Jimmy Carter
Noun | 1. | Jimmy Carter - 39th President of the United States (1924-) |
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释义 | Jimmy Carter
Jimmy CarterCarter, Jimmy(James Earl Carter, Jr.), 1924–, 39th President of the United States (1977–81), b. Plains, Ga, grad. Annapolis, 1946.Carter served in the navy, where he worked with Admiral Hyman G. RickoverRickover, Hyman George, Although little known outside Georgia, Carter announced that he would run for president at the end of his gubernatorial term, and through sustained and diligent campaigning won the 1976 Democratic presidential nomination. With Minnesota Senator Walter F. MondaleMondale, Walter Frederick In foreign policy, Carter had some initial success. He secured congressional ratification—by a single vote after extended and rancorous debate—of his two Panama Canal treaties (1977), establishing a timetable for passing control of the canal to Panama. Then, in 1979, at the presidential retreat at Camp David, Maryland, Carter personally persuaded Anwar al-SadatSadat, Anwar al- Although he and Leonid BrezhnevBrezhnev, Leonid Ilyich Domestically, Carter had difficulties controlling inflation, which rose in each year of his administration—in part because of oil price increases after the Iranian revolution. The Federal Reserve Board's drastic remedies for curtailing inflation, undertaken under the leadership of Paul VolckerVolcker, Paul Adolph, Since leaving office, Carter has been active in international human-rights efforts, often as an observer of first-time free elections. He has served as an international mediator in North Korea, Haiti, Bosnia, Venezuela, and elsewhere, and has worked to focus world attention on epidemics in Africa, focusing special attention on eradicating guinea worm disease and river blindness. He made a highly publicized trip to Cuba in May, 2002, becoming the most prominent American to visit the nation since Castro came to power. The Carter Center in Atlanta, founded in 1986, became an important arena for the discussion of international affairs. Carter also has been deeply involved with Habitat for Humanity, a nonprofit organization that helps working-class people in North America and abroad build and finance new homes. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 for his efforts to advance peace, democracy, human rights, and economic and social development. Jimmy Carter married Rosalynn Smith in 1946; they have four children. During his term of office Carter published Why Not the Best? (1975) and A Government as Good as Its People (1977). After it, he wrote more than 25 works of poetry and nonfiction, including The Blood of Abraham (1985); Everything to Gain (1987, written with his wife Rosalynn); Turning Point (1992); The Hornet's Nest (2003), a novel set in the South during the Revolutionary War; Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid (2006), which some criticized as one-sided and anti-Israeli; and A Call to Action (2014), a plea for women's rights. BibliographySee his memoirs, Keeping Faith (1982) and An Hour before Daylight (2001) and his White House Diary (2010); biographies by J. E. Zelizer (2010) and R. Ballmer (2014); J. Wooten, Dasher: The Roots and the Rising of Jimmy Carter (1978); E. C. Hargrove, Jimmy Carter as President (1988); P. G. Bourne, Jimmy Carter (1997); D. Brinkley, The Unfinished Presidency (1998); B. Glad, An Outsider in the White House (2009); E. S. Godbold, Jr., Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter: The Georgia Years, 1924–1974 (2010); J. B. Flippen, Jimmy Carter, the Politics of Family, and the Rise of the Religious Right (2011). Carter, Jimmy(James Earl Carter). Born Oct. 1, 1924, in Plains, Ga. American state figure. The son of a farmer, Carter graduated from the Naval Academy in 1946 and served in the US Navy. After his discharge in 1953 he took over his family’s farm. He was elected to the Georgia state senate in 1962. Carter served as governor of Georgia from 1971 to 1975. In 1976 he was nominated as the candidate of the Democratic Party for the office of president of the United States. He defeated the Republican Party’s candidate, G. Ford, in the election of November 1976 and took office in January 1977. In foreign policy the Carter administration directed its efforts at maintaining and strengthening the position of the USA and emphasized relations with the Western European allies and Japan. Supporting in principle the continuation of the policy of detente, Carter increasingly sought to secure exclusive advantages for the USA in its relations with the USSR to the detriment of the agreed-upon principles of sovereignty, equality, mutual benefit, and noninterference in the internal affairs of the other side. Early in 1980, Carter announced a decision to postpone indefinitely the ratification of the second Soviet-American Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT-II), signed in 1979. Other steps were also taken to increase international tension and to curtail economic, scientific, technological, and cultural exchanges between the USA and the USSR. The “human rights” campaign launched by Carter was in effect a pretext for interfering in the internal affairs of other countries. A policy of increased US military presence in various areas of the world was pursued, and all-around assistance to Afghani counterrevolutionaries was rendered. The unpopularity of Carter’s policy resulted in his failure in the 1980 presidential election. Carter, (James Earl) Jimmy(1924– ) thirty-ninth U.S. president; born in Plains, Ga. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy (1946) and served in the navy until 1953; part of that time he worked under Admiral Hyman Rickover on the naval nuclear reactor project. Carter left the navy to take over the family's peanut business, which he built up. He served two terms as a Democrat in the Georgia legislature (1963–67). After serving as a liberal governor of Georgia (1970–74), he began campaigning for the presidency and won the Democratic nomination of 1976, narrowly beating Gerald Ford in the election. In contrast to recent administrations, he had promised an open and progressive government responsive to the public; despite a Democratic Congress, however, his presidency was notable more for good intentions than achievements. He did effect the Panama Treaty and the historic Camp David agreements between Israel and Egypt (1979), but his initial popularity waned during 1979–80 as a result of mounting economic difficulties and the seizure of U.S. hostages in Iran. He lost the 1980 election to Ronald Reagan. Back in private life he was active in national and international social concerns, taking a hands-on approach to everything from building homes for poor Americans to mediating between hostile parties (as in Haiti).Jimmy Carter
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