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Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter died Sunday, confirmed by his family to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Washington Pos t. He was 100 years old. Born James Earl Carter, Jr., in Plains, Georgia, on October 1, 1924, the Democrat pursued state politics before he was elected to one term in the White House, where he served as the 39th president between 1977 and 1981. Carter's mother was a nurse, and his father was a businessman and farmer who grew peanuts, cotton, sugar and corn. The National Park Service currently oversees the Carter family farm as part of the Jimmy Carter National Historical Park, which is open to visitors. Carter attended public school in his hometown before enrolling in Georgia Southwestern College and the Georgia Institute of Technology. He ultimately graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1946 and served as an officer in the U.S. Navy for seven years. Once his time at the academy was completed, Carter married Rosalynn Smith, who later became the first lady during Carter's time in office. The couple had three sons and one daughter and would be married for 77 years, the longest marriage in presidential history. Carter first decided to pursue a career in politics in the early 1960s, when he was elected to the Georgia Senate . He launched his first gubernatorial campaign ahead of the 1966 election and lost, but went on to win his second bid for governor four years later, becoming the state's 76th elected leader and serving from January 1971 through January 1975. After a brief time overseeing the Democratic National Committee , Carter announced his intention to run for president in late 1974. He defeated incumbent Republican Gerald Ford with 297 electoral votes to Ford's 240, with former Minnesota Senator Walter Mondale joining the new Democratic administration as Carter's vice president. Mondale died in 2021 at 93. In a statement Carter released at the time, he remembered Mondale as "the best vice president in our country's history" and a "dear friend." While president, Carter was credited with encouraging a peace agreement in the Middle East that ultimately resulted in the Camp David Accords, which the Office of the Historian at the U.S. Department of State described as "historic." The White House archives lists the Panama Canal treaties and an agreement between the U.S. and the Soviet Union restricting nuclear weapon production as some of Carter's biggest victories overseas. In the U.S., Carter pursued deregulation in a handful of industries, including energy and transportation, and pushed for new environmental protections. The U.S. Department of Education also launched during his time in office. Carter's presidency is often remembered by the Iran hostage crisis and struggles at home as the U.S. faced an economic downturn. A White House Historical Association overview of Carter's administration credited the hostage crisis—which continued for more than a year and didn't end until Carter's final day as president—with impacting the Democrat's unsuccessful bid for re-election. Carter lost the 1980 election with 41 percent of the popular vote and just 49 electoral college votes. He was succeeded by Republican Ronald Reagan. Shortly after leaving the White House, Carter established The Carter Center in Atlanta with his wife and in collaboration with Emory University. The former first lady was Carter's "full partner" in their efforts at the nonprofit and was continuing her work by chairing its Mental Health Task Force as of January, according to her co-founder page on the organization's website. The Carter Center was created "on a fundamental commitment to human rights and the alleviation of human suffering" and describes its continuing mission as seeking "to prevent and resolve conflicts, enhance freedom and democracy, and improve health." In 2002, the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced Carter was its choice for the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize "for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development." At the time of the announcement, the committee recognized Carter's work on the Camp David Accords while he was president, as well as his efforts in protecting democratic elections overseas and defending human rights through the Carter Center. More recently, Carter continued voicing his positions on voting rights in his own country as a slew of states weighed the implementation of new election-related restrictions. In March 2021, Carter criticized his home state's legislature for pursuing election-related legislation that he said seemed "to be rooted in partisan interests, not in the interests of all Georgia voters." "As our state legislators seek to turn back the clock through legislation that will restrict access to voting for many Georgians, I am disheartened, saddened, and angry," Carter said at the time. Two months later, the Carters were visited at their home in Georgia by President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden . Carter had previously congratulated Biden on his win in the 2020 election through a statement in which he and Rosalynn said they both "look forward to seeing the positive change they bring to our nation." In the years before his death, and following a series of hospital stays, Carter began hospice care at home, opting to spend his remaining time surrounded by family. Rosalynn, who was also in hospice care at their Georgia home following a diagnosis of dementia, died in November 2023. Carter is survived by his four children, Jack, James, Donnel and Amy, and several grandchildren and great-grandchildren. This is a developing news story and will be updated with more information.
