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Peanut Farmer Turned President

Peanut Farmer Turned President

“President of what?� (Time, 1977, pg.5) if this is the reaction Jimmy Carter’s own family

asked upon his announcement of running for president, how was he going to manage to get the

country to vote for him? This ambitious decision was quite extraordinary considering Jimmy
Carter had once been a peanut farmer until an accident permanently bent his thumb. The only form of political office he had held was one term as a Governor from Georgia. But Jimmy Carter realized after listening to the concerns and mood of the nation, this was an ideal time for an outsider, such as himself, to run for Presidency. America was exhausted from scandals, Watergate, from a decade of conflict, Vietnam War, and economic struggles. Jimmy Carter was about to take his plan of giving the country what it desperately wanted, and using this strategy to launch him into the role of President of the United States.
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