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Carter is sworn in as the United States' thirty-ninth President.
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Carter pardons draft evaders from the Vietnam War.
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Due to a supply shortage, Congress adopts the Emergency Natural Gas Act, allowing the President to deregulate natural gas pricing. Carter signs the law and promises that he will present Congress with an energy strategy. Later, he suggests the creation of a Department of Energy at the cabinet level.
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Secretary of State Cyrus Vance visits the Middle East in an attempt to resurrect the Geneva Conference of 1973.
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President Jimmy Carter writes a letter of support to Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov.
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Carter describes his energy conservation program as the "moral equivalent of war" in a national address.
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Carter gives a speech at Notre Dame University, advocating a new foreign policy approach that focuses on support for fundamental human rights rather than anti-Communism.
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Carter declares his opposition to the B-1 strategic bomber's manufacturing.
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Menachem Begin, the newly elected Israeli Prime Minister, talks with Carter in Washington.
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In Warsaw, Carter talks with Polish First Secretary Gierek.
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Carter calls Iran's Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi "an oasis of stability" in the Middle East during his visit to Tehran.
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Carter uses the Taft-Hartley Act to put a stop to a coal miners' strike.
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Carter warns of the Soviet threat in a foreign policy address at Wake Forest University.
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Carter underscores the importance of human rights in foreign policy in his graduation speech at Annapolis.
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Carter mediates at Camp David between Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, resulting in a peace accord between the two countries.
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Eighteen months after Carter presented it, Congress passes a revamped energy bill. The Humphrey-Hawkins full employment measure is also passed by Congress.