“Without Florida, Jimmy Carter would not have succeeded in getting to that final destination, which was to become president of the United States,” said Jim Kane, a Broward-based strategist and ...
Did President JimmyCarter have a connection to Southwest Florida? Did he have a connection to Southwest Florida? Yes, the former president was the first presidential candidate in the 1976 ...
Carter, who died Sunday at 100, was an unassuming but charismatic Georgia peanut farmer who rode post-Watergate anger to oust Gerald Ford from the White House in 1976 and become America's 39th ...
Florida, Dr. Emmett Ferguson, who was also the father of a dear classmate and friend, had been at the Naval Academy with JimmyCarter and knew him to be a brilliant student and good person.