Public Service Enterprise Group Inc. stock underperforms Tuesday when compared to competitors despite daily gainsNo. 2 UConn falls again in Maui, losing 73-72 to Colorado on Jakimovski's off-balance layupC ricketer (England, 18 years old) By Steve James A couple of years ago Martin Speight, once a fine cricketer himself but now probably better known as Harry Brook’s coach and mentor, mentioned to me a young left-arm bowler at his school, Sedbergh (he is now at Repton). “She is unbelievably good,” he said. And “two-metre Mahika” as they call her, certainly is good. She is rare in the women’s game too, a tall left-arm swing bowler (she is 6ft 4in), who, as England men’s bowling coach James Anderson says, has “a really nice action and swings the ball back in from that height, which makes it very difficult to play”. Injury and school A-levels scuppered her 2024 season but, now with an England central contract,
It’s a complicated situation. As the Montreal Canadiens work to becoming a more competitive team, they face a dilemma regarding their defence corps. It will be a challenge for general manager Kent Hughes to sort out his personnel, ice a balanced group on the blueline and put together a squad that is solid through all three pairings... a necessity for the team to become a true contender. While the team is stacked with left shot defenceman with a wide variety of skill sets, the right side looks to be in disarray. There isn’t a top four defenceman in the group. The leader of the pack is David Savard but in an ideal situation he would be on the third pair and on one of the PK units. The only other RD on the roster is Justin Barron, who hasn’t shown enough to win a top four position. In addition, his skill set doesn’t exactly fit the stereotypical mold of a third pair d-man or penalty killer. More on that later. When you look to next season, Logan Mailloux is a good bet to win a spot but it is early in his career to count on him as a first pair defenceman and it would seem like a waste of his skills to relegate him to the third pair. In that light, penciling in Mailloux on the second pair seems reasonable. However, given the right partner he could make the jump to the first pair. David Reinbacher should also be ready to play next season but he has only seen action in 11 games in Laval since coming over from the Swiss league. It is unrealistic to expect him to jump into NHL action after missing a year due to injury and a having so little time to adapt to the North American game. At least a year of development in the AHL should be in the cards. If Savard is re-signed rather than traded, it would leave Montreal with a reasonable talent on the second and third defence pairs – or first and third pairs. The trouble with that is, we don’t know if Savard will still be with the Canadiens after the trade deadline or if he would re-sign with the team this summer. Should Savard not return, that would leave the Canadiens with Barron and Mailloux as their two right shot defencemen. Perhaps Mailloux could win a spot on the first pair and Barron could instill enough confidence in the coaching staff that they would play him on the second pair. But both of those scenarios seem like a long shot. A more likely situation would be Mailloux on the second pair and Barron on the third pair with someone who complements his offence first style of play. The left side of the blue line has the opposite problem. There are more players than positions available and lots of internal competition for the various roles. Kaiden Guhle has a lock on one of the d-men in the top four. In terms of all around play, he is the best Canadiens’ defenceman. It’s easy to see how Guhle paired with Mailloux, for example, could work. Both Mike Matheson and Lane Hutson are offensive defencemen and both are regulars on the power play, with Matheson getting the bulk of the time to date. But is there even room for both of them on the roster? Neither is a third pair d-man. If Guhle is on the first or second pair, then one of Matheson or Hutson would have to play on the third pair or on their weak side. Neither of those situations is ideal and Hutson isn’t going anywhere. If Guhle and Hutson were in the top four next season, the status of Mike Matheson’s future with the team becomes the elephant in the room. The position of LD on the third pair would then boil down to Arber Xhekaj and Jayden Struble with Adam Engstrom waiting in the wings. Both bring an element of toughness to the game that would complement Barron’s style of play and perhaps they could rotate with him at the bottom of the lineup. If it’s not Barron, the Canadiens could explore other options that would fit with their vision of how they want the defence to be built. A third pair d-man should not be an overly expensive acquisition in terms of salary or assets going the other way. That leaves the unanswered question of who could be a defenceman that is available and who could play the right side on the first or second pair for the Canadiens. Optimists would say that player is David Reinbacher but those are lofty expectations for someone with so little experience. The 2026-27 is a more likely timeframe for the big Austrian to see his name in the lineup. Others might say that David Savard could fill that role for another season but he is not ideally suited to that role and there are no guarantees he will be back... for one reason or another. The best result would be if Justin Barron could suddenly elevate his play over the next 30 games and show that he is capable of playing in top four situations on a regular basis. But don’t hold your breath on that one. The final option from within the organization would be to have a LD play his weak side on the top four. Both the management team and the coaching staff have voiced their concerns about that option. The answer seems to be in a trade or a free agent signing and it is easy to lend credence to the rumours that Kent Hughes is looking for a solid RD to add to his lineup, even it is for only a year or two. In the meantime, there is a lot of evaluation to be done and a lot of phone calls to be made before the situation on defence is resolved. This article first appeared on The Sick Podcast and was syndicated with permission.LUANDA, Angola (AP) — long-delayed trip to Africa had many of the hallmarks of a traditional state visit: There was a 12-shot cannon salute. A series of warm handshakes with Angolan President João Lourenço. Celebratory music. Photo opportunities. But another issue overshadowed the