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It was discussed in the context of Jimmy Carter's 1976 presidential campaign, mentioning that the book covers Carter's presidency and his rise to prominence from relative obscurity.
He didn't have much of a national profile at all. You know, Jimmy Carter sort of came from nowhere.
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It was discussed in the context of Jimmy Carter's 1976 presidential campaign, mentioning that the book covers Carter's presidency and his rise to prominence from relative obscurity.
He didn't have much of a national profile at all. You know, Jimmy Carter sort of came from nowhere.
He ran on himself, on the fact of who he was, a decent born again Christian who was a Southern liberal.
Carter was less known as a national politician than any of his predecessors. And so he comes to this convention and it was well managed and he got his bounce and he had got a chance to introduce himself to a lot of voters who didn't really know who this guy was.