________________________________, a United States Naval Academy graduate and former Governor from Plains, Georgia, was elected President of the United States in 1976 and Inaugurated in 1977. After a very successful initial period, which included the 1978 Camp David accords, this president was overwhelmed by interrelated domestic and foreign issues, such as the ongoing "Energy Crisis" and related Second "Oil Shock", the negotiated turnover of the US-controlled Panama Canal to Panama while it was governed by a military junta, Economic Inflation, the fall of the Shah of Iran and resulting Iran Hostage Crisis, Islamic extremism, an economic Recession, the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan, ongoing US military readiness issues, and an ineffective response to Soviet/Cuban sponsorship of revolutionary movements and regimes in Latin America hostile to US Interests.

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