A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety (39 page)

Torrijos, Martín,
162

Torrijos, Omar,
159
–60,
162

torture,
181

Towson, L. R.,
30
–31

trachoma,
210
–11

transportation,
105
–6,
116

Treasury, U.S.,
151

Trilateral Commission,
105
,
116

Trinidad, JC’s visit to,
35

Trujillo, Rafael,
179

Truman, Harry,
36
,
59
,
62
,
118
,
162

JC’s admiration for,
41
,
44
,
49
,
129

racial discrimination in military officially ended by,
59
,
78

White House renovation by,
119

Truman, Margaret,
128
–29

truth, JC’s commitment to,
111
,
136

Tudjman, Franjo,
217
,
218

Tunisia, election monitoring in,
223

Turkey,
235

Turner, Stansfield,
175
,
178
–79

Turning Point
(Jimmy Carter),
87
,
226

Turniptown Creek,
232

UFO, JC’s sighting of,
196
–97

Uganda,
210

human rights violations in,
142

United Auto Workers,
166

United Nations,
140
,
141
,
158
,
188
,
212
,
214
,
217
–18,
219
–20,
222

Security Council Resolution 338 of,
154

Universal Declaration of Human Rights,
181
,
202
,
228

UN World Food Program,
188

Uruguay,
174

Ustinov, Dmitry,
150

Vác, Hungary,
169

Vance, Cyrus,
130
,
141
–42,
146
,
166
,
172
,
175

Vandiver, Ernest,
91

vice presidency:

JC’s choice for,
114
–16,
163

role of,
163

Victoria, B.C.,
52

Vietnam,
179
,
186
,
225

Vietnam War,
167

Jack Carter’s service in,
112
–13

pardon of draft evaders from,
118

protest against,
112
–13,
162

Vikhroli, India,
129

violence, in Carter family history,
4
–5

Virginia Bunch
67
peanuts,
72

Virtues of Aging, The
(Jimmy Carter),
227

Vorster, John,
140
–41

voting, fraud and reform in,
81
–87

voting rights,
23
,
101

in China,
167
–68

registration restrictions in,
190
–91

Vought OSTU airplanes,
34

Voyager
1
,
196

Wake Island,
48

Walker, Herschel,
127

Wallace, George,
104
,
105
,
106
,
114
,
162

Wallace, Henry,
41
–42

war crimes,
218
–19

Warm Springs, Ga.,
201

Warsaw, Poland, JC’s diplomatic visit to,
133

Washington, George,
145

Washington Post
,
136
,
179
,
195

Washington State,
164

Watergate scandal,
108
,
113
,
121
,
138
,
146
,
234

water projects, environmental issues with,
184
–85

Watson, Ernest,
11

Watson, Jack,
112

We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land
(Jimmy Carter),
229

welfare,
105
,
116

West Bank,
105

Westinghouse Electric Company,
62

Westminster Abbey, Poets’ Corner in,
145

West Point, U.S. Military Academy at,
30
,
91
,
174

whales,
56

What’s My Line?
,
109
,
110

White Citizens’ Council,
79

White House:

Carter family’s residency in,
118
–28

history of,
118
,
121

JC’s scale model of,
22

renovations to,
119
,
121
,
128

“situation room” of,
172

solar panels on,
198

200th anniversary of,
234

White House Diary
(Jimmy Carter),
229

Why Not the Best?
(Jimmy Carter),
225

wild hog supper,
86
–87

Williams, J. B.,
46
,
48

Willkie, Wendell,
29

Wilson, Woodrow,
121

wiretapping,
180

Wise, Bowman,
13

Wise, Phil,
111

Wise, Sam,
26

Wise, Thad,
76

Wise Sanitorium,
25
–26

Witcover, Jules,
117

Wojtyła, Karol Józef (Pope John Paul II),
133

women:

abuse of,
229
–30

JC’s support of rights for,
181

Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program,
201

Woodcock, Leonard,
166

woodworking, as JC’s avocation,
5
,
16
–17,
18
,
19
,
21
–22,
40
,
42
–43,
70
–71,
127
,
230
,
231
,
232

World Food Program,
189

World Health Organization,
189

World War I,
5
,
39
,
218

World War II,
30
–32,
33
,
35
–36,
39
,
41
,
45
,
55
,
167
,
169
,
198

Wouk, Herman,
62

Wyoming
, USS,
39
–41

Young, Andrew,
114
,
140
–42

Yugoslavia,
150

Zagreb,
217
,
218

Zaire (Democratic Republic of Congo),
214

plane crash in,
197

Zambia,
140
,
211

Zenawi, Meles,
212

Zimbabwe (Rhodesia),
140
–42,
161
,
211

Zondervan publishers,
229

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Carter, Jimmy, 1924–

A full life : reflections at ninety / Jimmy Carter. — First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.

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1. Carter, Jimmy, 1924– 2. Presidents—United States—Biography. 3. United States—Politics and government—1977–1981. I. Title.

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973.926092—dc23

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