Come along for a Georgia presidential history summer road trip
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Built in 1888, the Plains Depot, the site of Jimmy Carter's 1976 Presidential Campaign Headquarters, is the oldest building in Plains, Georgia. (Sam Gringlas/WABE News)
The Peach State could be a deciding factor in the 2024 presidential election, as it was in 2020. But Georgia’s status as a critical state in presidential history isn’t new.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt built the Little White House in Warm Springs, Georgia, in 1932 while governor of New York, prior to his inauguration as president in 1933. (Sam Gringlas/WABE News)
On this week’s special Independence Day episode of “Plugged In: A WABE Politics Podcast,” politics reporter Sam Gringlas takes listeners on a summer road trip to a pair of towns that helped shape former presidents Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Georgia’s own Jimmy Carter.