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Jimmy Carter

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Fresh Air
Remembering President Jimmy Carter (Part I)

heroic reporter from the Atlanta Journal named John Pennington, who came down quite skeptical at first about my allegations. And he, on his own initiative, went into Quitman County, got some old records, interviewed Joe Hurst and all the other people, and found out that my accusations were true.

Fresh Air
Remembering President Jimmy Carter (Part I)

And in a few days, this story about my election was a top headline news on the front page of the Atlanta newspapers. Joe Hearst eventually went to prison for vote fraud and also for dealing in illegal liquor.

Fresh Air
Remembering President Jimmy Carter (Part I)

And in a few days, this story about my election was a top headline news on the front page of the Atlanta newspapers. Joe Hearst eventually went to prison for vote fraud and also for dealing in illegal liquor.

Fresh Air
Remembering President Jimmy Carter (Part I)

And in a few days, this story about my election was a top headline news on the front page of the Atlanta newspapers. Joe Hearst eventually went to prison for vote fraud and also for dealing in illegal liquor.

Fresh Air
Remembering President Jimmy Carter (Part I)

And when I finally got to the Georgia Senate, one of the things that I wanted to do, although I'm not a lawyer, was to revise the Georgia election code to correct some of the patent mistakes that had been deliberately maintained over decades or generations in Georgia to permit this kind of thing.

Fresh Air
Remembering President Jimmy Carter (Part I)

And when I finally got to the Georgia Senate, one of the things that I wanted to do, although I'm not a lawyer, was to revise the Georgia election code to correct some of the patent mistakes that had been deliberately maintained over decades or generations in Georgia to permit this kind of thing.

Fresh Air
Remembering President Jimmy Carter (Part I)

And when I finally got to the Georgia Senate, one of the things that I wanted to do, although I'm not a lawyer, was to revise the Georgia election code to correct some of the patent mistakes that had been deliberately maintained over decades or generations in Georgia to permit this kind of thing.

Fresh Air
Remembering President Jimmy Carter (Part I)

And as we were debating the new election code, one of the interesting amendments that was put forward by a state senator from the town of Enigma, Georgia—an interesting name— was that no one in Georgia could vote in a primary election or a general election who had been dead more than three years.

Fresh Air
Remembering President Jimmy Carter (Part I)

And as we were debating the new election code, one of the interesting amendments that was put forward by a state senator from the town of Enigma, Georgia—an interesting name— was that no one in Georgia could vote in a primary election or a general election who had been dead more than three years.

Fresh Air
Remembering President Jimmy Carter (Part I)

And as we were debating the new election code, one of the interesting amendments that was put forward by a state senator from the town of Enigma, Georgia—an interesting name— was that no one in Georgia could vote in a primary election or a general election who had been dead more than three years.

Fresh Air
Remembering President Jimmy Carter (Part I)

Yeah, but there was a very interesting debate about it, too. People maintained that even though, say, a husband died, There was a certain period of time after his death when the wife and children could accurately cast his vote the way he would have voted if he had lived. And so how long after somebody's death, the circumstances change so much that you can't really predict how he would have voted.

Fresh Air
Remembering President Jimmy Carter (Part I)

Yeah, but there was a very interesting debate about it, too. People maintained that even though, say, a husband died, There was a certain period of time after his death when the wife and children could accurately cast his vote the way he would have voted if he had lived. And so how long after somebody's death, the circumstances change so much that you can't really predict how he would have voted.

Fresh Air
Remembering President Jimmy Carter (Part I)

Yeah, but there was a very interesting debate about it, too. People maintained that even though, say, a husband died, There was a certain period of time after his death when the wife and children could accurately cast his vote the way he would have voted if he had lived. And so how long after somebody's death, the circumstances change so much that you can't really predict how he would have voted.

Fresh Air
Remembering President Jimmy Carter (Part I)

You know, one of the nice things about our country is you can call me anything you want to. Jimmy suits me okay. There is a custom in our nation that if you are a have been a governor or an ambassador or a judge or president, then you can still retain the title. So if you want to call me president, you can. If you want to call me Jimmy, that's fine.

Fresh Air
Remembering President Jimmy Carter (Part I)

You know, one of the nice things about our country is you can call me anything you want to. Jimmy suits me okay. There is a custom in our nation that if you are a have been a governor or an ambassador or a judge or president, then you can still retain the title. So if you want to call me president, you can. If you want to call me Jimmy, that's fine.

Fresh Air
Remembering President Jimmy Carter (Part I)

You know, one of the nice things about our country is you can call me anything you want to. Jimmy suits me okay. There is a custom in our nation that if you are a have been a governor or an ambassador or a judge or president, then you can still retain the title. So if you want to call me president, you can. If you want to call me Jimmy, that's fine.

Fresh Air
Remembering President Jimmy Carter (Part I)

You know, when I go through Georgia, small towns, and somebody is an old friend of mine, I know it immediately when they say, hi, governor. They call it whatever their most intimate relationship is. And the little kids around Plains, when I ride a bicycle or jog by, if they are very... or if their families go to church every Sunday, they call me Brother Jimmy. Hello, Brother Jimmy.

Fresh Air
Remembering President Jimmy Carter (Part I)

You know, when I go through Georgia, small towns, and somebody is an old friend of mine, I know it immediately when they say, hi, governor. They call it whatever their most intimate relationship is. And the little kids around Plains, when I ride a bicycle or jog by, if they are very... or if their families go to church every Sunday, they call me Brother Jimmy. Hello, Brother Jimmy.

Fresh Air
Remembering President Jimmy Carter (Part I)

You know, when I go through Georgia, small towns, and somebody is an old friend of mine, I know it immediately when they say, hi, governor. They call it whatever their most intimate relationship is. And the little kids around Plains, when I ride a bicycle or jog by, if they are very... or if their families go to church every Sunday, they call me Brother Jimmy. Hello, Brother Jimmy.

Fresh Air
Remembering President Jimmy Carter (Part I)

And a lot of them just call me, Hello, Jimmy Carter. But it doesn't matter to me. I never was much dependent on the pomp and ceremony of the White House, even when I was there. And so Jimmy suits me fine.