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75 unusual facts about Jimmy Carter


1976 Michigan Wolverines football team

Two days before the game, the schools' most famous alumni (Gerald Ford of Michigan and Jimmy Carter of the Naval Academy) faced off in a presidential debate.

1980 in radio

29 October – President Carter on a visit to Pittsburgh gives a nationally broadcast campaign interview to KDKA-AM of that city.

1981 Sugar Bowl

President Jimmy Carter was in attendance, shortly before leaving office.

Airline deregulation

Airline deregulation had begun with initiatives by economist Alfred E. Kahn in the Nixon administration, carried through the Ford administration and finally, at the behest of Ted Kennedy, signed into law by President Jimmy Carter.

Ann Aldrich

Aldrich was nominated to the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio by President Jimmy Carter on March 28, 1980, to a new seat created by 92 Stat.

Arab League boycott of Israel

In 1977 the United States Congress passed a law that then-President Jimmy Carter signed, and according to which fines would be levied on American companies which cooperate with the boycott.

Aristides Royo

President Jimmy Carter negotiated the Panama Canal treaties with General Torrijos in 1978, which were opposed by then presidential candidate Ronald Reagan.

Arlington, Georgia

James Earl Carter, Sr., farmer, businessman, legislator, father of President Jimmy Carter

Azie Taylor Morton

Azie Taylor Morton (February 1, 1936 – December 7, 2003) served as Treasurer of the United States during the Carter administration (September 12, 1977 to January 20, 1981).

Battle of Vrbanja bridge

In March 1995, while NATO was planning a new strategy to support peacekeeping operations in Bosnia and Herzegovina, a ceasefire brokered by former US President Jimmy Carter between the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (ARBiH) and the Army of Republika Srpska (VRS) forces expired and, as predicted, fighting resumed.

Beckley Foundation

Signatories of the letter now include the current Presidents of Colombia (Juan Manuel Santos) and Guatemala (Otto Pérez Molina), and former Presidents of the United States (Jimmy Carter), Mexico, Colombia and Switzerland, as well as Nobel Prize winners and numerous other world figures.

Box End

One of Carter's direct descendants is former U.S. President Jimmy Carter.

Briggs Initiative

Openly gay San Francisco politician Harvey Milk was instrumental in fighting the measure, and opposition from a variety of public figures from California Governor Ronald Reagan to President Jimmy Carter helped to defeat it.

Chicana feminism

Former United States President Jimmy Carter spoke with one of the commission's former presidents during the early 1980s.

Chipperfield

The former U.S. President Jimmy Carter can trace his family roots to John Carter of Jeffery's Farm , situated to the south east of the village.

Chrysler R platform

Ricardo attempted to seek a bailout from the Federal government to the tune of $7.5 billion, but President Jimmy Carter immediately turned him down.

Cliff Wiley

As a member of the 1980 team he was invited to the White House to meet President Jimmy Carter.

Doxford Park

At the centre of the suburb lies a shopping centre built in the late 1970s and initially named the President Carter Shopping Centre, after it was opened by U.S. President Jimmy Carter during an official visit to the region in 1977.

Dracunculus medinensis

In the 1980s, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter persuaded President Zia al-Haq of Pakistan to accept the proposal of the eradication program, and by 1993, Pakistan was free of the disease.

Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site

In 1977, President Jimmy Carter signed a proclamation making it the Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site.

Energy in the United States

During the Carter administration, in response to an energy crisis and hostile Iranian and Soviet Union relations, President Jimmy Carter announced the Carter Doctrine which declared that any interference with U. S. interests in the Persian Gulf would be considered an attack on U.S. vital interests.

Explorations in afro-cuban dance and drum

The last time relations had been similarly relaxed, was in 1977, during the presidency of Jimmy Carter.

Faxton

Her poem To my dear and loving husband was set to music by Leonard Bernstein and performed at the inauguration of President Jimmy Carter.

Ferenc Farkas de Kisbarnak

U.S. President Jimmy Carter ordered extensive historical research to verify the crown as genuine, and it was returned to the Hungarian people on January 6, 1978.

Fisher House Foundation

Separately, Presidents Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush and Bill Clinton, as well as Margaret Thatcher and the late Yitzak Rabin, recognized Mr. Fisher for his support of charitable organizations throughout the United States.

Flor Meléndez

Because United States President Jimmy Carter announced a boycott of the 1980 Olympics in Moscow, Meléndez was deprived of participating in his second Olympic Games.

Frank Hoffman

One of his prizes at his Hall of Fame induction was a book filled with letters of congratulation from Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford and 100 U.S. Senators.

