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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: Jimmy Carter

Jimmy Carter stories: 66 news summaries

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Carter Gives 
Clinton the
Cold Shoulder 

Ex-presidents, in longtime feud, frostily ignore each other

Jan 20, 09 2:17 PM CST
(Newser) - The bad feeling between Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter was on display today as the two ex-presidents ignored each other on the way to the inaugural platform, ABC reports. Carter greeted Barbara and George HW Bush warmly but walked straight past Bill and Hillary. The feud goes back to 1980,... More »

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Hillary Clinton • Jimmy Carter • Bill Clinton • feud • Monica Lewinsky • inauguration • snub • former presidents • President Obama • Inauguration Day

 This Picture Is Worth $6K 

Leaders traditionally release limited number of pictures

Jan 19, 09 8:02 AM CST
(Newser) - When the five current, former, and future occupants of the Oval Office mugged together at the White House last week, one could almost hear the cash registers cha-chinging, reports Politico. All five will sign a limited 250 copies of the photo—with each keeping 50—instantly jacking the value to... More »

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Barack Obama • Jimmy Carter • Bill Clinton • president • photograph • George HW Bush • autographs • George W. Bush

analysis

Hey Brother,
Can You
Spare a Job?

Bush's prospects appear grim in
crippled economy

Jan 17, 09 4:26 PM CST
(Newser) - President Bush is looking for work in the worst job market in decades. He might call it unemployment, but his critics call it "poetic justice," Daniel Gross writes in Slate. After leaving Washington, Bill Clinton reported income of $90 million—a figure Bush is unlikely to match given... More »

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Jimmy Carter • Bill Clinton • job • George W. Bush

 Inaugural Bibles: 
 Past Presidential Picks 

Lincoln provided the Bible, but Obama must turn to others for verse ideas

Jan 15, 09 11:52 AM CST
(Newser) - As Barack Obama prepares to take the oath of office Tuesday with his hand on the Lincoln Bible, the Wall Street Journal offers a sample of the Bibles other presidents have chosen—and the passages they've chosen to open them to. Eisenhower, Carter, and Bush Sr. took their oaths on... More »

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Barack Obama • Jimmy Carter • John F. Kennedy • Bill Clinton • George HW Bush • Abraham Lincoln • Bible • inauguration • Dwight Eisenhower • George Washington • President Obama • Inauguration Day • presidential oath

OPINION

Gaza Blowup Could've Been Avoided: Carter

Agreement on aid crossings would've prevented recent violence

Jan 8, 09 2:24 PM CST
(Newser) - The destruction being visited upon Gaza could easily have been avoided, Jimmy Carter writes in the Washington Post. The former president, during visits last year, saw both the effects of Hamas rockets on Israeli communities, and the misery and malnutrition caused by the Gaza blockade. He details his own efforts,... More »

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Israel • Jimmy Carter • Gaza • Hamas • rocket attacks • Gaza blockade • humanitarian aid

39, 41, 42, 43, 44 Have Lunch at the White House

Bush wishes Obama success in the future

Jan 7, 09 1:24 PM CST
(Newser) - Barack Obama met with a pair of George Bushes, Bill Clinton, and Jimmy Carter today for a photo-op and lunch at the White House, the Chicago Tribune reports. "I want to thank the president-elect for joining the ex-presidents for lunch,'' Bush said, looking to Obama. "And one... More »

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Barack Obama • Jimmy Carter • Bill Clinton • George HW Bush • George W. Bush • President-elect Obama

 Bell, Carter's AG, Dead at 90 

Bell defanged Jim Crow as appellate court judge

Jan 5, 09 5:24 PM CST
(Newser) - Griffin Bell, a Southerner who opposed racial segregation and led the Justice Department under President Carter, died today at age 90, the New York Times reports. Bell handled damage control as a post-Nixon attorney general, de-politicizing the Justice Department and the FBI. His earlier rulings as an appeals court judge,... More »

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Department of Justice • law • Attorney General • Jimmy Carter • obituary • racism • segregation • US Circuit Court of Appeals

 Do Deciders Age Prematurely? 

Stress causes grays and wrinkles, but nobody agrees whether presidents die early

Jan 4, 09 5:22 PM CST
(Newser) - Four to eight years as leader of the free world gave George W. plenty of wrinkles and gray hairs—but just what are the presidency’s long-term aging effects? One doctor found that presidents generally have shorter-than-average lifespans, the Boston Globe reports, while another pegs two years for every one... More »

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Barack Obama • presidency • Jimmy Carter • age • Bill Clinton • wrinkles • aging • life expectancy • stress • Ronald Reagan • heart attack • George HW Bush • aging process • George W. Bush • former presidents

(Newser) - Barack Obama is moving to DC this weekend, and he's already got an interesting lunch date lined up next week with some fellows named George Bush (both of them), Clinton, and Carter, ABC News reports. Wednesday's meeting at the White House will bring together the president-elect with all the living... More »

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Barack Obama • Jimmy Carter • White House • Bill Clinton • George HW Bush • George W. Bush • President Obama • President-elect Obama

 Carter: 
 Zimbabwe 
 Conditions 
 'Horrifying' 

Humanitarian crisis getting worse because of stubborn Mugabe

Dec 9, 08 10:17 AM CST
(Newser) - Jimmy Carter and his group of international peacemakers have been barred from entering Zimbabwe, but reports of conditions there are “horrifying,” the former president tells NPR. Mugabe’s “campaign of oppression” has frustrated attempts to deal with a spreading cholera outbreak. “Mugabe had made every effort,... More »

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Africa • Zimbabwe • Robert Mugabe • Jimmy Carter • South Africa • Cholera

Zimbabwe Bars Carter,
Annan, Mandela's Wife

Ex-prez, Annan aimed to work on humanitarian crisis

Nov 22, 08 10:57 AM CST
(Newser) - Zimbabwe has denied Jimmy Carter, former UN chief Kofi Annan, and the wife of Nelson Mandela entry to the country to review its humanitarian crisis, Reuters reports. Even the support of former South African president Thabo Mbeki, who's been trying to mediate an end to the ongoing political stalemate, wasn’... More »

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Zimbabwe • Robert Mugabe • Morgan Tsvangirai • Jimmy Carter • visa • Kofi Annan • humanitarian crisis • Thabo Mbeki • The Elders

OPINION

 Ranking the 
 Dads-in-Chief 

Carter among the best, FDR one of the worst

Nov 4, 08 3:08 PM CST
(Newser) - Enough with debates on Sarah Palin being a mommy and a vice president. A look at the best and worst fathers-in-chief, as compiled by Madeline Holler for Babble, starting with the worst:
  • Thomas Jefferson only acknowledged (the white) half of the "kajillion kids" he had.
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parenting • Jimmy Carter • Bill Clinton • children • president • George HW Bush • father • Franklin D. Roosevelt • Harry Truman • Election 2008 • Thomas Jefferson

ANALYSIS

 Debates Help Obama 
 Raise Our Comfort Level 

Dem, like Reagan, used forums as a public vetting of an unfamiliar candidate

Oct 15, 08 4:07 PM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama’s success in recent debates has less to do with out-talking his opponent than in letting US voters become familiar with him, the New York Times reports; Obama’s contest was as much to prove himself to an electorate uneasy with his novel candidacy. Polls show more confidence... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • Jimmy Carter • presidential debate • Ronald Reagan • Election 2008 • voter confidence • doubt

Ga. Won't Stay Execution Despite Witness Reversals

Carter, clergy, NAACP have asked for life sentence for Troy Davis

Sep 23, 08 9:18 AM CDT
(Newser) - A man sentenced to die tonight in Georgia is looking to the US Supreme Court after the state’s parole board and top court rejected clemency yesterday, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. Troy Anthony Davis was convicted in 1991 for murdering a police officer, but seven prosecution witnesses have since recanted... More »

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death penalty • Pope Benedict XVI • Jimmy Carter • murder • Georgia • NAACP • Troy Davis

 Obama Grabs 50% in Poll 

New threshold marks key advance against McCain's 42%

Sep 3, 08 6:16 AM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama has the support of 50% of voters for the first time since beginning his run for the White House, according to the latest Gallup poll. It's a key symbolic threshold for Obama, who was evenly split at 45% with John McCain before the Democratic convention, reports Politico. McCain... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • Jimmy Carter • Democratic National Convention • Gallup poll • Invesco Field • Republican National Convention • Rasmussen Reports

When Music, Politics Collide, It's Usually Cringe-Worthy

Rowdy rockers make strange bedfellows for pols

Jul 31, 08 7:49 PM CDT
(Newser) - As Barack Obama prepares for an appearance at Lollapalooza this weekend, Radar revisits odd moments when music invaded the political arena. Sometimes scary, sometimes silly, but always strange, here are some highlights:
  • Elvis and Nixon: The King visited the White House and offered to help in the fight against
... More »

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John McCain • music • politics • Jimmy Carter • list • Richard Nixon • Willie Nelson • Elvis Presley • Nine Inch Nails

GLOSSIES

 Jimmy Carter,
 Rogue Ex-President 

Carter's ideas and initiatives, slammed by old guard, resonate with youth

Jul 21, 08 12:28 PM CDT
(Newser) - Jimmy Carter does things his own way, pursuing peace initiatives in the Middle East and South America whether Washington likes it or not, and generally redefining what it means to be an ex-president. So it’s no wonder “his mind-set and his policies seem to jibe so well with... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • Jimmy Carter • Arab Israeli conflict • Election 2008 • Palestinian statehood • conflict resolution • Carter Center

OPINION

Admit It:
Carter Was
100% Right

Energy conservation sounds like a pretty good idea about now

Jul 15, 08 4:41 PM CDT
(Newser) - “Misunderstood, mocked and maligned” though he was, Jimmy Carter was exactly right about our energy problems and their solutions, Joseph Wheelan writes in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Way back in 1979, "Carter outlined a program for achieving energy independence." In 2008, "It turns out that Carter was... More »

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Jimmy Carter • energy dependence • alternative fuels • fuel economy standards • thermostats

OPINION

Like the Gipper, Obama Need Only Look Decent to Win

Pat Buchanan mocks tack to center, but says Dem is on the right track to victory

Jul 9, 08 12:26 PM CDT
(Newser) - The campaign most comparable to today's, Pat Buchanan writes on Real Clear Politics, is 1980's, with John McCain playing the part of Jimmy Carter—and Barack Obama, like Ronald Reagan, in pole position and needing only to look reasonable to win the White House. Just as Reagan shook his right-wing... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • Jimmy Carter • Ronald Reagan • landslide • George W. Bush

 Carter to Endorse Obama 

Former president will make it official when polls close tonight

Jun 3, 08 6:03 PM CDT
(Newser) - Jimmy Carter will endorse Barack Obama when the polls close tonight in South Dakota and Montana, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. Carter will be among a slew of big-name superdelegates officially giving their blessing to Obama today, the last day of the primary season. In fact, the AP reports that Obama... More »

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Barack Obama • Jimmy Carter • endorsement • Election 2008

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