Encore Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 8 p.m. on KPBS 2 / Stream now with the PBS app. Jimmy Carter's story is one of the greatest dramas in American politics. In 1980, he was overwhelmingly voted out of office in a humiliating defeat. Over the subsequent two decades, he became one of the most admired statesmen and humanitarians in America and the world.