Jimmy Carter

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This paper takes a look at the 39th President of the United States, James Earl Carter, Jr., more commonly known as Jimmy Carter. The paper discusses his life, his work and his political career. The paper reports that Carter was elected in 1976, defeating incumbent Republican President Gerald Ford; but defeated for re-election four years later. According to the paper, the primary evidence of Carter's early religious; moral; educational, and personal influences offer insight into his morally-based leadership, a kind America might do well to better and more clearly encourage, rather than ignore or even denigrate, among leaders today.

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"As a boy, the future President Jimmy Carter's deep religious orientation, combined with the sense of civic and patriotic responsibility he learned, from his parents ; community; at church; at Sunday school, and in the Georgia public schools, likely also influenced him to choose the United States Navy as his first career. As an adolescent Carter dreamed of being appointed to the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, and graduating from there a Naval officer Carter further recalls that his father, by then a successful peanut farmer in Plains, and who had taught his son and namesake Jimmy to work alongside him from age 10 or so, nevertheless strongly encouraged his oldest son, then the only male heir to the elder Carter's thriving peanut farming business, to pursue his personal dream of entering Annapolis and making the Navy his career
Jimmy Carter, having succeeded after high school, at being appointed to the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis as a cadet in 1941, and then graduated in the top 20% of his class, completing a Bachelor of Science degree in 1945. After that the future President first served on submarines in Atlantic, and in Pacific fleets. But Jimmy Carter's seven-year Naval career ended (regretfully for the former President; since his goal from childhood had been to spend his life as a Naval officer ) abruptly when his father died on October 9, 1953 ). At that time, Carter was a command officer in the Navy's then fledgling nuclear submarine program, and then Captain (later Admiral) Hyman Rickover was his mentor."

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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