Georgi Vins

Following an agreement between Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev and U.S. President Jimmy Carter, Vins and his family were expelled from the Soviet Union in 1979 with a group of other dissidents, Alexander Ginzburg, Eduard Kuznetsov, Mark Dymshits and Valentin Moroz in exchange for two convicted spies, Rudolf Chernyaev and Valdik Enger.

Gloria Molina

Prior to being elected to public office, Molina served in the Carter White House as a Deputy for Presidential Personnel.

Guyon Hotel

Former President Jimmy Carter stayed in the renovated hotel for a week while working on a rehabilitation project with Habitat for Humanity; his room was reportedly "roach-infested" and "furnished with only a couch and a milk crate".

Harry Huge

During the coal strike of 1968, the Daily Diary of President Jimmy Carter indicates that, on the evening of February 24, 1978, after meetings to discuss the coal strike, the President spoke first with Edgar Speer, Chairman of the Board of Directors of U.S. Steel Corporation, then with Harry Huge, counsel to the UMW, and then went to the press room and issued a statement on the tentative settlement of the coal strike.

Herbert Abrams

His works included the official White House portraits of former presidents Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush.

Heron Lake, Minnesota

Walter Mondale, Vice-President of the United States under Jimmy Carter (1977–1981) and the Democratic Party's nominee for President in 1984, attended Heron Lake Public High School and lived in the Methodist Episcopal Church parsonage (still present in the town) for three years prior to 1946.

History of Williamsburg, Virginia

The third of three debates between Republican President Gerald Ford and Democratic challenger Jimmy Carter was held at Phi Beta Kappa Memorial Hall at the College of William and Mary on October 22, 1976.

Homebrewing

In 1979, President Jimmy Carter signed into law a bill allowing home beers, which was at the time not permitted without paying the excise taxes as a holdover from the prohibition of alcoholic beverages (repealed in 1933).

Ian Brownlie

He served as an advisor to United States President Jimmy Carter during the 1979 Iranian Hostage Crisis.

Idaho National Laboratory

The Idaho site was for a short time named ERDA and then subsequently renamed to the "Idaho National Engineering Laboratory" (INEL) in 1977 with the creation of the Department of Energy (DOE) under President Carter.

Isabel Bishop

She was widely exhibited in her lifetime, and was recognized with a number of awards including one for Outstanding Achievement in the Arts, presented to her by President Jimmy Carter in 1979.

Jack Brooks Federal Building

In the 1978, President Jimmy Carter came to Beaumont to officiate over the renaming of the building for Congressman Jack Brooks, who lived in and represented the area for many years.

Jack Fultz

Because President Jimmy Carter called for a boycott of the 1980 Moscow Games, Fultz did not run in the 1980 Olympic Trials.

Janata Party

In 1978, Jimmy Carter became the first U.S. president to make an official visit to India.

Jeanne M. Holm

Males favored Jimmy Carter just enough to give him 50.1% of the popular vote.

Khozh-Ahmed Noukhayev

Noukhaev said the first step in the peace process should be establishment of an International Commission headed by such respected world figures as former President Jimmy Carter or former UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali to oversee the freeing of illegally detained persons on both sides.

Kjell Eugenio Laugerud García

In 1977, after the Carter administration published a report critical of the human rights situation in Guatemala, Laugerud announced that the country would no longer accept US military aid.

Kōnu, Hiroshima

The main street of Kōnu also known as "Carter Street", named for US president Jimmy Carter after his visit in the 1990s.

Kostas Hatzis

It is worth noting that his fame as a singer for the peace has reached the White House and the then US President, Jimmy Carter invites him to meet him and congratulate him.

Langhorne Bond

Langhorne McCook Bond (born March 11, 1937) was the Administrator of the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration from 1977 to 1981 under President Jimmy Carter.

Large Marge

Her activity is taking part in building homes for a Habitat for Humanity alongside Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and George H. W. Bush.

Little Juniata River

Former President of the United States Jimmy Carter fishes often at Spruce Creek, a "j" tributary that enters the "j" at the village of Spruce Creek.

Los Angeles County Bar Association

During LACBA's ceremony commemorating its 100th year in 1978, United States president Jimmy Carter gave a speech at a luncheon.

Martha Watson

When President Jimmy Carter announced the 1980 Summer Olympics boycott, that "killed the spark." By that point in time she had already found employment dealing Blackjack at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.

Mary Ruthsdotter

By 1981 National Women’s History Week had been designated by the U.S. Senate and 24 governors and state legislatures, and President Jimmy Carter had issued a proclamation.

Maura Clarke

After the murders of the churchwomen, U.S. President Jimmy Carter suspended all aid to El Salvador, but domestic U.S. right-wing political pressure forced him to reinstate it.

