Jimmy Carter
Because he was raised in a successful peanut farmers’ family, Jimmy Carter developed a passion for the civil rights movement when he was building up the family business, which then led to him starting a career in politics and eventually serving as the United States 39th President, with his term running from 1977 to 1981. During Carter’s presidency, he established the Department of Education and the Department of Energy, and he was also responsible for the Camp David Accords, which eventually led to the 1979 Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty. In the ranking process of C-SPAN, Carter scored high for pursuing equal justice for everyone and moral authority and he had to deal with multiple international crises while he was in office, like the Iran Hostage Crisis and the Energy Crisis in 1979. The nation’s general attitude was definitely affected by how all these events were handled, which resulted in his approval rating going down and causing him to lose to Republican Ronald Reagan in the elections in 1980, but Carter received a Nobel Peace prize back in 2002 for his NGO’s (the Carter Center) work.
Jimmy Carter
Carter’s Peace Deal
The 39th president brokered one of the most famous peace agreements in the Middle East. He did so by helping Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Saddat create a lasting peace deal. Israel was to give Egypt the Sinai, which Israel had conquered during the Yom Kippur War of 1973, and in turn Egypt would recognize Israel’s right to exist. The two parties received the Nobel Peace Prize.
Carters Peace Deal
