Interviewee: Jimmy Carter
Interviewer: Jerry Paxman
Date: April 21, 2008

Born as James Earl Carter Jr. on October 1st of 1924, Jimmy Carter served as the 39th President of the United States of America between 1977 and 1981. In 2002, he earned a Nobel Peace Prize, the only American President who ever acquired the Prize after his office. Before he became president, he served two terms in the Georgia Senate and governorship of Georgia, between 1971 and 1975. He was also a naval officer and a peanut farmer.

As the US president, Carter made two new cabinet-level departments namely the Department of Education and the Department of Energy. He as well initiated a national energy policy that tackles on price control, new technology and conservation. In foreign affairs, he pursued the Panama Canal Treaties, the second Strategic Arms Limitation Talks as well as the Camp David Accords. In 1979, he further pursued and focused more on human rights and made a peace treaty between Egypt and Israel. The return of the Panama Canal Zone to Panama was marked as a major yielding of US influence in Latin America.

In 1980 election, Carter was challenged for the Democratic Party nomination by Ted Kennedy. He successfully won over Kennedy, however, he lost the election to Ronald Reagan, who was a Republican.

After leaving the presidential office, Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn Carter, put up The Carter Center in 1982. The Center is a nongovernmental, nonprofit aid group that functions as a promoter of human rights. With that, he has traveled to various places to hold peace concessions, analyze elections, and enhance disease prevention in developing countries.

In addition, Jimmy Carter is one of the figures involved in the Habitat for Humanity project. He remains constantly vocal about the on-going conflicts between Palestine and Israel.