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Rhiannon12866

(202,970 posts)
9. Jimmy Carter didn't sell the family farm, it was put into a "blind trust."
Mon Nov 20, 2017, 03:08 AM
Nov 2017

He received no information on how it was doing until he returned to Georgia and it was then that he learned, due to mismanagement and several years of drought, he was deeply in debt. The Carters nearly lost their home over this - a house that Carter had helped to build himself. He was able to sell the Carter Warehouse to pay off most of the debt.

Carter sold his own farm [View all] SHRED Nov 2017 OP
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Thanks SHRED Nov 2017 #5
no problem. What is accurate is that even though it was in a grantcart Nov 2017 #7
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Jimmy Carter didn't sell the family farm, it was put into a "blind trust." Rhiannon12866 Nov 2017 #9
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