Jimmy Carter was in favor of racial tolerance and integration, but often kept those feelings to himself to avoid making enemies. Jimmy Carter won against Moore as the sole Democratic candidate, with a vote margin of 3,013 to 2,182.
In Jimmy Carter’s first run for the governor, Jimmy Carter ran against liberal former Governor EllisArnall and the conservative segregationist Lester Maddox in the Democratic primary. Jimmy Carter was sworn in as the 76th governor of Georgia on January 12, 1971.
In a news conference on July 13, 1971, Jimmy Carterannounced his ordering of department heads to reduce spending for the aid of preventing a $57 million deficit by the end of the 1972 fiscal year, specifying that each state department would be impacted and estimating that 5% more than revenue being taken in by the government would be lost if state departments continued full using allocated funds.
Jimmy Carter Awards
Jimmy Carter has received numerous awards and accolades since his presidency, and several institutions and locations have been named in his honor. Jimmy Carter won the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, which was partially a response to President George W. Bush’s threats of war against Iraq and Carter’s criticism of the Bush administration. TheSouther Field Airport in Americus, Georgia was renamed Jimmy Carter Regional Airport in 2009. In 1991, Jimmy Carter was made an honorary member of Phi Beta Kappa at Kansas State University.