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The death of former President Jimmy Carter, who held office from 1977 to 1981, has led to an outpouring of reflections on his leadership and management successes from business and political ...
President Jimmy Carter waves from the roof of his car along the parade route through Bardstown, Ky. in 1979. (Bob Daugherty / Associated Press) In the lives of public figures a tale often takes ...
Jimmy Carter, the earnest Georgia peanut farmer who as U.S. president struggled with a bad economy and the Iran hostage crisis but brokered peace between Israel and Egypt and later received the ...
[280] [281] The failure led Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, who had opposed the mission, to resign. [282] 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 ...
Polls of historians and political scientists have generally ranked Carter as a below-average president. A 2018 poll of the American Political Science Association's Presidents and Executive Politics section ranked Carter as the 26th best president. [263] A 2017 C-SPAN poll of historians also ranked Carter as the 26th best president. [264]
President Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981 and awarded the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, photographed at the Peninsula Hotel in New York on March 26, 2018. Carter ...
Jimmy Carter, a peanut farmer and little-known Georgia governor who became the 39th president of the United States, promising “honest and decent” government to Watergate-weary Americans, and ...
The one-term president lost his bid for reelection in 1980, with his successes eclipsed at the polls by a stagnant economy and the Iran Hostage crisis. For the next four decades, Carter lived a ...