Jimmy Carter, former US president and Nobel Peace Prize recipient, dead at 100, Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports

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WASHINGTON, 2024 (Reuters) - Jimmy Carter, the earnest Georgia peanut farmer who as U.S. president struggled with a bad economy and the Iran hostage crisis but brokered peace between Israel and Egypt and later received the Nobel Peace Prize for his humanitarian work, has died, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported on Sunday. He was 100.

A Democrat, he served as president from January 1977 to January 1981 after defeating incumbent Republican President Gerald Ford in the 1976 U.S. election. Carter was swept from office four years later in an electoral landslide as voters embraced Republican challenger Ronald Reagan, the former actor and California governor.

Carter lived longer after his term in office than any other U.S. president. Along the way, he earned a reputation as a better former president than he was a president - a status he readily acknowledged.

His one-term presidency was marked by the highs of the 1978 Camp David accords between Israel and Egypt, bringing some stability to the Middle East. But it was dogged by an economy in recession, persistent unpopularity and the embarrassment of the Iran hostage crisis that consumed his final 444 days in office.

In recent years, Carter had experienced several health issues including melanoma that spread to his liver and brain. Carter decided to receive hospice care in February 2023 instead of undergoing additional medical intervention. His wife, Rosalynn Carter, died on Nov. 19, 2023, at age 96. He looked frail when he attended her memorial service and funeral in a wheelchair.

Carter left office profoundly unpopular but worked energetically for decades on humanitarian causes. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 in recognition of his "untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development."

Carter had been a centrist as governor of Georgia with populist tendencies when he moved into the White House as the 39th U.S. president. He was a Washington outsider at a time when America was still reeling from the Watergate scandal that led Republican Richard Nixon to resign as president in 1974 and elevated Ford from vice president.

"I'm Jimmy Carter and I'm running for president. I will never lie to you," Carter promised with an ear-to-ear smile.

Asked to assess his presidency, Carter said in a 1991 documentary: "The biggest failure we had was a political failure. I never was able to convince the American people that I was a forceful and strong leader."

Despite his difficulties in office, Carter had few rivals for accomplishments as a former president. He gained global acclaim as a tireless human rights advocate, a voice for the disenfranchised and a leader in the fight against hunger and poverty, winning the respect that eluded him in the White House.

Carter won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 for his efforts to promote human rights and resolve conflicts around the world, from Ethiopia and Eritrea to Bosnia and Haiti. His Carter Center in Atlanta sent international election-monitoring delegations to polls around the world.

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Good luck jimmy
 
BartenderElite said:
Jimmy Carter spent his entire post-Presidential life trying to help people, work for world peace and generally give of himself selflessly.

Current MAGA hero will likely sell Trump-branded socks and frisbees when he's out of office.
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Well Carter did a lot of damage to the country during his Administration. Double digit inflation and double digit unemployment. American hostages in Iran. So Carter decided to do what good he could do as a private citizen. Carter was a bad President and a very good person. I suspect he would rather be remembered as a Bad President and a Very good person than the other way around though.
 
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President Jimmy Carter

A trained nuclear engineer, Carter worked under famed Admiral Hyman Rickover, the father of the Navy's nuclear program, on the "Sea Wolf," an atomic submarine. He also studied nuclear physics at Union College in New York.
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He proves you can be smart and still be an election denier.
 
ExpressLane said:
Well Carter did a lot of damage to the country during his Administration. Double digit inflation and double digit unemployment. American hostages in Iran. So Carter decided to do what good he could do as a private citizen. Carter was a bad President and a very good person. I suspect he would rather be remembered as a Bad President and a Very good person than the other way around though.
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I'd say that is how he will be remembered. Not a great president, but a man with a good heart.
 
ExpressLane said:
He is angry with his life decision to have gender reassignment surgery.
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You ever get a look at the tubby little guy? Maybe 5-9 at the most with size 8 shoe! :laugh: He might as well have been born a woman,...he certainly has a womans build!

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Hawkeye10 said:
Except that almost nobody does that....it is abnormal behaviour.
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Almost nobody is a former US president. And I doubt any of them fly commercial. It is not "abnormal". It is gracious and polite. It would be "abnormal" for a former president to walk down a plane aisle without acknowledging any of the other passengers. And when did you start spelling "behaviour" that way?
 
Jarod said:
Did he lead an insurrection?

What USA election has he denied. Sometimes the results should be contested. I remember on in Georgia specifically.
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What in the name of Hades are you babbling about?
 
Dutch Uncle said:
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Claims to have me on ignore but constantly talks about me.
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How's "the plan" working for ya, Fat Boy? LOL

Thanks for the long post and conspiracy theories, Fat Boy. It's very insightful. :thup:
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Oh boy. Baby Fat Fuck wrote an essay about you. We all have a stalker, don't we? Yours is Pebble. Mine is the Toxic Twat.
 
ExpressLane said:
The Abraham Accords were deserving of a Peace Prize too.
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UAE and Bahrain never openly waged war on Israel in any measurable way. They are small fry. Taking Egypt and Jordan off the chessboard practically guaranteed there would never again be open war between Israel and a coalition of neighboring Arab nations. And there hasn't been since 1973.
 
ExpressLane said:
Yes Trump has grace for Jimmy Carter even though Carter was a 2016 election denier.
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Ms. ExLax continues to prove that Meth is rotting her little brain by pushing the conspiracy theory that the Democrats were smart enough to steal the 2016 election out from under a sitting Republican President and a Republican Congress.

Earth to all Meth Heads: The Democrats ain't that smart. Get a fucking clue and stop doing drugs.
 
Diesel said:
@Hawkeye10 is incapable of researching and learning. He just screams into the abyss, "Woe is me. Buckle up. My grapevine. America is dead. I told you so." It's an interesting case study though. Is he miserable because no one loves him, or does no one love him because he's miserable?
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Toxic loves him, but what's THAT worth? In turn, he refers to her as his MISTRESS and they hump each other daily right here on JPP.

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