Jimmy Carter's 1977 Inauguration Speech

President Jimmy Carter, the peanut farmer turned governor from Georgia, was elected by a country weary of the Watergate scandal and looking for someone outside of the Washington Beltway. In his 1977 inauguration speech, he said, “Let us create together a new national spirit of unity and trust. Your strength can compensate for my weakness, and your wisdom can help to minimize my mistakes. Let us learn together and laugh together and work together and pray together, confident that in the end we will triumph together in the right.”