visit. When reporters tried to question the president about why he after repeatedly saying he would not do so, Biden tried to brush aside the questions. He gestured toward Lourenço and laughed, declaring, “Welcome to America.” Biden saluted Lourenço for his efforts to bolster stronger U.S. relations, declared that would shape the world's future and even indulged his love of trains by championing a major railway project that his administration says could change the way the entire continent does business. Some takeaways from the president's visit: Biden offered the joke about America before his meeting with Lourenço, and he answered a question on Tuesday about the political situation in South Korea, saying only that he'd not been briefed — something that was rectified moments later when advisers filled him in on what was happening as the motorcade sped away from a site where he'd given a speech. Other than that, Biden went the entire trip, which began Sunday night and included two brief stopovers in Cape Verde in addition to Angola, dodging reporters. He did similar during last month's . Since Biden announced his pardon decision shortly before climbing aboard Air Force One bound for Africa, it fell to White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre to spend nearly half an hour offering long and awkward answers to uncomfortable questions aboard the aircraft hours later. Biden said in a statement explaining the pardon that, while he believed in the justice system, he also felt that politics had infected the cases against his son and “enough was enough.” Jean-Pierre maintained that he wasn't trying to have it both ways. “I don’t think it’s a contradiction,” she said. “Two things could be true. You can believe in the Department of Justice system, and you could also believe that the process was infected politically.” She also bristled when it was suggested that such complaints about the Department of Justice smacked of President-elect Donald Trump's of federal bureaucrats that he's said for years are out to unfairly undermine him and fellow top Republicans. During his meeting with Lourenço at the presidential palace, Biden said, and extolled how strong Angolan relations were with Washington. His administration has invested billions in Angola, with the centerpiece being promoting the Lobito Corridor, a vast project to revitalize supply chains by refurbishing 800 miles (1,300 kilometers) of train lines in Angola, Zambia and Congo. Given where Angola was barely a generation ago, the alliance is in many ways remarkable. An oil-rich nation on Africa's southwest coast, Angola achieved independence from Portugal in 1975, but spent subsequent years embroiled in civil war, which often featured proxy fighting between U.S.-backed forces and those allied with the Soviet Union. Even today, the country's red and black flag features a yellow machete and half-cog, an insignia resembling the Soviet hammer and sickle. But Biden leaves office on Jan. 20, and Lourenço, like many leaders of African nations, has already begun suggesting that he's looking toward a Trump-dominated future. Biden administration officials say they're hopeful Trump and top Republicans will continue a business-friendly approach to investing in Africa that includes continuing to support the Lobito Corridor. Biden lauded Lourenço for helping boost his country's relationship with the United States, and he said the youth of Africa would change the world. He also visited the country’s national slavery museum, stressing how Angola and the United States — which were once linked by the horrors of enslaved human beings, now could increasingly be linked by economic opportunity. But if Biden came to Angola hoping to cement his foreign policy legacy in this country and throughout Africa, it will actually fall to Trump — the man he and spent much of 2024 running against before in July — to see it through.
Former US president Jimmy Carter dies aged 100After a proposed constitutional amendment that would have given the Utah Legislature free rein to repeal or amend voter-approved ballot initiatives went up in flames earlier this year, Republican lawmakers are weighing how to, in their eyes, keep measures in check. Nothing is settled upon yet, but options range from raising the signature threshold for ballot measures to requiring 60% approval for some measures. After the Utah Supreme Court unanimously ruled in July that legislators could not repeal or rewrite voter-passed initiatives , Republican legislative leaders issued dire warnings that Utah would see a tsunami of ballot initiatives fueled by out-of-state money. Others warned of attempts to legalize recreational marijuana, gambling and expanding abortion. Lawmakers thought they had solved the issue during a special session in August, where they pushed through Amendment D , essentially reversing the court’s ruling and asserting their power to revise initiatives. But the plan was derailed when the justices struck Amendment D from the ballot , ruling the wording on the ballot was deceptive and lawmakers failed to publish the amendment in newspapers, as the Utah Constitution requires. Since constitutional amendments have to be ratified by voters in a general election, legislators cannot take another run at Amendment D until 2026, forcing Republican leaders to look for other options to keep control over lawmaking in the state. Groups considering launching an initiative, meantime, are keeping a close eye on the proposals, knowing that changes in the upcoming legislative session could dramatically impact the outlook for any 2026 initiative effort. Barbara Stallone, executive director of People4Utah, a group considering an initiative to create open, multi-party primaries with the top two vote-getters advancing to the general election, regardless of party, said her group is “committed to ensuring that Utahns retain their constitutional right to reform their government.” “Some of the proposals that we have heard about for the 2025 session appear to encroach on those rights,” she said. “We are following all of these proposals closely and will ensure that Utahns’ voices are heard throughout