Oct 18, 1980 · PLAINS, Ga. -- Jimmy Carter's Republican neighbors in Sumter County are staging a rally for Ronald Reagan Sunday right here in the president's home town.

Dec 29, 2024 · At the age of 56, having lost the 1980 election to Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter returned to Plains, Georgia, the small town where both he and his wife Rosalynn were born in the 1920s. From the...

Dec 30, 2024 · Ronald Reagan defeated Carter in the 1980 election. Walter Mondale was vice president during Jimmy Carter's term in office. Mondale later ran against and lost to President Ronald Regan when...

Aug 17, 2018 · When Carter left the White House after one tumultuous term, trounced by Ronald Reagan in the 1980 election, he returned to Plains, a speck of peanut and cotton farmland that to this day has a...

Aug 27, 2005 · There is an old story that when teenage Ronald Reagan was working as a lifeguard at a swimming area outside of Dixon, he saved lives so frequently that he begin carving notches into a log to...

Jan 12, 2025 · Plains, Ga., joins a collection of other small towns known for their part in presidential history. That can provide a steady source of tourism. Plains, Ga., was remodeled into a time capsule of...

Dec 29, 2024 · Carter sat with President-elect Ronald Reagan in a limousine en route to Mr. Reagan’s inauguration ceremony on Jan. 20, 1981. Minutes after Mr. Reagan was sworn into office, Iran released the...

Jan 1, 2025 · In November Carter lost to Ronald Reagan. Carter spent his last hours as president negotiating the release of the 52 hostages; they were freed as he left office. The Carters returned home in January 1981.

He lost in a landslide to Republican Ronald Reagan in 1980. Skye stands in front of Carter’s Nobel Peace Prize, which the former President received in 2002. A NOBEL PRIZE WINNER. After his presidency, Carter became one of the most admired people in the world.

Jimmy Carter, Plains Georgia (DeTourney productions). VHS Video Format (poor quality)