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The White House Remembered: President Jimmy Carter

Credit: Hugh S. Sidey

Jimmy Carter served as the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981. Hugh Sidey conducted the following interview with him in the mid-1990s and explains former Presidents are in some ways more harried than the sitting president. Sidey's interview with President Carter had to be over the phone because of his global itinerary.

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