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James Earl Carter Jr. 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 as the 76th governor of Georgia from 1971 to 1975 and in the Georgia State Senate from 1963 to 1967. He lived longer than any other president in U.S. history, reaching age 100.
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Born 1 October 1924 · Died 29 December 2024 · Q23685
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“Has No Functioning Democracy”
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“s attack on Barack Obama was”
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“Well, let me point out that the United States is not without fault itself.”
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“s policies amounted to an apartheid worse than South Africa”
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“s choice to keep Guantanamo Bay detention camp open, and the federal surveillance programs Edward Snowden revealed. During Donald Trump”
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“s immediate successor would be less fortunate. Carter had a mostly poor relationship with Bill Clinton, who snubbed him from his inauguration ceremony. He questioned the Clinton administration”
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“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”
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“work closely with the Soviet Union on a comprehensive test ban treaty to prohibit all testing of nuclear devices underground or in the atmosphere”
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“work harmoniously with South Africa in dealing with the threats to peace in Namibia and in Zimbabwe in particular”
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The Economic Times: Quote of the day by Jimmy Carter: ‘Peace is more than the absence of war. There is an inner peace that com
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Snopes rated the claim “Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter said the best part about heaven is knowing President-elect Donald Trump will not be there.” Labeled Satire.
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USA Today rated the claim “Image shows Melania Trump holding Jimmy Carter funeral program upside down” Altered.
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Snopes rated the claim “Photos prove U.S. President-elect Donald Trump failed to place his right hand over his heart during former President Jimmy Carter's state funeral.” False.
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Lead Stories rated the claim “Melania Trump holds President Jimmy Carter funeral program upside down” Doctored Pic.
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Snopes.com rated the claim “Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter once said: “A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It's a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and oth…” Correct Attribution.
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Snopes rated the claim “A statement issued by the office of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, marked the Dec. 29, 2024, death of former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and mistakenly extended condolences to former first lady Rosalynn Carter, who died in 2023.” True.
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PolitiFact rated the claim “President Jimmy Carter verbatim said, “evangelical Christianity has been hijacked by people who would have given Jesus himself the boot if he knocked on their door.”” False.
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Died 2024-12-29.
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Check Your Fact rated the claim “A post shared on X claims former President George HW Bush pardoned his son, Neil Bush, white former President Jimmy Carter pardoned his brother.” False.
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USA Today rated the claim “Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush pardoned relatives” False.
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FactCheck.org rated the claim “Jimmy Carter pardoned his brother Billy Carter who took over $200,000 from Libya as its foreign agent. George H.W. Bush pardoned his son Neil Bush for his role in the S&L scandals of the 1980s.” False.
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“may be the most significant domestic achievement of my political life”
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“I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. This is something that God recognizes I will do — and I have done it — and God forgives me for it.”
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That people working on the Reagan campaign's behalf convinced Iran to prolong the crisis to reduce Carter's chance of reelection
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“series of short hospital stays”
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President Joe Biden signed a bill renaming this celebration Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
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“the most warlike nation in the history of the world”
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“by Ernie Suggs, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (September 18, 2019) I still have complete confidence that the United States, if given time, will resolve its problems. We have always been able to do that in the past, whenever we faced difficult questions. The United States still has that innate strength. As quoted in”
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“s interference in the 2016 election. When questioned, he agreed that Trump is an”
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Awarded Grammy Award for Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording (2018).
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“I normalized diplomatic relations with China in 1979. Since 1979, do you know how many times China has been at war with anybody? None. And we have stayed at war,”
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“than any other president certainly that I”
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Awarded Grammy Award for Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording (2015).
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“violates the essence of what made America a great country in its political system. Now, it”
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Awarded Honorary doctor at the Nanjing University (2012).
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Said that the fact that Jesus never spoke about homosexuality was one of the reasons to support same-sex marriage in the United States
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Awarded Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown (2011).
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Awarded Catalonia International Prize (2010).
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Awarded American Peace Award (2009).
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“has been the worst in history”
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Awarded Grammy Award for Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording (2006).
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“s domestic and foreign policy while saying he supported the country, extending his criticisms to Israel”
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Awarded Nobel Peace Prize presented by Norwegian Nobel Committee (2002).
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“disappointed in almost everything”
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Awarded Delta Prize for Global Understanding (1999).
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Won Presidential Medal of Freedom presented by Bill Clinton in Atlanta (1999).
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Won Hoover Medal (1998).
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Awarded United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights in Headquarters of the United Nations (1998).
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Won Four Freedoms Award – Freedom Medal (1995).
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Awarded American Library Association Honorary Membership (1994).
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Awarded Félix Houphouët-Boigny Peace Prize (1994).
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Awarded J. William Fulbright Prize (1994).
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Won Audubon Medal (1994).
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Won Philadelphia Liberty Medal (1990).
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Awarded Albert Schweitzer Prize for Humanitarianism (1987).
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Awarded honorary doctorate of Haifa University (1987).
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Awarded Ansel Adams Award (1981).
