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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Bill Barrow

Carter: Still a model for candidates asking 'Why not me?'

1977 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 governor of Georgia, who had never met a president himself, saw himself as something bigger.

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