Jimmy Carter's Presidency

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This paper discusses James Earl Carter, Jr. (known all his life as Jimmy Carter) and his presidency of the United States. It provides a background on his upbringing and rise to presidency and then discusses some of the events that occurred during his time as president. The paper analyzes the early religious, moral, educational and personal influences on his moral approach to leadership.

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"A look at Jimmy Carter's Presidency shows that moral leadership, while reassuring does not, on its own make a leader great or even exceptional. However, as the presidencies of Carter's mid-to-late 20th century predecessors and successors alike have demonstrated, Presidential leadership with little or no moral or ethical dimension can potentially (as it is doing now) damage the country, foreign relations, and the Presidency itself. In those respects Jimmy Carter, while his Presidency clearly left the country worse off economically and in various other ways; also left the office of Presidency itself more respected (and he left the White House more honorably, as a person) than any other full-term American President (with perhaps the sole exception of Ronald Reagan) since Eisenhower. The fact that so many today would see this as little of an achievement tells us much about what is wrong generally with America today."

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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