Jimmy Carter

=== Allegations and investigations ===
The September 21, 1977, resignation of [[Bert Lance]], who was director of the office of management and budget in the Carter administration, came amid allegations of improper banking activities before his tenure and was an embarrassment to Carter.<ref>{{Cite news|url= https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/16/us/politics/bert-lance-carter-adviser-dies-at-82.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220103/https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/16/us/politics/bert-lance-carter-adviser-dies-at-82.html |archive-date=January 3, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Bert Lance, Carter Adviser, Dies at 82|first1=Robert|last1=D. Hershey Jr.|date=August 15, 2013|access-date=September 1, 2021|work=[[The New York Times]]}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

Carter became the first sitting president to testify under oath as part of an investigation of him,<ref>{{cite news |title=Paul Curran, 75, Corruption Foe, Dies |first=Robert D. |last=McFadden |author-link=Robert D. McFadden |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/nyregion/07curran.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=September 6, 2008 |page=A30 |access-date=September 6, 2008 |archive-date=April 25, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090425033130/http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/nyregion/07curran.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.kayescholer.com/web.nsf/sl/96D840B79AF05CE785256CE20076DA99|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051018150259/http://www.kayescholer.com/web.nsf/sl/96D840B79AF05CE785256CE20076DA99|archive-date=October 18, 2005|title=Paul J. Curran, Special Counsel, Litigation, Kaye Scholer.|access-date=September 1, 2021}}</ref> as a result of [[United States Attorney General]] [[Griffin Bell]] appointing [[Paul J. Curran]] as a special counsel to investigate loans made to the peanut business Carter owned by a bank controlled by Lance and Curran's position as special counsel not allowing him to file charges on his own.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,916712-1,00.html |title=I Have a Job to Do |date=April 2, 1979 |magazine=Time |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121025175059/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,916712-1,00.html|archive-date=October 25, 2012 |access-date=September 1, 2021}}</ref>{{efn|Curran also investigated President Jimmy Carter's family peanut business for the Justice Department in 1979, and thus became the first lawyer to examine a sitting president under oath.}} Curran announced in October 1979 that no evidence had been found to support allegations that funds loaned from the National Bank of Georgia had been diverted to Carter's 1976 presidential campaign, ending the investigation.<ref>{{cite news |title=Carter's Business Cleared in Inquiry on Campaign Funds |last=Pound |first=Edward T. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1979/10/17/archives/carters-business-cleared-in-inquiry-on-campaign-funds-indictments.html |newspaper=The New York Times |page=A1 |date=October 17, 1979 |access-date=September 7, 2008 |archive-date=July 22, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180722223222/https://www.nytimes.com/1979/10/17/archives/carters-business-cleared-in-inquiry-on-campaign-funds-indictments.html |url-status=live }}</ref>