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Undated: James
Earl Carter Jr. (born October
1, 1924) is an American politician and
philanthropist who served as the 39th
president of the United States from 1977 to 1981.[1][2]
A
Democrat, he previously served as a
Georgia State senator from 1963 to 1967 and as the 76th
governor of Georgia from 1971 to 1975. Carter has remained active in public
life during his post-presidency, and in 2002 he was awarded the
Nobel Peace Prize for his work in co-founding the
Carter Center.
Raised in
Plains, Georgia, Carter graduated from the
United States Naval Academy in 1946 with a
Bachelor of Science degree and joined the
United States Navy, where he served on
submarines.
After the death of his father in 1953, Carter left his naval career and returned
home to Georgia to take up the reins of his family's peanut-growing business.
Carter inherited comparatively little due to his father's forgiveness of debts
and the division of the estate among the children. Nevertheless, his ambition to
expand and grow the Carters' peanut business was fulfilled. During this period,
Carter was motivated to oppose the political climate of
racial segregation and support the growing
civil rights movement. He became an activist within the
Democratic Party. From 1963 to 1967, Carter served in the
Georgia State Senate, and in
1970, he was elected as
Governor of Georgia, defeating former Governor
Carl
Sanders in the Democratic primary on an anti-segregation platform advocating
affirmative action for ethnic minorities. Carter remained as governor until
1975. Despite being a
dark-horse
candidate who was little known outside of Georgia at the start of the
campaign, Carter won the
1976 Democratic presidential nomination. In the
general election, Carter ran as an outsider and narrowly defeated incumbent
Republican President
Gerald
Ford.
On his second day in office, Carter
pardoned all the
Vietnam War draft evaders. During Carter's term as president, two new
cabinet-level departments, the
Department of Energy and the
Department of Education, were established. He established a
national energy policy that included conservation, price control, and new
technology. In foreign affairs, Carter pursued the
Camp David Accords, the
Panama Canal Treaties, the second round of
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT II), and the return of the
Panama Canal Zone to Panama. On the economic front he confronted persistent
stagflation, a combination of high inflation, high unemployment and slow
growth. The end of his presidential tenure was marked by the 1979–1981
Iran hostage crisis, the
1979 energy crisis, the
Three Mile Island nuclear accident, and the
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. In response to the invasion, Carter
escalated the
Cold War by ending
détente,
imposing
a grain embargo against the Soviets, enunciating the
Carter doctrine, and leading an
international boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in
Moscow. In
1980, Carter faced a primary challenge from Senator
Ted
Kennedy, but he won re-nomination at the
1980 Democratic National Convention. Carter lost the
general election in an electoral landslide to Republican nominee
Ronald Reagan.
Polls of historians and political scientists usually rank Carter as an
average president; he often receives more positive evaluations for his
post-presidential work.
In 2012, Carter surpassed
Herbert Hoover as the longest-retired president in U.S. history, and in 2017
became the first president to live to the 40th anniversary of his inauguration.
He is currently the
oldest and earliest-serving of all living U.S. presidents. Carter could
become the oldest living former president ever; on March 21, 2019, he will
surpass
George H. W. Bush. In 1982, he established the Carter Center to promote and
expand human rights. He has traveled extensively to conduct peace negotiations,
monitor elections, and advance disease prevention and
eradication in developing nations. Carter is considered a key figure in the
Habitat for Humanity charity. He has written
over 30 books ranging from memoirs and politics to poetry and inspiration.
He also has criticized some of Israel's actions and policies in regards to the
Israeli–Palestinian conflict and has advocated for a
two-state solution.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter
-- 2016 --
May 26:
Thanks, Jimmy Carter, for Stating What Should Be Obvious: Trump’s Campaign Is
Racist
The former president has long modeled how white leaders can and should disavow
white supremacy.
https://www.thenation.com/article/thanks-jimmy-carter-for-stating-what-should-be-obvious-trumps-campaign-is-racist/
-- 2017 --
January 22:
Former President Jimmy Carter Urges Support for Trump Administration
https://www.voanews.com/a/former-president-jimmy-carterurges-support-for-trump-administration/3687181.html
September 14: Jimmy Carter defends Trump on
DACA actions
The Democratic former commander in chief
told town hall attendees at Emory University to "give him
credit" for not doing away with the deferred action program completely.
"To give Trump some due, he hasn't ended DACA yet," Carter said. "What he's said
is he has given Congress six months to address the issue, which is long
overdue."
https://www.abc15.com/news/national/jimmy-carter-defends-trump-on-daca-actions
October 23:
While two of the five living ex-presidents have broken with tradition in recent
days to indirectly critique the Trump administration, an unlikely supporter has
emerged.
