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Jimmy the Baptist: Carter redefined ‘evangelical,’ from campaigns to race and women’s rights

Jan. 01, 2025 12:21 PM EST

PLAINS, Ga. (AP) — Before reaching the 1978 peace deal between Egypt’s Anwar Sadat and Israel’s Menachem Begin, Jimmy Carter managed months of intense preparation, high-stakes negotiations at Camp David and a field trip to the Gettysburg battlefield to demonstrate the consequences of war. ...