Jimmy Carter's years as president

Jimmy Carter

Photos: Jimmy Carter’s presidency

Photos: Jimmy Carter was elected the 39th president in 1976. These are images from his term in office, including the Camp David Accord and the Iranian Hostage Crisis. From the Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Jimmy Carter takes the oath of office, as his wife, Rosalynn, holds the family bible, during the inauguration ceremony in January of 1977. Administrating the oath is Chief Justice of the U.S. Warren Burger. Looking on, from left, are: outgoing President Gerald Ford, and at right, Vice President Walter Mondale, and former Vice President Nelson Rockefeller. (Associated Press)

Jimmy Carter is welcomed to New York City by a sea of hands as he arrives to attend the Democratic National Convention on July 10, 1976. (Associated Press)

Democratic nominee Carter greets Wilson Riles, California public schools superintendent, as he arrives by bus in Plains, Ga., Aug.17, 1976, to brief Carter on domestic programs. At left, is Carter's Issues and Policies director, Stuart Eizenstat, and center, an unidentified bus driver. (AP Photo)

Jimmy Carter, wearing jeans and barefooted, talks with reporters in his home in Plains, during his run for president in 1976. (Associated Press)

Gregg Allman was one of many celebrities to appear at fundraiser for Jimmy Carter's presidential campaign on Feb. 14, 1976. (Jerome McClendon / AJC file)

President Gerald Ford emphasized a point during his second debate with Jimmy Carter at San Francisco's Palace of Fine Arts Theater on Oct. 7, 1976. (AP file)

Jimmy Carter wins the presidency. November 3, 1976.

Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter wipe away tears at their greeting in Plains after winning the presidential election on Nov. 6, 1976. (Billy Downs / AJC file)

The Peanut Special train leaves Plains, Ga. for Washington, D.C. on Jan. 19, 1977, the day before Jimmy Carter's inauguration. (Steve Deal / AJC file)

Outgoing President Gerald Ford and his wife Betty pose with newly inaugurated President Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn on Jan. 20, 1977. (AJC file)

Jimmy, Amy, and Rosalynn Carter walk down Pennsylvania Avenue from the Capitol to the White House after the inauguration ceremony on Jan. 20, 1977. (AJC file)

Jimmy Carter is pictured in the library of the White House just prior to air time of a nationally televised fireside chat on Februrary 2, 1977. (Associated Press)

President Carter works at his desk in the Oval Office on February 8, 1977. (Jimmy Carter Library)

One hundred days into his term, President Jimmy Carter confers with Ambassador Young, left, and U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance at the White House on April 30, 1977. (UPI)

President Jimmy Carter waves from Air Force One in May 1977. Photo: Courtesy Jimmy Carter Library

President Jimmy Carter, First Lady Rosalynn Carter and daughter Amy, July 1977 on the White House lawn. (Jimmy Carter Library)

Belgian Prime Minister Leo Tindemans, Ambassador Anne Cox Chambers, U.S. President Jimmy Carter, King Baudouin I and Zbigniew Brzezinski meet in the Salon du Vase at the Royal Palace in Brussels, Belgium on Jan. 6, 1978. (Jimmy Carter Library)

President Jimmy Carter and Panamanian General Omar Torrijos with other dignitaries at the signing ceremony for the Panama Canal Treaties, June 16, 1978, in Panama City. (Jimmy Carter Library)

President Jimmy Carter joins Dizzy Gillespie and drummer Max Roach in singing a version of Gillespie's tune "Salt Peanuts" at the White House Jazz Concert on June 18, 1978, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Newport Jazz Festival. About 50 of the nation's most renowned jazz players attended the concert. (AP File)

Jimmy Carter and other G7 economic summit leaders gather for a photo in Bonn, Germany on July 18, 1978. (White House Staff Photographers)

For 13 days — from Sept. 5-17, 1978 — Carter negotiated the Camp David summit between Egypt and Israel. Carter is pictured here at Camp David with Egypt President Anwar Sadat and Israel Prime Minister Menachem Begin on September 7, 1978. (Jimmy Carter Library)

President Jimmy Carter pauses for a monent alone outside a lodge at Camp David Thursday during a respite from the summit talks with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. (Associated Press)

First Lady Rosalynn Carter, President Jimmy Carter, Coretta Scott King, Christine King Farris, sister of Dr. Martin Luther King, and U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young all sing during a reception held at the White House on Oct. 4, 1978, to honor Friends of Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Social Change. (AP file)

Deng Xiaoping, China's paramount leader, spoke at a news conference with President Jimmy Carter in Washington in January 1979. (Teresa Zabala/New York Times)

President Jimmy Carter sings with, from left, Martin Luther King Sr., Rosalynn Carter, Andrew Young and Coretta Scott King at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta on Jan. 14, 1979. Carter was there to accept the Martin Luther King Jr. Nonviolence Peace Prize. (Jimmy Carter Library)

Egyptian President Anwar Sadat,Carter, center, and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin clasp hands on the north lawn of the White House after signing the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel on March 26, 1979. Sadat and Begin were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for accomplishing peace negotiations in 1978. (Jimmy Carter Library)

President Jimmy Carter enjoys a night at the Black Music Association Concert with Chuck Berry on June 7, 1979. (Jimmy Carter Library)

At the conclusion of a summit meeting in Vienna, Austria, on June 18, 1979, Carter and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev sign the SALT II treaty specifying guidelines and limitations for nuclear weapons. (Jimmy Carter Library)

