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7 Facts About Jimmy Carter Before He Became President

“There are people who enter politics late in life, like Dwight Eisenhower or Donald Trump or Ronald Reagan, but they were famous in their earlier endeavors,” Strong says. In contrast, Carter was the kind of unknown, “dark horse” candidate who Strong says “almost never gets to the White House”—except he did.
Robert Strong
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Jimmy Carter: A Life Well-Lived, A Faith for the Ages

At the time, the nation was reeling from President Gerald Ford’s pardon of Richard Nixon over Watergate and recovering from that scandal, as well as the Vietnam War. The country needed a Jimmy Carter, according to Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center.
Barbara Perry
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What's a consumer's privacy worth? About $20.

“Privacy harms are intangible,” Citron said and much harder to quantify than, say, a broken bone or lost income. But that doesn’t mean the damages aren’t real, affecting a person’s sense of autonomy, trust and freedom of self-expression, she said. “We undervalue and under-appreciate privacy harms and violations.”
Danielle Citron