“... 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 ...”

“... organisation, he has won the respect of a growing number of politicians in the West, including Jimmy Carter. Mishal was born in 1956, into a peasant family in the Jordanian-ruled West Bank village of Silwad, 16 miles north of Jerusalem. His father, Abd al-Qadir, was a sheikh who had fought in the 1936 Arab Revolt and in the 1948 war with Israel; he ...”

“... of Mossadegh and restored the Shah to his throne. The other was the considerably less successful Jimmy Carter-instigated mission in 1979, when Admiral Huyser was sent to Iran with orders to prod the Iranian military into resistance on behalf of Shahpur Bakhtiar and the Shah. Huyser’s own version of the affair, Mission to Teheran, provides a detailed ...”

“... beer. In response, Cheney’s Energy Task Force did no more than recapitulate an argument made by Jimmy Carter: demand is growing, oil is not scarce, but it is unevenly distributed. Carter had emphasised conservation, at least in the first instance, as a response to market dependency; Cheney stressed military ...”

“... Democratic and Republican acceptance speech from those of Truman and Dewey in 1948 to those of Carter and Reagan in 1980, as well as those of some of their illustrious predecessors. What strikes me is the extent to which they represent a canon – albeit a rather fossilised canon – in the literature of American political rhetoric. They follow ...”

“... of administration in Washington would do them no favours. With the Cubans still on the scene, Jimmy Carter was obliged to fold an ambitious hand even before he’d assumed office. As president in waiting he’d planned to push through Namibian independence, normalise relations with the MPLA – and Cuba, as it happens – and face down apartheid ...”

“... in Kaliningrad is paired with a car park in Dallas, the Donbass Sanatorium in Crimea with the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library in Atlanta. It is striking, nonetheless, that these buildings look so similar despite their totally different uses and histories. Did modern architecture manage to create a formal repertoire appropriate to the way people use ...”

“... on making a difference. I was writing a political column with James Ridgeway at the time, and when Jimmy Carter’s fortunes began to rise in the 1976 campaign we had a researcher work through documentary records in the Georgia State archives, amassed during his stint as Governor. Our man toiled diligently away – so diligently in fact that we concluded ...”

“... is Weissnix, which she translates as ‘Knownothing’ – against the urbane and cosmopolitan Carter Bayoux. He teaches Ilka about sex and jazz, the names of sandwiches and how to drink whiskey. But most of all she learns about the tacit protocols (a favourite word of Carter’s) of Jim Crow America.Their first date is ...”

“... says he asked for a ‘pin-up picture’. Glitter’s episode and that of the late, disgraced Jimmy Savile, are no longer available. Rolf Harris’s two episodes are.As the​ rest of the media became more aggressive in the pursuit of celebrities and their secrets, Desert Island Discs seemed as safe and as relaxed as anywhere on air. Monica Sims, head of ...”

“... curve’ – clearly showed that levels of atmospheric CO2 were rising sharply. In 1979, Jimmy Carter asked the National Academy of Sciences to look into the question. The Ad Hoc Study Group of Carbon Dioxide and Climate did that, and reported that they had ‘no reason to doubt that climate change will result and no reason to believe that these ...”

“... the failed 1980 attempt to rescue the American hostages in Tehran. That failure was a factor in Jimmy Carter’s loss to Ronald Reagan. Obama’s worries were realistic, the retired official said. ‘Was bin Laden ever there? Was the whole story a product of Pakistani deception? What about political blowback in case of failure?’ After all, as the ...”

“... the pragmatic British were distancing themselves from what was being portrayed as ex-President Jimmy Carter’s naive, unnecessary and somewhat nebulous preoccupation with the breakdown of human rights in Argentina. Nor was the Parkinson mission an isolated, one-off bid for a restoration of British-Argentine amity: without saying so explicitly, the ...”

“... people. According to Trump, ‘You’re a parent and your son leaves the house and you say, “Jimmy, I love you so much. Go have a good day in school.” And your son comes back with a brutal operation!’ (It’s a MAGA meme that those childless liberal teachers are forcibly transitioning our kids at school.) This threat has now spread beyond the ...”

“... and Havana; Unita and apartheid special forces on the other. Matters were hard for Savimbi after Carter cut him off in 1976. His reliance on Pretoria was so thorough that he was regarded as little more than an apartheid stooge. But the South Africans set him up with Jamba, his well-appointed base in the remote south-east of the country, and serviced his ...”