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Carter stated his administration had extended Head Start to migrant children
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“any military action that would cause bloodshed or arouse the unstable captors of our hostages to attack them or to punish them”
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Defeating a primary challenge by Senator Ted Kennedy, but lost the election to Republican nominee Ronald Reagan in a landslide
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Laurence Shoup noted that the national news media discovered and promoted Carter, and stated:
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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 servi
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Carter called on believers in the future of the U
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Carter delivered a nationally televised address in which he identified what he believed to be a "crisis of confidence" among American people, under the advisement of pollster Pat Caddell who believed Americans faced a cr
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Won International Mediation medal (1979).
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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
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The House voted against giving Carter authority to produce a standby gas rationing plan
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Carter submitted a standby gasoline rationing plan per the request of Congress
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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
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While severing ties with Taiwan, including revoking a mutual defense treaty with the latter
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Carter extended formal diplomatic recognition to the PRC for the first time
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Congress began working on a bailout plan for Chrysler, led by Congressman James J
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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
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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
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Carter said the continued discussions about his energy reform proposal had been "long and divisive and arduous"
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“not selling weapons if it would exacerbate a potential conflict in a region”
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“long and divisive and arduous”
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Carter signed into law a bill creating a celebration in May called Asian American Heritage Week
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Carter urged California voters to reject the Briggs initiative, aimed at banning LGBTQ people from teaching in public schools
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Carter signed a bill into law "allowing homebrewing and small-scale craft brewing to operate legally"
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“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.”
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Carter declared a federal emergency in the Love Canal neighborhood of Niagara Falls, New York
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Carter authorized an act establishing the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness as a nationally protected wilderness
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“in the nature of a disappointment”
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Carter signed the Department of Energy Organization Act of 1977, forming the Department of Energy, the first new cabinet position in eleven years
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Carter said, "I think it's good to point out tonight, too, that we have evolved a good working relationship with the Congress
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Carter said South Korea could defend itself with reduced American troops in case of conflict
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Delivered a televised speech declaring that the energy crisis was the "moral equivalent of war"
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Carter reaffirmed his interest in having a gradual withdrawal of American troops from South Korea
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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 part
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“a comprehensive test ban to stop all nuclear testing for at least an extended period of time”
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Carter appointed Alfred E
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“An Open Letter to Mr. Carter”
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Career landmark: President of the United States (1977–1981).
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(through reconvening the 1973 Geneva conference), 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
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Carter signed the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977, which regulated strip mining
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The Carter administration became the first U
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Carter conducted his first visit to Washington, D
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Awarded Financial Times Person of the Year (1976).
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“I have nothing against a community that is... trying to maintain the ethnic purity of their neighborhoods.”
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Career landmark: President-elect of the United States (1976–1977).
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Carter 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
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Carter announced his presidential campaign at the National Press Club in Washington, D
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And co-sponsored an anti-busing resolution with Wallace at the 1971 National Governors Conference
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During an appearance in Columbus, Georgia, he stated his intention to establish a Georgia Human Rights Council
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“the time for racial discrimination is over”
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Career landmark: Governor of Georgia (1971–1975).
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Carter immediately began planning to challenge him
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Career landmark: member of the Georgia State Senate (1963–1967).
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Announced his campaign for an open Georgia State Senate seat
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Studied at Union College (1953).
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An accident with the experimental NRX reactor at Atomic Energy of Canada's Chalk River Laboratories caused a partial meltdown
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Carter began an association with the Navy's fledgling nuclear submarine program, led by then-Captain Hyman G
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Carter was assigned to the diesel/electric USS K-1 (SSK-1), qualified for command, and served in several positions, including executive officer
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Began officer training for submarine duty and served aboard USS Pomfret
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And joined the submarine service before returning to his family's peanut farm
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Studied at United States Naval Academy, Bachelor of Science (1946).
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And were married until her death on November 19, 2023
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Received an appointment to the Naval Academy from U
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Started undergraduate coursework in engineering at Georgia Southwestern College in nearby Americus, Georgia
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Born 1924-10-01.
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In Plains, Georgia, at the Wise Sanitarium, where his mother worked as a registered nurse
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Awarded Order of the Nile.
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Awarded Order of the Crown.
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Awarded Hungarian Order of Merit.
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Awarded Order of Vasco Núñez de Balboa.
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Won National Defense Service Medal.
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Won China Service Medal.
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Awarded honorary doctorate from the University of Alberta.
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Awarded Grammy Awards.
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Won American Campaign Medal.
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Awarded Order of the Liberator General San Martín.
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Awarded Indira Gandhi Peace Prize presented by Indira Gandhi Memorial.
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Won World War II Victory Medal.
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Awarded Order of Manuel Amador Guerrero.
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Won Ellis Island Medal of Honor.
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Studied at Georgia Southwestern State University.
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Career landmark: death and state funeral of Jimmy Carter.
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Career landmark: president.
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Career landmark: Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty II.
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Studied at Georgia Tech.
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