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Today’s lawmakers hailed the 39th president, but their predecessors made his four years in office a constant battle and ...

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Jimmy Carter, a U.S. president who served only one term but was widely admired for his humanitarian work after leaving the ...

Jimmy Carter, the late U.S. president who served only one term in office and was widely admired for his humanitarian work ...

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