He used an animated version of the exploding peanut in a Carter campaign video. “Jimmy’s smile, country farmer, the longshot — all made for good cartoons,” Rafshoon said in an interview.

At first, there was the smile, the standout teeth, the earthiness of the peanut-farming, the celebrity friends and the countercultural cool. On his way to the White House, Jimmy Carter gave the ...

I made Jimmy Carter smile. Which at first doesn’t sound like much of an accomplishment. The man was famous for his smile. It embodied him. That and peanut farming. A peanut with a big toothy ...

Jimmy Carter also considered his wife his muse. "She'd smile, and birds would feel that they no longer had to sing, or it may be I failed to hear their song," Jimmy Carter wrote in a poem ...

During the four years of Jimmy Carter’s presidency ... The president, elected in part because of his disarming smile, soft voice and promise to break with the angst and aggression of the ...

FILE - Former President Jimmy Carter speaks ... sometimes he is not,” Becky Carter said. “Sometimes, he will be in a good mood and wake up with an amazing smile and those blue eyes.

Jonathan Alter is an MSNBC analyst and the author of “His Very Best: Jimmy ... Carter that doesn’t bear scrutiny: He was not a weak president. A tough, intense former naval officer beneath the ...

While several former presidents and current politicians descended upon the U.S. Capitol to pay respects to the late 39th American president Jimmy Carter ... seem to wipe the smile from her ...

but the Jimmy Carter who sprang from obscurity to the White House had magic. His piercing blue eyes. His big-toothed smile that became a trademark on campaign posters. His ease with the different ...

Plains, Georgia — When former President Jimmy Carter exited the White House in ... that tried to help the world," Bush said with a smile. "I've got to say," Parker added of his former boss ...

Former President Carter died Sunday at age 100 in his Plains, Georgia, home Claire Jerry Although in office for only one term, Jimmy Carter ... up his trademark smile. National Museum of American ...