LaBelle, David
Labor Party, Israel
LaFalce, John
Laffer, Arthur
Laffer Curve
Laingen, Bruce
Laker, Freddie
Lambsdorff, Otto von
Lance, Bert
Lance, LaBelle
“land for peace”
Landrieu, Moon
Lantos, Tom
Lasch, Christopher
Latin America
dictatorships
Laxalt, Paul
Lazarus, Simon
League of Conservation Voters League
League of Women Voters
leaking
Lebanon
invasion of (1982)
Leeds Castle
Lehman Brothers
Levitt, Arthur
Lew, Joseph
Lewis, Sam
Liberty Bell Classic
Libya
Likud Party
Limbert, John
Lindsay, John
Linkage
Linowitz, Sol
Lipshutz, Robert
Lockheed Aircraft
Long, Huey
Long, Russell
Long-Ribicoff plan
Louisiana
Love Canal
Lowery, Joseph
Lubavitch Chabad movement
Lubick, Donald
Lucey, Laurie
Lucey, Pat
Luebsdorf, Carl
Lukash, William
MacMillan, Whitney
Maddox, Lester
Maddox, Robert
Magnuson, Warren
Mann, Theodore
Manufacturers Hanover
Mao Zedong
Maranatha Baptist Church
Marcos, Ferdinand
Mariel boatlift
Marines
Maroz, John
Marshall, George
Marshall, Ray
Martin, Guy
Martin, William McChesney
Massachusetts
Massell, Sam
Mathias, Charles
Matsunaga, Spark
McBride, Lloyd
McCloy, John J.
McClure, James
McCracken, Paul
McCree, Wade
McDonald, Alonzo
McDonnell, Flora
McGee, Gale
McGillicuddy, John
McGovern, George
McHenry, Donald
MCI
McIntyre, James
McPherson, Harry
Meany, George
Medicaid
Medicare
Meeder, Verona
Meir, Golda
Meisner, Doris
Mena House
Mental Health Systems Act of 1980
Metzenbaum, Howard
Mexico
Middle East
Middle East Study Group
Midwest, the
military draft
military force, Carter and
Miller, G. William
Minority Trucking Association
Minsk, Ron
Mississippi
Mitla Pass
Modai, Yitzhak
Moe, Richard
Moffett, Toby
Mondale, Joan
Mondale, Walter “Fritz”
as Vice President
Monetary Control Act
Monroe Doctrine
Moore, Frank
Moore, John
Moradi, Isaac
“moral equivalent of war” (MEOW)
Moral Majority
Morocco
Morris, John
Morteza, Motahiri
Morton, Rogers C. B.
Moses, Alfred
Moss, John
Mossad
Mossadegh, Mohammed
Motahari, Morteza
Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo
Motor Carrier Reform and Regulation Act
Moyers, Bill
Moynihan, Daniel Patrick
Mudd, Roger
Muravchik, Josh
Muskie, Edmund S.
MX missile
Nader, Ralph
Namibia
Nannes, Casper
Napoleon
Nasser, Gamal Abdel
National Association of County Organizations
National Association of Manufacturers
National Bank of Georgia
National Education Association
National Energy Act
National Energy Mobilization Board
National Energy Plan (1978)
National Farmers Union
National Federation of Independent Businesses
National Front (Iran)
national healthcare
National Health Plan (1979)
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
National Organization of Women (NOW)
national parks
National Park Service
national security adviser
National Security Council (NSC)
National Telecommunications Administration
National Women’s Conference
NATO
Naval Academy, U.S., blacks at
Nazis
Negev
Nellie Gray
Nelson, Gaylord
Nelson, Jack
neoconservatives
Netanyahu, Benjamin
neutron bomb
New Deal
New Democrats
New Hampshire
New Right
New South
Newsweek
New York City
saved from bankruptcy
New York City Loan Guarantee Act
The New Yorker
New York Jews
New York Municipal Assistance Corporation (Big MAC)
New York state
New York Times
Nicaragua
Nightline
1970s
Nitze, Paul
Nixon, Richard
Nixon-Ford-Kissinger model of foreign policy
North, the
North Carolina
nuclear weapons
Obama, Barack
accomplishments of
Obamacare
Obey, David
Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Oceans, Environment, and Science, Bureau of
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Ohio
oil
Oklahoma
Oksenberg, Michael
Okun, Arthur
Olmert, Ehud
Olympic Games
Berlin 1936
Boycott Games 1980
Los Angeles 1984
Moscow 1980
U.S. Olympic Committee
O’Neill, Millie
O’Neill, Thomas “Tip”
Open Market Committee
Operation Eagle Claw
Organization of American States
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
Organizing the Presidency
Ortega, Daniel
Oslo Accords
Owen, David
Owen, Henry
PACs
Padgett, Dot
Pahlavi, Mohammed Reza. See Shah of Iran
Pahlavi, Reza, founder of Pahlavi dynasty
Pakistan
Palestine
Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)
Palestinians
Palmer, Charles
Panama
Panama Canal
Panama Canal Treaty
Panama Canal Zone
Pan American Airways
Paraguay
Parcham
Paris Climate Change Agreement
Parker, Alton
Parker, Carey
Passover
Pastor, Robert
Pay Advisory Committee
PBS
peanut farming
“Peanut One”
Pearson, James
Pennsylvania
Pentagon
People Express
People’s Republic of China, diplomatic relations with
Percy, Charles
Peres, Shimon
Pérez, Carlos Andrés
Perle, Richard
Perón, Juan
persecution, well-founded fear of
Pershing missiles
Persian empire
Persian Gulf
mining or blockade options
Pertschuck, Michael
Peru
Peterson, Esther
Peterson, G. Thomas
Philippines
Phillips, A. W.
