Jimmy Carter - Humanitarian, Diplomacy, Nobel Prize
Jimmy Carter - Humanitarian, Diplomacy, Nobel Prize: In his final months in office, Carter was able to push through important legislation that created Superfund to clean up abandoned toxic waste dumps and that set aside some 100 million acres (40 million hectares) of land in Alaska to protect it from development. Carter would also be remembered for his inclusion of women and minorities in his cabinet, including Andrew Young, the African American former mayor of Atlanta, who played a prominent though controversial role as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. At the conclusion of the pres...
Source: britannica.com
