Jimmy+Carter

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=__James (Jimmy) Earl Carter__=

=__Biographical Information:__=

__Biographical Sketch:__
James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. was the 39th President of the United States from 1977 - 1981, and recieved the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002. Before becoming president, Carter served two terms in the Georgia Senate, and was the 76th Governor of Georgia from 1971 - 1975.

=__Political Experience__=
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=__Presidential Administration__=

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=__Domestic Affairs__= He dealt with the energy shortage by establishing a national energy policy and by decontrolling domestic petroleum prices to stimulate production. He prompted Government efficiency through civil service reform and proceeded with deregulation of the trucking and airline industries. He sought to improve the environment. His expansion of the national park system included protection of 103 million acres of Alaskan lands. To increase human and social services, he created the Department of Education, bolstered the Social Security system, and appointed record numbers of women, blacks, and Hispanics to Government jobs.

=__Foreign Affairs__= Carter undertook to establish human rights as a tenet of American policy. His frequent criticism of nations that violated basic human rights and his pleas in behalf of Soviet dissidents angered the Soviet government, which viewed the statements as intervention in its internal affairs. Despite these differences, Carter and Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev signed the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT II) in Vienna in June 1979, setting limits on the numbers of Soviet and U. S. nuclear-weapons systems. In spite of his vigorous campaign, however, the treaty was not ratified by the Senate and eventually was placed in limbo by the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. That invasion also resulted in Carter's insistence on an American boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympic Games in Moscow.

=__Famous Quotes__=

=__Interesting Facts__= - Played basketball at Plains High School. - Ran cross-country and played under-140 lb. football at Annapolis. - Life-long tennis player (the family had a dirt court on the farm when he was a child). - Plays softball and billiards, bowls, fishes, hunts (especially wild turkey, quail, and dove). - Rode a motorcycle before entering politics. - To keep in shape, rides a bicycle, jogs, and plays tennis. - Dances with Rosalynn. - Collects bottles and arrowheads. - Reads 3 to 4 books a week, and has taken a speed-reading course. - Has paddled canoes, kayaks, and rafts many times on Georgia rivers. - Panned for gold successfully in North Georgia. - Sometimes watches television for recreation. - Has taken a memory retention course.

=__Presidential Timeline__=
 * **January 20, 1977** -Carter is inaugurated thirty-ninth President of the United States.
 * **January 21, 1977** -Carter pardons to draft evaders of the Vietnam War as a symbolic gesture, releasing some 9000 men of jail terms and upgrading 19,000 to “less than honorable” discharges.
 * **March 28, 1979** -The worst nuclear accident in the U.S. occurs at Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania, and causes serious apprehension of American pursual of atomic energy.
 * **December 11, 1980** -Carter signs the Superfund Bill, designating 1.6 billion federal dollars to clean up toxic waste dumps.

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=__Links__=
 * 1) http://web.uccs.edu/history/ushistory/presidency.html
 * 2) http://www.americanpresident.org/
 * 3) http://www.whitehouse.gov/