The Carter Years | "Jimmy Who?" | American History Tellers | Podcast
In 1976, as America struggled to recover from the twin traumas of the Watergate scandal and the war in Vietnam, an unlikely figure emerged from the Georgia countryside promising to bring integrity back to the White House. Jimmy Carter was a drawling peanut farmer and former Navy man, whose plain-spoken message resonated with American voters. His election win marked a seismic shift in American politics. Carter became the first Deep South president since the Civil War, and he quickly pursued co...
Mentioned in This Episode
- Iran (location)
- Camp David (location)
- Rosalyn Carter (person)
- Georgia (location)
- His Very Best, Jimmy Carter: Alive (book)
- The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter (book)
- Keeping Faith (book)
- Omar Torrijos (person)
- Thrron University (location)
- Time Magazine (media)
- David McCullough (person)
- Hunter S. Thompson (person)