Jimmy Carter Research Paper

Jimmy Carter

Done by: Aidin DeBoer
Ms.Daoust
November 30, 2016

Jimmy Carter is the thirty-ninth president of the United States. He was the president before Ronald Reagan and had a big impact on the United States and Soviet war drafters.
He was born on October 1,1924 in Plains, Georgia. He has a large family that consists of a wife named Rosaline, a brother, two sisters, a daughter, a mother, five grandsons, three sons, five nieces, a father, two great grandsons, six nephews, two granddaughters, two grandmothers, and two grandfathers.
Jimmy was raised on a peanut farm as a young child. He went to college at Annapolis military college. He served in the military.(millercenter.org) While in the military he served in the navy branch (jimmycarterlibrary.gov).
Jimmy was known as “the peanut farmer from Georgia” in the 1975 presidential campaign (military.com).The effects of World War II (1939 to 1945) inspired many young and old American citizens similar to Jimmy to enlist the military. It was hard to get admission to Annapolis. Therefore, Carter started to constantly study for a year at Georgia Institute of Technology in 1942. Carter was admitted to Annapolis in 1943 and Graduated in the top ten percent of his class in August 1946. His graduation was close to the end of WWII. Before his last year at Annapolis during a “break”, Midshipman Carter met Rosalynn Smith. She was a friend of his sister’s. She was only seventeen years old. When Carter first proposed to her, she turned him down so to speak. Early the following year, however, she visited him at Annapolis and when he proposed a second time she accepted his proposal. They were married in July 1946. For Jimmy and Rosalynn, the next eight years were expected of a postwar American couple. Carter worked long excruciating hours while his wife works at home taking care of the children. Carter also took the chair of the Democratic Governors Campaign Committee. (Miller Center.org) Jimmy Carter ran for president in 1976. He ran for president twice. He did not win both times. His opponent was Ronald Reagan. He ran for the Democratic Party. His slogans were “A leader for a change.” And “Not just peanuts.” Jimmy Carter took his first step on “ the pathway to success” to the White House in 1971 by taking the chair of the Democratic Governor’s Campaign Committee, and then his second step in 1974 by becoming the Campaign Chairman of the Democratic National Committee. This position gave Carter access to higher ranked Democrats throughout the nation, and the major Democratic lead in the first post war watergate election added to his reputation. Just before the end of the year, Jimmy Carter announced his Candidacy for President of the United States. Public reaction to his Candidacy revealed that access to his party was not enough to gain him wide recognition. The only thing he was, was ignored and his national profile was almost non existent. In fact, the heading newspaper in his home state ran a headline the day after his announcement that exclaimed,’Jimmy Who Is Running For What!?’ Just a few years before, Governor Carter had appeared on a television game show where the goal was to guess the occupation (job) of the ‘mystery guest’ and Carter stood on the stage. However, Carter's anonymity (quality of being unknown) turns out to give him an advantage in the 1976 election. In response to the twin nightmares of Vietnam and Watergate that had shattered public confidence in government. Americans thanks toward leaders who were outside the Washington Sphere (millercenter.org).
In 1982 Carter became University Distinguished Professor at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, and, in collaboration with the University, created the Carter Center.
Fiercely guarded by President Carter, the center calls out and fixes national and international issues of public policy. The Carter Center fellows and associates join with President Carter in efforts to resolve conflict, promote democracy, protect human rights, and, prevent disease. Through the Global 2000 program, president Carter improves health and agriculture in creating world. The Carter-Millennium Rights Foundation awards a yearly prize for “outstanding contributions to the improvement of human rights principles.” In 1991 President Carter launched the Atlanta Project, a community wide effort to attack social problems associated with poverty. The permanent facilities of the Carter Center were opened in October 1986 and include the Jimmy Carter Library Museum, which is open to visitors of the public. Also open to visitors of the public is the Jimmy Carter National Historic site which is located in
Plains,Georgia.(Millercenter.org). On January 20th,1979,Jimmy Carter was voted the 39th president of the United States. On January 21,1979 Carter Pardons vietnam war drafters (people that illegally drafted into the United States because of the vietnam war). On February 2, 1977 congress passes Emergency Natural Gas Act. this means people had to wait in lines (in their cars) for gas. Carter signs the bill and announces plans to present an energy plan to congress. He later proposed the establishment of a cabinet level Department of Energy. On February 15, 1977 to February 21, 1977 Secretary of state Cypris vance travels to the middle east in an effort to reconverse the 1973 General Confidence. February 19, 1977 Soviet Dissident Andrei Sakharov receives a written letter of support from President Jimmy Carter. April 18, 1977 addressing the Nation, Carter calls his program of energy conservation the ‘moral equivalent of war’. May 22, 1977 carter speaks at Notre Dame University and presented a new direction of foreign policy which takes the focus off Anti-Communism and emphasizes support for fundamental human rights. June 20, 1977 Carter announces opposition to creation of the B-1 Strategic Bomber. July 19, 1977 Newly elected Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin meets Carter in Washington. December 29 to December 31, 1977 Carter meets with Polish First Secretary in Warsaw. December 31, 1977 to January 1, 1978 Carter visits Mohammad Leza Shah Pahlavi in Tehran, calling Ivari an island of stability in the middle east. January 1 to January 6 1978, Carter traveled to India, Saudi Arabian, Egypt, France, and Belgium. March 9, 1978 Carter invokes the Taft-Hartley act to end a strike by coal miners. March 17, 1978 Carter warned the Soviet nation with a threat in a foreign policy addressed at wake forest university. June 7, 1978 Carter’s graduation speech at Annapolis urges the importance of human rights in foreign policy. (millercenter.org) Few american politicians have ever been as low as past president Jimmy carter was in 1981.’ when Carter came out of the White House, he was at the lower point of popularity’, remembers his friend and colleague , Dr.
James Cagney of Emory University.’ i mean, it wasn't just that he was unpopular. People avoided him… he was a loser’. Yet today, the same man is an admired figure in america and around the world , an old statesman whose name is synonymous with honesty, integrity, arrogance , and service to others. Carter received the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize for his on going effort to make the world a better place. Its one of the greatest comeback story of all time.
(pbs.org) In conclusion, Jimmy Carter was one of our very important presidents of the United States. He made a big impact on the soviet war drafters as well as the war itself. He also tried to make an impact on the war by going to Annapolis and attempting to enlist during the war. If he had gone to Annapolis 2 years earlier, he could have spent plenty of time serving in the war. He tried his hardest and that’s all that matters. He still deserves our respect and thanks for being our president and serving our country.