Cartoonists for the Chicago Tribune and Time magazine depicted Carter as Planters snack company’s dapper advertising character, Mr. Peanut. Others depicted Carter himself as a smiling peanut, along ...

Mike Peters, editorial cartoonist for the Dayton Daily News, put Carter’s big ... election victory over Ford. Peters said this was one of his most-reprinted cartoons. Near Inauguration Day ...

Saturday Night Live, a fledgling NBC comedy show, parodied Carter’s remarks, and one political cartoon depicted him ... including then-President Gerald Ford, seized the opportunity to criticise ...

When Jimmy Carter was sworn in as the president of the United States in 1977, the nation was still reeling from a period of political upheaval ... President Gerald R. Ford, who had succeeded ...

Cartoons and novelty songs followed, and political enemies who wanted to paint Carter as ridiculous and hapless had a field day. For the rest of his time in office, Carter avoided being ...

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“Jimmy Carter was always an outsider,” said biographer Jonathan Alter, explaining how Carter capitalized on the fallout of the Vietnam War and Watergate scandal that toppled Richard Nixon. “The ...

I saw up close how, after his election defeat, this complex man improbably rebounded to be crowned "America's greatest ex-president." ...

Long after leaving office, Carter still bemoaned a political cartoon published around his ... who voted for Republican Gerald Ford in 1976 and Reagan in 1980. “And, looking back, some of the ...