After Dinner Speakers: Jimmy Carter, Joaquin Phoenix, Tony Banks

James Earl Carter, Jr., (1924- ) was 39th President of the United States. In 1976 the Democratic party chose Jimmy Carter as its nominee for president, and the American people elected him to that office over the incumbent president, Gerald Ford, bringing to a climax the most meteoric rise in modern U. S. politics. In choosing Jimmy Carter, the voters gained a president about whom they knew little, and one who prided himself on being relatively unknown outside his home state of Georgia. n foreign affairs, Carter undertook to establish human rights as a tenet of American policy. The highlight of the Carter foreign policy came on March 26, 1979, with the signing of a peace treaty by the Israeli Premier and Egyptian President. The so-called Camp David accord represented a high point in the Carter presidency, although later negotiations to implement it foundered. As the 1980 election approached, Carter found himself under increasing attack by Republicans and important elements within the Democratic party. uring the 1980 election campaign most polls showed the two major candidates locked in an even contest. The election produced a different picture. The Republican team of Ronald Reagan and George Bush was swept into office in a landslide victory Carter returned to Plains, his home town, in 1981. He wrote Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President (1982) and The Blood of Abraham (1985. Former President Jimmy Carter’s controversial term of office makes him one of the most enigmatic and fascinating speakers in US political history.