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...John Kennedy in 1960 and Richard Nixon in 1968. The Democratic Party was Carter's, as well as the White House. Because of his impressive rise to power, because of the new phase he marks in American life, and because of the great anticipations that surround him, James Earl Carter Jr. is TIME's Man of the Year...
Carter's determination not only to better but to perfect himself was instilled by his taskmaster father, known as Mr. Earl, who put him in the fields at 4 a.m., and whipped him on six occasions with such thoroughness that Carter vividly recalls every one. Says he: "My father was very strict with me. But I loved him very much...
After the nomination was won. Carter stood beaming in Madison Square Garden while the band blared out Happy Days Are Here Again, the same tune he used to hear in the '30s when Mr. Earl would hitch up a radio to the car battery and the family would huddle around to listen to F.D.R.'s triumphs. In his acceptance speech, Carter returned to the themes of populism, soothing liberals who had doubted him and jarring moderates who had started to support him. The key passage...
There are only 79 short, hectic days between the euphoria of Election Night and the solemn Capitol Hill ceremony in which James Earl Carter Jr. will be inaugurated as the 39th President of the United States. They are crucial days for the new Chief Executive, as he selects the official and unofficial brain trust that will work with him in transforming campaign rhetoric into political reality...
Left University of Minnesota after two years when money ran out . . . Operates a 600-acre grain and grass seed farm in Minnesota . . . In 1960s was Agriculture Department's Midwest administrator of price supports, production control and storage programs . . . Lashes Earl Butz's laissez-faire policies . . . Believes in farm price supports, backed by stockpiling if necessary . . . Says that "the free market system ends at our borders-in the world market we must deal with governments" . . . Wants a protective tariff on imported sugar...