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

Magats_Love_NHB said:
Just wait until Trump is told he was a terrible president and a horrible person.
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He won't take it well.

Here's to him being the first President to die in office this century. :clink:

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signalmankenneth said:
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.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/former-us-president-jimmy-carter-210607764.html
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Worst President ever before Biden
 
Phantasmal said:
Nope, he was just hit with circumstances beyond his control, inflation, and OPEC, as well as the hostage crisis. Morons blames him, like they blame Biden.
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Agreed many of those events were set in motion before Carter's election. Still, like 9/11, the Desert One disaster was set in motion by Democrats turning guns into butter after the US withdrew from Vietnam.

I liked Gerald Ford. The fall of Saigon, the Mayaquez incident and Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge taking over Cambodia were events that were set in motion before his election. Who here faults him for those events like they do Carter or GW Bush?

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Phantasmal said:
Nope, he was just hit with circumstances beyond his control, inflation, and OPEC, as well as the hostage crisis. Morons blames him, like they blame Biden.
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The Camp David accords ended the cycle of continuous regional wars between Israel and coalitions of neighboring Arab states.

We seem to have completely forgotten, but Carter left a lasting legacy that the United States would at least consider human rights in our foreign policy. In a certain sense, Carter's shadow lay behind our successful humanitarian interventions in Bosnia and Kosovo, and even George Dumbya Bush tried to resurrect the ghost of the Carter administration by claiming he needed to punish Saddam Hussein for his human rights violations.
 
Dutch Uncle said:
Agreed many of those events were set in motion before Carter's election. Still, like 9/11, the Desert One disaster was set in motion by Democrats turning guns into butter after the US withdrew from Vietnam.

I liked Gerald Ford. The fall of Saigon, the Mayaquez incident and Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge taking over Cambodia were events that were set in motion before his election. Who here faults him for those events like they do Carter or GW Bush?
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I liked Gerald Ford as well.
 
Cypress said:
The Camp David accords ended the cycle of continuous regional wars between Israel and coalitions of neighboring Arab states.

We seem to have completely forgotten, but Carter left a lasting legacy that the United States would at least consider human rights in our foreign policy. In a certain sense, Carter's shadow lay behind our successful humanitarian interventions in Bosnia and Kosovo, and even George Dumbya Bush tried to resurrect the ghost of the Carter administration by claiming he needed to punish Saddam Hussein for his human rights violations.
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True. Isael acquiring nukes also helped with that too. :)

Agreed on Carter's humanitarianism. Something the Party of Trump and the incoming Oligarchy disregard in the name of profit.
 
Dutch Uncle said:
Agreed many of those events were set in motion before Carter's election. Still, like 9/11, the Desert One disaster was set in motion by Democrats turning guns into butter after the US withdrew from Vietnam.

I liked Gerald Ford. The fall of Saigon, the Mayaquez incident and Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge taking over Cambodia were events that were set in motion before his election. Who here faults him for those events like they do Carter or GW Bush?

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Ford was a decent chap.
Stagflation started under Nixon, but neither Ford nor Carter were really able to resolve it.
 
Cypress said:
Ford was a decent chap.
Stagflation started under Nixon, but neither Ford nor Carter were really able to resolve it.
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My observation is that, unlike the back half of the IQ bell curve seems to believe, Presidents can't wave a wand and fix the economy. They can influence it but much of it is beyond their control. As stated previously, much of what happens under their administration was set in motion before they were elected.

As Obama noted, eight years isn't long enough for a president to really change much. Good. Who would want 12 to 16 years of Trump? LOL

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Phantasmal said:
Nope, he was just hit with circumstances beyond his control, inflation, and OPEC, as well as the hostage crisis. Morons blames him, like they blame Biden.
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Every President is hit with things beyond their control. It is how they deal with them. Only a blind partisan would believe he wasn’t a failure. Even the so called peace accords didn’t last. Failure
 
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