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How Jimmy Carter transformed America’s relationship with the Middle East
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What Jimmy Carter meant to Americans: Public gathers to honor past president
Former US President Jimmy Carter remembered for a life that rose above politics
The late U.S. president was remembered during his state funeral as a man who put honesty and kindness above partisan politics.
Carter summoned Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat to Camp David to make peace, not apartheid, in the Middle East. But the Israeli president broke his promise to freeze settlements.
Carter’s instincts for conservation had been evident earlier when, as governor of Georgia, he had opposed unbridled commercial development, favored tough regulations to protect the state’s coastal wetlands, and endorsed the creation of two major seashores and river parks.
In the wake of Jimmy Carter's death, biographer Kai Bird, author of 'The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter' discusses the late president's successes and failures.
NICK SCHIFRIN: Kai Bird, against all odds? As I said, you called your book "The Outlier." How was Jimmy Carter an outlier? KAI BIRD, Author, "The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter ...
Kai Bird, against all odds? As I said, you called your book "The Outlier." How was Jimmy Carter an outlier? Kai Bird, Author, "The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter": Well ...
We borrow from both in our analysis here. Jonathan Alter, “His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, a Life,” New York: Simon and Schuster, 2020. Kai Bird, “The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of ...
Jimmy Carter was a genuine Washington outsider when he won the White House in 1976. And he remained proudly so, for better or worse.
Mary Elizabeth King was running a group designed to boost the paltry number of women in the top ranks of the federal government. And Joan Claybrook was one of Ralph Nader’s Raiders, the cadre of lawyers and researchers around the country pushing for consumer protections.
For a president to be mentioned in the same breath as Jimmy Carter is not considered a compliment. But that won’t be his legacy. Based on the remarkable body of
Carter was in Anchorage in 2000 to celebrate the anniversary of his landmark conservation law, the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act. The 1980 law left a historic mark on Alaska, by greatly expanding its national parks, refuges and other conservation system units.
When Jaws fires, there's no wave quite like it. It's similar to a regular reef break, only it's gigantic. And on January 8, it was pretty ridiculous.
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