How Washington outsider Jimmy Carter wooed voters tired of Vietnam and Watergate
US President Jimmy Carter waves to the crowd while walking with his wife, Rosalynn, and their daughter, Amy, along Pennsylvania Avenue. Picture: Suzanne Vlamis/AP
Jimmy Carter’s ascent to the White House was something few people could have predicted when he was governor of the US state of Georgia.
It was no different for Jimmy Carter in the early 1970s.
