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ded he would seek the presidency of the united states he began an exhausting schedule of campaigning as soon as his term ended sensing the mood of the country was anti washington and the people were interested in an outsider who was untainted by the insider politics of the nixon era carter promised to restore honesty and morality to the federal government he gained credibility with early primary victories and received immediate attention from the press he won the nomination on the first ballot of the democratic national convention in new york and chose senator walter mondale of minnesota as his running mate carter achieved a narrow victory in the november 1976 general elections by sweeping most of the south winning 297 electoral votes to incumbent gerald r ford s 241 and 40 8 million popular votes to ford s 39 1 million jimmy carter aspired to make government competent and compassionate responsive to the american people and their expectations his achievements were notable but in an era of rising energy costs mounting inflation and continuing tensions it was impossible for his administration to meet these high expectations carter was inaugurated on january 20 1977 and after taking the oath of office he and his family walked to the white house one of carter s first acts as president was to pardon the vietnam draft dodgers he decreased the federal budget deficit deregulated domestic oil prices and formed a department of energy he improved bureaucratic efficiency and placed many women and racial minorities in senior government jobs his expansion of the national park system included protection of 103 million acres of alaskan lands to increase human and social services he created the department of education bolstered the social security system and appointed record numbers of women blacks and hispanics to government jobs in foreign affairs carter set his own style his championing of human rights was coldly received by the soviet union and some other nations in the middle east through the camp david agreement of 1978 he helped bring amity between egypt and israel building upon the work of predecessors he established full diplomatic relations with the people s republic of china and completed negotiation of the salt ii nuclear limitation treaty with the soviet union t here were serious setbacks however the soviet invasion of afghanistan caused the suspension of plans for ratification of the salt ii pact camp david accords photograph signed jimmy carter recalls midway through the final week of the camp david peace talks everyone needed a break we went to the civil war battlefield at gettysburg one day and i made them both agree not to talk about the middle east or about anything that happened since 1865 i sat between the two men in the limousine we got to gettysburg and sadat all of his generals and all of the israeli generals knew the battle details i was really amazed however menachem begin did not know anything about the battle we had shelby foote with us an expert on the civil war and so begin was a little embarrassing to me not having learned about gettysburg but when we arrived at the point where abraham lincoln had made his address menachem begin recited it word for word a nice event that i will never forget jimmy carter 1998 remarks university of maryland symposium signature page of the peace agreement between israel s menahem begin and egypt s anwar al sadat witnessed by president jimmy carter on march 26 1979 carter faced his greatest major foreign policy challenge in 1979 that january mohammad reza shah pahlavi who had ruled iran for 37 years was forced to flee the country in a takeover by followers of ayatollah ruhollah khomeini a muslim clergyman in november 1979 militant iranian students stormed the u s embassy in tehran the capital of iran they took 66 americans hostage they soon released 13 but demanded a u s apology by the u s government for its support of the shah his return to stand trial and the return of the billions of dollars he was said to have been hiding before they would release the other 53 hostages more than a year of negotiations with the militants did not secure their release nor did a u s commando raid the following april he had inherited an economy that was slowly emerging from a recession and he had severely criticized former president ford for his failures to control inflation and relieve unemployment his relationship with the congress which was controlled by the democrats was often very strained on another international relations matter carter succeeded in obtaining ratification of the panama canal treaties despite vehement opposition in washington to relinquishing control of the canal carter insisted that a new agreement must be reached our failure to take action after years of promises under five previous presidents had created something of a diplomatic cancer which was poisoning our relations with panama carter keeping faith p 159 a new treaty providing for the return of the canal zone to panama encountered staunch opposition in the senate the battle for ratification carter later wrote constituted the most difficult political battle i had ever faced ultimately the senate ratified the treaty with 64 votes one more than the necessary two thirds in this letter president carter thanks senator charles h percy for his vote on the panama canal as president i want to express my admiration for your support of the panama canal treaties rarely is a national leader called upon to act on such an important issue fraught with so much potential political sacrifice on behalf of the people of the united states i thank you for your personal demonstration of statesmanship and political courage carter in 1980 could claim an increase of nearly eight million jobs and a decrease in the budget deficit measured in percentage of the gross national product unfortunately inflation and interest rates were at near record highs and efforts to reduce them caused a short recession the 1980 presidential campaign was overshadowed by the iranian hostage situation and by carter s inability to secure their release the ensuing presidential campaign was one of the most uninspiring in modern history carter s opponent california governor ronald reagan was swept into office with a landslide victory with 51 of the popular vote to carter s 42 ironically carter s last major official action was to secure the release of the 53 american hostages in iran they were freed on january 20 1981 the day of ronald reagan s inauguration carter returned to his home in plains georgia he continues to remain active in human rights issues and has become the public spokesperson for numerous charitable causes including habitat for humanity which helps build low income housing he has written more than eleven books and teaches sunday school and is a deacon in the marantha baptist church of plains georgia james earl carter jr inaugural address january 20 