President Jimmy Carter shows off the "solar system" that was installed on the roof of the White House during his administration. Dedicated on June 20, 1979, the 32 thermal collectors were visible from Pennsylvania Avenue and supplied solar heated water that was primarly used in the White House mess kitchen. The solar panels were removed from the roof during President Ronald Reagan's administration in 1986. (Jimmy Carter Library)

President Jimmy Carter meets with newsmen aboard Air Force One on July 1, 1979, while flying from Seoul, South Korea, to Honolulu. Carter said as a result of the OPEC increase in the price of oil he feels the country is due for a recession with a many as 800,000 Americans out of work. (AP Photo/Ira Schwarz)

A college student watches President Jimmy Carter's nationally televised energy speech on July 15, 1979, from a service station in Los Angeles, as a gas station attendant fills up a customer's car. Known as the "malaise" speech, it warned that a âcrisis of confidenceâ posed a fundamental threat to U.S. democracy. (AP file)

President Jimmy Carter, traveling with First Lady Rosalynn and daughter Amy, arrived in Hannibal, Missouri by river boat on Aug. 23, 1979 and toured the Mark Twain Museum and Boyhood Home. He moved through large crowds, shaking hands and picking up babies. (John Spink / Shot for the Kansas City Times)

President Jimmy Carter and Rosalynn Carter with country music legend Dolly Parton in the White House on Oct. 2, 1979. (Jimmy Carter Museum)

With President Carter standing by, Pope John Paul II addresses a gathering of dignataries on the South Lawn of the White House on Oct. 6, 1979. (UPI)

President Jimmy Carter waves to the crowd at Municipal Airport in downtown Kansas City, Missouri on Monday, Oct. 15, 1979. The President and the First Lady flew to Kansas City, Mo. to attend the National Conference of Catholic Charities. (John Spink / Shot for the Kansas City Times)

One of 66 American hostages â blindfolded with his hands bound â is displayed to the crowd outside the U.S. embassy in Tehran on Nov. 9, 1979. Their captors held 52 of the Americans for 444 days. (Associated Press)

President Jimmy Carter meets with National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, left, and Bob Pastor in the Oval Office on Jan. 3, 1980. (White House Staff Photographers)

President Jimmy Carter holds a Pittsburgh Pirates cap and a Pittsburgh Steelers âterrible towelâ as he meets both champion teams at the White House in Washington on Feb. 22, 1980. The towel is a good luck symbol for the Steelers. At right is Steelersâ running back Becky Bleier. (Harvey Georges / AP file)

Hamilton Jordan, Zbigniew Brezinski, and President Jimmy Carter walk away from a patio following at meeting at the White House in the spring of 1980. (Cox Washington Bureau)

An undamaged helicopter sits on the ground behind the charred remains of a second U.S. helicopter in the Iranian desert of Dasht-E-Kavir, April 26, 1980. The site, about 300 air miles from Teheran, was where the United States rescue effort for those held hostage in Teheran was abandoned, and where a U.S. helicopter and transport collided. (Associated Press)

President Jimmy Carter shakes hands with Sen. Edward Kennedy on the podium at the Democratic National Convention in New York's Madison Square Garden, Aug. 15, 1980. The two had vied for the Democratic presidential nomination. Convention Chairman Tip O'Neill is second from left and Robert Strauss, the president's campaign manager, is second from right. Smiling over Kennedy's shoulder is Rep. Charles Rangel of New York. At far right is first lady Rosalynn Carter with daughter Amy beside her. (AP file)

President Jimmy Carter embarked on his campaign for re-election on Aug. 14, 1980, at Madison Square Garden in New York City after The Democratic National Convention renominated him. Joining him on the platform were Amy Carter, Rosalynn Carter, Vice President Walter Mondale and Carter's Democratic rival, Sen. Edward Kennedy, who congratulated the president after his acceptance speech. (John Spink / Shot for the Kansas City Times)

President Jimmy Carter examines "The Buck Stops Here" sign that was on the desk in the Oval Office during Truman's presidency at the Harry S. Truman Library and Museum during his visit there on Sept. 2, 1980. (John Spink / Shot for the Kansas City Times)

President Jimmy Carter lays a wreath at the grave of former President Harry S. Truman on Sept. 2, 1980, at the Harry S. Truman Library and Museum during his visit there. Earlier Carter had visited with Truman's widow Bess Truman. (John Spink / Shot for the Kansas City Times)

President Jimmy Carter, Atlanta mayor Maynard Jackson and Coretta Scott King join 400 Black Southern Leaders in prayer before Carter addressed the group asking for their support in his re-election bid, Sept. 16, 1980. (Larry Rubenstein / UPI)

President Jimmy Carter and Republican Presidential candidate Ronald Reagan, shake hands before a televised debate on Oct. 28, 1980, in Cleveland, Ohio. (AP file)

Jimmy Carter with the freed American hostages in Wiesbaden, West Germany, January 22, 1981. (Jimmy Carter Library)

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Jimmy Carter takes the oath of office, as his wife, Rosalynn, holds the family bible, during the inauguration ceremony in January of 1977. Administrating the oath is Chief Justice of the U.S. Warren Burger. Looking on, from left, are: outgoing President Gerald Ford, and at right, Vice President Walter Mondale, and former Vice President Nelson Rockefeller. (Associated Press)

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