Jimmy Carter: Farmhouse to White House

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🗓️ 18 November 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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After the Watergate scandal, Jimmy Carter had the perfect campaign slogan: “I’ll never lie to you.” No one questioned his character; only his policies. He thought he could change the world. But the world ended up changing him. Historian Tevi Troy tells the story of the 39th President’s rise and fall. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.8	In 1974, the Atlanta Journal Constitution headlined a story.
0:37.2	Jimmy Who is running for what?
0:39.9	The who was Jimmy Carter, the governor of Georgia,
0:42.9	and the what was the presidency of the United States.
0:47.2	Carter could always count on people to underestimate him.
0:50.2	This was one of the keys to his success.
0:52.7	He would outsmart, outwork, and out hustle his opponents.
0:56.5	By the time they realized he was gaining political ground, he had already sped past them.
1:01.1	Jimmy Carter was born on October 1st, 1924, to a prosperous farming family in Plains, Georgia.
1:07.1	His father, Jimmy Sr., was an unabashed racial segregationist.
1:11.7	But his mother was of a different temper.
1:14.1	She was well known in the town for inviting blacks into the Carter home.
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