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Jimmy Carter
said
The destruction was mutual. We went to Vietnam without any desire to capture territory or impose American will on other people.
— Statement quoted in the Los Angeles Times (25 March 1977)
Jimmy Carter
President of the United States from 1977 to 1981 (1924–2024)
- Fame91.2
- Momentum5.7
- Global rank#132
Source-basedStable
- Fame91.2
- Momentum5.7
- Global rank#132
- United States rank#39
- Writers rank#22
- Wikipedia294.6K
Lived 1924–2024, aged 100United States
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Updated 2026-07-17
The 39th president lived to 100 and spent twice as long building houses and brokering peace as he did in the White House—a presidency historians rank middling, a four-decade afterlife they call unmatched.
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Born in Plains, Georgia, in 1924, Carter left the Naval Academy and submarine service to run his family's peanut farm, then rode civil rights reform through the state senate to the governor's mansion as one of the New South's first desegregation champions. A dark horse in 1976, he edged Gerald Ford and spent four years pardoning draft evaders, brokering Camp David, opening China, and bleeding political capital to the hostage crisis in Tehran and Soviet tanks in Afghanistan—losing to Reagan in a rout. He left office in 1981 and turned the next forty-three years into something else: Habitat for…
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Jimmy Carter
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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.
— Carter, J. (1977). A government as good as its people. New York: Simon and Schuster.
Jimmy Carter
said
My name is Jimmy Carter, and I’m running for President.
— First Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech (15 July 1976)
Jimmy Carter
said
There is a new mood in America. We have been shaken by a tragic war abroad and by scandals and broken promises at home.
— First Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech (15 July 1976)
Jimmy Carter
said
Any system of economics is bankrupt if it sees either value or virtue in unemployment. We simply cannot check inflation by keeping people out of work..
— First Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech (15 July 1976)
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