President Carter sparked the U.S. craft beer industry

One more good reason to remember this US president! Cheers!

You have to give somebody credit when credit is due! 😊

"... In 1978, Carter signed a bill that legalized homebrewing, jumpstarting today’s craft beer craze. ..."

"... The American Homebrewers Association, a trade group, lauded Carter in a statement Monday as “an American homebrew hero” for signing a bill as president in 1978 that “created an exemption from taxation of beer brewed at home,” essentially negating federal laws imposed decades earlier during the Prohibition era. ..."

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As tributes pour in for Jimmy Carter, craft brewers credit him with legalizing home beermaking

Homebrewing Community Remembers President Jimmy Carter

NYSE, Nasdaq, and CBOE Intend to close on Jan. 9 in Memory of Jimmy Carter

This is a very nice tribute to late President Carter!

"The New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq separately plan to close their markets on Jan. 9 to mourn the death of former President Jimmy Carter. ..."

"... “Jimmy Carter, with humble roots as a farmer and family man, devoted his life to public service and defending our freedom,” said Lynn Martin, President of NYSE Group. “During his noteworthy post-presidential life, President Carter left an enduring legacy of humanitarianism. The NYSE will respectfully honor President Carter’s lifetime of service to our nation by closing our markets on the National Day of Mourning.” ..."

NYSE, Nasdaq Intend to Shut on Jan. 9 in Memory of Jimmy Carter - WSJ "Cboe equities exchanges to also close to mourn late former president; CME to alter hours"

The New York Stock Exchange Will Close Markets on January 9 to Honor the Passing of Former President Jimmy Carter on National Day of Mourning

Lynn Martin

President, NYSE Group &

Chair, ICE Fixed Income & Data Services

RIP Jimmy Carter, 'The Great Deregulator,' 1924-2024

Recommendable! Airlines, trucking ...

Jimmy Carter R.I.P.

Here is one reason why President Carter will be remembered! He made more peace in the Middle East possible!

Notice, then President of Egypt Anwar Sadat is laughing (Camp David Accords 1978).

Prager University: Jimmy Carter: From Farmhouse to White House

Very recommendable!

Jimmy Carter's Personal Experience With Voter Fraud

Very recommendable! It sometimes takes a peanut farmer and who was the first U.S. President born in a hospital!

Voter fraud or election integrity is a very serious issue for any democracy! If citizens can not trust the election process anymore ...

"... The only reason Carter ended up in office when he did is because he claimed publicly that he had won and went to court to fight to overturn the election. Apparently, that’s considered a criminal act in Georgia today and can get you charged with violating the state’s racketeering law.

Perhaps because of his personal experience, Carter is one of the few leaders in the Democrat Party who has acknowledged that people should be seriously concerned about election fraud, and who took steps to try to address the problem. ...
So, what happened to Carter when he first ran for the Georgia state Senate in Democrats’ primary election of 1962? ...

But Carter and his lawyers doggedly continued their investigation, which resulted in their being followed by “local lieutenants of the organization” and targeted by “threatening phone calls.” They discovered that votes had been cast by individuals who “were dead, in prison, or had long ago moved away and voted in other communities.” Others in whose names ballots had been cast said they hadn’t actually voted.

But the newspapers characterized Carter “as a politically naïve sorehead and a poor loser,” while state Democrat Party officials were “aloof or downright hostile.” The “local judge and district attorney had strong ties in the county” and refused to do anything about the fraud, Wooten writes. 

However, Carter wouldn’t give up even though the media, his own political party, and the local justice system were against him.

The future governor and president went to court with a lawyer  ... Carter’s lawyer, Charles Kirbo, managed to get a hearing before a judge outside the state Senate district in which Carter was running.

That judge declared Carter the winner because the election in Georgetown was “so thoroughly tainted by vote fraud that there was absolutely no way to determine what had been the voters’ original and genuine intent.” Accordingly, the judge said, the election would be decided by the votes cast elsewhere in the Senate district. ..."

Jimmy Carter's Personal Experience With Voter Fraud

The real reason for the Iran hostage crisis, 40 years later

Recommendable!

"Visiting Algiers on Nov. 1, 1979, President Jimmy Carter’s national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski met Mehdi Bazargan, revolutionary Iran’s prime minister, at an Algerian independence day reception, and politely told Bazargan that the United States was open to any relationship the Islamic Republic wanted. A photographer snapped a photo of the two shaking hands. The day after newspapers published photographs of the Brzezinski-Bazargan handshake, protests rocked Iran, culminating in the sacking of the embassy, as conspiracy-addled Iranian students sought to prevent Bazargan from betraying a revolution built, in part, on anti-Americanism.

Advocates of rapprochement often describe diplomacy as a no-cost strategy. But embraced too enthusiastically, as Brzezinski did when he approached Bazargan, the costs can be high.

Forgotten in the fog of events, however, is the fact that the students seizing the embassy did not expect to remain for more than a day or two. What transformed the crisis into something that paralyzed America for more than a year and ultimately brought down the Carter presidency was Carter’s knee-jerk reluctance to utilize military force coupled with his National Security Council Iran aide’s loose lips. ... Carter, however, took military action completely off the table. Then Gary Sick [sic!], a National Security Council official, leaked word that there would be no military contingency plans. ... To this day, no Islamic Republic official, hard-line or so-called reformist, has apologized for shredding such basic norms of diplomacy as seizing the embassy — not even “Dialogue of Civilizations’” proponent Mohammad Khatami. Not John Kerry’s [one of the dumbest of all U.S. foreign secretaries. What does this say about President Obama? Volumes!] favorite interlocutor, Mohammad Javad Zarif."


The real reason for the Iran hostage crisis, 40 years later: On Nov. 4, 1979, radical Iranian students seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, ultimately holding 52 American diplomats hostage for 444 days. I covered the incident in detail in Dancing with the Devil, a history of U.S. diplomacy with rogue regimes, utilizing not only American sources but Iranian ones as well. Bottom line, the reason why the hostage crisis occurred, and why it lasted so long was a tragedy of errors.