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November 4, 1989, Iranian students seized the embassy and detained more than 50 Americans. The Iran hostage crisis undermined Carter's conduct of foreign policy.

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Read CNN’s Fast Facts about the 1979 Iran hostage crisis, in which 52 US citizens were held captive for 444 days.

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Agreements between Israel and Egypt signed on September 17, 1978, that led in the following year to a peace treaty between those two countries, the first such treaty between Israel and any of its Arab neighbors

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Egypt and Israel Sign Formal Treaty, Ending a State of War After 30 Years; Sadat and Begin Praise Carter's Role

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The treaty was the result of months of grueling, often frustrating negotiations that finally were concluded early this morning when a final compromise was reached on the last remaining issue - a timetable for Israel to give up Sinai oil-fields. Under the treaty, Israel will withdraw its military forces and civilians from the Sinai Peninsula in stages over three years.

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This was a 51 mile shortcut between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. September 7, 1977, President Jimmy Carter signed the Panama Canal Treaty and the Neutrality Treaty promising to give control of the canal to the Panamanians by 2000.

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The department traces its lineage to the manhattan Project effort to develop the atomic bomb during World War II. It is also to the various energy-related programs that previously had been dispersed throughout various Federal agencies.

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39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the Governor of Georgia prior to his election as president.

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Born and raised in Georgia, Jimmy Carter was an officer in the Navy, a peanut farmer, and the 39th President of the United States. Carter's presidency was marked by international crisis and domestic recession, resulting in his loss in the 1980 election to Ronald Reagan.

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Jimmy Carter won the election over Gerald ford. He had 297 electoral votes, to Ford's 240

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A disc that was used for storage on computers. They were flexible and magnetic

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Star Wars, was released on May 25, 1977. This was followed by two sequels: The Empire Strikes Back, released on May 21, 1980, and Return of the Jedi, released on May 25, 1983. These movies were very popular and grew very fast

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Entertainment complex in Florida. It is the flagship destination of Disney's worldwide corporate enterprise

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A movie about a shark who kills a woman swimming. Some people want the beach closed down but they are scared it will affect the tourist flow.

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On July 1, 1979, the Walkman was created. It was a device that was used to play cassette tapes that had music on them, and they were very popular among people.

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Ford’s defeat of Ronald Reagan to run for President as the Republican candidate in 1976

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Ford’s defeat of Ronald Reagan to run for President as the Republican candidate in 1976

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After losing six straight primaries to President Gerald Ford early in the year, Reagan had come roaring back, attacking Ford for his weak foreign policy and deficit spending and winning the crucial North Carolina

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The magic number needed to capture the Republican presidential nomination in 1976 was 1,130 delegates, and Ronald Reagan was oh so close as the national convention prepared to convene.

After losing six straight primaries to President Gerald Ford early in the year, Reagan had come roaring back, attacking Ford for his weak foreign policy and deficit spending and winning the crucial North Carolina primary with help from Sen. Jesse Helms. Reagan achieved a political resurrection and posed the most serious challenge to an incumbent Republican president since 1912 when Theodore Roosevelt had taken on William Howard Taft.

After Reagan won the Texas, Indiana, Georgia and Alabama primaries, a nonplussed GOP establishment that favored Ford struggled to understand the former California governor's appeal. Conservative author Richard Whalen made it easy for them: Reagan was doing well because he was "unsullied by Watergate, untainted by Vietnam, and uncorrupted by a Washington system that isn't working."

However, after failing to carry Ohio although easily winning his home state of California, Reagan realized that the political momentum was shifting back to Ford. Something dramatic had to be done. Breaking a long-held precedent, he announced his running mate before the convention: Sen. Richard Schweiker of Pennsylvania, a moderate conservative with a high rating from the AFL-CIO. Schweiker assured Reagan and his aides that he could pry loose delegates from Pennsylvania and other Northern states.

It was a bold gambit, but it failed. Schweiker persuaded only one Pennsylvania delegate to switch to Reagan. And Schweiker's moderate pro-labor record gave party boss Clarke Reed an excuse to move the Mississippi delegation across the line to Ford. Also ineffective was a convention roll call vote to force Ford to name his vice president in advance-it was rejected by a vote of 1,180 to 1,069, an indication of things to come.

