RIP: President Jimmy Carter, age 100

[thewayne]

His hospice stay has finally ended after over a year.

He had a rough time with his presidency, having an oil crisis and the Iranian hostage situation. The latter was further complicated with the incoming Reagan presidency meddling in that affair so that the hostages would not be released under his watch, which could have resulted in his re-election. Interesting thing to posit what situation the country would have been in subsequent years had Reagan/Reaganomics not come into power.

He was also one of three sitting Presidents to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, along with Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, subsequently President Obama was awarded it.

Subsequent to his term in office, President Carter had a very successful post-election career with his non-profit Carter Foundation, doing election monitoring internationally and working to worked to eradicate the Guinea worm, which has been hugely successful. With his wife, they worked tireless building homes with Habitat For Humanity.

I would rate him as perhaps the most publicly vigorous and useful post-term presidency that we have yet seen. Interestingly, aside from a few books, he really didn't monetize his presidency and continued living a very modest life. A humble and modest man who has gone on to a very well-earned peaceful rest.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/jimmy-carter-dead-obituary-794884/

Comments

[benicek]

I remember, even as a young kid, seeing him on TV and thinking he was clearly the ‘good guy’.

[disneydream06]

A very good human was lost. :(
Hugs, Jon

[thewayne]

He did his time and unlike most people, left the world a better place.

[disneydream06]

So very true. :)

[silveradept]

I'm not old enough to have known him as a president, but what he did in his life afterward certainly seems to have been a life well-lived.

[darkoshi]

I always admired him. I would occasionally donate to The Carter Center, and one time they sent me a book, his autobiography "A Full Life". It was an interesting read.

[thewayne]

That's pretty cool!