Jimmy Carter

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This paper examines the character and presidency of Jimmy Carter. First, the author gives a background to the election. Then Carter's personal values and qualities are described. Some of the major events of Carter's tenure as president are presented. The author emphasizes Carter's strong religious convictions as being the basis for his morally-based leadership. This paper attempts to examine Carter's leadership not for what he accomplished while in office but rather for the man and his values. Several of Carter's books are cited, which deal with both foreign and domestic policy. The paper concludes with a biographical sketch of Carter's life and explanations for his failure to be re-elected.

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" According to Hargrove, Carter was a personable but also a probing discussion leader, and that, in combination with his and his inner circle's independent reading, research, and reflections in private, combined, was how decisions were arrived at within Jimmy Carter's White House. On the other hand, perhaps in reaction to Watergate, Carter was neither well-practiced nor very interested in political maneuvering and was perhaps even (due, as Hargrove suggests, to his engineering background in the Naval Submarine Program under Hyman Rickover) too intently focused, and therefore lacking in sufficient peripheral vision."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Carter, Jimmy. Faith and Freedom: The Christian Challenge for the World. London, U.K.: Gerald Duckworth and Company, Ltd. August 2006.
• ---. A Government as Good as Its People. Arkansas: University of Arkansas Press, 1996.
• ---. An Hour Before Daylight: Memoirs of a Rural Boyhood. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001.
• ---. Christmas in Plains: Memories. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2001.
• ---. Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President. New York: Bantam, 1982.

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