“From the minute he took office, Jimmy Carter made it clear that energy reform was top of his agenda. Literally,” the Princeton historian Meg Jacobs, author of the book Panic at the Pump: The ...

Jimmy Carter, a Democrat, served as president from January 1977 to January 1981 after defeating incumbent Republican President Gerald Ford in the 1976 U.S. election.

And when it came to conserving energy, Carter did as he preached, selling the presidential yacht the Sequoia and unplugging White House TV sets, according to PBS’s 2002 “American Experience ...