39. JAMES CARTER
± 1st presidential phone-in
± 1st president sworn in by nickname
± 1st president to appoint a Female African American cabinet member, Patricia Roberts Harris, Department of Housing and Urban Renewal
± 1st President claiming to see an UFO
± 1st to be born in hospital
o Wife: Rosalynn Carter broke new ground by attending her husband's cabinet meetings and acting as emissary to foreign heads of state during solo trip to South America. Pushed for Mental Health Reform. Now in retirement, she is active in Habitat for Humanity with her husband
o VP: Walter Mondale
o outsider, introspective, positive-thinking, inner peace, self-disciplined, honest
o was Baptist
o Jimmy, The Peanut Farmer, President Malaise
o went to US Naval Academy and Georgia Institute of Tech
o enlisted in Navy for submarine service
o peanut farmer and atomic engineer on Seawolf submarine
• 2 terms in senate in Georgia
• gov of Georgia
• awarded Nobel Peace Prize for work at Carter Center
• US and Panama sign treaties to end American control of panama canal, 2000
• SALT II agreement
• "Not just Peanuts" slogan
• stagflation- bad economy
• Separate Department of Education created
• Airline deregulation
Ø Iranian militant seize more that 50 hostages at US embassy in Tehran
Ø Department of Energy established
Ø Camp David Accords result in Middle East peace negotiation breakthrough
Ø 3 mile island- nuclear explosion
Ø US and China resume full diplomatic relation
Ø US rescue of hostages in Iran aborted
Ø US boycotts Summer Olympics in Moscow