Phillips, Howard
Pickering, Thomas
Pincus, Walter
Pinochet, Augusto
Plains, Georgia
Plains Baptist Church
Plains High School
Playboy, Carter interview
Podhoretz, Norman
Poland
politics, Carter and
pollsters
on public’s concerns
Pol Pot regime
Pomfret, USS
Pond House, Plains
Popkin, Sam
populism, Carter’s
pork barrel politics
Portugal
Post, John
post-truth
Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy
Powell, Jody
Powell, Lewis
Precht, Henry
Presidential Advisory Committee for Women
presidential campaign of 1976
presidential campaign of 1980
Presidential Commission on Mental Health
presidential yacht Sequoia, sale of
presidents
campaigns
history’s judgment of
one-term
as politician in chief
two-term
President’s Advisory Committee on Women
price controls
Proposition 13
Proxmire, William
Prudhoe Bay
Public Citizen
public school system
Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act
Public Works Appropriations Bill (1978)
Pustay, John
Quandt, William
Quayle, Dan
Qum, Iran
Rabhan, David
Rabii, Amir Hossein
Rabin, Yitzhak
racial discrimination, Carter’s vow
Rackleff, Bob
Rafshoon, Gerald
railroads
Rangel, Charles
Rapid Deployment Force
Rauh, Joseph
Reagan, Ronald
accomplishments of
Reagan Republicans
realpolitik
Real Wage Insurance
Reclamation Bureau
Redford, Robert
Refugee Act
Regan, Donald
Regulation Q
Regulatory Flexibility Act
Regulatory Review Council
Republican Party
congressional leadership breakfasts
Republicans
Reagan Republicans
Reuss, Henry
Reuther, Walter
Revolutionary Guards
“revolving door”
Rex cinema fire
Reynolds, Frank
RFD (rural mail delivery)
Ribicoff, Abraham
Riccardo, John
Richard B. Russell Dam
Rickover, Hyman
Riegle, Don
Robb, Lynda Johnson
Roberts, Ray
Robertson, Pat
Robson, John
Rockefeller, David
Rockefeller, Nelson
Roderick, David
Rodino, Peter
Roe v. Wade
Rogers, Paul
Rogers, William
Rohatyn, Felix
Rolling Stone
Romania
Roosevelt, Eleanor
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Roosevelt, Kermit Jr.
Roosevelt, Theodore IV
Rose Garden strategy
Rosenblatt, Peter
Rosenne, Meir
Ross, Steve
Rostenkowski, Dan
Rostow, Eugene
Roth, William
Rowland, Jim
Rubber Workers
Rubell, Steven
Rubenstein, David
Rubenstein, Elyakim
Rubin, Robert
“Ruffles and Flourishes”
rural electrification system
Russell, Richard
Russia
Russo, Marty
Sadat, Anwar el
historic visit to Jerusalem
Sadat, Jehan
Safire, William
Saint Simons Island
Sakharov, Andrei
SALT II agreement
Samuelson, Paul
Samuelson, Robert
Sanders, Carl
Sanders, Ed
Sandinistas
Sarbanes, Paul
Saudi Arabia
weapons sale to
Saunders, Hal
SAVAK
Sawhill, John
Sayeret Matkal
Sazegara, Mohsen Zara
Scandinavia
Schaub, Walter, Jr.
