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Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter served as the 39th president of the US from 1977 to 1981. He was best known for the Carter Doctrine, which extended US protection over the Persian Gulf. It was proclaimed in January 1980.
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Why did jimmy carter want to become president?
because he wanted peace in the middle east so he decided to be president. Also he wanted to be president because he wanted to fix the Egyptian and Menachem war, he also wanted to get China to start making peace in the world,
How many times did Jimmy Carter ran for governor?
Jimmy Carter was Georgia's Governor from January of 1971 to January of 1975. He served as the 76th Governor of Georgia for four year before becoming President of the United States in 1977.
What issue seriously hurt carter's presidency apex?
The hostage situation in Iran and the failed rescue attempt was a serious embarrassment for the Carter administration.
The Iranian hostage crisis. Apex :)
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What was Jimmy Carter before he became president?
Carter grew up on a farm in Georgia and graduated from the U.S. Navel Academy in 1946. After working with the nuclear submarine program, he resigned his commission after his father's death in 1953 and returned to the family farm. He entered local politics in 1962 and by 1971 was elected Governor of Georgia.
What action by President Jimmy Carter helped to solve the problem of inflation?
The appointment of Paul Volcker to the Federal Reserve Board
How did Jimmy Carter impact on Georgia?
Jimmy Carter had a significant impact on Georgia, both before and after his presidency. As governor of Georgia from 1971 to 1975, he focused on civil rights, education reform, and environmental conservation. Additionally, he established the Georgia Commission on the Holocaust and the Georgia Department of Natural Resources. After his presidency, he returned to Georgia and continued his philanthropic and humanitarian work through the Carter Center, particularly in the areas of conflict resolution, human rights, and disease eradication.
What contributed the least to Jimmy Carter's defeat in 1980?
President Carter's ineffective handling of the Iran Hostage Crisis. U.S. Embassy employees and Marine guards were held hostage for 444 days in Tehran, Iran by Iranian student revolutionaries. When it became clear that President Carter was unable to get the U.S. hostages freed either by negotiation or by force, Carter's credibility and stature in the U.S. and the world took a fatal fall. On the other hand, only months earlier, Texas businessman and millionaire Ross Perot had recruited a team of Special Forces type mercenaries to enter Iran and rescue a number of his employees who had been arrested and held prisoner. The Perot sponsored rescue mission was a success. Carter's attempt at a recue mission was a complete failure. It resulted in the deaths of eight American Serviceman at a desolate patch of desert in Iran, only halfway to Tehran. The team hadn't even reached Tehran. Carter has since been frequently referred to as a weak and ineffective President. Ronald Reagan was viewed as a tough, strong, clear-minded man who could, and would, kick butt and take names. The Iranian revolutionaries apparently shared this view of Ronald Reagan. At virtually the exact same time that Reagan was taking the Oath of Office as the newly elected President, on January 20, 1981, the Iranian revolutionaries were untying the hostages as quickly as humanly possible and pushing them onto jet planes headed for The United States.
James Earl "Jimmy" Carter was in office from January 20, 1977 to January 20, 1981.
Did Jimmy Carter have any famous relatives?
yes
His father, James Sr., passed away at the age of 58, his mother, Lillian, passed away at the age of 85, his sisters, Gloria and Ruth, passed away at the ages of 63 and 54 respectively, and his brother, Billy, passed away at the age of 51. His wife, Rosalynn, is currently 85, and the former President is currently 88.
Why wasn't Jimmy Carter reelected?
Unemployment, inflation, gas shortages, and the Iranian hostage debacle.
Where did Jimmy Carter go after he was president?
jimmy carter grew up as a very intellengent man an he also worked on a farm for about 6 years to learn how to do what his farther was doing befor his death in 1953
Was Jimmy Carter a good president?
No, not at all.The running joke back then was "Why is everyone so mad at President Carter? He hasn't done anything!". He got into office on the end of a long string of campaign promises, none of which he made the slightest effort to fulfill, including a $50 tax rebate. The moment he was in office, that got cancelled on the grounds it would cost a billion. Well, let me see, 200 million Americans times $50 bucks each... sounds as though they could have worked that out in advance! And that was only the beginning. He promised to be more accessable to the people, and that there would be a series of Call President Carter days in which ordinary Americans could simply pick up the phone and talk to him. He only tried that once! No matter how carefully those calls were vetted (the event was on radio), he wasn't getting the "marshmallow" questions he wanted, so he spent the whole day on the radio trying to find new ways of saying that everything he was called about "needed more study". Aside from his bumbling economic and foreign relations, which caused, I think, TWO Arab oil embargos, and double-digit inflation, he is best known for the Iran Hostages Crisis, in which our embassy was attacked and overrun by Iranian "students" (Iranian government stooges the government wanted to pretend it had no control over) and the hostages were held for 444 days, the remainder of Carter's Presidency. He made one bumbling attempt to rescue them with a helicopter force so small and ill-trained that the loss of a couple of copters led to the canceling of the raid before it ever happened. Aside from that, he did nothing at all to save those people but kiss Iranian butt, which didn't do anything except embolden the Iranians and make the whole Middle East laugh at us. Which is undoubtedly why they decided to pull off 9/11... they thought we would never dare do anything but send diplomats and lawyers over to deal with the situation. When Ronald Reagan, thank goodness, took office, the Iranians hustled the hostages out of the country as quick as they could... they knew the Gipper would toast their tuchis if they didn't! So on Inauguration Day, the hostages were freed. And the democrats started an obscene whispering campaign that the Reagan campaign had made a deal with the Iranians to keep the hostages until Inauguration Day. This obscene lie, of course, never showed the slightest evidence. I think the reason Carter was so ineffectual is that he was so desperate to get reelected, he wasn't willing to do anything the slightest bit controversial... which meant doing pretty much nothing at all. The American people turned him out for it... no sense re-electing a zero.
i guess not .
Jimmy Carter has been said by MANY people to have been one of the worst presidents this country has ever had. He is definitely in the top 3.
Many think so, in large part, due to failed economic & foreign policy debacles...and what has been perceived by many as an inflammatory anti-Jewish and anti-Israel stance. Recent photos/video of president-elect Obama meeting with former presidents (Bush, Clinton, Bush jr., and Carter) is very telling -- none of them appeared to want to be near Jimmy Carter (Clinton makes a special effort to avoid him). When Carter is viewed solely in the context of some of his philanthropic work (e.g. habitat for humanity), he is viewed in a better light.
Lots of people said that jimmy carter ruined the economy while Ronald Reagan saved it.
He was, depending on what successful means in this context.
What were the biggest issues that Jimmy Carter dealt with during his presidency?
Settling the long military conflict between France and Switzerland, fighting off the last of the Iranian Jedi.
What president passed the most bills?
March 9 to June 16 1933 President Roosevelt sent a record number of bills to Congress. And all of them were passed
What is Jimmy Carter's ex-president wife's name?
Rosalynn Carter / Eleanor Rosalynn Smith born August 18, 1927 was the wife of the former President of the United States Jimmy Carter and in that capacity served as the First Lady of the United States from 1977 to 1981
