1. Jimmy Carter Thirty-Ninth President 1977-1981

2. Carter’s Thoughts on Political Leaders:
He was a reformer and progressive, who put his faith in science and technology to advance the human condition, even as he retained his moral values from his deep religious faith. He thought political leadership should function for the common good, not to please a set of organized constituencies. Carter intended to act with honesty and candor, leading people by setting an example, and by asking them to reach a higher moral plane. He promised he would never lie to the American people.

3. Each New President Takes on the Problems of their Predecessor
Carter was confronted with almost the same challenges as Ford but they had escalated due to the energy crisis:
Inflation
Struggling to revive a depressed economy
Solving chronic energy shortages
Continuing to ensure world peace

4. The inflation rate climbed higher each year Carter was in office, rising from 6 percent in 1976 to more than 12 percent by Both business leaders and the public at large blamed Carter for the nation's economic woes, charging that
the president lacked a coherent strategy for taming inflation without causing a painful increase in unemployment.

5. The Inflation Rate Also Climbed because of…
OPEC
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
OPEC is a permanent, intergovernmental oil organization, created at the Baghdad Conference on September 10–14, 1960, by Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela.

6. The 1973 Oil Crisis
In October of 1973 Middle-Eastern OPEC nations stopped exports to the US and other western nations which greatly contributed to the energy crisis.
The faltering economy was due in part to the energy crisis that had originated as a result of overdependence on foreign oil.

7. The 1973 Oil Crisis
In 1977 the president proposed an energy program that included an oil tax, conservation, and the use of alternative sources of energy. The House supported the program but the Senate squashed it.

8. Carter’s Accomplishments
With the leadership of President Jimmy Carter, the coalition led to the passage of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA) in 1980.
This landmark law protected over 100 million acres of
federal public lands as Wilderness, National Parks,
and National Wildlife Refuges.

9. Carter's Greatest Legacy
In 1978 Carter brought together Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin at the presidential retreat in Camp David, Maryland, and secured their agreement to the Camp David Accords, which ended the state of war that had existed between the two countries since Israel's founding in 1948.
A good example of this conflict is the Yom Kippur War.

10. SIDE NOTE~ The Yom Kippur War, also known as the Arab-Israeli War of 1973 or the Ramadan War, was a war between Israel on one side and Egypt and Syria on the other side.  It was the fourth major military confrontation between Israel and the Arab states until Carter brought the countries together.

11. Carter's Greatest Legacy
His unprecedented efforts brought Arabs and Jews together, establishing a framework for peace. The president accomplish this in just thirteen days!
The difficult negotiations—which lasted 13 days and were salvaged only by Carter's tenacious intervention—provided for the establishment of full diplomatic and economic relations on condition that Israel return the occupied Sinai Peninsula to Egypt.

12. U.S. President Jimmy Carter (center), Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin (left), and Egyptian President Anwar el-Sadat (right) clasping hands on the White House lawn after the signing of the peace treaty between Israel and Egypt, March 26, 1979.

13. After the Presidency
Jimmy Carter was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 for his "decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solution to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development."

14. Bibliography http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/gf38.html
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