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Jimmy Carter was the 39th [[President of the United States of America]] following [[Gerald Ford]] and preceding [[Ronald Reagan]]. He was a [[Democrat]] who served from 1977-1981, after being the Governor of Georgia. He is widely considered by conservatives to be among the worst presidents in history. His incompetence in office helped lead to the election of [[Ronald Reagan]] in 1980 and the triumph of the modern conservative movement. His presidency featured [[stagflation]], energy crisis, the invasion of Afghanistan by the Soviet Union, support for the [[Equal Rights Amendment]] and, worst of all, the taking of American citizens as hostages by [[Iran]]. Carter personally opposed abortion but only recently, more than 25 years after his presidency, expressed his opposition in public.

Jimmy Carter was the 39th [[President of the United States of America]] following [[Gerald Ford]] and preceding [[Ronald Reagan]]. He was a [[Democrat]] who served from 1977-1981, after being the Governor of Georgia. He is widely considered by conservatives to be among the worst presidents in history, but embraced by liberals as a man of strong moral conviction. The inability of the American government to meet the challenges that were presented to the nation while Carter was in office helped lead to the election of [[Ronald Reagan]] in 1980 and the triumph of the modern conservative movement. His presidency featured [[stagflation]], the energy crisis, the invasion of Afghanistan by the Soviet Union, support for the [[Equal Rights Amendment]] and, worst of all, the taking of American citizens as hostages by [[Iran]]. Carter did successfully broker a peeace agreement (the Camp David accords) between Israel and Egypt. Carter personally opposed abortion but only recently, more than 25 years after his presidency, expressed his opposition in public.

Carter did secure a lasting peace between Egypt and Israel in 1979, but at the expense of providing many billions of dollars in new American foreign aid annually simply to obtain agreement to that deal.

Carter did secure a lasting peace between Egypt and Israel in 1979, but at the expense of providing many billions of dollars in new American foreign aid annually simply to obtain agreement to that deal.