Carter’s single White House term still stirs controversy after more than 40 years from NPR Ron Elving

Carter shovels peanuts on a peanut farm in the 1970s. When his father died in 1953, Carter left his Navy career to run the family peanut farm in Georgia.

Jimmy Carter was a former one-term governor from Georgia, almost unknown nationally, when he broke through in Iowa and New Hampshire early in 1976 and rode that momentum all the way to Washington.

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