A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety (37 page)

Koch brothers,
182

Konigsmark, Nancy,
91

Korean peninsula,
191
–92

Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) of,
214
–15,
225

see also
North Korea; South Korea

Korean War,
53
,
167
,
188
,
191
,
214

Kostelanetz, Andre,
131

Kraft, Tim,
110

Ku Klux Klan,
79
,
201

labor unions,
181
–82

Labour Party,
145

Landon, Alf,
29

Laos,
186
,
225

Latin America,
129
–30,
157
–58,
174
,
178

abortion outlawed in,
201

Carter Center programs for,
208
,
210

election monitoring in,
222

revolutionary movements in,
187

Laugharne, Welsh home of Dylan Thomas at,
145
–46

Leary, Ga., UFO sighting in,
196
–97

Lebanon,
226

Liberia,
223

Lichtblau, Eric,
180

Life on a Killer Submarine
(Jimmy Carter),
57
–58

Lincoln, Abraham,
118
,
155

Lincoln Memorial, JC’s speech at,
101
–2

Linowitz, Sol,
159

Lions Clubs,
71
,
80
,
81
,
98
,
196

Living Faith
(Jimmy Carter),
227

Lock Haven, Pa., “pioneer mission” to,
92
–95,
97

London, England:

G7 summit meeting in,
133
,
145
–47,
150

International Quartet meeting in,
219
–20

long-range missiles,
199
–200

Los Angeles
, USS,
193
,
194

Louisiana,
59

Lukash, William,
125
,
126

Lumumba, Patrice,
179

lymphatic filariasis (elephantiasis),
210
–11

McCarthy, Eugene,
105

McCarthy, Joe,
49

McFadden, Tom,
126

McGovern, George,
105
–6,
163

Maddox, Bob,
183

Maddox, Lester,
91
–92,
105

malaria,
210
–11

Mandela, Nelson,
141

Mansfield, Mike,
160
–61

Mao Tse-tung,
49

Marathon
(Witcover),
117

Mariam, Mengistu Haile,
214

Mariel Boatlift,
187

marijuana,
125
,
177

Marshall, George,
49

Marshall, Tom,
85
,
103

Massachusetts,
113

Mays, Benjamin,
114

Meany, George,
182

Meir, Golda,
105
,
129

mental health,
106
,
223

of former servicemen,
99

Methodists,
71
,
77
,
90

Mexico,
55
,
130
,
188
,
198
,
225

Carter family trip to,
79

Middle East, JC’s peace initiatives in,
2
,
116
,
133
,
152
–57,
203
,
208
,
219
–22,
226
,
229
,
235
,
236

Miloševi
ć
, Slobodan,
214
,
217
–19

missionaries,
92
–97,
132
–35,
142
,
165

Mississippi,
59
,
79
,
80
,
91
,
117

Mississippi
, USS,
40
–41

Mitchell, George,
144

Mladi
ć
, Ratko,
217
–19

Mobutu Sese Seko,
197
,
214

Mondale, Joan,
163

Mondale, Walter “Fritz,”
127

as JC’s running mate,
114
–16,
163

as vice president,
2
,
115
,
140
–41,
175
,
179
,
181
,
199
–200

Montgomery, Ala.,
59

Moore, Frank,
108
,
138
,
160

Moore, Homer,
81
,
85
–86

Mormons,
see
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Morsi, Mohamed,
221

Mount Saint Helens,
164

Moyers, Bill,
186

Mozambique,
140

Mubarak, Hosni,
221

music,
130
–32

JC’s love of,
34
,
62
–63,
124

Muskie, Edmund,
105
,
114
,
144
,
146

Muslims,
133
,
142
,
217

Namibia,
140
–41

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA),
196

National Institutes of Health,
164
,
207

National Organization for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP),
78

National Organization for Women,
181

National Park Service,
7
,
170

National Security Agency,
175
,
181

Native Americans,
4
,
75
,
123

of Alaska,
169
–70

in Maine,
143
–44

NATO,
142
,
149
,
218

Nautilus
,
64

Naval Reserve Officer Training,
33

Navy, U.S.,
30
,
61

JC’s career in,
1
,
2
,
20
,
32
,
33
–68,
70
,
76
,
88
,
100
,
111
,
157
,
237

Nelson, Willie,
125
,
131

Nepal,
214
,
226

neutron bomb,
149

Newcastle upon Tyne, Washington’s ancestral home in,
145

New Hampshire,
111
,
114

New London, Conn.,
43
,
55
,
63

New Orleans, La.,
220
–21

news media,
119

JC’s negative coverage in,
99
–100,
114
,
125
–26,
132
,
136
,
147
,
203

JC’s positive coverage in,
145

New York, N.Y., financial crisis of,
151

New York
, USS,
35
–36

New York Times
,
180

Nicaragua,
174

Nigeria,
140
,
211

NIV Lessons from Life Bible: Personal Reflections with Jimmy Carter
(Jimmy Carter),
229

