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

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: 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

* 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

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.

The transaction, which required United States government approval because of the engine technology, was rejected by the administration of President Jimmy Carter in order to discourage the proliferation of sophisticated military equipment in the Third World.

* 1979 – Convicted bank robber Patty Hearst is released from prison after her sentence is commuted by President Jimmy Carter.

Patrick Caddell, a Fox News contributor and former pollster for President Jimmy Carter, said he had spoken with other Democratic consultants who had received similar warnings from the White House.

In mid-September 1994, with U. S. troops prepared to enter Haiti by force for Operation Uphold Democracy, President Bill Clinton dispatched a negotiating team led by former President Jimmy Carter to persuade the authorities to step aside and allow for the return of constitutional rule.

* 1979 – U. S. President Jimmy Carter signs the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul.

* 1980 – President Jimmy Carter authorizes legislation giving $ 1. 5 billion in loans to bail out the Chrysler Corporation.

In 2007, Demme's film Man from Plains, a documentary about former U. S. President Jimmy Carter's book tour in promotion of his book Palestine: Peace not Apartheid, premiered at the Venice and Toronto Film Festivals.

* 1979 – U. S. President Jimmy Carter gives his so-called " malaise " speech, where he characterizes the greatest threat to the country as " this crisis in the growing doubt about the meaning of our own lives and in the loss of a unity of purpose for our nation " but in which he never uses the word malaise.

President Tolbert and U. S. President Jimmy Carter ( in car, left ) in Monrovia, 1978

* 1995 – H. Adams Carter, American Alpine Club President, 10th Mountain Division trainer ( b. 1914 )

After paying tribute to the conductor and his white-clad youthful students, President Kennedy said, `` As an American I have the greatest possible pride in the work that is being done in dozens of schools stretching across the United States -- schools where devoted teachers are studying with interested young men and women and opening up the whole wide horizon of serious music ''.

RAI International's latest politically appointed President ( an avowed right wing nationalist and former spokesperson for Giorgio Almirante, the leader of the post-fascist party of Italy ) had unilaterally terminated a 20-year-old agreement and stripped all of its 1, 500 to 2, 000 annual hours of programming from TLN Telelatino, a Canadian-run channel which had devoted 95 % of its prime time schedule to RAI programs for 20 years since TLN was founded.

President William Howard Taft devoted a considerable portion of his First Annual Message to Congress ( December 7, 1909 ) to the Liberian question, noting the close historical ties between the two countries that gave an opening for a wider intervention:

President Lincoln again sent Charles Dana to keep a watchful eye on Grant's alleged intemperance ; Dana eventually became Grant's devoted ally, and made light of the drinking.

All television coverage for the next four days is devoted to the assassination, its aftermath, the procession of the horsedrawn casket to the Capitol Rotunda, and the funeral of President Kennedy.

Political leaders and reformers like Mahatma Gandhi, President John F. Kennedy, civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr., Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, and Russian author Leo Tolstoy all spoke of being strongly affected by Thoreau's work, particularly Civil Disobedience, as did " right-wing theorist Frank Chodorov devoted an entire issue of his monthly, Analysis, to an appreciation of Thoreau.

In December 1887, President Grover Cleveland, a Democrat, devoted his entire State of the Union Address to the issue of the tariff.

Instead he devoted more than a month to the preparation of a complete history of the electoral counts over the previous century to show it was the unbroken usage of Congress, not of the President of the Senate, to count the electoral votes.

" He was elected President of the Civil Rights Congress ( CRC ) on June 5, 1946 at a meeting held at the Hotel Diplomat in New York City, and " devoted the largest portion of his working time to CRC activities.

For example, former U. S. President Ronald Reagan has an unofficial devoted " fan club " on the Internet.

* The Norwich Center, Norwich, Vermont, maintains an internet site devoted to an introductory biography and appreciation of Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, signed by Clinton C. Gardner, President of the Norwich Center, accessed 20 March 2007

A significant portion of the book is devoted to comparisons between President George W. Bush and former president Bill Clinton regarding their economic, environmental, and military policies.

When Bronx Science celebrated its silver anniversary in June 1963, President John F. Kennedy hailed it as " a significant and pathfinding example of a special program devoted to the development of the student gifted in science and mathematics.

The rest of the day he devoted to policy and budget briefings, visits with foreign and other dignitaries, and to what he termed " ABC " meetings at the White House with Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and National Security Advisor Sandy Berger as well as President Bill Clinton.

President Mikheil Saakashvili, at an emergency Cabinet meeting, said, " In Zurab Zhvania, Georgia has lost a great patriot, who devoted his entire life to serving the motherland.

President Philip C. Stone awarded Young an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters, honoris causa, in recognition for his devoted service to mankind and his country.

Pitt had been writing about politics off and on for several years, but became devoted to the practice during the impeachment trial of former President Bill Clinton.

Whereas it appears from official reports that Dr. Mary E. Walker, a graduate of medicine, " has rendered valuable service to the Government, and her efforts have been earnest and untiring in a variety of ways ," and that she was assigned to duty and served as an assistant surgeon in charge of female prisoners at Louisville, Ky., upon the recommendation of Major-Generals Sherman and Thomas, and faithfully served as contract surgeon in the service of the United States, and has devoted herself with much patriotic zeal to the sick and wounded soldiers, both in the field and hospitals, to the detriment of her own health, and has also endured hardships as a prisoner of war four months in a Southern prison while acting as contract surgeon ; and Whereas by reason of her not being a commissioned officer in the military service, a brevet or honorary rank cannot, under existing laws, be conferred upon her ; and Whereas in the opinion of the President an honorable recognition of her services and sufferings should be made.

McKay is one of the more active Members of the Canadian Parliament on the issue of aid to developing nations, having been the Vice President of CIDO ; an organization devoted the development of microfinancing in developing nations.

The growth of the dating services and dating events industry has been so drastic that the phrase " dating – industrial complex " ( reminiscent of President Dwight D. Eisenhower's term " military industrial complex ") has been coined to capture the amount of money and manpower devoted to dating services for singles.

Tireless in his efforts to build the physical college, President Tucker was also equally devoted to articulating a moral and spiritual dimension for Dartmouth and for higher education nationwide.

As the popularity of President ’ s Choice grew, along with the number of products, the Insider ’ s Report became increasingly devoted to the promotion of the line.

Meantime, Dave Nichol's Insider's Report, which according to an A. C. Neilson survey was read by 59 percent of Ontario households, had become almost exclusively devoted to the promotion of President ’ s Choice.

All television coverage for the next four days is devoted to the assassination, its aftermath, the procession of the horsedrawn casket to the Capitol Rotunda, and the funeral of President Kennedy.