carter Ricardo Lagos Nelson Mandela (founder) Aung San Suu Kyi Desmond Tutu (former chair) Muhammad Yunus Li Zhaoxing
Initiators	Peter Gabriel Richard Branson
Songs	Live and Let Live

Refusenik movement and 1990s post-Soviet aliyah

(c. 1970 – 2000)

Background

Causes	The Holocaust Antisemitism in the Soviet Union Joseph Stalin Zionism Six-Day War Emigration from the Eastern Bloc Slánský trial Anti-cosmopolitan campaign
Jewish groups	Ashkenazim Mountain Jews Karaim Krymchaks Bukharan Jews Georgian Jews

Events

People

Soviet Union
Commonwealth of Independent States

Pro-government/antisemitic	Leonid Brezhnev Yuri Andropov Mikhail Gorbachev Mikhail Suslov David Dragunsky Yakov Fishman Adolf Shayevich Emomali Rahmon
Jewish	Ida Nudel Natan Sharansky Yuli Edelstein Eduard Kuznetsov Iosif Begun

United States

Israel

Other

Pro-Soviet	Władysław Gomułka
Pro-Jewish	Nicolae Ceaușescu

Organisations

Soviet Union	Communist Party of the Soviet Union Communist Party of the Russian Federation Anti-Zionist Committee of the Soviet Public Moscow Helsinki Group Pamyat
United States	Jewish Defense League American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Union of Councils for Soviet Jews National Coalition Supporting Soviet Jewry
Israel	Nativ Jewish Agency

Aftermath

v t e Grammy Award for Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording
1950s	The Best of the Stan Freberg Shows – Stan Freberg (1958) Lincoln Portrait – Carl Sandburg (1959)
1960s	FDR Speaks – Robert Bialek (producer) (1960) Humor in Music – Leonard Bernstein (1961) The Story-Teller: A Session with Charles Laughton – Charles Laughton (1962) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? – Edward Albee (playwright) (1963) BBC Tribute to John F. Kennedy – That Was the Week That Was (1964) John F. Kennedy: As We Remember Him – Goddard Lieberson (producer) (1965) Edward R. Murrow - A Reporter Remembers, Vol. I: The War Years – Edward R. Murrow (1966) Gallant Men – Everett Dirksen (1967) Lonesome Cities – Rod McKuen (1968) We Love You Call Collect – Art Linkletter & Diane Linkletter (1969)
1970s	Why I Oppose the War in Vietnam – Martin Luther King Jr. (1970) Desiderata – Les Crane (1971) Lenny – Bruce Botnick (producer) & the Original Broadway Cast (1972) Jonathan Livingston Seagull – Richard Harris (1973) Good Evening – Peter Cook and Dudley Moore (1974) Give 'em Hell, Harry! – James Whitmore (1975) Great American Documents – Henry Fonda, Helen Hayes, James Earl Jones, and Orson Welles (1976) The Belle of Amherst – Julie Harris (1977) Citizen Kane (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) – Orson Welles (1978) Ages of Man: Readings from Shakespeare – John Gielgud (1979)
1980s	Gertrude Stein, Gertrude Stein, Gertrude Stein – Pat Carroll (1980) Donovan's Brain – Orson Welles (1981) Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Movie on Record – Tom Voegeli (producer) and Various Artists (1982) Lincoln Portrait – William Warfield (1983) The Words of Gandhi – Ben Kingsley (1984) Ma Rainey's Black Bottom – Mike Berniker (producer) & the Original Broadway Cast (1985) Interviews from the Class of '55 Recording Sessions – Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Chips Moman, Ricky Nelson, Roy Orbison, Carl Perkins, and Sam Phillips (1986) Lake Wobegon Days – Garrison Keillor (1987) Speech by Rev. Jesse Jackson – Jesse Jackson (1988) It's Always Something – Gilda Radner (1989)
1990s	Gracie: A Love Story – George Burns (1990) The Civil War – Ken Burns (1991) What You Can Do to Avoid AIDS – Earvin "Magic" Johnson and Robert O'Keefe (1992) On the Pulse of Morning – Maya Angelou (1993) Get in the Van – Henry Rollins (1994) Phenomenal Woman – Maya Angelou (1995) It Takes a Village – Hillary Clinton (1996) Charles Kuralt's Spring – Charles Kuralt (1997) Still Me – Christopher Reeve (1998) The Autobiography of Martin Luther King Jr. – LeVar Burton (1999)
2000s	The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography – Sidney Poitier, Rick Harris, and John Runnette (producers) (2000) Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones – Quincy Jones, Jeffrey S. Thomas, Steven Strassman (engineers), and Elisa Shokoff (producer) (2001) A Song Flung Up to Heaven – Maya Angelou and Charles B. Potter (producer) (2002) Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them – Al Franken and Paul Ruben (producer) (2003) My Life – Bill Clinton (2004) Dreams from My Father – Barack Obama (2005) Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis – Jimmy Carter / With Ossie and Ruby – Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee (2006) The Audacity of Hope – Barack Obama and Jacob Bronstein (producer) (2007) An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore – Beau Bridges, Cynthia Nixon, and Blair Underwood (2008) Always Looking Up – Michael J. Fox (2009)
2010s	The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents Earth (The Audiobook) – Jon Stewart (2010) If You Ask Me (And of Course You Won't) – Betty White (2011) Society's Child – Janis Ian (2012) America Again: Re-becoming the Greatness We Never Weren't – Stephen Colbert (2013) Diary of a Mad Diva – Joan Rivers (2014) A Full Life: Reflections at 90 – Jimmy Carter (2015) In Such Good Company: Eleven Years of Laughter, Mayhem, and Fun in the Sandbox – Carol Burnett (2016) The Princess Diarist – Carrie Fisher (2017) Faith: A Journey for All – Jimmy Carter (2018) Becoming – Michelle Obama (2019)
2020s	Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth – Rachel Maddow (2020) Carry On: Reflections for a New Generation from John Lewis − Don Cheadle (2021) Finding Me – Viola Davis (2022) The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times – Michelle Obama (2023) Last Sunday in Plains: A Centennial Celebration – Jimmy Carter (2024)

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