Jimmy Carter vs. 'Killer Rabbit' - HISTORY

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Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter was a Washington outsider, a position he stressed during his campaign.

In 1978, President Jimmy Carter held a 13-day summit with Egyptian President Anwar el-Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, helping to broker the first-ever peace treaty between Israel and one of its Arab neighbors. On September 17, at the end of the summit, President Carter describes the two agreements the two world leaders will sign.

Carter reminds his fellow southerners that there had not been a president from the deep South since 1848, in a radio commercial meant to appeal to the deep South. Ultimately Carter won this region, but Ford got more white southern votes.

After announcing in 1974 his intention to run for president, Jimmy Carter officially accepts his party's nomination at the Democratic National Convention on July 15, 1976.

On January 20, 1977, after being sworn in as the 39th president of the United States, Jimmy Carter delivers a short speech and, along with his wife and daughter, walks during the Inaugural Parade from Capitol Hill to the White House. He was the first president to make the journey on foot.