After his loss in 1980, President Jimmy Carter returned to Plains, Ga., to find that his peanut warehouse was in debt.

This caused a boycott of his peanut warehouse.

His father, Arthur Lee Smith, worked in a peanut warehouse and then on the Georgia Southern Railroad; his mother worked as a domestic.

In 1979 he gave a four-hour deposition at the White House to a special counsel investigating accusations of financial improprieties at the Carter family's peanut warehouse.

The only independent counsel investigation into a President's activities before he took office involved President Carter, who was investigated for a disputed loan to a peanut warehouse he and his brother, Billy, owned.

A case in point is the long-forgotten question of whether Jimmy Carter illegally used proceeds from his family's peanut warehouse to finance his 1976 Presidential election campaign.

His right hand is a tall sailing ship, his left a series of trucks coming out of a peanut warehouse.

But before the 1978 statute went into effect, Attorney General Griffin Bell appointed a special prosecutor to look into alleged financial irregularities of President Jimmy Carter's peanut warehouse.

Disputanta once had several hundred residents, two schools, nine stores, three banks, two peanut warehouses, a saw mill, and a number of other businesses.

He refused to join the segregationist White Citizens' Council, prompting a boycott of his peanut warehouse.