Jimmy Carter 
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SOURCE: Washington Post
12/5/2020
Trump’s Voter Fraud Yarn is Unraveling. But it can Still Help the GOP
Rick Perlstein suggests that the Republicans' unwillingness to condemn Trump's wild theories about a stolen election are part of a historical pattern of fear that if the electorate expands Republicans will be lose. The theories won't overturn this election, but they will be used to justify future restrictions on the ballot.
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SOURCE: Washington Monthly
10/20/2020
How Jimmy Carter Kept Me Sane
by Jonathan Alter
"I wrote my Carter biography during the toxic Trump years. The Georgian’s kindness and honesty are an inspiration for me and should be for America, too."
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SOURCE: The New York Times
8/18/2020
‘Reaganland,’ by Rick Perlstein: An Excerpt
'Reaganland: America's Right Turn, 1976-1980' is available now.
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SOURCE: Smithsonian
8/17/2020
An Interview With ‘Playboy’ Magazine Nearly Torpedoed Jimmy Carter’s Presidential Campaign
by Rick Perlstein
Jimmy Carter's 1976 campaign was nearly destroyed by an honest and introspective magazine interview; the fact that the magazine was "Playboy" did not help.
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8/9/2020
The 1976 Election: Why We Can't Predict Vice Presidential Selections in Advance
by Daniel K. Williams
The 1976 campaign highlights a paradox: while the person a presidential nominee chooses as their running mate might be surprising, that individual is selected using criteria that are predictable.
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2/16/20
Jimmy Carter: The Last of the Fiscally Responsible Presidents
by Joe Renouard
Jimmy Carter’s Economy Was Better than You Think
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SOURCE: Washington Post
2/12/20
Is Pete Buttigieg Jimmy Carter 2.0?
by J. Brooks Flippen
To win the White House and be a successful president, he must learn from an eerily similar candidate.
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1/22/20
The History of Presidential Misconduct Beyond Watergate and Iran-Contra
by HNN Staff
At the AHA, James Banner, Kathryn Olmstead, Kevin Kruse, and Jeremi Suri discussed how they revived a long forgotten report on presidential misconduct.
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12/22/19
Jimmy Carter: Watergate’s Final Victim
by Michael A. Genovese
Today, at 95, Carter is the longest-lived president in history, as well as the nation’s longest-retired president. Facing several health-related challenges, perhaps it is time to reflect on the rise, fall, and rise of James Earl “Jimmy” Carter.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
10/1/19
Jimmy Carter once thought he was nearing death. The longest-living former U.S. president just turned 95.
Carter has reached yet another milestone despite thinking he was on the verge of death just a few years earlier, after doctors discovered that cancer had spread to his brain.
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9/1/19
The Carter Presidency Reconsidered
by Richard Moe
“We told the truth, we obeyed the law, we kept the peace and we championed human rights.”
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7/7/19
Jimmy Carter, Public Historian
by Evan A. Kutzler
The work that the Carters do at the local level meets the National Council on Public History's inclusive definition of the field: "public history describes the many and diverse ways in which history is put to work in the world."
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4/14/19
Health Care for All – A Cautionary Tale from the 1970s
by Richard Moe
If the ultimate goal is to expand affordable health care to every American, Jimmy Carter and Ted Kennedy offer important lessons.
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SOURCE: USA Today
1/28/19
After Donald Trump, we need a Washington outsider like Jimmy Carter in the 2020 race
by Jonathon Zimmerman
Carter wasn't a particularly effective president. But he was the right candidate for the moment, a decent man who healed the hole in our national heart.
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1/20/19
Will Beto O'Rourke Follow the Path of Barack Obama, Abraham Lincoln, Jimmy Carter, and George H.W. Bush to the Presidency?
by Ronald L. Feinman
How previous longshot presidents defeated the odds.
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SOURCE: The Washington Post
8-17-18
The un-celebrity president
Jimmy Carter shuns riches, lives modestly in his Georgia hometown.
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5/6/18
Stuart Eizenstat Remembers the Carter Years Differently than Most People
by Chris Riback
The Carter White House advisor argues his case in his newly-published memoirs.
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SOURCE: NYT
4-26-18
Garry Wills hails Jimmy Carter in a New York Times article blasting the religious right
by Garry Wills
"The religious right has long been not a religion but an ideology.” – Garry Wills
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SOURCE: Civil War Memory
6-23-17
Is Jimmy Carter a fan of the Lost Cause myth?
by Kevin Levin
A researcher reports that Carter believes that public plaques should feature the Lost Cause interpretation of the Civil War.
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SOURCE: National Security Archive
6-8-17
Proliferation Risks of Japanese Plutonium Surpluses Troubled U.S. Officials for Decades
Japan’s long-standing aspirations to develop a "plutonium economy" troubled U.S. officials going back decades as early as the Jimmy Carter administration.
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