Nixon, Pat,
233

Nixon, Richard,
157
,
159
,
179
,
233

China relations opened by,
165
,
234

election of,
106
,
162

Ford’s pardoning of,
113
,
117
,
143

JC’s relationship with,
232
,
234

presidency of,
104
,
119
,
136
,
141
,
158
,
193

resignation of,
101
,
108
,
143

Nobel Peace Prize,
49
,
97
,
227
–28

nonaligned movement (NAM),
187

Nonproliferation Treaty (1970),
190
,
214

Norfolk, Va.,
38
,
41
,
53

North Korea:

economic embargo against,
188
–89

relations of U.S. with,
186
,
191
–92

threat of nuclear proliferation of,
190
,
214
–15

Norway,
189

nuclear power plants,
79
,
215

accidents at,
64
–65,
195

“breeder reactors” in,
161
,
192
–93

Nuclear Regulatory Agency,
195

nuclear submarines,
61
–65,
193
,
194

nuclear war,
199
–200

nuclear weapons, control and reduction of,
116
,
130
,
146
,
149
,
150
–51,
190
,
192
,
193
,
199
–200,
208
,
214
–15

Nunn, Sam,
160
–61,
215

Obama, Barack,
187
,
188
,
190
,
192

election campaigns of,
182
,
220
–21

JC’s relationship with,
236

in Mideast peace process,
221
–22

Obasanjo, Olusegun,
140

Ohira, Masayoshi,
130
,
186

oil,
170
–71,
173
,
197
–98

Olympic Games, Winter (1984),
217

onchocerciasis (river blindness),
210
–11

O’Neill, Thomas P. “Tip,”
191

opinion polls,
98
,
108
,
117
,
158
–60,
202

Organization of American States,
105

Oslo Agreement,
219

Our Endangered Values
(Jimmy Carter),
228

Outdoor Journal, An
(Jimmy Carter),
226

Painting for Beginners
(Gordon),
41

Pakistan,
190

Palestine,
154
,
219
–20,
222
,
226

Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO),
141
–42

Palestine National Authority,
219

Palestine Peace Not Apartheid
(Jimmy Carter),
220
,
228

Panama,
174
,
216

U.S. tensions and treaties with,
116
,
157
–62,
163
,
184
,
203

Panama Canal,
116
,
157
,
162
,
184

historical perspective on,
157
–58,
159

pancreatic cancer,
65
–66,
207

Park Chung-hee,
134
,
191

Park Geun-hye,
134

Parks, Rosa,
59

Pastor, Robert,
187

“Pasture Gate, The” (Jimmy Carter),
25

patronage, political,
28
–29,
203

peace, JC as advocate for,
2
,
42
,
118
,
172
,
199
,
202
–3,
208
,
212
,
214
–22,
236
,
237

Peace Corps,
129
,
228

peanut farming,
12
–13,
19
–20,
26
,
69
,
71
–73,
74
,
79
,
204

Pearl Harbor,
31
,
51

pecans,
26

Pennington, John,
84

Pennington, Milo,
92
–95

Pennsylvania,
123

Penobscot tribe,
144

perestroika
,
151

Peru,
130
,
174

Philippines,
30
,
49
,
225

“pioneer missions,”
92
–97

Piper Aircraft Company,
95

Plains, Ga.,
4
,
12
,
27
,
31
,
45
,
113
,
114
,
116
,
122
–23,
125
,
219

Carter family home in,
3
,
5
,
36
,
61
,
65
–66

Christmas in,
205
,
227

JC’s farming years in,
69
–80

JC’s government subsidized housing unit in,
67
–68,
71
–72,
75

JC’s home in,
79
–80,
121
,
204
,
205
,
206
,
230
,
232

JC’s public housing unit in,
43

post-presidential return to,
204
,
206
,
230
,
238

racial attitudes in,
90
–91

Plains Baptist Church,
77
,
90

Plains High School,
24
,
80

“Plains Maid” products,
8

Playboy
,
117

poetry,
145
–46,
227

of JC,
see specific poems

White House performances of,
131

Poland,
149
–50

Pomfret
, USS,
44
–48,
50
,
51
–53,
56
,
58