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Old 07-28-2009, 09:57 PM   #1
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I agree.
Don't know about the military service but for someone in his generation it would be rare if he didn't have some. He presented himself as a simple peanut farmer but if I remember correctly he was one of the primary, if not the only, suppliers for one of the major peanut butter brands.
Did a quick Wiki search (I know, I know, wikipedia) and from the brief (very brief) description of his pre-senate life I am impressed. He was in the Navy and was qualified to command diesel-electric submarines but tried for the nukes. Then after 6 years (he was aiming for high up in military command) he resigned after his dad died and took over his dad's farm.

Now I hear this a lot from the older people who have lived in Georgia all their life, but they tell me that President Carter wasn't really a peanut farmer. He was known as the peanut farmer (which is the only wiki reference I see about peanut farming) but I think was more along the lines of buying peanuts from farmers and processing them.

But Carter did work in the private sector and apparently did quite well.
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