President Carter shoveling at the family peanut farm in Plains, Georgia
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Carter's Inaugural Address: January 1977
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Carter after winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002
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TIME Magazine Cover in August 1980, months after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and in the midst of other Middle East controversy.
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President Carter: General Overview, Mini-Biography
"I Could Have Wiped Iran Off the Map" - Carter reflects on his foreign policy
Below is a selected portion of Carter's lengthy speech of his proposed energy policy, delivered on April 18, 1977, in the midst of the nation's energy crisis. This section of the speech directly states Carter's ten steps he intends to take, and ensure that the country will take, to aid in solving the energy crisis.
That is the concept of the energy policy we will present on Wednesday. Our national energy plan is based on ten fundamental principles.
The first principle is that we can have an effective and comprehensive energy policy only if the government takes responsibility for it and if the people understand the seriousness of the challenge and are willing to make sacrifices.
The second principle is that healthy economic growth must continue. Only by saving energy can we maintain our standard of living and keep our people at work. An effective conservation program will create hundreds of thousands of new jobs.
The third principle is that we must protect the environment. Our energy problems have the same cause as our environmental problems -- wasteful use of resources. Conservation helps us solve both at once.
The fourth principle is that we must reduce our vulnerability to potentially devastating embargoes. We can protect ourselves from uncertain supplies by reducing our demand for oil, making the most of our abundant resources such as coal, and developing a strategic petroleum reserve.
The fifth principle is that we must be fair. Our solutions must ask equal sacrifices from every region, every class of people, every interest group. Industry will have to do its part to conserve, just as the consumers will. The energy producers deserve fair treatment, but we will not let the oil companies profiteer.
The sixth principle, and the cornerstone of our policy, is to reduce the demand through conservation. Our emphasis on conservation is a clear difference between this plan and others which merely encouraged crash production efforts. Conservation is the quickest, cheapest, most practical source of energy. Conservation is the only way we can buy a barrel of oil for a few dollars. It costs about $13 to waste it.
The seventh principle is that prices should generally reflect the true replacement costs of energy. We are only cheating ourselves if we make energy artificially cheap and use more than we can really afford.
The eighth principle is that government policies must be predictable and certain. Both consumers and producers need policies they can count on so they can plan ahead. This is one reason I am working with the Congress to create a new Department of Energy, to replace more than 50 different agencies that now have some control over energy.
The ninth principle is that we must conserve the fuels that are scarcest and make the most of those that are more plentiful. We can't continue to use oil and gas for 75 percent of our consumption when they make up seven percent of our domestic reserves. We need to shift to plentiful coal while taking care to protect the environment, and to apply stricter safety standards to nuclear energy.
The tenth principle is that we must start now to develop the new, unconventional sources of energy we will rely on in the next century.
These ten principles have guided the development of the policy I would describe to you and the Congress on Wednesday.
The first principle is that we can have an effective and comprehensive energy policy only if the government takes responsibility for it and if the people understand the seriousness of the challenge and are willing to make sacrifices.
The second principle is that healthy economic growth must continue. Only by saving energy can we maintain our standard of living and keep our people at work. An effective conservation program will create hundreds of thousands of new jobs.
The third principle is that we must protect the environment. Our energy problems have the same cause as our environmental problems -- wasteful use of resources. Conservation helps us solve both at once.
The fourth principle is that we must reduce our vulnerability to potentially devastating embargoes. We can protect ourselves from uncertain supplies by reducing our demand for oil, making the most of our abundant resources such as coal, and developing a strategic petroleum reserve.
The fifth principle is that we must be fair. Our solutions must ask equal sacrifices from every region, every class of people, every interest group. Industry will have to do its part to conserve, just as the consumers will. The energy producers deserve fair treatment, but we will not let the oil companies profiteer.
The sixth principle, and the cornerstone of our policy, is to reduce the demand through conservation. Our emphasis on conservation is a clear difference between this plan and others which merely encouraged crash production efforts. Conservation is the quickest, cheapest, most practical source of energy. Conservation is the only way we can buy a barrel of oil for a few dollars. It costs about $13 to waste it.