In a broad interview with Maureen Dowd in
the New York Times over the weekend, Jimmy Carter, 93, says he’d be open to
working with President Donald Trump on a diplomatic mission in North Korea.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/jimmy-carter-says-hed-work-for-donald-trump-2017-10-22
-- 2018 --
January 19:
The Disturbing Reason Why Donald Trump Won't Take Jimmy Carter's Advice
https://www.cheatsheet.com/culture/why-donald-trump-wont-take-jimmy-carter-advice.html/
March 25: Jimmy Carter: My preference would
be that Trump "not be impeached"
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jimmy-carter-my-preference-would-be-that-trump-not-be-impeached/
March 27:
Former President Jimmy Carter criticized President Donald Trump’s decision to
appoint John Bolton as his national security adviser, telling the PBS NewsHour
in an interview Monday that it was Mr. Trump’s “worst mistake” since taking
office.
Bolton, who served as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations under President
George W. Bush, “has been very eager to go to war with different people
including North Korea and Iran,” Mr. Carter told NewsHour anchor and managing
editor Judy Woodruff.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/jimmy-carter-calls-donald-trumps-decision-to-appoint-john-bolton-his-worst-mistake
March 31:
Jimmy Carter To Colbert: 'Apparently' America Wanted a Jerk For a President
https://www.newsweek.com/jimmy-carter-stephen-colbert-trump-jerk-comments-867975
August 23:
Jimmy Carter says Trump a 'disaster in human rights,' 'treating people equal'
“I think he’s a disaster,” Carter, 93, said. “In human rights and taking care of
people and treating people equal.”
His wife, former first lady Rosalynn Carter, added that Trump is not truthful,
which “hurts everything.”
Carter told the newspaper Aug. 17 that he “always told the truth” when he was
president. He said he was taught by his father and while studying at the U.S.
Naval Academy that “truthfulness matters.”
“I think there’s been an attitude of ignorance toward the truth by President
Trump,” he said.
Carter had earlier remained quiet on Trump but praised him recently for his
efforts with North Korea and a peace treaty.
Carter concluded his remarks about politics in the interview after discussing
the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, saying it “changed our political
system from a democracy to an oligarchy. Money is now preeminent. I mean, it’s
just gone to hell now.”
However, he said he had faith Americans would “return to what’s right and what’s
wrong, and what’s decent and what’s indecent, and what’s truthful and what’s
lies.”
But, he added, “I doubt if it happens in my lifetime.”
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/jimmy-carter-says-trump-a-disaster-in-human-rights-treating-people-equal
August 26:
Jimmy Carter is baffled by Trump's lies
President Trump has made 2,369 false statements as president as of Tuesday,
per The Toronto Star's count. Former President Jimmy Carter thinks
he never "deliberately" made any while he was in office.
In a segment of a
CBS This Morning interview that aired Tuesday, the former president
discussed building houses for Habitat for Humanity — and the current president's
untrustworthy track record. While Carter gently reminded viewers that he was
"not here to criticize the president," he did have some strong words for Trump's
"deplorable" disregard for the truth.
https://theweek.com/speedreads/792806/jimmy-carter-baffled-by-trumps-lies
December 5:
December 6:
Trump odd man out as presidents assemble for Bush funeral
There was no mistaking the odd man out.
The Washington funeral service for former President George H.W. Bush served as a
rare reunion of the remaining members of the presidents club, but the front-row
banter among Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter and their spouses came
to an end when President Donald Trump and wife Melania arrived.
The Wednesday encounter was a real-time illustration of the uneasy ties between
the current occupant of the White House and his predecessors, suggesting Trump
as a member-in-name-only of the Oval Office fraternity. While the funeral
ceremony itself was a warm celebration of the late president, the relationships
between the surviving presidents are considerably cooler.
https://www.apnews.com/f10420da35394d30b37d69ec27be6bb6
-- 2019 --
January 7:
Former President Jimmy Carter denied ever supporting President Donald Trump's
border wall, contradicting the current commander in chief's claim that previous
presidents confided they regret not building a physical barrier on the southern
border.
"I have not discussed the border wall with President Trump, and do not support
him on the issue,” Carter said in a
statement released Monday by the Carter Center.
Carter's statement joins other
denials from all other living presidents, with the exception of Barack Obama,
whose spokesperson declined to comment when contacted by POLITICO last week. But
Obama has not met with Trump since the funeral of George H.W. Bush in early
December; they had last met at Trump's 2017 inauguration. efore then.
Obama has also repeatedly lambasted Trump's border wall plans, calling them
antithetical to the country's values.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/07/carter-denies-supporting-trumps-border-wall-1085968
March 13:
The post-presidential rehabilitation of Jimmy Carter’s image is reaching a new
peak.
After a decadeslong climb from the gutter of public opinion, the truth-telling
one-term ex-president is suddenly a sought-after commodity in the 2020
Democratic presidential campaign — a symbol candidates can wrap themselves
around as everything Donald Trump is not.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/13/jimmy-carter-trump-1207385
-- 2020 --
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