“... campaigns for clemency in the history of this country’, her sentence was commuted by the kindly Jimmy Carter. Every Secret Thing is not an attractive book; it’s flat and it’s repetitive: but it tells a good story and has the ingredients for a better movie. It is, after all, very possible that what Patty Hearst would have said if she were more ...”

“... then with a wink: her riff ends nicely with the joke on ‘goober-natorial’ that applied to Jimmy Carter when he was governor of Georgia, the Peanut State. But the philological passion is genuine, even compulsive. Over the five hundred pages of Essays One and the six hundred pages of Essays Two, Davis parses language every which ...”

“... you go five back, to the years of bleakest underachievement, you also find similar figures – Jimmy Carter and Kim Hughes, both decent, well-intentioned, golden-haired outsiders, and both utterly useless). None has had to carry greater burdens than the present incumbents, who not only have had a father (or in Ponting’s case, father-figure) to ...”

“... he must go. Obama has a larger-spirited wish to help people than any of his predecessors since Jimmy Carter; though caution bordering on timidity has kept him from speaking with Carter even once in the last five years. Obama roots for the good cause but often ends up endorsing the acceptable evil on which the ...”

“... although he did rise to a second-tier position in the National Security Council under President Jimmy Carter. His intellectual achievements, by way of compensation, have far out-stripped those of his peers. His immensely influential Political Order in Changing Societies (1968), in particular, established his reputation as a leading authority on ...”

“... himself was stoking them with his denunciations of the Soviet Union and his plan (inherited from Carter) to install mid-range cruise and Pershing missiles in Europe.As Boot shows, the idea that Reagan ‘beat communism’ depended on the assumption that his arms build-up drove Gorbachev to reform the Soviet system in order to avoid bankruptcy and compete ...”

“... 2007. If one made it a list of incidents as well as persons, one would have to count the snub to Jimmy Carter that denied him a prominent part at the Democratic Convention of 2008 – a graceless as well as a gutless omission. By contrast, the delay in the closing of Guantánamo might be supposed an effect of sheer miscalculation, except that it so ...”

“... 10.8 per cent (its peak after the 2008 crisis, by comparison, was 10.2 per cent in October 2009). Jimmy Carter, who had appointed Volcker, was crushed by Ronald Reagan in the 1980 presidential election. But inflation was brought under control, and the lesson was learned: central banks must not concern themselves with the election cycle if they are to ...”

“... of the money stock) for the purposes of monetary policy, and then, in August 1979, President Jimmy Carter appointed Paul Volcker as chairman of the Fed.When Volcker was appointed, the federal funds rate (the Fed’s primary policy tool, the rate at which banks lend to each other) was 11 per cent; by June 1981 it was 22 per cent. This was the ...”

“... and Third Worldism, and to consecrate an anti-totalitarian liberalism. Politicians such as Jimmy Carter weaponised it in a new ideological and moral offensive against the Soviet Union. Moyn’s new book shows how human rights, as well as enabling American militarism, acquiesced, as a ‘powerless companion of market fundamentalism’, to the ...”

“... looks very much like being established that the Reagan-Bush campaign in 1980 went behind President Carter’s back and made a private understanding with the Iranians about the American diplomatic hostages. But those hostages were the original cause of the yellow ribbon movement! Can a piece of fraud and treason really have been the foundation of the storied ...”

“... Jackson, liking his strong stance on Jewish emigration from the USSR, and wrote to Jimmy Carter warning him not to trust Sadat. He started writing the manuscript that became Mercy of a Rude Stream in 1979. ‘What I have in mind,’ he told Materassi, ‘is to portray the evolution of the insufferably self-centred, immature, in many ways ...”

“... fell by 25 per cent. The situation was defused by a brilliant and near-treasonous intervention by Jimmy Carter, who negotiated a compromise face to face with Kim Il Sung and then bounced the administration into accepting it by announcing it live from Pyongyang on CNN. The result was the Agreed Framework, an elaborately programmed sequence of reciprocal ...”

“... presses. The high point was reached in the President’s Commission on the Holocaust appointed by Jimmy Carter in November 1978, which reported a year later. Chaired by Elie Wiesel, it recommended the erection of a National Holocaust Memorial/Museum, the creation of an Educational Foundation, and the appointment of a Committee on Conscience to monitor ...”

“... nuclear reactors at Yongbyon, about sixty miles north of Pyongyang. Then, at the last minute, Jimmy Carter got North Korea to agree to a complete freeze on activity at the Yongbyon complex, and a Framework Agreement was signed in October 1994. The Republican Right railed against this for the next six years, until George W. Bush brought a host of the ...”