Official National Park Service site for the former
President's residence, boyhood
home, school and railroad depot in Plains, Georgia.
http://www.nps.gov/jica/
James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. (born
October 1,
1924) was the
thirty-ninth
President of the United States
from 1977 to 1981,
and winner of the
Nobel Peace Prize in 2002. Prior to
becoming president, Carter served two terms in the
Georgia Senate,
and was the 76th
Governor of Georgia
from 1971 to 1975.
On Dec. 10, 2002, the Norwegian
Nobel Committee awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for
Peace 2002to Mr. Carter "for his decades of untiring effort to find
peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and
human rights, and to promote economic and social development."
Describes the Jimmy Carter Work Project (JCWP)
for Habitat for Humanity. The 2002
JCWP in Africa is the largest home-building effort in the history of
the ...
http://www.habitat.org/how/carter.aspx
"The spread of evil is the symptom of a
vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the
moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be
no compromise on basic principles."
Ayn Rand
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