* According to Simon Cowell's biography and Bill Carter's book Desperate Networks, UPN was offered American Idol before FOX and turned it down.

In 1999, Carter's son William " Buddy " Carter published a biography of his father titled Billy Carter: A Journey Through the Shadows ( ISBN 1-56352-553-4 ).

* 2011: Ron Carter's Great Big Band ( Sunnyside Records )

* Ron Carter's dedicated page on the Party Of The Century project

The resulting personality, an unhinged and unrepressed version of Carter's personality, is dubbed " Max Headroom " after his first words ( the last words seen by Carter before being knocked unconscious by a parking-garage security gate ).

Knocked unconscious, Carter's memories are extracted into a computer by Lynch in order to determine whether Carter uncovered Grossberg's knowledge of the danger of Blipverts.

Compared to fellow First Ladies when their husbands left office, Reagan's approval was higher than those of Rosalynn Carter and Hillary Rodham Clinton, however she was less popular than Barbara Bush and her disapproval rating was double that of Carter's.

This last, key sentence of the Carter Doctrine, was written by Zbigniew Brzezinski, President Carter's National Security Adviser.

Carter's successor, President Ronald Reagan, extended the policy in October 1981 with what is sometimes called the " Reagan Corollary to the Carter Doctrine ", which proclaimed that the United States would intervene to protect Saudi Arabia, whose security was threatened after the outbreak of the Iran – Iraq War.

Spencer lived at his plantation Nomini, which his descendants later sold to Robert Carter I. Carter's grandson, Robert Carter III voluntarily freed almost 500 slaves from Nomini Hall beginning in 1791 and settled many on his lands, which he gave them.

The county seat, Elizabethton, is named for Carter's wife, Elizabeth MacLin Carter.

was where Don Carter's Bowling Alley was located, now called Carter Plaza.

The small W. Horace Carter Newspaper Museum in Tabor City at the Tabor-Loris Tribune offices has exhibits on Carter's life and work.

Newkirk was also teamed with Carter and his irritation at Carter's bumbling antics and lack of common sense was often used for comedic effect.

According to the New Republic's Franklin Foer, " He masterminded Michael Dukakis's gubernatorial campaign in 1974 ; worked as executive director of the Democratic National Committee in the Jimmy Carter era ; managed the 1980 Democratic convention in New York ; and subsequently worked as chief scheduler for Carter's reelection campaign.

* August 18 – Nick Lowe and Carlene Carter are married at Carter's Los Angeles home.

It is unclear whether or not Carter keeps her job, or whether or not Carter's relationship with Gallagher will continue, but the final scene shows them having a friendly conversation on the wharf where Gallagher's boat is docked.

Perle's objection to the arms talks between the Carter administration and the Soviet Union revolved primarily around Carter's agreement to halt all cruise missile development.

Tartikoff and Carter began talking between innings, and when Tartikoff eventually read some of Carter's script work, he brought him over to write for the network.

There, Carter developed a number of unproduced television pilots — Cameo By Night, featuring Sela Ward ; Brand New Life, which has been described as being similar to The Brady Bunch ; Copter Cop, a science fiction series that was hampered by Tartikoff's injuries after a car accident ; and Cool Culture, influenced by Carter's passion for surfing and experience with Surfing Magazine.

Peter Roth, at that time the president of Stephen J. Cannell Productions, obtained a copy of Carter's pilot script for Cool Culture, and although the series was never picked up, Roth was interested in hiring Carter to work on the CBS series Palace Guard.

The Oval Office has become associated in Americans ' minds with the presidency itself through memorable images, such as a young John F. Kennedy, Jr. peering through the front panel of his father's desk, President Richard Nixon speaking by telephone with the Apollo 11 astronauts during their moonwalk, and daughter Amy Carter bringing her Siamese cat Misty Malarky Ying Yang to brighten President Jimmy Carter's day.

According to author / journalist Mark Bowden, a pattern developed in President Carter's attempts to negotiate a release of the hostages: Carter would latch on to a deal proffered by a top Iranian official and grant minor but humiliating concessions, only to have it scotched at the last minute by Khomeini.

Carter's father, Elliott Carter Sr., was a businessman and his mother was the former Florence Chambers.

While Carter's chromaticism and tonal vocabulary parallels serial composers of the period, Carter does not employ serial techniques in his music.

Jordan was a key advisor and strategist for Jimmy Carter during the 1976 presidential campaign and during Carter's administration, serving as White House Chief of Staff in 1979 – 1980 ( Carter, who took office in 1977, had previously not seen the need formally to appoint an aide to such a post ).

With the arrival of the Reagan administration, the Heritage Foundation and other conservative foreign policy think tanks saw a political opportunity to significantly expand Carter's Afghanistan policy into a more global " doctrine ," including U. S. support to anti-communist resistance movements in Soviet-allied nations in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

Morroe Berger also wrote the book " Benny Carter-A Life in American Music ," ( 1982 ) a two-volume work, covers Carter's career in depth, an essential work of jazz scholarship.