Meyer Friedman

"Type A personalities who succeed do so in spite of their impatience and hostility," he said, listing among the more notable Type Bs Winston Churchill, Harry Truman, Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter.

Monroe D. Donsker

Donsker also served as chair of the Board of Foreign Scholarships, a U.S. government panel responsible for student exchange programs, after being appointed by presidents Ford and Carter.

Montauk Air Force Station

In 1978 the Air Force submitted a proposal to the Carter Administration to close the base, as it was largely obsolete due to the emergence of orbital satellite reconnaissance technology.

Mubarak al Fadil al Mahdi

Sept. 1991: Organized with Former US President Jimmy Carter, an International Conference on the political situation in Sudan, held in Atlanta, Georgia.

Munir Butt

He is regarded as a world expert on Indian and Pakistani affairs, and was a personal advisor in the region to Prime Ministers James Callahan, Edward Heath and Margaret Thatcher, and advised U.S. Presidents Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton.

New Baptist Covenant

Former United States Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton proposed the establishment of a broadly inclusive alternative Baptist movement to counter the public image of Baptists as being predominantly tied to conservative political and cultural perspectives.

Öküz Mehmed Pasha Caravanserai

US President Jimmy Carter was among the notable guests, who resided in the hotel during their visits to the nearby historic site Ephesus.

Oyster Fly Rods

The custom rods sell for as much as $10,000 each and "at least a couple have gone into the hands of former President Jimmy Carter."

Perry Van der Beck

Despite qualifying for the tournament, the U.S. did not send a team to Moscow when President Jimmy Carter organized a boycott of the games in response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

Richard Dickson Cudahy

On May 22, 1979, Cudahy was nominated by President Jimmy Carter to a new seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit created by 92 Stat.

Robert B. Claytor

One of his brothers, W. Graham Claytor Jr. (1912-1994), was president of the Southern Railway from 1967-1977, a United States Deputy Secretary of Defense and Secretary of the Navy from 1977-1979 under President Jimmy Carter, an acting U.S. Secretary of Transportation in the cabinet of President Carter in 1979, and president of Amtrak from 1982 until 1993.

Robert E. Huyser

In January 1979, while still EUCOM deputy, President Jimmy Carter sent Huyser to Iran.

Solidarity Day march

These efforts were not particularly well received because in the 1980 presidential election, PATCO refused to back President Jimmy Carter, instead endorsing Republican Party candidate Ronald Reagan.

Stephen Goldfeld

Stephen Goldfeld was a Princeton University professor and provost who served on the Council of Economic Advisers during the Carter administration.

Tadeusz Brzeziński

Tadeusz Brzeziński (February 21, 1896 – January 7, 1990) was a Polish consular official and the father of President Jimmy Carter's national security adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski.

He was survived by his two sons: Zbigniew Brzezinski, President Jimmy Carter's national security advisor; and Lech Brzeziński, an engineer also living in Montreal.

Thomas Kielinger

In 1977, he was made Die Welt's chief correspondent in Washington DC to coincide with the inauguration of the United States President Jimmy Carter, and later in the era of Ronald Reagan.

Victor Lasky

In 1979, Lasky wrote another controversial work called Jimmy Carter: The Man And The Myth, asserting that Carter was one of the most inept presidents of all time.

William Strauss

Their second book, Reconciliation After Vietnam (1978) was said to have influenced then-president Jimmy Carter to issue a blanket pardon to Vietnam draft resisters.

Yukon–Charley Rivers National Preserve

Yukon-Charley Rivers National Monument was proclaimed on December 1, 1978, by President Jimmy Carter using his authority under the Antiquities Act.

Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan

Former United States president Jimmy Carter accepted the Zayed International Prize for the Environment in 2001.

Zunfthaus zur Meisen

In 19th century, Gottfried Keller and Ferdinand Hodler were among the most famous guests of the former «Café zur Meisen», in the 20th century Gustaf V of Sweden, Winston Churchill, Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and Jimmy Carter.


Andrea Apuzzo

During the course of his culinary work experience, Apuzzo has prepared culinary dishes for such notables as Queen Elizabeth, Princess Anne, President and Mrs. Jimmy Carter, Senator Ted Kennedy, Clint Eastwood, Omar Sharif, Sophia Loren, Senator Jack Kemp, Lee Meriwether and Tommy Lasorda.

Anthony Casamento

Corporal Anthony Casamento, (November 16, 1920–July 18, 1987) was presented the Medal of Honor by President Jimmy Carter on September 12, 1980 in a ceremony in the White House Rose Garden, 38 years after Cpl Casamento's heroism on Guadalcanal in 1942.

Arthur A. Hartman

Arthur Adair Hartman (born March 12, 1926, in New York City) is a retired American career diplomat who served as Ambassador to France under Jimmy Carter and Ambassador to the Soviet Union under Ronald Reagan.

