As we remember the late former President Jimmy Carter, it’s easy to forget just how little known he was when he first ran for the White House in 1976, a year in which Carter deftly turned his outsider status into an asset and changed presidential politics.
NPR national political correspondent Don Gonyea has this look back.
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