Jimmy Carter

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Jimmy Carter, protector of rivers (GPB)

The Flint River flows at Sprewell Bluff Park in Upson County. The bluff, and its surroundings, could have been largely submerged by a dam in the 1970s if ...

“And what Carter started was what was called a local sponsorship that the local benefiting community had to put up about 25% of the costs of a dam,” Doyle said. And so if the local community or the state had to come up with 25% of a really big-ticket item, all of a sudden the local community started to look at the numbers a little bit more carefully and ask, 'Are we actually going to benefit from this?'” Doyle said that, plus a growing dearth of easy places to dam, meant half as many new projects in the decade after Carter left Washington. And so Carter the engineer applied scientific rigor to the question of the Sprewell Bluff Dam. “A lot of other outdoor people were involved in even getting Jimmy Carter to get on the river and go down it,” she said. Doyle's recollection was accurate: Carter was a nuclear engineer in the U.S. "Carter was an engineer,” Doyle said. In the 1970s, when Mapel was in eighth grade, her dad was a farmer who ran a fertilizer business in the town of Woodbury. “You've got the spider lilies down the way," she said. The shoal bass is now the state fish of Georgia. Mapel has a ready list of the precious things there. “I'm thinking water skiing; I think I had just learned to water ski,” she recalled on a chilly morning on the public boat ramp across the Flint from the home where she once lived.

Jimmy Carter and the 'Torture Chamber of Latin America': Examining ... (Foreign Policy Research Institute)

On February 18, 2023, the Carter Center announced that former President Jimmy Carter would receive hospice care. In the days that followed, a flood of.

One of the few significant sources of support we had was the policy of the US government, which was constantly looking for human rights violations.” Ultimately, analyzing Carter’s human rights policy towards Uruguay offers a window into the role small states can play as a testing ground for instruments to promote human rights outside the headlines. By according the broad notion of “human rights” such a prominent place in his administration, Carter raised expectations without clearly defining the limitations of human rights and the reach of its policy. It might even have had the greatest impact in Uruguay by providing support to opposition groups as opposed to having a direct impact on the military regime’s calculations about its use of torture and political imprisonment. Yet, as another memo on US human rights policy during his term noted, while no military regimes fell in the Southern Cone, including Uruguay, “some political systems are becoming somewhat freer…a trend seems to have begun which could gather momentum and which already is improving the plight of individuals…and individuals are what the human rights policy is primarily about.” The Carter administration’s focus on these actions in Uruguay, especially in the absence of conflicting strategic priorities, helped the administration develop policy tools and influence his thinking on human rights implementation that could be applied to other countries around the globe. One way Carter implemented a focused human rights policy was within the State Department, where the Uruguay embassy team was handpicked to be a model in these human rights efforts. These are just a few of the instruments the Carter administration used to implement a human rights-focused foreign policy, and its results are hard to fully determine. Carter’s determination on this issue symbolized a shift in the executive branch’s support for human rights in foreign policy towards Uruguay and constituted a break from Nixon and Ford’s intransigent opposition to communism no matter the human rights costs. Indeed, despite Carter’s difficulty in implementing a human rights policy around the globe, examining his policies with Uruguay offers a window into one of his administration’s most vigorous human rights efforts. Instead, the Carter administration adopted the view that, particularly in the Southern Cone, US support for the regimes had damaged its global leadership and made the US complicit in human rights abuses. [claim](https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/carter.asp) that America’s “commitment to human rights must be absolute,” he championed a larger refocusing of American foreign policy beyond the bipolarity of the Cold War. Carter, by contrast, hoped he could convince the country to move past the legacy of Vietnam and the American “struggle for the soul of the country” that had followed.

We Can't Forget Jimmy Carter's Disastrous Legacy in Afghanistan (Progressive.org)

The costs of Carter's policies have been enormous: the rise of Al-Qaeda, America's twenty-year war against the Taliban, and decades of civil war in ...

