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Jimmy Carter

Jimmy Carter was born in Plains, Georgia, and served as thirty-ninth President of the United States. He and his wife, Rosalynn, founded The Carter Center, a nonprofit organization that prevents and resolves conflicts, enhances freedom and democracy, and improves health around the world. He is the author of numerous books, including Palestine Peace Not Apartheid, An Hour Before Daylight and Our Endangered Values. He received a "Best Spoken Word" Grammy Award for his recording of Our Endangered Values. All of President Carter's proceeds from this series will go to the Maranatha Baptist Church of Plains, Georgia.

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...her on Twitter @galebeeby. 1977 at a Glance LEADERS  • Canadian Prime Minister: Pierre E. Trudeau  • U.S. President: Jimmy Carter  • British Prime Minister: James Callaghan HEADLINES  • Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Amnesty International...
From Hearst to Harry
ESPN Soccernet, February 9, 2012
...around her, the court gave her 35 years in jail, that got reduced to just 22 months before Jimmy Carter let her out early and in 2001 Bill Clinton granted her a pardon. While her fellow guerillas ate crow or rotted in the ground Patty married her...
Teachers, Parents Argue Merits of Challenged Book 'Waterland'
Plymouth MI Patch, February 9, 2012
...classroom use, while Playboy isn’t. He then cited Playboy interviews with noted historic figures, such as President Jimmy Carter and Walter Cronkite as potentially offering educational material. Read said the two works couldn’t be compared in such a...
Brzezinski warns of consequences of not knowing foreign policy
Main Line Media News, February 9, 2012
...a great lecture at the Philadelphia Free Library. Zbigniew Brzezinski, Ph.D., former National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter, spoke on a critically important topic: “Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power.” (This is also...
Salman Rushdie and Freedom of Expression
Milli Gazette, February 8, 2012
...he will not find a publisher and will be hounded by the Zionist lobby as former US president Jimmy Carter and Tushar Gandhi were in America for merely suggesting that the Palestinians have been wronged. I would like to ask one fundamental question to all...
Book Signing: King Peggy
Virginia Highland-Druid Hills Patch, February 7, 2012
...Jimmy Carter Library & Museum, 441 Freedom Pkwy, Atlanta, GA | Get Directions » FREE Peggielene Bartel's book, King Peggy chronicles her astonishing journey from an American secretary to a king...
Why Nonviolent Resistance Beats Armed Struggles in Seeking Regime Change
LA Progressive, October 13, 2011
...Iranian leader (who had nationalized the oil fields) so that we could install the Shah. But here’s Jimmy Carter, a terrible President and human rights hypocrite while in office, toasting the Shah when he visited the White House in 1977: “Iran,...
Reading Aloud Challenge - October 13
Footprints in the Butter, October 13, 2011
...audio clips of a lot of key speeches or what-have-you.  I listened to the end of the Jimmy Carter presidency and all of Reagan (which is where the book ends).  Cried listening to some of the Iranian hostage stuff, and the Challenger broadcast. ...
The Unstoppable Jimmy Carter
Steve Paikin, October 12, 2011
...at Queen's University's Archives, has just published a book of essays about former U.S. President Jimmy Carter's relationship with Canada.   It's called Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter: A Canadian Tribute, and focuses on a variety of Canadian-related angles...
What Do Mormons Believe
Christian Blogs, October 11, 2011
...p. 345f)5. yes I would vote for Romney if he became the Republican candidate. Some voted for Jimmy Carter a proclaimed born again Christian and he was about the worst president we ever had. So what difference does religious beliefs have with being a good...
The Issaquah Press is best community newspaper in state
The Issaquah Press - News, Sports, Classifieds and, October 11, 2011
...to rethink snow make-up days  — Debbie Berto and Ari Cetron Best General Feature Story – Short:  Jimmy Carter offers another chapter on tumultuous presidency  — Warren Kagarise Best General Interest Column:  Good idea: live and let (local...
Income as Re-Election Indicator: Readers Find the Math Fuzzy
RealClearPolitics - Articles, October 10, 2011
...the Internet to dig around for election and income data for the 1980 and 1992 elections (when incumbents Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush were defeated), displayed his quick computations and concluded in the email that his own application of Bartels’...
Celebrating Desmond Tutu’s Birthday with his new biography “Tutu Authorized”
MyWeku.com, October 4, 2011
...Reverend Mpho Tutu, Desmond Tutu’s daughter, to world leaders and public figures including Hillary Clinton, Kofi Annan, Jimmy Carter, Bono, Richard Branson, and F.W. de Klerk. A stirring exploration and graphically rich presentation of one of the...