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Há 1 dia · Jimmy Carter's 100th birthday to be celebrated with musical gala at Atlanta's Fox Theatre. Carter’s outsider identity traced back to his earliest years, growing up on a farm outside of his tiny ...
Há 1 dia · In early 1980, Carter determined the thrust of U.S. policy for the duration of the war: he initiated a program to arm the mujahideen through Pakistan's ISI and secured a pledge from Saudi Arabia to match U.S. funding for this purpose.
Há 15 horas · The 1980 United States presidential election was the 49th quadrennial presidential election, held on November 4, 1980. The Republican nominee, former California governor Ronald Reagan, defeated incumbent Democratic President Jimmy Carter in a landslide victory. This was the first election since 1932 in which an elected incumbent president was ...
- California
- Republican
- Ronald Reagan
- George H. W. Bush
Há 15 horas · Carter stood up to the Soviet Union over Poland in 1980, thus not allowing a repeat of the Red Army’s 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia or its 1956 occupation of Hungary.
Há 1 dia · After Earl Carter died, Jimmy Carter followed his father’s path as community leader and businessman. The younger Carter didn’t openly fight Jim Crow segregation laws but publicly refused to join the White Citizens Council. Then he took a state Senate seat in 1962 by challenging a local political boss who had rigged the election against him.
Há 2 dias · Incumbent President Jimmy Carter was again selected as the nominee through a series of primary elections and caucuses, culminating in the 1980 Democratic National Convention, held from August 11 to 14, 1980, in New York City.
Há 2 dias · First, in January 1980, with Carter’s approval, the CIA successfully extracted six American diplomats hiding in the Canadian embassy in Tehran. The agency’s involvement in the operation was not publicly known until records were declassified in 1997; the story gained wider recognition only in 2012 with the release of the popular film Argo, in which Ben Affleck played the lead CIA agent.
