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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
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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