the legislative process.” (Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Sen. Kirk Cullimore, R-Sandy, discusses the constitutional amendment over citizen initiatives after it passed the house and the Senate, on Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2024. Sen. Kirk Cullimore, R-Cottonwood Heights, the incoming Senate majority leader, told The Salt Lake Tribune that discussions are in the early stages and no plan has been settled upon, several options have been floated. The simplest tactic would be to increase the number of signatures initiative supporters have to gather to get a question on the ballot. Currently, that number is 8% of the number of registered voters at the time of the most recent election, meaning the number initiative backers will be shooting for will increase to about 148,000, up from the current requirement of 134,298 , with specific targets in at least 26 of the state’s 29 Senate districts. That is assuming legislators don’t push the bar higher. “Some of those options have been discussed,” Cullimore said. “My concern, without looking into this legally, is if that gets challenged, would the court see that as an undue burden on this [initiative] right?” If the courts think the Legislature has made it too hard to get an initiative approved, judges could see that as infringing on the public’s right to make law via the initiative process and strike it down. Of the 24 states that allow ballot initiatives, Utah has one of — if not the — most challenging signature requirements according to data from the National Conference of State Legislatures. Cullimore thinks there might be a better argument for requiring initiatives to win approval in a majority of legislative districts, rather than just a simple majority of voters. The logic, he said, is that for the Legislature to pass a law it needs support from a majority of the members representing their legislative districts. “That might carry more legal weight,” he said, “and might make the initiative more representative of Utah if there’s a requirement like that.”. In 2018, when voters approved three ballot initiatives — legalizing medical marijuana , expanding Medicaid for low-income Utahns and creating the non-partisan redistricting commission — all by relatively narrow margins. The Medicaid expansion initiative, which passed 53% to 47%, won support in a majority of legislative districts . The Better Boundaries initiative passed by just a few thousand votes and won a majority in just Salt Lake, Summit, Grand and Carbon counties. Another option is increasing the percentage of voters that would need to support an initiative from 50% to 60%. Rep. Jason Kyle, R-Huntsville, has previously sponsored legislation to require the 60% threshold on initiatives that require a tax increase. That bill passed the Utah House last year and stalled in the Senate. Cullimore said it’s possible it could be expanded beyond just tax issues. Eleven states require a supermajority for constitutional amendments or certain ballot measures . In the last election, for example, 57% of Florida voters supported an amendment dealing with abortion rights, but it fell short of the 60% mark needed for approval. In Utah, a constitutional amendment approved in 1998 requires a two-thirds majority to pass any ballot initiative limiting hunting. Part of the language that was a major selling point for the Legislature’s Amendment D was a ban on foreign interests spending money on Utah ballot initiatives. Rep. Candace Pierucci, R-Herriman, appears aiming to accomplish that goal with a bill file she has opened. Neither Kyle nor Pierucci responded to messages about their plans for the upcoming session. Other states that have ventured down that road have faced court challenges. In September, a federal judge in Ohio blocked that state’s prohibition on foreign influence of ballot initiatives, but in October the appeals court overturned that decision in a 2-1 ruling , meaning, at least for now, the ban is in place. Rep. Andrew Stoddard, D-Murray, has also opened a bill file to address initiatives. He said his bill, while still being drafted, would lower the signature requirement and ban “dark money” — funds spent on campaigns whose donors are not reported — from the process. (Jeffrey D. Allred | Pool) Attorney Tyler Green speaks to the court as Mormon Women for Ethical Government and the League of Women Voters oppose the Utah State Legislature during oral arguments at the Utah Supreme Court in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024. Status of the gerrymandering lawsuit As lawmakers try to sort out how they plan to respond to the Utah Supreme Court’s ballot initiative ruling, the case that precipitated it — over 2018′s Proposition 4 which sought to prohibit partisan gerrymandering — is now in the hands of a lower court judge. After Better Boundaries’ initiative was approved by voters in 2018, the Legislature passed SB200 , which made the independent redistricting commission created under the bill simply advisory and removed a restriction on drawing legislative and congressional boundaries to favor one party and disadvantage another. The League of Women Voters, Mormon Women for Ethical Government and several voters sued , arguing that the congressional boundaries the Legislature adopted intentionally disadvantaged voters in Salt Lake County, one of the few somewhat liberal bastions in the state. In July, the Utah Supreme Court ruled that by undoing the core of the Better Boundaries Initiative, lawmakers essentially deprived voters of their constitutional right to enact ballot initiatives that reform government — prompting the Legislature’s attempt to amend the constitution to make ballot initiatives subject to repeal or amendment by lawmakers. The court said that, if the Legislature wants to substantially impair a voter-passed initiative, lawmakers need a compelling interest and the change must be narrowly tailored and sent the case back to a lower court judge to decide if the state met its burden. In a court filing last month attorneys for the Legislature argued that portions of the Better Boundaries initiative are