“THERE YOU GO AGAIN”
Jimmy Carter withstood a problem from Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination however was politically diminished heading into his common election battle towards a vigorous Republican adversary.
Reagan, the conservative who projected a picture of energy, stored Carter off steadiness throughout their debates earlier than the November 1980 election.
Reagan dismissively informed Carter, “There you go once more,” when the Republican challenger felt the president had misrepresented Reagan’s views throughout one debate.
Carter misplaced the 1980 election to Reagan, who gained 44 of the 50 states and amassed an Electoral Faculty landslide.
James Earl Carter Jr was born on Oct 1, 1924, in Plains, Georgia, one in all 4 kids of a farmer and shopkeeper. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1946, served within the nuclear submarine program and left to handle the household peanut farming enterprise.
He married his spouse, Rosalynn, in 1946, a union he referred to as “a very powerful factor in my life.” They’d three sons and a daughter.