Ashagre Yigletu

He signed the following November 1989 peace deal with the EPLF in Nairobi, along with Jimmy Carter and Al-Amin Mohamed Said.

Bird Watcher's Digest

Many well-known individuals in the birding community have written for Bird Watcher’s Digest, such as former President Jimmy Carter, Roger Tory Peterson, David Allen Sibley, Kenn Kaufman, Betty White, Eirik A. T. Blom, Julie Zickefoose, Dr. David Bird and Scott Shalaway.

David Larson

Larson was selected for the 1980 U.S. Olympic Team, but was unable to compete because U.S. President Jimmy Carter organized the boycott of the Moscow Olympics in protest of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

Edith Bunker

She was decidedly less bigoted than Archie (e.g., she was good friends with her black neighbor Louise Jefferson, while Archie was always at odds with her and husband George, and she acknowledged that she'd voted for President Jimmy Carter in one of the later episodes).

Global Peace Index

The study is the brainchild of Australian entrepreneur Steve Killelea and is endorsed by individuals such as Kofi Annan, the Dalai Lama, archbishop Desmond Tutu, former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari, Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, economist Jeffrey Sachs, former president of Ireland Mary Robinson, Jan Eliasson and former US president Jimmy Carter.

Greg Makowski

However, Makowski and his team mates were prevented from competing when President Carter boycotted the games after the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan.

Harvard International Relations Council

The HIR has featured scholars and policymakers from around the world, including Nelson Mandela, Samuel P. Huntington, Aung San Suu Kyi, Jeffrey Sachs, Shimon Peres, Paul Krugman, Chen Shui-bian, Amartya Sen, Gro Harlem Brundtland, Jimmy Carter, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Bill Clinton, Dick Cheney, Ban Ki-moon, N.R. Narayana Murthy, Ted Turner and Javier Solana.

Howard Teicher

Howard Teicher served as Director for the Near East and South Asia and Senior Director for Political-Military Affairs on the staff of the National Security Council from 1982 to 1987, after working under Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan at the Departments of State and Defense.

Jim Ranchino

In 1976, Ranchino attributed the Democratic presidential nomination of former Governor Jimmy Carter of Georgia to Carter's young pollster, Patrick Caddell, who advised the candidate to accent the "trust factor," rather than highlighting various temporary campaign issues.

John Macy

In 1979, President Jimmy Carter nominated Macy to became the first Senate-confirmed director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Keith Stroup

The administration of President Jimmy Carter had favored marijuana reform; however, Peter Bourne, Carter's drug adviser, disagreed with Stroup on ending the spraying of Mexican marijuana fields with the herbicide paraquat.

KVEN

One of his best episodes was the 5-way on-air round-table chat with Presidents Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, and George H. W. Bush on 11/04/1991, the opening day of the Reagan Library.

Michael Brunson

In 1973, Brunson became ITN Washington Correspondent, where he remained until 1977, covering Watergate and the 1976 US Presidential election between Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford.

Michael Robert Cavendish

Cavendish, along with former President Jimmy Carter, led the grassroots campaign to free American teacher Aijalon Gomes from North Korea.

National Commission on Federal Election Reform

The Commission was cochaired by former Presidents Jimmy Carter (honorary), Gerald Ford (honorary), Robert H. Michel and Lloyd N. Cutler, and included distinguished public leaders from across the political spectrum

Plains, North Lanarkshire

But in 1976, newly elected US President Jimmy Carter (of Plains, Georgia) received a congratulatory telegram from Plains newsagent - also J. Carter.

Politics of New York

New York State gave small margins of victory to Democrats John F. Kennedy in 1960, Hubert Humphrey in 1968, Jimmy Carter in 1976 and Michael Dukakis in 1988, as well as Republicans Herbert Hoover in 1928, Thomas Dewey in 1948 and Ronald Reagan in 1980.

Robert Boochever

On May 22, 1980, Boochever was nominated by President Jimmy Carter to a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Shannon J. Wall

Although Wall had been an early endorser of Jimmy Carter as president, his union broke with the AFL-CIO to endorse Ronald Reagan.

Shurat HaDin

On February 1, 2011, Shurat HaDin and US attorney David Schoen, Esq. of Montgomery, Alabama filed suit against former president Jimmy Carter and publisher Simon and Schuster for the publication of Carter’s book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid.

Siggi Wilzig

When Nobel Prize winner Holocaust author Elie Wiesel was appointed to head the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council by President Jimmy Carter, he asked that “Wilzig be the first person to serve with him.”

Stephen Schneider

Schneider served as a consultant to federal agencies and White House staff in the Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations.