the carter transition chapter 33:ii
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The Carter Transition Chapter 33:ii. [Image source: http://www.kennesaw.edu/pols/3380/pres/1976.html]. Incumbent President Gerald R. Ford won the Republican nomination in 1976, narrowly defeating more-conservative former-Governor Ronald W. Reagan of California. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
The Carter Transition
Chapter 33:ii
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Incumbent President Gerald R. Ford won the Republican nomination in 1976, narrowly defeating more-conservative
former-Governor Ronald W. Reagan of California.
President Ford would ultimately lose the general-
election to former-Governor
Jimmy Carterof Georgia.
Jimmy Carter campaigned as
an outsider, capitalizing
on Americans’ distrust of politicians
following the Watergate
scandal.[Image source:
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Carter’s stand against racial discrimination garnered him the support of
civil rights leaders.
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Carter gained the support of most factions
of the oldDemocratic coalition, . . .
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. . . which resulted in a narrow margin ofvictory over President Ford in the popular vote.
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Carter was a graduate of the United States Naval Academy, rising to the
rank of captain, commanding a nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine.
After retiring from the Navy,
Carter became a successful peanut farmer in Plains,
Gorgia.[Image source:
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Carter’s entry into state-politics in
1962 culminated in his election as the governor of Georgia in
1970.
As president, Carter appointed significantly more women and
minorities to important government positions than any
previous administration.
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Carter began to lose support from his own party when he attempted to rein-in inflationby supporting spending cuts.
Being a “Washington outsider” had its disadvantages: most of
his close advisors were Georgians with little knowledge of how
crucial it was for the President to work with Congress.
Hints of scandal soon began to
call-into-question the
integrityof the Carter
Administration.
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Carter’s irreverent brother Billy also emerged as an embarrassing “side-show”.
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