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James Earl Carter Jr. born on October 1, 1924 was born in Plains, Georgia to James Earl Carter Sr. and Bessie Lillian Gordy. HIs father a peanut farmer and his mother a registered nurse. By the age of ten he started working in his dad store and enjoyed listening to baseball games and politics on the radio with his father. His parents were deeply religious and took him to church and sunday school each week. Carter attended Plains High School, an all white school, and became the first on his father's side of the family to graduate from high school. After high school, Carter went to Georgia Southwestern Junior College and studied engineering. He then went to the Georgia Institute of Technology and enrolled in the Naval ROTC program. After a while he applied and was accepted into the Naval Academy and served time in the navy. In 1962 after the Supreme Court ruling on Baker v. Carr he decided he might have a chance at running for office, so he ran for the Georgia State Senate and …show more content…

He focused on the problems such as the energy crisis and ever growing inflation. Along with him, several experienced cabinet members came to the White House. Some of those people were Walter Mondale, as his Vice President; Cyrus Vance the secretary of state; Harold Brown the secretary of defence; Michael Blumenthal the secretary of the treasury, and Attorney General Griffen Bell. As president, Jimmy Carter did not achieve much in the terms of passing bills within Congress, but he did not have total failure. Carter signed a bill that allowed the creation of the department of education. Congress also passed an energy bill that he proposed, although it was eighteen months after proposed, along with it was passed the Humphrey-Hawkins Full Employment Act. Later on the Department of Energy Organization Act was passed creating the Department of Energy. POWER GAME? Foreign

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