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70 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.

1981 Sugar Bowl

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

410th Flight Test Squadron

The first B-1B (82-0001) was assembled largely by hand and incorporated several sub-assemblies of the No 5 B-1A, which has been under construction when the B-1A program was cancelled in 1977 by President Jimmy Carter.

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.

Amateur Sports Act of 1978

The Amateur Sports Act of 1978, signed by President Jimmy Carter, establishes a United States Olympic Committee and provides for national governing bodies for each Olympic sport.

Animas-La Plata Water Project

Construction was expected to begin in 1980 or 1981, however, President Carter ordered that no new water projects be started.

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.

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.

Arlington, Georgia

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

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.

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.

Carol Costello

As a reporter and anchor, Costello has interviewed Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton and George H. W. Bush.

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.

Cody's Books

Some prominent authors and notables who appeared at Cody's were: Tom Robbins, Norman Mailer, Ken Kesey, Alice Walker, Allen Ginsberg, Maurice Sendak, Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, Muhammad Ali, and Salman Rushdie.

Deep South

The Deep South has voted Republican in presidential elections for many decades, except in the 1976 election when Georgia native Jimmy Carter received the Democratic nomination, the 1992 election when Arkansas native and former Governor Bill Clinton won both Georgia and Louisiana and the 1996 election when the incumbent President Clinton again won Louisiana.

Doc Lawson

However, President Jimmy Carter declared that the United States would boycott the games after the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan.

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.

Editorial Atlántida

Growing international pressure against the regime's Dirty War resulted in a petition campaign organized by Para Tí, in which postcards labeled "Argentina: The Whole Truth" could be torn out by readers and mailed to a list of addresses of the regime's most prominent international critics, including U.S. President Jimmy Carter, Senator Ted Kennedy, and French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, as well as Amnesty International and numerous international newspapers of record.

Edward Vason Jones

His works include the first renovations to the U.S. Department of State Diplomatic Reception Rooms from 1965 to 1980, renovations to the White House during the Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter administrations, work at the Mississippi Governor's Mansion, and dozens of neoclassical residential projects.

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.

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.

Georgia's 2nd congressional district

The district is also the historic and current home of President Jimmy Carter.

Gloria Molina

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

Greg Makowski

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

Harold A. Baker

Baker was nominated by President Jimmy Carter on August 9, 1978, to a seat vacated by Henry S. Wise on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Illinois.

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.

ILY sign

Presidential candidate Jimmy Carter reportedly picked it up from a group of Deaf supporters in the Midwest and, in 1977, during his Inauguration Day parade, flashed the ILY to a group of Deaf people on the sidewalk.

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.

Jeff Stock

Unfortunately for Stock and his team mates, President Jimmy Carter chose to boycott the games in response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

John Lignos

However, he and his team mates did not compete after President Jimmy Carter boycotted the Olympics following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

Kate Schmidt

She also made the USA Olympic team in 1980, but the team did not get to compete due to the 1980 Summer Olympics boycott ordered by then President Jimmy Carter.

Kenan Evren

The Central Intelligence Agency's Ankara bureau chief at the time, Paul B. Henze, received a call from the White House Situation Room saying "Paul, your guys have done it", while President Jimmy Carter was watching Fiddler on the Roof at the Kennedy Center.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Offshore Power Systems

When President Jimmy Carter placed a moratorium on nuclear power plant construction, OPS began laying off employees.

Our Endangered Values

Our Endangered Values is a book written by 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.

Pope Benedict XVI and Islam

The passport is an initiative of the Open Bethlehem foundation, which was founded in November 2005 with the support of Bethlehem civil institutions and world figures including former USA President Jimmy Carter and Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

Program 437

It was an order his successor, President Jimmy Carter, followed through on, and anti-satellite technology has continued to be in some form of research or development since.

Reagan coalition

In 1980 the Reagan coalition was possible because of Democrat Jimmy Carter's losses in most social-economic groups.

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.

Roland Sikinger

He was also a member of the 1980 U. S. Olympic soccer team which qualified for the tournament but was unable to compete when President Jimmy Carter decided that the United States would boycott the games due to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

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.

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 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.

Sudanese nomadic conflicts

Both Sudanese and Southern Sudanese governments accused the other of becoming involved in the fighting but observer, former US president, Jimmy Carter stated that he believed the "national forces in the north and the south have been very careful not to become involved in the conflict".

Tadeusz Brzeziński

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.

The Father, the Son, and J.C.

Bobby sets out walking, trying to gather his thoughts after his grandfather and father just had a heated argument, and crosses paths with former president of the United States, Jimmy Carter, a frequent Habitat for Humanity volunteer.

Theophilus Ochang

In February 2007 Theophilus welcomed former U.S. President Jimmy Carter to Juba.

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.

William J. Dyess

In 1980, President of the United States Jimmy Carter named Dyess Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs, with Dyess holding this office from August 29, 1980 until July 30, 1981.

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.


Abraham Shemtov

He regularly leads Chabad-Lubavitch delegations to the White House and played a pivotal role in the relationships formed between Schneerson and U.S. Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama.

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.

Bobby Richardson

Holland was aided by the strength of Jimmy Carter's winning campaign in South Carolina to hold off Richardson by a tally of 66,073 (51.4%) to 62,095 (48.3%).

Box End

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

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

Michael Robert Cavendish

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

Michelle Madoff

Caliguiri was serving as President of Pittsburgh City Council and became mayor when Peter Flaherty was appointed Deputy Attorney General of the United States in the Jimmy Carter Presidential Administration.

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.

Nucular

U.S. presidents who have used this pronunciation include Dwight D. Eisenhower, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush.

Nuncio

Archbishop Pio Laghi, for example, was first apostolic delegate, then pro-nuncio, to the United States during the Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, and George H. W. Bush presidencies.

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.

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.

Rowan Nathaniel House

During the presidency of Jimmy Carter, several of House's works hung in the Oval Office as part of the President's desire to promote southern artists.

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 Goldfeld

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

Steve Dallas

He once went so far as to say that, "My God. We've got to get Carter back in the White House" after associating Ronald Reagan's presidency with the end of the Sexual revolution and therefor the end of his conquests at "Bob's Bar & Flesh Market".

Tax Reduction and Simplification Act of 1977

The Tax Reduction and Simplification Act of 1977 was passed by the 95th United States Congress and signed into law by President Jimmy Carter on May 23, 1977.

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.