Jimmy Carter Oath of Office, Swearing In, 39th President of the United States: From the Archives 🇺🇲

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- January 20, 1977, CBS News Archives. Belated Happy 100th Birthday, President Jimmy Carter.
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Wiki. - James Earl Carter Jr. (b. Oct. 1, 1924) is an American politician and humanitarian who served from 1977 to 1981 as the 39th president of the United States. A member of the Democratic Party, he served from 1963 to 1967 in the Georgia State Senate and from 1971 to 1975 as the 76th governor of Georgia. Carter is the longest-lived president in U.S. history and the first to live to 100 years of age.

Carter was born and raised in Plains, Georgia. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1946 and joined the U.S. Navy's submarine service. Carter returned home after his military service and revived his family's peanut-growing business.

Opposing racial segregation, Carter supported the growing civil rights movement, and became an activist within the Democratic Party. He served in the Georgia State Senate from 1963 to 1967 and then as Governor of Georgia from 1971 to 1975. As a dark-horse candidate not well known outside Georgia, Carter won the Democratic nomination and narrowly defeated the incumbent Republican Party president, Gerald Ford, in the 1976 presidential election...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter

- Carter Center, Bio for Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States and Founder of The Carter Center...
https://www.cartercenter.org/about/experts/jimmy_carter.html
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- Wiki. - Warren Earl Burger (Sept. 17, 1907 - June 25, 1995) was an American attorney and jurist who served as the 15th chief justice of the U.S. from 1969 to 1986. Born in Saint Paul, Minn. Burger graduated from the St. Paul College of Law in 1931. He helped secure the Minnesota delegation's support for Dwight D. Eisenhower at the 1952 Republican National Convention. After Eisenhower won the 1952 presidential election, he appointed Burger to the position of Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Civil Division. In 1956, Eisenhower appointed Burger to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Burger served on this court until 1969 and became known as a critic of the Warren Court.

In 1969, President Richard Nixon nominated Burger to succeed Earl Warren as Chief Justice, and Burger won Senate confirmation with little opposition. He did not emerge as a strong intellectual force on the Court, but sought to improve the administration of the federal judiciary. He also helped establish the National Center for State Courts and the Supreme Court Historical Society. Burger remained on the Court until his retirement in 1986, when he became Chairman of the Commission on the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution.

In 1974, Burger wrote for a unanimous court in United States v. Nixon, which rejected Nixon's invocation of executive privilege in the wake of the Watergate scandal. The ruling played a major role in Nixon's resignation. Burger joined the majority in Roe v. Wade in holding that the right to privacy prohibited states from banning abortions. Although Burger was nominated by a conservative president, the Burger Court also delivered some of the most liberal decisions regarding abortion, capital punishment, religious establishment, sex discrimination, and school desegregation during his tenure...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_E._Burger

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1. Jimmy Carter Joins Stephen Colbert, New Book 📖

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2. a rather poignant memory for me....

Carter 1976 was my first presidential vote. I truly worship the man. That said, I almost hope he doesn't live to see The Felon re-installed.