* 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 )

* Carter Beats the Devil: A novel by Glen David Gold wherein the climax of his latest touring stage show, Carter invites United States President Warren G. Harding on to stage to take part in his act, 2001.

On April 29, President Obama, upon touring the tornado damage in Tuscaloosa, said " I have never seen devastation like this ".

The touring band visited the White House on invitation of John Gardner Ford, son of U. S. President Gerald Ford.

In 1948, Harry S. Truman, 33rd President of the United States, stopped at Spring Valley while touring the country in the last whistle-stop campaign by train.

In 1984, President Ronald Reagan visited the city of Sidney on a train ( the same train that President Roosevelt traveled on during his visit to Sidney in 1944 ) whilst touring the country.

While touring hamelin with a theatrical troupe in Union-controlled Louisville, Kentucky, Pauline was paid to toast Confederate President Jefferson Davis after a performance.

Stephens also created and produced another highly rated television program called, " Eye on Arkansas ," which led him to negotiate with The Vapors nightclub in Hot Springs ( Garland County ) to publicize the club in exchange for appearances by the headliner acts, resulting in him interviewing such entertainment icons as Liberace, Patti Page, the Four Aces, Angie Dickinson, Bob Crosby, Mickey Rooney, the casts of the popular TV ’ s series, " Ponderosa ," and " The Beverly Hillbillies ," actors Roy Rogers, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Ronald Reagan ( while touring as the host of GE Theatre, prior to becoming governor of California, and later as President ), as well as numerous other notables.

However, the Revolutions of 1848 in the Italian states cut short his observing career, as he was forced into exile, touring Paris, London, and the United States, where he was received by the President.

The system was modeled on the United States Interstate Highway network, an idea first brought into effect by US President Dwight D. Eisenhower during the 1950s, based on the German Autobahn, which he experienced when touring Germany after the Second World War.

In 1879, however, then-former US President Ulysses S. Grant and his wife, while touring Japan, expressed an interest in the traditional art of Noh.

As early as 1922, the Choir, then known as the Dayton Westminster Choir, began touring the United States annually and sang in such prominent places as Carnegie Hall ( New York City ), Symphony Hall ( Boston ), the Academy of Music ( Philadelphia ), Orchestra Hall ( Chicago ) and the White House for President Calvin Coolidge.

Mr. Devey will be responsible for the commercial expansion of VecTrol's line of electronic and electrical power control components as furnished to end equipment manufacturers, working closely with Walter J. Brown, President and Director of Engineering of the recently acquired Sprague subsidiary.

In 1857 – 58, Douglas broke with President James Buchanan, leading to a fight for control of the Democratic Party.

* 1950 – President Harry Truman orders the US Army to seize control of the nation's railroads to avert a strike.

image: Spiro Agnew Congratulates Launch Control After Launch of Apollo 17-GPN-2002-000058. jpg | Vice President Spiro Agnew congratulates launch control after the launch

After years of intense rivalry between the navy and the air force for the control of naval aviation, President Castelo Branco decreed in 1965 that only the air force would be allowed to operate fixed-wing aircraft and that the navy would be responsible for helicopters.

The President on national radio stated that the situation was under control, but residents, diplomats and journalists reportedly heard shots of weapons fire.

Stafford Cripps became President of the Board of Trade, Herbert Morrison was given the post of Deputy Prime Minister and given overall control of Labour's nationalisation programme, Aneurin Bevan became Minister of Health, and Ellen Wilkinson, the only woman to serve in Attlee's government, became Minister of Education.

When the Democrats took control of the Senate in December 1845, they chose Atchison as President pro tempore, placing him third in succession for the Presidency, and also giving him the duty of presiding over the Senate when the Vice President was absent.

In 1972 Macias took complete control of the government and assumed the title of President for Life.

In March 1971 elements of the military were deployed to Freetown in Sierra Leone after the Sierra Leonean President, Stevens, appeared to start losing his control of the military.

Under President René Préval ( President from 1996 to 2001 and from 2006 until 14 May 2011 ), the country's economic agenda included trade and tariff liberalization, measures to control government expenditure and increase tax revenues, civil-service downsizing, financial-sector reform, and the modernization of state-owned enterprises through their sale to private investors, the provision of private sector management contracts, or joint public-private investment.

Taraki remained President and in control of the Army.

He enjoyed good relationships with union leaders like Albert Monk, President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, and Jim Healy, leader of the radical Waterside Workers Federation and he gained a reputation for tolerance, restraint and a willingness to compromise, although his controversial decision to use troops to take control of cargo facilities during a waterside dispute in Bowen, Queensland in September 1953 provoked bitter criticism.

As World Bank President Robert McNamara declared at the 1968 Annual Meeting of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group that countries permitting birth control practices will get preferential access to resources, doctors in La Paz, Bolivia, called it insulting that money should be exchanged for the conscience of a Catholic nation.

Under pressure from the Assembly to improve management and coordination within the government, he issued a presidential decree giving Vice President Megawati control over the day-to-day administration of government.

On July 29, 1926, by Executive Order, President Calvin Coolidge established Johnston Atoll as a federal bird refuge and placed it under the control of the U. S. Department of Agriculture.

On December 29, 1934, President Franklin D. Roosevelt transferred control of Johnston Atoll to the United States Navy in order to establish an air station, and also to the Department of the Interior to administer the bird refuge.

Ironically, Batman ultimately learns that the entire debacle was the fault of Luthor alone as he attempted to take control of Gotham by forging deeds for the land in his name, which results in Bruce Wayne severing all commercial ties between the U. S. government and his company, Wayne Enterprises, in protest of Luthor's election as President.

While faculty committees assert substantial control over many areas of MIT's curriculum, research, student life, and administrative affairs, the chair of each of MIT's 32 academic departments reports to the dean of that department's school, who in turn reports to the Provost under the President.

The resignation under pressure of President Nasheedh on 7 February 2012, described by his supporters as a coup that returns the nation to prior President Gayoom's control, drew wide international attention due to Nasheedh's high-profile efforts worldwide to promote carbon-neutral environmental policies.

Executive Authority is vested in the President of Malta with the general direction and control of the Government of Malta remaining with the Prime Minister of Malta who is the head of government and the cabinet.

On August 3, 2005 the Mauritanian military, including members of the presidential guard, seized control of key points in the capital of Nouakchott, performing a coup against the government of President Maaouya Ould Sid ' Ahmed Taya who was out of the country, attending the funeral of Saudi King Fahd.