The first and only ballot was breathtakingly close: Ford, 1,187; Reagan 1,070, with 1,130 (half the number of delegates plus one) needed to nominate. Ford's margin over Reagan was a slim 117 delegates. A shift of only 59 delegates would have given the nomination to Reagan-with its 30 delegates, Mississippi would have provided half of what was needed.

Anxious to achieve unity, Ford generously invited Reagan to join him on the platform following his acceptance speech. Reagan gave a rapt convention and tens of millions of viewers a taste of what they would have heard if he had been nominated. Without notes or a teleprompter, he speculated how Americans 100 years from now would look back at this time.

Would they say, "Thank God for those people in 1976 who headed off that loss of freedom; who kept us now a hundred years later free; who kept our world from nuclear destruction?" This was this generation's challenge, Reagan declared. "Whether [the Americans of 2076] have the freedom that we have known up until now will depend on what we do here."

The following day, in what was mistakenly interpreted as a farewell to national politics, Reagan thanked his campaign advisers and workers, many of whom were weeping. "We lost," he acknowledged, "but the cause-the cause goes on." And then he added a few revealing lines from an old English ballad he had memorized in childhood, "I'll lay me down and bleed awhile; although I am wounded, I am not slain. I shall rise and fight again."

And so he did, running again four years later and applying the lessons of 1976. He handily won the nomination, defeating a lineup of well-known Republicans led by George H. W. Bush. In the fall, he buried President Jimmy Carter in an electoral landslide that produced a Republican Senate. The man whom some so-called pundits considered to be too old and too conservative to lead the country launched an historic presidency that restored Americans' faith in themselves and their future, sparked an unprecedented period of economic prosperity from top to bottom, and ended the Cold War, after 40 years, at the bargaining table and not on the battlefield.
This piece first appeared in The Daily Signal here.

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Ronald Reagan vs. Gerald Ford: The 1976 GOP Convention Battle Royal

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The magic number needed to capture the Republican presidential nomination in 1976 was 1,130 delegates, and Ronald Reagan was oh so close as the national convention prepared to convene. After losing six straight primaries to President Gerald Ford early in the year, Reagan had come roaring back, attacking Ford for his weak foreign policy and deficit spending and winning the crucial North Carolina primary with help from Sen.

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Ford’s handling of inflation and unemployment

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Ford’s handling of inflation and unemployment

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William O. Douglas resigned from the Supreme Court, one of the Justices privately admitted that he and his colleagues were "concerned" that the nominee would be a Senator chosen not for judicial qualities but because he could be easily confirmed

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Ford nominated John Paul Stevens to replace Associate Justice William O. Douglas

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The Freedom of Information Act, Ford’s veto of it and Congress’ veto override

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The Freedom of Information Act, Ford’s veto of it and Congress’ veto override

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On November 20, 1974, the House of Representatives voted to override Ford's veto by a margin of 371 to 31; on November 21, the Senate followed suit by a 65 to 27 vote, giving the United States the core Freedom of Information

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Ford's Clemency for Vietnam Draft Evaders

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Ford's Clemency for Vietnam Draft Evaders

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Ford made a proclamation that offered amnesty to those who evaded the draft during the vietnam war.

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August 9, 1974, he was inaugurated as the POTUS

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Ford gave a speech that was saying that Nixon should be pardoned for what he did and not be put in jail for it.

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Ford Gives Pardon To Nixon, Who Regrets 'My Mistakes'

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"Now, therefore, I Gerald R. Ford, President of the United States, pursuant to the pardon power conferred upon me by Article II, Section 2, of the Constitution, have granted and by these presents do grant a full, free and absolute pardon unto Richard Nixon for all offenses against the United States which he, Richard Nixon, has committed or taken part in during the period from Jan.

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American Politician who was the 38th president of the United States following Nixon's resignation.

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Gerald Ford Biography: U.S. President and Congressman