PHOTOS: On This Day: Jimmy Carter Receives Nobel Prize
October 11, 2013
Jimmy Carter, Governor of Georgia, is shown at his desk in Atlanta, on February 19, 1971. (AP Photo) ( GOVERNOR CARTER )
Former State Sen. Jimmy Carter listens to applause at the Capitol in Atlanta on April 3, 1970, after announcing his candidacy or governor. In background, his wife Rosalyn holds two-year-old daughter Amy who joined in the applause. Carter, 45, of Plains, GA., finished third in the 1966 Democratic Primary behind Gov. Lester Maddox and Ellis. (AP Photo) ( Jimmy Carter family )
Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter joins a half-dozen rockettes in a high kick, September 21, 1973, at Radio City Music Hall in New York, while visiting backstage before an afternoon performance. Carter is in New York to induce the film industry to make pictures in his state. (AP Photo/stf) ( CARTER ROCKETTES )
Jimmy Carter stands in a large mound of peanuts at the Carter Peanut Warehouse in Plains, Ga., September 22, 1976. The Democratic party presidential nominee took an early morning walk through the warehouse to inspect some of the harvest. (AP Photo) ( PEANUT FARMER CARTER )
FILE - In this Sept. 15, 1966 file photo, then Georgia State Sen. Jimmy Carter hugs his wife, Rosalynn, at his Atlanta campaign headquarters. Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn celebrate their 65th anniversary this week on Thursday, July 7, 2011. (AP Photo/File) ( Carter Anniversary )
President Jimmy Carter shakes hands with Panama's head of government Omar Torrijos in Washington Sept. 7, 1977 after they signed the Panama Canal treaty. Secretary General Alejandro Orfila stands at center. (AP Photo) ( PANAMA CANAL TREATY )
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, left, U.S. President Jimmy Carter, center, and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin clasp hands on the north lawn of the White House after signing the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel on March 26, 1979. Sadat and Begin were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for accomplishing peace negotiations in 1978. The rest of the Arab world shunned Sadat, condemning his initiative for peace. President Carter was pivotol for the two leaders to meet at Camp David and as a result, peace began between Arabs and Jews. (AP Photo/ Bob Daugherty) ( PEACE TREATY SIGNING )
Pres. Jimmy Carter, left, and Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev, right, sign the documents of the SALT II Treaty in the Vienna Imperial Hofburg Palace, Monday, June 18, 1979, Vienna, Austria. Behind the head of states are from left to right: National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, Secretary of Defense Harold Brown, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrej Gromyko, Anatoly Dobrynin, Soviet Ambassador to the U.S. and Dmitry Ustinov, Soviet Foreign Minister. (AP Photo) ( Jimmy Carter Vienna SALT 1979 )
Former US President Jimmy Carter, who had negotiated for the hostages release right up to the last hours of his Presidency, lifts his arm to the crowd, while putting his other hand around the shoulders of a former hostage in Iran, believed to be Bruce Laingen, at US AIR Force Hospital in Wiesbaden, Germany, Wednesday, January 21, 1981. The United States had agreed to unfreeze Iran's assets in exchange for the hostages freedom. (AP Photo/Mark Goecks) ( GERMANY IRAN HOSTAGES 1981 )
Former President Jimmy Carter receives the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo City Hall, Norway on Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2002. (AP Photo/Bjoern Sigurdsoen/Pool) ( NORWAY NOBEL PEACE PRIZE )
Former US President Jimmy Carter speaks to the Associated Press Friday Dec. 13, 2002 in Copenhagen, Denmark. The Nobel Peace laureate said he would mediate the peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians, if the U.S. government asked him, but was critical of the Bush administration's seemingly pro-Israel position. (AP Photo/John McConnico) ( DENMARK CARTER ISRAEL )
Former President Jimmy Carter's Nobel Peace Prize is shown Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2009 at the Jimmy Carter Library and Museum in Atlanta. The museum is scheduled to reopen Sept. 30 after a $10 million redesign. (AP Photo/John Bazemore) ( Carter Presidential Library )
Former President Jimmy Carter signs his name in the guest book at the Jewish Community center in Havana, Cuba, Monday March 28, 2011. Carter arrived in Cuba to discuss economic policies and ways to improve Washington-Havana relations, which are even more tense than usual over the imprisonment of Alan Gross, a U.S. contractor, on the island. C (AP Photo/Adalberto Roque, Pool) ( APTOPIX Cuba Carter )
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter pauses during an interview as he and his wife Rosalynn visit a Habitat for Humanity project in Leogane, Haiti, Monday Nov. 7, 2011. The Carters joined volunteers from around the world to build 100 homes in partnership with earthquake-affected families in Haiti during a week-long Habitat for Humanity housing project. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa) ( APTOPIX Haiti Jimmy Carter )
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