After a year in hospice care former President Jimmy Carter has died at 100.
Carter’s achievements were few. Carter was sworn in as the 39th president of the United States. On his first full day in office in January 1977, he pardoned most Vietnam-era draft evaders. He signed treaties to return the Panama Canal back to Panama in 1999. Senate narrowly ratifies them in 1978. In September 1978: Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Carter signed Camp David accords, which lead to a peace deal between Egypt and Israel the following year.
Sadly he did little to rescue 52 hostages that Iranian militants took when storming the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. The inflation rate hit a record high of 14.6% in March and April of 1980.
It was the high inflation and his failure to rescue the hostages held in Iran that led to Carter’s defeat in that fall’s election.
In my opinion Jimmy Carter was the worst president since Herbert Hoover.
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