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Jimmy Carter
January 20, 1977 - January 20, 1981
Created edited by Steve Armstrong SHS, 1994-2006
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Inaugural ceremony
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Carter walked Pennsylvania Avenue
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Carter portrayed the White House as more relaxed
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Carter took walks
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Carter jogged
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Carter helped daughter Amy with her homework
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Carter appointed Andrew Young as U.N. Ambassador
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Carters Mom, Miss Lillian, had been in the Peace
Corps
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Ambassador to Japan

• President Carter appointed former Senate Majority
  Leader Mike Mansfield as Ambassador to Japan
• Mansfield would be reappointed by President
  Reagan
• Mansfield served 16-years in this position

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Carter met Gov. Clinton
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Carter tried to hold regular press conferences
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Democratic Congress worked against Carter

• Speaker Tip ONeill was often at odds with
  President Carter
• ONeill, from Massachusetts, was apparently not
  pleased with a southerner as President
• Carter distasted wheeling and dealing

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Amnesty for draft evaders

• President Carter gave amnesty to all Vietnam War
  era draft evaders

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Domestic initiatives

• Promoted development of coal to reduce dependence
  on foreign oil
• Created two new cabinet level departments Energy
  and Education

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Carters malaise

• By 1978, President Carters approval rating was
  down to 29 (lower than Nixon)
• President Carter and his staff seemed to
  demonstrate their inexperience in governing
• Carter did not seem able to effectively deal with
  the faltering economy and energy crisis

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Carters foreign policy

• President Carter showed support for Liberian
  President Tolbert in 1978
• Tolbert was killed in a bloody coup two years
  later

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Carter summit with Chinese leader Ping
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Panama Canal Treaty, 1977

• Every president since LBJ wanted to rid the USA
  of the Panama obligation
• Carter agreed that the USA would give up control
  of the Canal Zone in January 2000
• Criticized by Republicans

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Camp David Accords, 1978

• Carter brought Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin to
  negotiate a peace accord

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Carter met with Begin,
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Then met with Sadat
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Camp David Accords officially signed in 1979
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Three Mile Island disaster

• Three Mile Island nuclear facility released
  radiation steam into the atmosphere (1979)
• Environmentalists expressed fears against nuclear
  energy

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Failure of SALT II

• Carter signed SALT II and submitted the treaty to
  the Senate for ratification
• Soviets then invaded Afghanistan
• Carter response to the Soviets
• Stopped grain shipments to Russia (which angered
  American farmers)
• Tried to organize a boycott against Russia
• Tried to boycott the 1980 Olympics in Moscow

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Grain embargo not popular with American farmers
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Iran Hostage Crisis, 1979-80

• Iranians seized the American embassy in Teheran
• American embassy personnel were held hostage for
  over 444 days

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April 1980 rescue attempt failed
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Carters approval rating plummeted

• Carter froze Iranian assets held in American
  banks
• Carter called on the world to engage in a trade
  embargo

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Role of Walter Cronkite

• Cronkite ended each evenings broadcast with the
  sentence And thats the way it is, the 233rd
  day of Americans held hostage in Iran.
• This added to American frustration against Carter