Jimmy Carter (1924-2024) · CatalogJimmy CarterJimmy Carter (1924-2024) · CatalogThirty-ninth President; post-Watergate call for honesty and renewed old ideals.
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Jimmy Carter
1924-2024 · Thirty-ninth President; post-Watergate call for honesty and renewed old ideals
About Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter (1924-2024), Georgia governor and Naval officer, opened his presidency by thanking Gerald Ford for healing the land and by urging fresh faith in America's old dream of liberty joined to spiritual seriousness.
Jimmy Carter's first sentence as President, on 20 January 1977, thanked the man he had just defeated: "I want to thank my predecessor for all he has done to heal our land." Gerald Ford had taken office after Nixon's resignation and had pardoned him, and Carter had run as an outsider promising a government "as good as its people."