The seventh principle is that prices should generally reflect the true replacement costs of energy. We are only cheating ourselves if we make energy artificially cheap and use more than we can really afford.
The eighth principle is that government policies must be predictable and certain. Both consumers and producers need policies they can count on so they can plan ahead. This is one reason I am working with the Congress to create a new Department of Energy, to replace more than 50 different agencies that now have some control over energy.
The ninth principle is that we must conserve the fuels that are scarcest and make the most of those that are more plentiful. We can't continue to use oil and gas for 75 percent of our consumption when they make up seven percent of our domestic reserves. We need to shift to plentiful coal while taking care to protect the environment, and to apply stricter safety standards to nuclear energy.
The tenth principle is that we must start now to develop the new, unconventional sources of energy we will rely on in the next century.
These ten principles have guided the development of the policy I would describe to you and the Congress on Wednesday.
Excerpt from Jimmy Carter's book "Turning Point": a reflection on his experiences as a Georgia senator
"The year 1962 was a turning point, in that the tides of political history were changed. The combination of what Democratic primaries and rural bias in voting and apportionment that had for generations held the South in thrall were now to be just a fading memory. Today, [...] many things are different [...] in the South. Georgia political campaigns and elections have, almost invariably, become both open and honest. The votes of urban dwellers have approximately equal weight with those of farmers and residents of small towns. Former Democrats and their children have been able to switch to the Republican party without disappearing into the abyss of political obscurity. For better or worse, there is a strong two-party political system in the state.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 has slowly been implemented by civil rights workers, federal agents, and state officials liberated from the burden of official racism. Federal judges and other Justice Department officials still monitor election procedures in our region and oversee every reapportionment of congressional and state legislative districts to assure proper racial balance. Black citizens have legal rights to use public facilities, to eat alongside white customers where meals are served to the public, to articulate in electing public officials, and to run for office themselves. In many sports and in entertainment, black Americans are ascendant, as they are in the governing bodies of many of our major cities" (Carter 183-184).
Taken from the last chapter titled "What Does it All Mean?", the excerpt focuses mainly on Carter's successes as governor and senator of his home state rather than his presidency. He most likely chose to do so because his actions in Georgia are typically regarded in a more positive and successful light than his presidency, which was clouded with Middle-eastern hysteria and other economic crises. The book's focus centralizes around his early years in the government, which is interesting because usually when one thinks about Carter, he or she may think of the energy crisis or the 1980 Olympics. However, this book, and especially this excerpt, provides insight on his accomplishments before he was elected president.
"The year 1962 was a turning point, in that the tides of political history were changed. The combination of what Democratic primaries and rural bias in voting and apportionment that had for generations held the South in thrall were now to be just a fading memory. Today, [...] many things are different [...] in the South. Georgia political campaigns and elections have, almost invariably, become both open and honest. The votes of urban dwellers have approximately equal weight with those of farmers and residents of small towns. Former Democrats and their children have been able to switch to the Republican party without disappearing into the abyss of political obscurity. For better or worse, there is a strong two-party political system in the state.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 has slowly been implemented by civil rights workers, federal agents, and state officials liberated from the burden of official racism. Federal judges and other Justice Department officials still monitor election procedures in our region and oversee every reapportionment of congressional and state legislative districts to assure proper racial balance. Black citizens have legal rights to use public facilities, to eat alongside white customers where meals are served to the public, to articulate in electing public officials, and to run for office themselves. In many sports and in entertainment, black Americans are ascendant, as they are in the governing bodies of many of our major cities" (Carter 183-184).
Taken from the last chapter titled "What Does it All Mean?", the excerpt focuses mainly on Carter's successes as governor and senator of his home state rather than his presidency. He most likely chose to do so because his actions in Georgia are typically regarded in a more positive and successful light than his presidency, which was clouded with Middle-eastern hysteria and other economic crises. The book's focus centralizes around his early years in the government, which is interesting because usually when one thinks about Carter, he or she may think of the energy crisis or the 1980 Olympics. However, this book, and especially this excerpt, provides insight on his accomplishments before he was elected president.