* 1978 – U. S. President Jimmy Carter declares a federal emergency at Love Canal due to toxic waste that had been negligently disposed of.

* 1980 – President Jimmy Carter signs the Crude Oil Windfall Profits Tax Act in an effort to help the U. S. economy rebound.

* 1977 – U. S. President Jimmy Carter signs legislation creating the United States Department of Energy.

* 1978 – Development of the neutron bomb is canceled by President Jimmy Carter.

Clinton, as the newly elected Governor of Arkansas, meeting with President Jimmy Carter in 1978

The election gave Democrats full control of the United States Congress, the first time one party controlled both the executive and legislative branches since Democrats held the 95th United States Congress during the Jimmy Carter presidency in the late 1970s.

Clinton received 41 % of the vote, while George W. Bush received 15 %, George H. W. Bush received 7 %, and Jimmy Carter received 5 %.

Jimmy Carter had made a similar visit in 1994.

" The term was sufficiently prevalent that during the year's Presidential campaign, most notably with Democratic party nominee Jimmy Carter describing himself as " born again " in the first Playboy magazine interview of an American Presidential candidate.

The first born-again President of the United States was Jimmy Carter in 1976.

In 2001, a group of activists collected thousands of signatures for the Varela Project, a petition requesting a referendum on the island's political process was openly supported by former US president Jimmy Carter during his historic 2002 visit to Cuba.

Prime Minister of Israel | Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, President of Egypt | Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and President of the United States | U. S. President Jimmy Carter at Camp David in 1978

* Jimmy Carter brokered the Camp David Accords there in September 1978 between Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin.

Image: Begin, Carter and Sadat at Camp David 1978. jpg | Menachem Begin, Jimmy Carter, and Anwar Sadat at Camp David, September 7, 1978.

Image: Sadat Carter Begin, Camp David 1978. gif | Anwar Sadat, Jimmy Carter, and Menachem Begin meet on the Aspen Lodge patio of Camp David on September 6, 1978.

Image: Carter and Sadat. jpg | President of Egypt, Anwar Sadat, and Jimmy Carter meet at the beginning of the Camp David Summit in 1978.

* Cyrus Vance, U. S. Secretary of State under President Jimmy Carter

Jimmy Carter had officially ended the policy of Détente, by financially aiding the Mujahideen movement in neighboring Afghanistan, which served as a pretext for the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan six months later, with the aims of supporting the Afghan government, controlled by the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan.

* 1978 – U. S. President Jimmy Carter announces that the United States will recognize the People's Republic of China and cut off all relations with Taiwan

Initially, Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter tried to operate without a chief of staff but both eventually appointed one.

In 1979, Parton hosted the NBC special The Seventies: An Explosion of Country Music, performed live at the Ford Theatre in Washington, D. C., and whose audience included President Jimmy Carter.

Notable jazz bassists from the 1940s to the 1950s included bassist Jimmy Blanton ( 1918 – 1942 ) whose short tenure in the Duke Ellington Swing band ( cut short by his death from tuberculosis ) introduced new melodic and harmonic solo ideas for the instrument ; bassist Ray Brown ( 1926 – 2002 ), known for backing Beboppers Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Art Tatum and Charlie Parker, and forming the Modern Jazz Quartet ; hard bop bassist Ron Carter ( born 1937 ), who has appeared on 3, 500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, including LPs by Thelonious Monk and Wes Montgomery and many Blue Note Records artists ; and Paul Chambers ( 1935 – 1969 ), a member of the Miles Davis Quintet ( including the landmark modal jazz recording Kind of Blue ) and many other 1950s and 1960s rhythm sections, was known for his virtuosic improvisations.

Past winners include Jimmy Breslin, Mike Royko, George Will and Bob Costas.

At present, there are five living former first ladies: Rosalynn Carter, wife of Jimmy Carter ; Nancy Reagan, widow of Ronald Reagan ; Barbara Bush, wife of George H. W. Bush ; current Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, wife of Bill Clinton ; and Laura Bush, wife of George W. Bush.

The federal EITC program has been expanded by a number of presidents including Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H. W.

Also among the early 32 members were syndicated panel cartoonists Dave Breger ( Mister Breger ), George Clark ( The Neighbors ), Bob Dunn ( Just the Type ) and Jimmy Hatlo ( They'll Do It Every Time ); freelance magazine cartoonists Abner Dean and Mischa Richter, editorial cartoonists Rube Goldberg ( New York Sun ), Burris Jenkins ( New York Journal American ), C. D. Batchelor ( Daily News ) and Richard Q. Yardley ( The Baltimore Sun ); sports cartoonist Lou Hanlon ; illustrator Russell Patterson and comic book artists Joe Shuster and Joe Musial.

Charles, Prince of Wales ( 3 November 1972 ), U. S. President Jimmy Carter ( 15 July 1978 ), and U. S. Vice President ( later President ) George H. W. Bush ( George Bush Senior ) ( 1 February 1983 ).

The film is directed by Bernardo Ruiz, narrated by Jimmy Smits and features interviews with Vera Clemente, Orlando Cepeda and George F. Will.

Lacy began his career at sixteen playing Dixieland music with much older musicians such as Henry " Red " Allen, Pee Wee Russell, George " Pops " Foster and Zutty Singleton and then with Kansas City jazz players like Buck Clayton, Dicky Wells, and Jimmy Rushing.