unconstitutional, alleging they infringe on the Legislature’s right to create political boundaries, among other reasons. “The State has compelling interests in ensuring that its laws are constitutional, that all Utahns are represented in the redistricting process, that redistricting plans are enacted in a timely fashion, and that the State’s fiscal health isn’t jeopardized by prolonged litigation cost and mountainous attorney’s fees,” attorneys for the Legislature wrote. The plaintiffs’ lawyers responded in a brief filed just before the Thanksgiving holiday arguing that voters have been deprived of the nonpartisan gerrymandering that they voted for in 2018 and urged the court to move quickly and order the maps to be redrawn. “Utahns deserve to vote under lawful maps drawn according to the standards they adopted in enacting Prop 4 six years ago, and the Court should expeditiously conduct remedial proceedings to ensure that a lawful map is in effect for the 2026 election,” they wrote. Editor’s note • This story is available to Salt Lake Tribune subscribers only. Thank you for supporting local journalism.
Former US president Jimmy Carter has died aged 100. Mr Carter, a former peanut farmer, served one term in the White House between 1977 and 1981, taking over in the wake of the Watergate scandal and the end of the Vietnam War. After his defeat by Ronald Reagan, he spent his post-presidency years as a global humanitarian, winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002. His death on Sunday was announced by his family and came more than a year after he decided to enter hospice care. He was the longest-lived US president. Our founder, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, passed away this afternoon in Plains, Georgia. pic.twitter.com/aqYmcE9tXi — The Carter Center (@CarterCenter) December 29, 2024 His son, Chip Carter, said: “My father was a hero, not only to me but to everyone who believes in peace, human rights and unselfish love. “My brothers, sister and I shared him with the rest of the world through these common beliefs. “The world is our family because of the way he brought people together, and we thank you for honouring his memory by continuing to live these shared beliefs.” World leaders have paid tribute to Mr Carter, including US President Joe Biden, who was one of the first politicians to endorse Mr Carter for president in 1976 and said the world had “lost an extraordinary leader, statesman and humanitarian”. He said: “Over six decades, we had the honour of calling Jimmy Carter a dear friend. But, what’s extraordinary about Jimmy Carter, though, is that millions of people throughout America and the world who never met him thought of him as a dear friend as well. “With his compassion and moral clarity, he worked to eradicate disease, forge peace, advance civil rights and human rights, promote free and fair elections, house the homeless, and always advocate for the least among us. “He saved, lifted, and changed the lives of people all across the globe.” Irish President Michael D Higgins said Mr Carter was “a principled man who dedicated his life to seeking to advance the cause of peace across the world”. He added: “On behalf of the people of Ireland, may I express my sympathies to President Carter’s children and extended family, to President Joe Biden, to the people of the United States, and to his wide circle of colleagues and friends across the globe.” Mr Carter is expected to receive a state funeral featuring public observances in Atlanta and Washington DC before being buried in his home town of Plains, Georgia. A moderate democrat born in Plains in October 1924, Mr Carter’s political career took him from the Georgia state senate to the state governorship and finally, the White House, where he took office as the 39th president. His presidency saw economic disruption amid volatile oil prices, along with social tensions at home and challenges abroad including the Iranian revolution that sparked a 444-day hostage crisis at the US embassy in Tehran. But he also brokered the Camp David Accords between Egypt and Israel, which led to a peace treaty between the two countries in 1979. After his defeat in the 1980 presidential election, he worked for more than four decades leading the Carter Centre, which he and his late wife Rosalynn co-founded in 1982 to “wage peace, fight disease, and build hope”. Under his leadership, the Carter Center managed to virtually eliminate Guinea Worm disease, which has gone from affecting 3.5 million people in Africa and Asia in 1986 to just 14 in 2023. Mrs Carter, who died last year aged 96, had played a more active role in her husband’s presidency than previous first ladies, with Mr Carter saying she had been “my equal partner in everything I ever accomplished”. Earlier this year, on his 100th birthday, Mr Carter received a private congratulatory message from the King, expressing admiration for his life of public service.What a merger between Nissan and Honda means for the automakers and the industry
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honored more widely for his humanitarian work around the globe after his presidency than for his White House tenure during a tumultuous time, has died. He was 100. "Our founder, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, passed away this afternoon in Plains, Georgia," the Carter Center confirmed on Sunday. In November 2023, the Nobel Peace Prize-winner's wife of 77 years, Rosalynn, in the modest house they built together in 1961, when he had taken over his father's peanut warehouse business and was only beginning to consider a political career. In February 2023, he had announced he was ending medical intervention and Jason Carter had at the time of the announcement and said "They are at peace and – as always – their home is full of love," he posted on Twitter. At peace, perhaps, but still political: The former president vowed he for Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election. After serving a single term in the White House, Jimmy Carter became one of the most durable figures in modern American politics. Evicted from the White House at age 56, he would