[collapse](https://history.state.gov/milestones/1989-1992/collapse-soviet-union), but the PDPA lasted until 1992, when the Mujahideen finally seized Kabul. Yet, this view forgets that in Afghanistan, Carter [launched](https://washingtonmonthly.com/2021/09/01/how-jimmy-carter-started-americas-afghanistan-folly/) an unnecessarily aggressive effort against the USSR that flew in the face of his rhetoric. Yet Carter placed America’s desire to wound the USSR above all other considerations — including human rights. When the USSR sent in At key battles like the [critics claimed](https://www.aei.org/articles/our-worst-ex-president/) his foreign policy was weak and had emboldened the Soviet Union. Carter covertly armed the rural opposition, believing that the Soviets, faced with the possibility of a Muslim extremist regime on their border, would intervene. Both Afghans and Americans have paid a high price for his actions. The Taliban, constituted from Mujahideen veterans along with Afghan refugees from Pakistan, [took over](https://www.dni.gov/nctc/groups/afghan_taliban.html#:~:text=By%20September%201996%2C%20the%20Taliban,Qur'anic%20instruction%20and%20jurisprudence.) the country in 1996. [siege of Jalalabad](https://www.rebellionresearch.com/what-happened-in-the-battle-of-jalalabad), the Afghan Army dealt the Mujahideen humiliating defeats. [draft registration](https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/codification/proclamations/04771.html), [scuttling](https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/01/carter-withdraws-salt-ii-accord-jan-2-1980-319819) SALT II, [sharply increasing](https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1980/01/29/carter-is-converted-to-a-big-spender-on-defense-projects/6a04fed3-ca48-433e-a972-cca13bdf83a0/) military spending, and [boycotting](https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/carter-announces-olympic-boycott) the 1980 Moscow Olympics. [dispensed $3 billion](https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-hccc-worldhistory2/chapter/the-united-states-and-the-mujahideen/) to the various anti-PDPA groups, which were known collectively as the Mujahideen.

Jimmy Carter visited Manitowoc in 1976. He laid a wreath aboard ... (Herald Times Reporter)

Jimmy Carter visited Manitowoc on March 31, 1976, on a presidential primary campaign stop. He spoke aboard the USS Cobia and at the Senior Center.

Henry Jackson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_M._Jackson) of Washington — 6.43%. George Wallace](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Wallace) of Alabama — 12.49%; and [U.S. Morris Udall](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mo_Udall) of Arizona — 35.62%; [Gov. President Jimmy Carter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter)’s decision to spend his remaining time at home with family and receive hospice care instead of additional medical intervention brings to mind his presidential primary campaign stop in Manitowoc in 1976. The charitable nonprofit organization helps to improve the lives of people by advancing peace and health worldwide. [presidential primary](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries) in Wisconsin with 36.63% of the Democratic Party vote, beating challengers [U.S. After leaving the governorship in January 1975, Carter began to work full time for the presidential nomination. Here's where to find it.](https://www.htrnews.com/story/life/2023/02/02/green-bay-road-bridge-manitowoc-county-national-register-historic-places/69849228007/) Here's what was inside.](https://www.htrnews.com/story/life/2023/03/10/surprise-package-at-mishicot-historical-museum-had-never-seen-photos/69990184007/) Following Carter’s campaign appearance, members of the Carter family visited Manitowoc over the next two days. He laid a wreath aboard the USS Cobia and spoke at the Senior Center. Here's a look back at his primary campaign stop.

Jimmy Carter's 'piercing blue eyes' and friendly manner put this UT ... (Knoxville News Sentinel)

Former President Jimmy Carter's teeth and smile were always highlighted in editorial cartoons, just as Barack Obama's ears and Donald Trump's hair have been ...

As president, though, he ended up presiding over a struggling economy, the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan and the taking of American hostages by revolutionaries in Iran. As a fellow former Georgian and UT School of Journalism and Electronic Media professor, she had naturally taken an interest in his dealings with the press and the making of his image. In 1981, when Carter left office, his presidency had been considered overall a failure. “He was known for passing more legislation than any other president since Lyndon B. “I explore how he achieved what Time magazine called the greatest political miracle in U.S. And this openly Christian man had done it through some outside-the-box thinking, like granting an interview with Playboy magazine.

Rotarian Kaye Minchew presents book written on Jimmy Carter at ... (LaGrange Daily News)

As former President Jimmy Carter remains in hospice care, stories of his time at the White House, and as governor of Georgia, are as popular as ever.

I was at the Little White House doing the first book signing, thinking about what to do for another project when it came to me that I needed to do a project on the man from Georgia who was a full-time president — Jimmy Carter,” Minchew said. “I’ve been wanting to do more with the local Rotary Club, and she’s a member. “My first book was about [ Franklin D.