Jimmy Carter

Jimmy Carter Won’t Be The Only Ex-president To Attend Trump’s Inaugural Anymore

... and the Bushes had not decided whether to attend set off speculation that Carter might be the only former president at the inaugural. Trump repeatedly mocked Jeb Bush during the GOP primary, casting him as a low-energy tool of the establishment. Bush ’41 and Bush ’43 both refused to endorse Trump in the general election , and Barbara Bush and Jeb Bush openly opposed him. And Trump ran a highly personal campaign against Hillary Clinton, invoking scandals from Bill Clinton’s past in the final stretch of the campaign – and vowing to sic a special prosecutor on the former secretary of state to probe her use of a private email server. Carter, 92, told his Sunday school class shortly after the election that he’d attend Donald Trump’s inauguration. But he showed little affinity for either candidate. He supported Clinton – “everybody knows that I’m a Democrat and I’ll be voting Democratic,” he said – but he did little to actively campaign for her. And he noted she was “quite unpopular” in one ...

10 Unexpected Moments In Presidential Inauguration History

... and 26,000 participants, and a moment that could almost certainly never happen today: With permission from the Secret Service, a California cowboy and trick roper named Montie Montana lassoed the new president, as a grinning Vice President Richard Nixon , among other dignitaries, looked on. John F. Kennedy. President John F. Kennedy delivering his inaugural speech. (Credit: George Silk/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images). John F. Kennedy’s inauguration in 1961 was full of unscripted moments. First, Lyndon B. Johnson famously botched his vice presidential oath by saying “without any mental reservation whatsoever” rather than “without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion.” Then, the podium briefly caught fire due to an electrical short in the power system while Cardinal Richard Cushing was delivering the invocation. Finally, the poet Robert Frost had written an original composition for ...

Will Donald Trump Be Fdr Or Jimmy Carter

... in your inbox. It should go without saying that this characterization of the GOP is misleading in the extreme. Many reliable Republican voters are older Americans who rely heavily on Social Security and Medicare, and who haven’t paid federal income taxes in years. Others are working- and middle-class people living in small towns and exurbs, who benefit directly or indirectly from safety-net programs. When Mitt Romney spoke dismissively about “ the 47 percent ,” at least some of these voters got the impression he was talking about them. This is the kind of intra-party tension Skowronek identifies, and that brings political regimes to an end. At the height of the Reagan era, when America’s electorate was younger, and when the unionized working class was still more or less intact, the class-based theory of the Republican coalition made a good deal of sense. By the 2010 s, however, it should have been clear that it was losing its salience. In 2012, the Democratic presidential candidate won a larger share of the vote among households ...

Donald Trump And Hillary Clinton Shake Hands At Inaugural Luncheon

... attendees included Trump’s Republican party opponents Marco Rubio, Chris Christie and Ted Cruz, as well as Bernie Sanders, who was defeated by Clinton in the Democratic primary election. Trump pulled off a surprise victory over Clinton in the general election on Nov. 8, stunning many who expected to see Clinton deliver here victory speech below a literal glass ceiling in Midtown Manhattan. Kelly OCam: My behind the scenes view @Hillary Clinton @billclinton arrive inside the Capitol. __link__/t 43 h 5 AT 4 JK. — Kelly O'Donnell (@Kelly O) January 20, 2017. Instead, Trump confirmed in his victory speech around 2 a.m. the following morning that Clinton had called him to concede. Later in the day she delivered a public concession speech , and urged Americans to support a peaceful transition of power. “I hope that he will be a successful ...

Jimmy Carter Rates His Presidency And Reflects On 'gratifying' Post-presidential Years

... law and we kept the peace.'". 01/11/2017 12:41 pm ET. Lisa Capretto OWN. As 39 th president of the United States, Jimmy Carter remains proud of his administration’s efforts and accomplishments during his four years in office in the late 70 s. But, as the 92-year-old told Oprah during an interview for OWN’s “Super Soul Sunday,” it’s actually his post-presidential years that have been most gratifying. “When I was president of the most powerful and influential nation on earth, I had more total influence over peace and progress and things like that,” Carter acknowledges in the above clip. “But the last 35 years since I’ve left the White House has been the most challenging and interesting and adventurous and unpredictable and gratifying times of my life.”. Through the nonpartisan Carter Center, both the former president and first lady have focused fiercely on human rights, working to advance peace and health worldwide. “We’ve dealt with literally millions of individual people in the tiny villages all over the world, and we treat people for diseases,” Carter explains. Though this aspect of the Carters’ work has been credited with helping to practically eradicate Guinea worm ...

Jimmy Carter Spotted En Route To Dc

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The Architect Of Jimmy Carter’s 1977 Inauguration

... Fifth District of Atlanta. She obtained a leave to become the first female advance person for the Carter campaign. Her husband, Paul Muldawer, was already an architect of some note in Atlanta. So this was going on in the late fall of 1976, according to Paul Muldawer. “When it looked like Carter was going to win, the inaugural committee contacted me about designing the inaugural facility, the inaugural pavilion, and media stand, and seating for three-quarters of a million people.”. A small job, no doubt. But Muldawer said that he incorporated a few themes “reflecting Jimmy Carter’s values.” The first was frugality. — Muldawer wanted a reviewing stand that was cheaper than previous ones, which ran to $1 million or so, made out of wood, and was delivered to local landfills after the ceremony. As he recalls, the reviewing stand cost $850,000. “I made the structure steel, so it could be recycled. It was ...

Jimmy Carter Is On His Way To Donald Trump’s Inauguration

... from Bill Clinton’s past in the final stretch of the race – and vowing to sic a special prosecutor on the former secretary of state to probe her use of a private email server. Carter, 92, told his Sunday school class shortly after the election that he’d attend Donald Trump’s inauguration. But he showed little affinity for either candidate. He supported Clinton – “everybody knows that I’m a Democrat and I’ll be voting Democratic,” he said – but he did little to actively campaign for her. And he noted she was “quite unpopular” in one August interview. As for Carter’s stance on Trump, the Georgia Democrat said during a speech before the British House of Lords last year – before Trump locked up the nomination – that the New York businessman might not be the worst Republican in the field. “The reason is, Trump has proven already he’s completely malleable,” Carter said then. “I don’t think he has any fixed (positions) he’d go the White House and fight for. On the other hand, ...