hold the status of former president longer than anyone in U.S. history, and in 2019 he surpassed George H. W. Bush as the nation's Carter remained remarkably active in charitable causes through a series of health challenges during his final years, including a in 2015. He was admitted to Emory University Hospital in Atlanta in November 2019 for a procedure to , a consequence of bleeding that followed a series of falls. A few months earlier, in May, he had undergone surgery after breaking his hip. In the White House from 1977 to 1981, Carter negotiated the landmark between Israel and Egypt, transferred the Panama Canal to Panamanian ownership, dramatically expanded public lands in Alaska and established formal diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China. But the 39th president governed at a time of and gasoline shortages, and his failure to secure the release of Americans held hostage by Iran helped cost him the second term he sought. “He’s never going to be ranked as a great president; he’s middling as a president,” said historian Douglas Brinkley, author of a 1998 book on Carter, "The Unfinished Presidency." “But as an American figure, he’s a giant.” After losing his reelection bid to Ronald Reagan, and until well into his 90s, Carter continued working as an observer of elections in developing countries, building houses through the nonprofit and at the tiny Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Georgia, his hometown. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002, 22 years after he left the White House. "I can't deny that I was a better ex-president than I was a president," he said with a wry laugh at a breakfast with reporters in Washington in 2005. "My former boss was humiliated when he lost in 1980; he felt he let himself and the American people down," David Rubenstein, a young White House staffer for Carter who became founder of the Carlyle Group and a billionaire philanthropist, told USA TODAY in an interview in 2019. "For a long time, he was basically the symbol of a weak president and a terrible person. And today, 40-some years later, he's seen as a very incredible person who has had many good things he did, though he didn't get reelected," Rubenstein said. James Earl Carter Jr. was born on Oct. 1, 1924, in Plains to Earl Carter, a peanut warehouser who had served in the Georgia Legislature, and “Miss Lillian” Carter, a registered nurse and formidable figure who joined the Peace Corps when she was in her 60s. He grew up on a peanut farm in Plains, then graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy. In the years after World War II, he served in the Navy's submarine service in the Atlantic and Pacific fleets. After doing graduate work in nuclear physics, he became a pioneer in the introduction of nuclear power in submarines. When his father died in 1953, Carter resigned his naval commission and took over operation of the family peanut farms with After a rough early patch, the business flourished, and Carter became increasingly active in community affairs and politics. During two terms in the Georgia state Senate, he gained a reputation as an independent voice who attacked wasteful government practices and helped repeal laws designed to discourage Black Americans from voting. But in 1966, he lost a race for governor to segregationist Lester Maddox in an election that analysts said reflected a Southern backlash against national civil rights legislation enacted in 1964 and 1965. In a second bid for governor in 1970, Carter minimized his appearances before Black audiences and won endorsements from some segregationists. After he was elected, though, Carter declared that the era of segregation in Georgia was over, and he was hailed as a symbol of a new, more inclusive South. Still, he was an unlikely presidential contender. When he launched his bid for the 1976 Democratic nomination, the former one-term governor was so obscure outside the Peach State that “Jimmy who?” became a campaign trope. He perfected the meticulous cultivation of voters in Iowa, and his unexpected victory in the opening presidential caucuses there provided a launching pad that long-shot contenders tried to emulate for decades. The boosted Carter's prospects. In the aftermath of President Richard Nixon’s decision to resign in 1974 rather than be impeached, Carter pitched himself to voters as an outsider who would reject Washington’s unsavory ways. “I’ll never lie to you,” he told them. In 1976, he narrowly defeated President Gerald Ford, whose campaign was damaged by verbal missteps and by controversy over his decision to pardon Nixon. Four years later, Carter would be ousted himself. He faced a damaging challenge for the Democratic nomination from the left by Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy and then a landslide defeat in the general election from the right by Reagan. The former California governor tapped into discontent with Carter’s leadership. “Are you better off than you were four years ago?” Reagan asked voters in the iconic closing of their only campaign debate. Carter’s defenders argue that he was a better president than generally recognized. "I think that he is the most underappreciated modern president that we've had," said Stuart Eizenstat, a veteran Washington official and ambassador who was Carter’s chief domestic policy adviser in the White House. "The reason for that is the lingering memories of his presidency are negative ones – gasoline lines, high interest rates and inflation, the Iran hostage crisis, the Desert One failed rescue effort – and those totally obscure a really remarkable set of accomplishments both at home and abroad, which in many ways didn't materialize until after he left office." Eizenstat, author of "President Carter: The White House Years," published in 2018, said Carter's policies and appointments laid the groundwork for a stronger economy, energy independence, environmental protection, business innovation in transportation and more. On foreign policy, Carter painstakingly negotiated the 1978 Camp David Accords, a historic agreement between Israel's Menachem Begin and Egypt's Anwar Sadat that