What does this passage explain about President
Carter?
his reasons for running for office
n a very close election, Carter defeated his
Republican opponent, President Gerald Ford.
While his administration started well, Carter
had some difficult problems to solve. The
economy had been in trouble for several years
with two major problems: high inflation and
high unemployment. An energy crisis had
begun in 1973 when Arab oil-producing
countries in the Middle East stopped selling
oil to the United States as a punishment for
U.S. support of Israel. Then in 1979, Islamic
militants in Iran took the Americans at the
U.S. Embassy in Tehran as hostages. Carter
spent the next year trying to get them home.
the major issues of his campaign
the challenges he faced as prezident
his biggest accomplishmenis as president,
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