Jimmy Carter: Difference between revisions

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* Shot his neighbor's cat. To death. [https://web.archive.org/web/20130618225402/http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2007/11/jimmy_carter_ca.html That's the rumour, anyway.] Something he now constantly regrets and has nightmares about to this day.

* Became good friends with [[Gerald Ford]] after his presidency.

* Was a submariner and nuclear engineer in his early life (although he never got to serve on a nuclear submarine, he did help [https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/chalk-river-nuclear-accident-1.6293574 prevent a complete nuclear meltdown in December 1952], being exposed to high levels of radiation in the process). This is why he got a submarine<ref>USS ''Jimmy Carter'' (SSN-23), a [[Types of Naval Ships|fast-attack nuclear boat]], last of the even-scarier-than-the-name-makes-it-sound-but-also-ludicrously-expensive ''Seawolf'' class</ref> named after him rather than a carrier (as is typical for presidents)~~. Also his pronunciation of "nuclear" is the same one the media would obsessively{{verify}} mock [[George W. Bush]] for using~~.

* Was a submariner and nuclear engineer in his early life (although he never got to serve on a nuclear submarine, he did help [https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/chalk-river-nuclear-accident-1.6293574 prevent a complete nuclear meltdown in December 1952], being exposed to high levels of radiation in the process). This is why he got a submarine<ref>USS ''Jimmy Carter'' (SSN-23), a [[Types of Naval Ships|fast-attack nuclear boat]], last of the even-scarier-than-the-name-makes-it-sound-but-also-ludicrously-expensive ''Seawolf'' class</ref> named after him rather than a carrier (as is typical for presidents).