led to a formal peace treaty between the two countries the next year. But he stumbled when he came to the politics of the job. Despite having the advantage of a solidly Democratic Congress, many of his legislative proposals, including a consumer protection bill, stalled. The no-backroom-deals approach that helped him win the White House contributed to his difficulties in actually governing once he got there. He was mocked for charging members of Congress for their breakfast when invited to meet with him at the White House and for eliminating alcohol from most evening events. He was seen by some, then and later, as prickly and sanctimonious. Meanwhile, unemployment rose, interest rates for home mortgages climbed into double digits and Americans found themselves waiting in lines to buy gas in an oil crisis created by OPEC, the powerful international energy cartel. In a speech to the nation in July 1979, Carter described a “crisis of confidence" among the American people. Although he never said the word, it became short-handed as his “malaise” speech. "He lacked the political and managerial skills needed to make best use of the office he held," said Robert McClure, a political scientist at Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. Most damaging of all was the Iranian hostage crisis. Carter had agreed to allow Iran's deposed shah, a former U.S. ally who was living in exile, to receive cancer treatment in the United States. In protest, Iranian Islamist radicals overran the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and took 52 Americans captive. The confrontation, which began on Nov. 4, 1979, would end only as Reagan was being inaugurated 444 days later. Carter chose diplomacy and economic sanctions over military action. He halted oil imports from Iran and froze Iranian assets in the U.S. He severed diplomatic relations with Iran and imposed a full economic embargo on the country. Finally, he approved a top-secret military mission to free the hostages, but it ended in catastrophe. Three helicopters developed engine trouble in a remote staging area in the Iranian desert, forcing the mission to be aborted. Eight U.S. troops were killed when a helicopter and a plane collided while forces were being withdrawn. It all added to the impression that Carter was out of his depth. "The hostage crisis left a bitter taste in voters' mouths, which Carter was never able to overcome," said Stephen Hess, a Brookings Institution scholar who worked on Carter's transition team when he was president-elect. On the day of Reagan's inauguration, Jan. 20, 1981, Iran agreed to accept $8 billion in frozen assets and a promise by the U.S. to lift trade sanctions in exchange for the release of the hostages. Minutes after Carter's successor took the oath of office, the hostages were freed. Carter left the White House, but he didn’t retire. Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter established the Carter Center in Atlanta, their home base for decades as they worked on global health and democracy. He helped negotiate an end to the long civil war in Nicaragua between the Contra rebels and the Sandinistas. He met with North Korean leaders to try to end its nuclear weapons program. He mediated conflicts in Ethiopia, Liberia, Haiti, Bosnia, Sudan, Uganda and Venezuela. He led dozens of delegations of international observers to various countries to help assure elections were free and fair. For decades, the Carter Center also led an international campaign to eradicate Guinea worm disease, a devastating tropical ailment that in 1986 afflicted an estimated 3.5 million people in Africa and Asia. In 2020, it was on the verge of eradication; just 27 cases were reported in six African countries. For a week each year, the Carters volunteered with Habitat for Humanity, a charitable group that renovates and builds homes for poor people around the world. He also wrote more than 30 books – controversial ones on the Palestinian territories and the Middle East and less controversial ones on Christmas memories and fly-fishing. He published a collection of his poems and a collection of his paintings. Again and again, he returned to writing about the lessons and demands of his Christian faith. Carter, who attended Donald Trump's inauguration in 2017, at times criticized the 45th president. In June 2019, at a Carter Center conference in suburban Virginia, he questioned the legitimacy of Trump's election, citing allegations of Russian interference that were later called into question. Trump responded at a news conference by calling Carter a "nice man, terrible president." But there were also times when Carter reached out to Trump. On the 40th anniversary of the normalization of U.S.-China relations, in 2019, he sent Trump a letter offering advice on managing that relationship. Carter said the phone conversation that followed was the first time the two men had spoken. In 2002, Carter was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize that supporters thought he had deserved years earlier, when it had been presented to Begin and Sadat. The Nobel committee honored Carter "for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights and to promote economic and social development." "The bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices," Carter said in accepting the prestigious award. "God gives us the capacity for choice. We can choose to alleviate suffering. We can choose to work together for peace. We can make these changes – and we must." When he left the White House, Carter moved back home to Plains. Unlike most other modern presidents, he didn't choose to make money by delivering high-priced speeches or serving on corporate boards. But he did regularly speak to hundreds of visitors who would gather for his Sunday school class at Maranatha Baptist Church. In November 2019, he told those gathered that he didn't fear death. "It's incompatible for any Christian not to believe in life after death," Carter, then 95, told them, although he acknowledged he had wrestled with doubts throughout his life. In his prayers, he said, "I didn't ask God to let me live, but I just asked God to give