Jimmy Carter, elected to the White House in 1976 – he then beat Gerald Ford – two years after the fall of Richard Nixon, had not left Americans with the idea of any greatness at the end of the four years of his presidency . In 1980, the former Democratic governor of Georgia was soundly defeated by Ronald Reagan, giving Republicans the opportunity to close what they thought was an unfortunate parenthesis resulting from the Watergate scandal.
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Criticized by his political adversaries as a naive, weak and incompetent head of state, Jimmy Carter was able to take his revenge by fighting the injustices of the world that he believed he could change by governing the most powerful country in the world. The Democrat was a man of conviction, determined to follow his path and showing indifference to criticism. He knew the harsh reality of the Deep South. He died at his home in Plains, Georgia, on Sunday, December 29, at the age of 100, his foundation announced.
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