Many authors: Stephen R. Marsh, Stephen Perrin, Ian Lee Starcher, Anthony Affronti, Jimmy Akin II, William A Barton, Norman Doege, Bruce Dresselhaus, Ray Greer, Zoran Kovacich, George MacDonald, Steve Maurer, Sandy Petersen, Wayne Shaw, John Sullivan — most are listed because they provided one or more optional rules.

Schneider served as a consultant to federal agencies and White House staff in the Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations.

Former U. S. presidents Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, George H. W. Bush, and Bill Clinton appeared in another videotaped segment and recited some of the speeches by Abraham Lincoln.

Other celebs to have been featured in their own strips include Jonathan Ross, Russell Brand, Esther Rantzen, Stephen Fry, Noel Edmonds, Jimmy Savile ( as the headmaster of " Pop School ", as " Sir Jimmy Savile, the Owl " and in " Jimmy Savile's Haunted Head "), Johnny Vaughan, Adam Ant, Jimmy Hill, Noddy Holder, Boy George, Freddie Garrity, Steve McFadden, Morrissey ( constantly finding daffodils stuck into the seat of his trousers, parodying his appearances on Top of the Pops ), Busted, Eminem, Big Daddy and plenty more.

In the same year, the Cotton Club Orchestra appeared on stage for several months in Florenz Ziegfeld's Show Girl, along with vaudeville stars Jimmy Durante, Eddie Foy, Jr., Al Jolson, Ruby Keeler, and with music and lyrics by George Gershwin and Gus Kahn.

The concert featured appearances by many guest musicians including Lenny Kravitz, George Clinton, Jimmy Russell, and The Time.

They appeared in the 1919 Tournament East-West football game again, one year later, losing by a 17-0 score to a Great Lakes Naval Station team that included future football legends George Halas, Paddy Driscoll and Jimmy Conzelman.

Former presidents Jimmy Carter and George H. W. Bush, both defeated after only one term ( in 1980 and 1992 respectively ), are eligible to seek the office again, as well as the incumbent Barack Obama, who is eligible to seek a second term.

His teams were buoyed by the great play of superstars such as Jimmy Rayl, Mel Daniels, George McGinnis, Bob Netolicky, Rick Mount and Roger Brown.

Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States, signed the bill, H. R.

The Pahlavi dynasty | Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi meeting with Arthur Atherton, William H. Sullivan, Vance, President Jimmy Carter, and Zbigniew Brzezinski in 1977.

Real life footage of Nixon's state funeral in Yorba Linda, California, plays out over the extended end credits, and all living ex-presidents at the time, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and then-president Bill Clinton, are shown in attendance.

The special featured appearances by Jack Wild ( Jimmy of H. R.

The history of the United States ( 1980 – 1991 ) includes the last year of the Jimmy Carter presidency, eight years of the Ronald Reagan administration, and the first two years of the George H. W. Bush presidency, up to the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Previously, he had served in lesser capacities under Presidents Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, and as Deputy Secretary of State under George H. W. Bush.

Other controversial uses of the pardon power include Andrew Johnson's sweeping pardons of thousands of former Confederate officials and military personnel after the American Civil War, Jimmy Carter's grant of amnesty to Vietnam-era draft dodgers, George H. W. Bush's pardons of 75 people, including six Reagan administration officials accused and / or convicted in connection with the Iran – Contra affair, and Bill Clinton's commutation of sentences for 16 members of FALN in 1999 and of 140 people on his last day in office, including billionaire fugitive Marc Rich.

* Chin Siu Dek ( aka Jimmy H. Woo ): martial artist of Sanba and a Grandmaster of Kung Fu San Soo.

Couric has interviewed many international political figures and celebrities during her career, including Presidents Gerald R. Ford, Jimmy Carter, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, and First Lady Barbara Bush.

The Shah of Iran ( left ) meeting with members of the U. S. government: Alfred Atherton, William H. Sullivan | William Sullivan, Cyrus Vance, Jimmy Carter, and Zbigniew Brzezinski, 1977

Frost is the only person to have interviewed eight British prime ministers serving between 1964 and 2010 ( Harold Wilson, Edward Heath, James Callaghan, Margaret Thatcher, John Major, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and David Cameron ) and the seven US presidents in office between 1969 and 2008 ( Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H. W.

In addition to his role in Oliver !, Wild is also known for his leading role as Jimmy in the 1969 NBC children's television series H. R.

He said that he voted for Democrats Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Al Gore, but also Republicans Ronald Reagan and George H. W.

Known examples of successful write-in candidates include Kenneth A. Garrison and Father Segundo Llorente ( 1960 ), Frank R. Ferguson ( 1972 ), James H. " Jimmy " Huntington ( 1974 ) and Nels A. Anderson, Jr. ( 1976 ).

** Bullets Don't Lie ( written by Justin Gray and Jimmy Palmiotti ; art by Darwyn Cooke, J. H.

They performed for five Presidents of the United States ( Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush ) and for Queen Elizabeth II.

During his career as a defense attorney he represented defendants accused of being some of the leading organized crime figures in Las Vegas, such as Meyer Lansky, Nicky Scarfo, Herbert " Fat Herbie " Blitzstein, Phil Leonetti, former Stardust Casino boss Frank ' Lefty ' Rosenthal, and Jamiel " Jimmy " Chagra, a 1970s drug trafficker who was acquitted of ordering the murder of Federal Judge John H. Wood, Jr. His most notorious client was reputed Chicago mobster Anthony " Tony the Ant " Spilotro, who was known to have a short and violent temper.