The Jimmy Carter Presidential
Library & Museum is located
on the grounds of the
Carter Center.
Center, in partnership with
alleviate human suffering;
improve health; prevent &
resolve conflicts & enhance
freedom & democracy.
This is where Eric & I
will start our tour.
here.
After discovering
President Hoover's Museum in
Iowa, Eric and I have visited Presidents
Franklin Roosevelt,
Truman,
Eisenhower,
Kennedy,
Johnson,
Nixon,
Ford,
George H.W. Bush,
Clinton and
George W. Bush's museums. The next time we are in
California, Eric and I will visit
President Reagan's Museum in
Simi Valley.
President Carter's journey to
the
White House started in
Plains, Georgia.
After graduating from Plains High School, Jimmy took college classes in preparation of acceptance to the
United States Naval Academy in
Annapolis, Maryland.
Ensign Carter in 1946.
Lieutenant Carter was selected by
officer position aboard the
Seawolf,
America's second nuclear submarine.
Jimmy's father,
Earl Carter, was diagnosed with cancer and died in 1953. Lieutenant Carter resigned his commission to return home to Plains and run the Carter family business...
growing peanuts. After
working on local boards and in the Georgia State Senate, Jimmy ran for Governor in 1966, and lost.
end segregation in Georgia.
The Man from Plains ran
for President in 1976
& won.
President Carter worked in.
This unique portrait of
President Carter is one
"Metamorphic portraits."
Ocampo created
this portrait with symbols of United States and the President's personal history.
Like all presidents, Jimmy Carter's term of office was busy. America was struggling with the after effects of the Vietnam War. President Carter pardoned
civilians who chose to evade service during the Vietnam War.
Major domestic issues during President Carter's Administration were a sluggish economy, rising inflation, higher fuel costs and conservation and protecting the environment.
Rosalynn, Amy &
President Carter to
promote energy saving.
The military was strengthened
to increase our nation's
National Defense.
President Carter & Soviet President
Breshnev signed the SALT II Treaty
on June 18, 1979 to further secure
nuclear weapons.
First Lady Rosalynn Carter
Despite the efforts of many, the Equal Rights Amendment did not pass in the 38 states needed within its allotted ratification time frame.
Rosalynn started
working on Mental Health issues in the White House.
It wasn't all work at the Carter White House.
The President & First Lady
entertained formally &
informally, with family
& friends.
There was time for games.
Music too....
Dizzy Gillespie & friends
"jammed."
Willie Nelson & the President
gave it their all.
Mstislav Rostropovich
performed at the
White House.
The Carter's youngest, Amy, grew up in the White House.
A tree house was built for her.
She met many famous visitors,
Amy traveled with her parents
& her world view expanded.
President Carter believed that the United States could help bring peace to the ever-troubled
Middle East.
He gambled on meetings at
Camp David with
Israeli
Prime Minister Menachem
Begin &
Egyptian President
Anwar Sadat.
The hard work paid off. Since the
Camp David Accords were signed on September 17,1978, no Egyptians have been killed by Israelis and vice versa.
The Sadats & the Carters
On November 4, 1979,
the US Embassy in
Tehran was captured
by
Iranian students.
Sixty-six Americans were taken hostage. Women and African American hostages were released, leaving fifty-one Americans imprisoned. The Carter Administration worked hard to free the hostages without overwhelming use of force.
The USSR invaded Afghanistan in late December, 1979. President Carter responded with economic sanctions, trade embargoes and a boycott of the 1980 Olympics held in Moscow. The United States sent military support tot the Afghan Rebels.
The Hostage Crisis ground on...
A rescue attempt failed on April 24, 1980.
President Carter ran for re-election
in November,1980 & lost
After 444 days in captivity,
the hostages were freed on
January 20, 1981.
Jimmy, Rosalynn and Amy returned to Plains, Georgia. The future was yet to be charted. The Carters started the Carter Center in 1982 and have been busy since.
The Carter Center is
dedicated to eradicating
preventable diseases.
The Carters and the Carter Center have been working on
Mental Health,
Guinea Worm,
River Blindness,
Trachoma,
Lymphatic Filariasis &
Schistosomiasis. Rosalynn continues working tirelessly on Mental Health education.
Besides all their work at the Carter Center, Jimmy and Rosalynn started
building homes for Habitat for Humanity in 1984.
Promoting peace &
democracy:
Jimmy Carter's efforts to "wage peace" have not gone unnoticed.
to find peaceful solutions
to international problems.
President Carter continues to share his Christian faith at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, where
he teaches Sunday School.
