Reagan would present himself as the sunny alternative to Carter’s scolding demeanor to win the 1980 election in a landslide.
A college student watches a televised speech from President Jimmy Carter at a service station in Los Angeles in 1979.
Eventually, Carter would become a senior officer of the USS Seawolf, the United States’ second nuclear submarine.
“I can win this election without a single Black vote,” Carter told The Atlanta Constitution in July 1970.
In his 2014 biography, “Redeemer: The Life of Jimmy Carter,” the Dartmouth College religion historian Randall Balmer wrote that Carter regretted the 1970 campaign for the rest of his life.
Persons:
Carter, Zbigniew Brzezinski, ”, Reagan, Jimmy Carter, Mao, Carter’s, Iran’s, Ruhollah Khomeini, Kaveh Kazemi, Goldwater – Nichols, Walter Cronkite, James Earl Carter Jr, Rosalynn Smith, Adm, Hyman Rickover, Rickover, CBS’s, ” Carter, Lester Maddox, Maddox, “, Maddox —, “ Carter, George Wallace of, Carl Sanders, —, Randall Balmer, Jimmy, — Carter
Organizations:
Lech, Solidarity, U.S, Embassy, ”, Department of Defense, CBS Evening, U.S . Naval, Plains High School, Navy, Union Graduate College, Getty, School Board, Democrat, Democratic, Senate, Committee, Atlanta, Atlanta Constitution, Republican, Dartmouth College, Baptist
Locations:
Soviet Union, Moscow, Poland, Eastern Europe, United States, Los Angeles, Afghanistan, Iran, U.S, Tehran, Georgia, Sumter County, Plains, Schenectady , New York, Plains , Ga, Sumter, —, George Wallace of Alabama, Black