When Jimmy Carter embarked on his improbable campaign for the presidency in 1976, New Jersey was not all that keen about the Georgia peanut farmer and former governor from Plains. Carter — who entered ...
See their close friendship through the eyes of experts who knew it best, and through what Carter himself told 13 ON YOUR SIDE's Juliet Dragos a decade ago.
Jimmy Carter already had drawn months of media scrutiny as a devout Southern Baptist running for president. Then the 1976 Democratic nominee brought up sex and sin as he ...
Political cartoonists had a field day drawing Jimmy Carter. The image of Carter during his 1976 campaign included caricatures of a rural Southerner and that giant smile.
Cartoonists for the Chicago Tribune and Time magazine depicted Carter as Planters snack company’s dapper advertising character, Mr. Peanut. Others depicted Carter himself as a smiling peanut, along ...
He defeated then-President Gerald R. Ford to win the presidency and served a single term from 1977 through 1981. Carter, a Democrat, lost reelection to Republican Ronald Reagan. During his term, ...