Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter
Gerald Ford
- 38th US President - Neither elected as President or Vice-President - Pardoned Nixon and all Vietnam draft dodgers - Straight forward President (Restored faith in US gov't) - Continued detente Jimmy Carter - 39th president - Most famous for his dealings with Isreali-Arab conflict - Hosted Camp David Accords in 1979 - Strong supporter of detente and oversaw SALT talks "When I was in the White House, I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet Union and I had 30,000 nuclear weapons that could destroy the entire earth and I had to maintain the peace."
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2 US presidents, both support detente. Restored US faith in gov't.
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