1977 for myself and for our nation i want to thank my predecessor for all he has done to heal our land in this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our nation as my high school teacher miss julia coleman used to say we must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles here before me is the bible used in the inauguration of our first president in 1789 and i have just taken the oath of office on the bible my mother gave me just a few years ago opened to a timeless admonition from the ancient prophet micah he hath showed thee o man what is good and what doth the lord require of thee but to do justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with thy god this inauguration ceremony marks a new beginning a new dedication within our government and a new spirit among us all a president may sense and proclaim that new spirit but only a people can provide it two centuries ago our nation s birth was a milestone in the long quest for freedom but the bold and brilliant dream which excited the founders of this nation still awaits its consummation i have no new dream to set forth today but rather urge a fresh faith in the old dream ours was the first society openly to define itself in terms of both spirituality and human liberty it is that unique self definition which has given us an exceptional appeal but it also imposes on us a special obligation to take on those moral duties which when assumed seem invariably to be in our own best interests you have given me a great responsibility to stay close to you to be worthy of you and to exemplify what you are let us create together a new national spirit of unity and trust your strength can compensate for my weakness and your wisdom can help to minimize my mistakes let us learn together and laugh together and work together and pray together confident that in the end we will triumph together in the right the american dream endures we must once again have full faith in our country and in one another i believe america can be better we can be even stronger than before let our recent mistakes bring a resurgent commitment to the basic principles of our nation for we know that if we despise our own government we have no future we recall in special times when we have stood briefly but magnificently united in those times no prize was beyond our grasp but we cannot dwell upon remembered glory we cannot afford to drift we reject the prospect of failure or mediocrity or an inferior quality of life for any person our government must at the same time be both competent and compassionate we have already found a high degree of personal liberty and we are now struggling to enhance equality of opportunity our commitment to human rights must be absolute our laws fair our national beauty preserved the powerful must not persecute the weak and human dignity must be enhanced we have learned that more is not necessarily better that even our great nation has its recognized limits and that we can neither answer all questions nor solve all problems we cannot afford to do everything nor can we afford to lack boldness as we meet the future so together in a spirit of individual sacrifice for the common good we must simply do our best our nation can be strong abroad only if it is strong at home and we know that the best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation to be true to ourselves we must be true to others we will not behave in foreign places so as to violate our rules and standards here at home for we know that the trust which our nation earns is essential to our strength the world itself is now dominated by a new spirit peoples more numerous and more politically aware are craving and now demanding their place in the sun not just for the benefit of their own physical condition but for basic human rights the passion for freedom is on the rise tapping this new spirit there can be no nobler nor more ambitious task for america to undertake on this day of a new beginning than to help shape a just and peaceful world that is truly humane we are a strong nation and we will maintain strength so sufficient that it need not be proven in combat a quiet strength based not merely on the size of an arsenal but on the nobility of ideas we will be ever vigilant and never vulnerable and we will fight our wars against poverty ignorance and injustice for those are the enemies against which our forces can be honorably marshaled we are a proudly idealistic nation but let no one confuse our idealism with weakness because we are free we can never be indifferent to the fate of freedom elsewhere our moral sense dictates a clear cut preference for those societies which share with us an abiding respect for individual human rights we do not seek to intimidate but it is clear that a world which others can dominate with impunity would be inhospitable to decency and a threat to the well being of all people the world is still engaged in a massive armaments race designed to ensure continuing equivalent strength among potential adversaries we pledge perseverance and wisdom in our efforts to limit the world s armaments to those necessary for each nation s own domestic safety and we will move this year a step toward our ultimate goal the elimination of all nuclear weapons from this earth we urge all other people to join us for success can mean life instead of death within us the people of the united states there is evident a serious and purposeful rekindling of confidence and i join in the hope that when my time as your president has ended people might say this about our nation that we had remembered the words of micah and renewed our search for humility mercy and justice that we had torn down the barriers that separated those of different race and region and religion and where there had been mistrust built unity with a respect for diversity that we had found productive work for those able to perform it that we had strengthened the american family which is the basis of our society that we had ensured respect for the law and equal treatment under the law for the weak and the powerful for the rich and the poor and that we had enabled our people to be proud of their own government once again i would hope that the nations of the world might say that we had built a lasting peace based not on weapons of war but on international policies which reflect our own most precious values these are not just my goals and they will not be my accomplishments but the affirmation of our nation s continuing moral strength and our belief in an undiminished ever expanding american dream thank you very much note president carter spoke at 12 05 p m from a platform erected at the east front of the capitol chief justice warren e burger administered the office the congressional evolution of the united states of america continental congress of the united colonies presidents sept 5 1774 to july 1 1776 peyton randolph september 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