Jimmy Carter
Won the 1976 election against Gerald Ford
Lost the 1980 election the Ronald Reagan
Accomplishments
- Carter Center
- bringing peace to the world
- Camp David, and Camp David Accords
- Department of Energy
- Department of Education
- Love Canal Superfund
- Emergency Natural Gas Act
- US Boycott to Moscow Olympics
- Graduation Speech at Annapolis
- Pardon Draft Dodgers
- Taft-Hartley Act
Popularity - 50%
- Many people were becoming jobless
- Gas prices were skyrocketing
- People forming lines for gas
- Iran Hostage Crisis
- Nobel Peace Prize
Legacy
- Jimmy Carter's legacy was promoting world peace. He emphasized nothing more than his want for humanity to get along.
George Herbert Walker Bush
Background
- Born in Massachustes
- He went to Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
- Staph hospitalized him for six weeks
- retook senior year
- 18 he enlisted in the Navy
- Graduated from Yale in 1948
- Oil Business
- Millionaire at age 40
- Barbara Pierce on January 1945
- Had 6 children
- VP for Reagan
- War on Drugs
Election
- Won the 1988 election
Accomplishments
- Increase taxes
- Decreased debt
- Ordered Military operations in Panama
- Increased Welfare
- Additional benefites for unemployed workers
- Improved International Space Station
- Signed AMericans with Disablities Act of 1990
- Increased Gederal spending on Child Car, Education
- Clean Air Act
- The Berlin Wall came down and the Cold war officially ends under his power
Persian Gulf War
- Iraq and Iran were having disputs about oil
- Iraq invaded Kuwait- August 2, 1990
- Suddam Hussein claimed"It was an artificial state carved out of the Iraqi coast by Western colonialists"
Aproval Rating
- Highest 89%
- Lowest 29%
- "No New Taxes"-lowest
Legacy
- Bush had success in Foreign Affairs, but he was a disappointment in Domestic Affairs. The economy was never in his favor.
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