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As 2024's campaign season begins, politicians are looking in the mirror and deciding whether they see an American president staring back

<div class="at-above-post addthis_tool" data-url="https://www.metro.us/carter-still-a-model-for-candidates-asking-why-not-me/"></div>ATLANTA (AP) — As the 2024 campaign season begins, political players are looking in the mirror and deciding whether they see an American president staring back. It was no different for Jimmy Carter in the early 1970s. And it took meeting several presidential candidates and then encouragement from an esteemed elder statesman before the young […]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings above via filter on get_the_excerpt --><...

As 2024's campaign season begins, politicians are looking in the mirror and deciding whether they see an American president staring back. It was no different for Jimmy Carter when he launched his White House bid on Dec. 12, 1974. And it took meeting several presidential candidates and then encouragement from an esteemed elder statesman before the young governor of Georgia, who had never met a president himself, saw himself as something bigger. He made the leap amid the fallout from the Vietnam War and President Richard Nixon’s resignation, and Carter leveraged his unknown — and politically...

ATLANTA (AP) — As the 2024 campaign season begins, political players are looking in the mirror and deciding whether they see an American president staring back.

The world was in the grip of the Cold War in 1952 when a nuclear reactor in Canada began melting down. The United States sent 28-year-old Jimmy Carter.