Revisiting the Jimmy Carter presidency

Paige Alexander serves as chief executive officer of The Carter Center, a nonprofit organization founded in 1982 by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and former First Lady Rosalynn Carter to advance peace and health worldwide. During her tenure as CEO, Alexander has provided thought leadership on issues related to peace, health, and the nexus of the two, authoring essays and op-eds for Newsweek, the Chicago Tribune, Financial Times, and CNN, and appearing on the BBC, National Public Radio, NBC, and other major outlets. She is the recipient of several awards, including the Atlanta Business Chronicle “Most Admired CEO" and Georgia Trend Magazine’s “100 Most Influential Leaders.” Before joining The Carter Center, Alexander had a distinguished global development career, with more than two decades of experience in the government and nonprofit sectors. She is a graduate of Tulane University.

Jonathan Alter is an award-winning author, political analyst, documentary filmmaker, columnist, television producer, and radio host. His most recent book is His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, a Life (2020), and his earlier books include The Center Holds: Obama and His Enemies (2013), The Promise: President Obama, Year One (2010) and The Defining Moment: FDR’s Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope (2006). A former senior editor and columnist at Newsweek, Alter is a longtime political analyst for NBC News and MSNBC. He coproduced and codirected the HBO documentary Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists, which won the 2020 Emmy for Outstanding Historical Documentary. In 2021, he launched a weekly Substack newsletter called “OLD GOATS, Ruminating with Friends,” and since 2016, he has hosted “Alter Family Politics“ each week on Sirius XM, 102 with his three adult children. Alter graduated with an AB in history from Harvard University.

Robert (Bob) Strong, a Miller Center nonresident faculty senior fellow, is emeritus professor at Washington and Lee University. His research involves presidential foreign policy decisions in the modern era. He was a Fulbright Scholar at University College Dublin for the 2013-14 academic year and a visiting scholar at the Rothermere American Institute at Oxford University in 2005. From 2008 to 2013, Strong served in senior administrative positions at Washington and Lee, first as associate provost and then as interim provost. His book publications include Character and Consequence: Foreign Policy Decisions of George H. W. Bush; Working in the World: Jimmy Carter and the Making of American Foreign Policy and Decisions and Dilemmas: Case Studies in Presidential Foreign Policy Making Since 1945. He earned his PhD at the University of Virginia.