The center’s decades of public health advocacy, election-monitoring and conflict resolution around the world have redefined the role of former presidents, who before Carter often retired to relative obscurity.
“I spent four of my ninety years in the White House, and they were, of course, the pinnacle of my political life,” Carter wrote in a memoir published on his 90th birthday. “Those years, though, do not dominate my chain of memories, and there was never an orderly or planned path to get there during my early life.”
And the man who once held the U.S. nuclear codes, forged a historic Middle East peace deal at Camp David and tried to manage a hostage crisis that sealed his one-term fate has a simple answer whenever he’s asked to recount the best or most significant decision he’s ever made: “Asking Rosalynn to marry me.”
Though he sometimes deemphasizes his elected career, living so long after his presidency is allowing Carter a resurgence of sorts in Democratic politics.
35 years ago, Carter Administration working w/ Mexico to import a river of ocean water into the Salton Sea. Today a river of hydrogen fuel safely stored in ocean water can be desalinated for free. The state can demonstrate how to mitigate rising sea levels w/ US JoiScientific
This man is who the human race should strive to be like. What he has done only solidified his place as a great person. bebetter
YEP!!! OLE JIMMY CARTER USED TO HOLD THE HONOR OF “WORST PRESIDENT”, NOW HELD BY BARRACK HUSSEIN OBAMA!!! BUT, OLE JIMMY GOD BLESS HIM & HIS WIFE & FAMILY, LIVES LARGE OFF THE TAXPAYERS DIME!!!
Seems like clean living and one term in office has served President Carter well!
OneDoneAndDone He's also one of the best human beings.
Eating peanuts=Life longevity.
Happy Birthday jimmy carter
Great man too
Great man.....bad President
Mull it over some nice fresh pressed Mueller cider, the arsenic of thy adam's apple with acidulated tongued tragedy, surrounded by molars of madness, and hanged tracheas of hope. GoodWRITEArmIntellectualProperty
Aha yes. The worlds oldest worst President.
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