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Jimmy Carter

Thirty-Ninth President

1977-1981

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http://www.americanhistory.abc-clio.com

Jimmy Carter aspired to make Government "competent and compassionate," responsive to the American people and their expectations. His achievements were notable, but in an era of *

rising energy costs

, mounting

*inflation, and continuing *world tensions, it was impossible for his administration to meet these high expectations.

Thirty-Ninth President

1977-1981

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Carter came from an unusual Southern political culture. While most “deep south” Democratic politicians were "good ole boys," happy to participate in corrupt county courthouse rings good at backslapping and deal making, Carter came from the

Wilsonian

southern tradition, which was far different. Slide4

Wilsonian

Style of Government

Woodrow Wilson’s foreign policy was based on supporting the growth of “just” governments using the rule of law.

For example, when asked what he was going to do to stabilize matters in Latin America, Wilson said "I am going to teach the South American republics to elect good men"

Wilson’s beliefs showed signs of influence from the philosophy of Immanuel Kant. Kant’s 1795 essay Perpetual Peace, stated that democracies are less likely to be warlike in comparison to monarchies and dictatorships. This is because people governed by a democracy are citizens who participate in the governing process. Slide5

He was a reformer and progressive, who put his faith in science and technology to advance the human condition, even as he retained his moral values from his deep religious faith. He thought political leadership should function for the common good, not to please a set of organized constituencies. Carter intended to act with honesty and candor, leading people by setting an example, and by asking them to reach a higher moral plane.

He promised he would never lie to the American people.

Carter’s Thoughts on Political Leaders:Slide6

Carter was confronted with almost the same challenges as Ford

but they had escalated due to the energy crisis:

Inflation

Struggling to revive a depressed economy

Solving chronic energy shortages Continuing to ensure world peace Each New President Takes on the Problems of their PredecessorSlide7

The inflation rate climbed higher each year Carter was in office, rising from 6 percent in 1976 to more than 12 percent by 1980. Both business leaders and the public at large blamed Carter for the nation's economic woes, charging that

the president lacked a coherent strategy for taming inflation without causing a painful increase in unemployment.

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The Inflation Rate Also Climbed because of…

OPEC

Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries

OPEC is a permanent, intergovernmental oil organization, created at the Baghdad Conference on September 10–14, 1960, by

Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela.Slide9

The 1973 Oil Crisis

In October of 1973 Middle-Eastern

OPEC

nations stopped exports to the US and other western nations which greatly contributed to the energy crisis.

The faltering economy was due in part to the energy crisis that had originated as a result of overdependence on foreign oil.Slide10

In 1977 the president proposed an energy program that included an oil tax, conservation, and the use of alternative sources of energy. The House supported the program but the Senate squashed it.

The 1973 Oil CrisisSlide11

Established a national energy policy

He sought to improve the environment. His expansion of the national park system included protection of 103 million acres of Alaskan lands.

1980 – The biggest national conservation campaign in history, was the Alaska Coalition

Carter’s AccomplishmentsSlide12

Carter’s Accomplishments

In 1977 he obtained two treaties between the United States and Panama that gave the latter control over the Panama Canal at the end of 1999 and guaranteed the neutrality of that waterway thereafter. Slide13
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On January 1, 1979, Carter established full diplomatic relations between the United States and China.

Also in 1979, in Vienna, Carter and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev signed a

NEW

bilateral strategic arms limitation treaty (SALT II) intended to establish parity in strategic nuclear weapons delivery systems between the two superpowers on terms that could be adequately verified.

Carter’s AccomplishmentsSlide15

Carter's Greatest Legacy

In 1978 Carter brought together

Egyptian President Anwar Sadat

and

Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin at the presidential retreat in Camp David, Maryland, and secured their agreement to the Camp David Accords, which ended the state of war that had existed between the two countries since Israel's founding in 1948.

A good example of this conflict is the Yom Kippur War.Slide16

Carter's Greatest Legacy

His unprecedented efforts brought Arabs and Jews together, establishing a framework for peace. The president accomplish this in just thirteen days!

The difficult negotiations—which lasted 13 days and were salvaged only by Carter's tenacious intervention—provided for the establishment of full diplomatic and economic relations on condition that Israel return the occupied Sinai Peninsula to Egypt.

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U.S. President Jimmy Carter (center), Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin (left), and Egyptian President Anwar el-S

a

d

a

t (right) clasping hands on the White House lawn after the signing of the peace treaty between Israel and Egypt, March 26, 1979. Slide18

After the Presidency

Jimmy Carter was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 for his "decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solution to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development." Slide19

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http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/gf38.html

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