Jimmy Carter

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...with enormous Union presence is the death knell to the Dems and Obama personally. He has become a cancer to his party quicker than Jimmy Carter did, and will be the main cause of disasterous election results for the Dems in 2010 and...

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...with the students demanding the extradition of the deposed Shah from the United States. * The siege prompted then U.S. President Jimmy Carter to freeze Iranian assets and sever all diplomatic ties with Tehran. * On April 25, 1980, a...

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...for some, it was the start of 444 days of captivity. In 1980, Ronald Reagan won the White House as he defeated President Jimmy Carter by a strong margin. In 1991, Ronald Reagan opened his presidential library in Simi Valley, Calif.,...

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...his work on opinion polls saying that Iranians want diplomatic relations with the United States. Many attribute the failure of Jimmy Carter, who was US president from 1977 to 1981, to win a second term in office to his mismanagement of the...

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...military, counts as a significant breach, thus fully justifying the immediate termination of the lease agreement. President Jimmy Carter courageously returned the Panama Canal to the Panamanians, setting an important precedent. Carter did...

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...about the Nobel Peace Prize and wouldn't want to leave the impression that it is shaping his foreign policy. Former President Jimmy Carter stopped by the atomic bomb memorial in Hiroshima in 1984, after he was out of office. The...

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...both Carter and Obama." John Geer, a Vanderbilt University political scientist, said the comparisons to Carter are weak. "Jimmy Carter is a very rare exception in American history. Most first-term presidents get a second term," he said,...

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...brings together groups of volunteers to build houses for families who don't have a clean, safe, affordable place to live. Every year, Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, spend one week building Habitat houses for poor families in countries around...

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Former US president Jimmy Carter will head to Asia next month to lead thousands of volunteers building homes for the poor in five nations along the Mekong River, a humanitarian group said on Tuesday. The volunteers for Habitat for...

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