Schirmer, Katherine
Schlesinger, James Rodney
Schlossberg, Steven
Schlosstein, Ralph
Schmidt, Helmut
Schneerson, Menachem
Schneiders, Greg
school busing
Schrager, Ian
Schulmann, Horst
Schultz, Fred
Schultze, Charles
Schuman, Mary
Schwartz, Naomi and Mel
Schwirmer, Al
Scouten, Rex
Scowcroft, Brent
Scruggs, Jan
Seafarers International Union
Sears, Roebuck
Seawolf, USS
Secret Service
Security Council Resolution 465
segregation
Seidman, William
Senate
rules and prerogatives of
Senior Executive Service
Sephardic Jews
September 11, 2001, terror attacks
Sequoia
presidential yacht
settlements
five-year freeze
Sinai
West Bank
Seymour, Steven
Shah of Iran
becomes Shah
cancer of
Shamir, Yitzhak
Shangri-La
Shanker, Albert
Shapiro, Irving
Shapiro, Robert
Shapp, Milton
Sharansky, Avital
Sharansky, Natan
Shariatmadari, Ayatollah
Sharon, Ariel
Sheer, Robert
Shell
Shemer, Naomi
Shemtov, Abraham
Sherer, Morris
Sherman, George
Sherman, Norman
Sherman, William Tecumseh
Shiite sect
Shindler, Rabbi Alex
Shirley, Craig
Shoval, Zalman
Shrum, Robert
Shulman, Marshall
Sick, Gary
Sidey, Hugh
Siegel, Mark
Siegenthaler, John
Sierra Club
“silent majority”
Simmons, Steve
Simon, Bill
Sinai
settlements
Sinai invasion (1956)
Sinatra, Frank
Sister Sheila
Six-Day War of 1967
Skytrain
Smeal, Eleanor
Smith, Fred
Smith, Rosalynn
Sneadon, Emery
social norms
Social Security
Solomon, Anthony
Solomon, King
Solow, Robert
Somoza, Anastasio
Sorensen, Ted
South, the
as Carter’s base
code words used in
South Africa
Southern Baptists
Southern Christian Leadership Council
South Korea
Southwest, the
Southwest Airlines
Soviet Union
expansionism
invasion of Afghanistan
Jewish community in
Spain
Speaker of the House
Special Air Mission (SAM)
Special Air Services (British)
Special Coordinating Committee (SCC)
Speer, Ed
Speth, Gus
Spirit Airlines
Sprewell Bluff Dam
SS-20 mobile missiles
stagflation
Staggers, Harley
Stahl, Lesley
Stark, Pete
Stark, Steve
Starr, Kenneth
State Department
State of the Union addresses
1979
1980
Stealth technology
Steinbruck, John F.
Steingut, Stanley
Stennis, John C.
Stern, Al
Stern, Isaac
Sternstein, Joseph
Stevens, Ted
Stewart, Gordon
Stockman, David
Stokes, John
Stone, Richard
Strait of Hormuz
Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT II)
Stratton, Sam
Strauss, Robert
Studio 54
Suez Canal
Suez Canal Zone
Sullivan, William
Summers, Lawrence
summit meetings, generally
Sumter County
Sumter County School Board
Superfund
Supply-Side Revolution
Surface Mining Act
Swift, Elizabeth Ann
Switzerland
embassy in Tehran
Syria
Tabatabai, Sadegh
Taishoff, Sol
Taiwan
Taiwan lobby
Taiwan Relations Act
Taliban
Talisman, Mark
Talmadge, Herman
Tanenbaum, Marc
Taraki, Nur Mohammad
Tate, Dan
tax code, “a disgrace to the human race”
tax reform
Taylor, Ken
Teamsters Union
Tel Aviv
Tennessee River
Tennessee Tombigbee Waterway
Teplitz, Saul
terrorism
Terzi, Zehdi Labib
Texas
Texas Railroad Commission
Thailand
Thatcher, Margaret
Thompson, Hunter
Thompson, Jim
Three-Martini Lunch
Thurmond, Strom
Tillich, Paul
Time
Timerman, Jacobo
Tobin, James
Tocqueville, Alexis de
Todman, Terrence
Tolchin, Martin
Tombigbee River
Tomseth, Victor
Tootsie Rolls
Torrijos, Omar
Tower, John
trade negotiations
Transportation, Department of
transportation industry
Treasury, Department of
Treaty of Versailles
Trilateral Commission
trucking
Truman, Harry S.
achievements of
history’s view of
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