American " malaise ," a term that caught on following Carter's 1979 " crisis of confidence speech ," in the late 1970s and early 1980s was not unfounded as the nation seemed to be losing its self-confidence.

During his Raptors tenure, news came out and revealed that Carter had developed Sinding-Larsen-Johansson disease also known as " jumper's knee ," which drew criticism and questions from local media outlets and fans about Carter's long term durability as a NBA scorer.

Carter in his first game back to Toronto in 2004-2005 season was heavily booed and jeered by Raptors fans ; some fans were found burning Vince Carter jerseys, while many donned No. 15 baby bibs, ' FUVC't-shirts, and other merchandise that labelled Carter as " Wince " or as " immature ," alluding to Carter's knee and ankle injuries and his dissent.

* Martin Levin published a review of Jimmy Carter's Palestine Peace Not Apartheid entitled " Lord Jimmy ," in the Globe and Mail, Jan. 27, 2007.

* The Canadian indie rock band Blinker the Star mentions Kevin Carter's death in their song " Still in Rome ," from the 2003 album of the same name.

During the Carter Administration, alarmed by what he viewed as Carter's " War on the West ," Laxalt became co-chair of the Senate Western Caucus, a bi-partisan coalition of Western Senators who were mainly united on public land and water issues.

" Through the Gates of the Silver Key ," written in collaboration with Lovecraft admirer E. Hoffman Price, details Carter's adventures in another dimension where he encounters a more primordial version of himself ( implied to be Yog-Sothoth ) who explains that Carter-and indeed all beings-are ultimately nothing more than manifestations of a greater being.

The next issue adapted L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter's " Castle of Terror ," with # 106 and # 107 adapting The Snout in the Dark, originally only a draft by Conan's creator Robert E. Howard.

( However, Carter's line " I keep thinking I'm gonna step on a bug and change the future ," may be taken as a reference to The Simpsons, as Homer's stepping on a bug is what caused the changes in his universe.

The original UK LP sleeve of Carlene Carter's C ' est C Bon designed by Barney Bubbles

Charles reads Carter's memories and discovers that when the two were children they were used as test subjects by Nathan Milbury of the Black Womb Project, with the approval of Charles ' father, Doctor Brian Xavier.

* The Rise and Fall of the Cthulhu Mythos by S. T. Joshi ( Mythos Books, 2008 ) is the first full-length critical study since Lin Carter's to examine the development of Lovecraft's Mythos and its outworking in the oeuvres of various modern writers.

Carnarvon financed Carter's work in the Valley of the Kings from 1914, but it was interrupted by World War I until 1917, when serious work was resumed.

On 4 November 1922, Howard Carter's excavation group found the steps leading to Tutankhamun's tomb ( subsequently designated KV62 ), by far the best preserved and most intact pharaonic tomb ever found in the Valley of the Kings.

All of these discoveries were eagerly covered by the world's press, but most of their representatives were kept in their hotels ; only H. V. Morton was allowed on the scene, and his vivid descriptions helped to cement Carter's reputation with the British public.

In Search of the Pharaohs is a 30-minute cantata for narrator, junior choir and piano by composer Robert Steadman, commissioned by the City of London Freemen's School, which uses extracts from Carter's diaries as its text.

Carter's unusual nickname is accounted for by his origin.

* In " Body Banks ", he is ordered by Network 23 board member Julia Formby to accompany her to the Plantagenet residence, so he can load the dying family matriarch's brain patterns into a computer as he had done with Edison Carter's.

Contenders for the title of " first rock and roll record " include Goree Carter's " Rock Awhile " ( 1949 ); Jimmy Preston's " Rock the Joint " ( 1949 ), which was later covered by Bill Haley & His Comets in 1952 ; and " Rocket 88 " by Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats ( actually an alias for Ike Turner and his band The Kings of Rhythm ), recorded by Sam Phillips for Sun Records in March 1951.

Much of the credit for the resolution of the stagflation is given to two causes: a three year contraction of the money supply by the Federal Reserve Board under Paul Volcker, initiated in the last year of Carter's presidency, and long term easing of supply and pricing in oil during the 1980s oil glut.

Together, the Lances and Florence Amherst mounted a campaign for recognition of the Middle Eastern breed, that coincided with the phenomenon of " Tutmania " caused by Howard Carter's discovery of Tutankhamun ’ s tomb in late 1922.

The Outlaw Josey Wales ( 1976 ), a western inspired by Asa Carter's 1972 novel of the same name, has lead character Josey Wales ( Eastwood ) as a pro-Confederate guerilla who refuses to surrender his arms after the American Civil War and is chased across the old southwest by a group of enforcers.

Brzezinski became Carter's principal foreign policy advisor by late 1975.

The State Department was alarmed by Brzezinski's support for East German dissidents and objected to his suggestion that Carter's first overseas visit be to Poland.

However, Carter's spiritual transformation did not compensate for his liberal policies in the minds of Christian conservatives, as reflected in Jerry Falwell's criticism that " Americans have literally stood by and watched as godless, spineless leaders have brought our nation floundering to the brink of death.