Jimmy Carter
James Earl Carter Jr. (born October 1, 1924) is 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, he was the 76th governor of Georgia from 1971 to 1975, and a Georgia state senator from 1963 to 1967. At age , Carter is the oldest living former U.S. president and the longest-lived president in U.S. history.Carter was born and raised in Plains, Georgia. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1946 and joined the U.S. Navy's submarine service. Carter returned home after his military service and revived his family's peanut-growing business. Opposing racial segregation, Carter supported the growing civil rights movement, and became an activist within the Democratic Party. He served in the Georgia State Senate from 1963 to 1967 and then as governor of Georgia from 1971 to 1975. As a dark-horse candidate not well known outside Georgia, Carter won the Democratic nomination and narrowly defeated the incumbent Republican Party president Gerald Ford in the 1976 presidential election.
Carter pardoned all Vietnam War draft evaders on his second day in office. He created a national energy policy that included conservation, price control, and new technology. Carter successfully pursued the Camp David Accords, the Panama Canal Treaties, and the second round of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks. He also confronted stagflation. His administration established the U.S. Department of Energy and the Department of Education. The end of his presidency was marked by the Iran hostage crisis, an energy crisis, the Three Mile Island accident, the Nicaraguan Revolution, 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 the multinational boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. He lost the 1980 presidential election in a landslide to Ronald Reagan, the Republican nominee.
After leaving the presidency, Carter established the Carter Center to promote and expand human rights; in 2002 he received a Nobel Peace Prize for related work. He traveled extensively to conduct peace negotiations, monitor elections, and further the eradication of infectious diseases. Carter is a key figure in the nonprofit housing organization Habitat for Humanity. He has also written numerous books, ranging from political memoirs to poetry, while continuing to comment on global affairs, including two books on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, in which Carter criticizes Israel's treatment of Palestinians as apartheid. Polls of historians and political scientists generally rank Carter as a below-average president, though scholars and the public more favorably view his post-presidency, the longest in U.S. history. Provided by Wikipedia
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The impact of correctional officer gender on prison suicide by TaLisa J. Carter, Tanya N. Whittle
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“Stepping Up”: A Decade of Relationship Violence Prevention by Catherine J. Carter-Snell, D. Gaye Warthe
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Flange Wrinkling in Deep-Drawing: Experiments, Simulations and a Reduced-Order Model by Kelin Chen, Adrian J. Carter, Yannis P. Korkolis
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Electronic Audio Feedback in Legal Education by David J Carter, Anthea Vogl, Elyse Methven, Lisa Billington
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Design of smart transforming metal ceramic multilayers by J. Carter Stotts, Gregory B. Thompson, Christopher R. Weinberger
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B Cell Responses upon Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Infection and Vaccination by Priya R. Prabhu, Joseph J. Carter, Denise A. Galloway
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A Mouse Model That Mimics AIDS-Related Cytomegalovirus Retinitis: Insights into Pathogenesis by Jay J. Oh, Jessica J. Carter, Richard D. Dix
Published 2021-07-01
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Personality predicts the propensity for social learning in a wild primate by Alecia J. Carter, Harry H. Marshall, Robert Heinsohn, Guy Cowlishaw
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OpenScout: Open Source Hardware Mobile Robot by Samuel J. Carter, Nikolaos C. Tsagkopoulos, Garry Clawson, Charles Fox
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Tebentafusp: a first-in-class treatment for metastatic uveal melanoma by Sarah Howlett, Thomas J. Carter, Heather M. Shaw, Paul D. Nathan
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Characterisation of fusarium head blight resistance located on chromosome 4A of Triticum macha by A. Steed, E. Chandler, M. Thomsett, J. Carter, S. Faure, P. Nicholson
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