me a proper attitude toward death. And I found that I was absolutely and completely at ease with death." In July 2021, he and his wife hosted a attended by about 300 friends, family members and fellow pols, among them Bill and Hillary Clinton. Carter, his fragility apparent, made a point of greeting the guests at each table for what many of them assumed would be the last time they saw him. "He was not a self-promoter in the White House or afterwards, and I think that hurt, because it leaves all the sour tastes from the failures and didn't allow the positives to shine through," Eizenstat said. When Eizenstat visited Carter in Plains in 2018, Carter told his former aide he was comfortable with letting history judge. As he approached his 90th birthday, Carter mused about his legacy in an interview with USA TODAY. "One is peace," he said. "I kept peace when I was president and I try to promote peace between other people and us, and between countries that were potentially at war, between Israel and Egypt for instance. And human rights. ... I think human rights and peace are the two things I'd like to be remembered for – as well as being a good grandfather." CSome quotations from Jimmy Carter: We have a tendency to exalt ourselves and to dwell on the weaknesses and mistakes of others. I have come to realize that in every person there is something fine and pure and noble, along with a desire for self-fulfillment. Political and religious leaders must attempt to provide a society within which these human attributes can be nurtured and enhanced. — from 1975 book “Why Not the Best?” Our government can express the highest common ideals of human beings — if we demand of government true standards of excellence. At this Bicentennial time of introspection and concern, we must demand such standards. — “Why Not the Best?” I am a Southerner and an American, I am a farmer, an engineer, a father and husband, a Christian, a politician and former governor, a planner, a businessman, a nuclear physicist, a naval officer, a canoeist, and among other things a lover of Bob Dylan’s songs and Dylan Thomas’s poetry. — “Why Not the Best?” Christ said, “I tell you that anyone who looks on a woman with lust has in his heart already committed adultery.” I’ve looked on a lot of women with lust. I’ve committed adultery in my heart many times. This is something that God recognizes I will do — and I have done it — and God forgives me for it. But that doesn’t mean that I condemn someone who not only looks on a woman with lust but who leaves his wife and shacks up with somebody out of wedlock. — Interview, November 1976 Playboy. This inauguration ceremony marks a new beginning, a new dedication within our Government, and a new spirit among us all. A President may sense and proclaim that new spirit, but only a people can provide it. — Inaugural address, January 1977. It’s clear that the true problems of our nation are much deeper — deeper than gasoline lines or energy shortages, deeper even than inflation and recession. ... All the legislation in the world can’t fix what’s wrong with America. ... It is a crisis of confidence. — So-called “malaise” speech, July 1979. But we know that democracy is always an unfinished creation. Each generation must renew its foundations. Each generation must rediscover the meaning of this hallowed vision in the light of its own modern challenges. For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival; liberty is human rights; the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants. — Farewell Address, January 1981. We appreciate the past. We are grateful for the present and we’re looking forward to the future with great anticipation and commitment. — October 1986, at the dedication of the Carter Presidential Library and Museum. War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn to live together in peace by killing each other’s children. — December 2002, Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech. Fundamentalists have become increasingly influential in both religion and government, and have managed to change the nuances and subtleties of historic debate into black-and-white rigidities and the personal derogation of those who dare to disagree. ... The influence of these various trends poses a threat to many of our nation’s historic customs and moral commitments, both in government and in houses of worship. — From 2005 book “Our Endangered Values.” I think that this breakthrough by Barack Obama has been remarkable. When he made his speech (on race) a few months ago in Philadelphia, I wept. I sat in front of the television and cried, because I saw that as the most enlightening and transforming analysis of racism and a potential end of it that I ever saw in my life. — August 2008, commenting on then-Sen. Barack Obama’s candidacy. I think it’s based on racism. There is an inherent feeling among many in this country that an African-American should not be president. ... No matter who he is or how much we disagree with his policies, the president should be treated with respect. — September 2009, reacting to Rep. Joe Wilson’s shout of “You lie!” during a speech to Congress by President Barack Obama. I’m still determined to outlive the last guinea worm. — 2010, on The Carter Center’s work to eradicate guinea worm disease. You know how much I raised to run against Gerald Ford? Zero. You know how much I raised to run against Ronald Reagan? Zero. You know how much will be raised this year by all presidential, Senate and House campaigns? $6 billion. That’s 6,000 millions. — September 2012, reacting to the 2010 “Citizens United” U.S. Supreme Court decision permitting unlimited third-party political spending. I have become convinced that the most serious and unaddressed worldwide challenge is the deprivation and abuse of women and girls, largely caused by a false interpretation of carefully selected religious texts and a growing tolerance of violence and warfare, unfortunately following the example set during my lifetime by the United States. — From 2014 book “A Call to Action.” I don’t think there’s any doubt now that the NSA or other agencies monitor or record almost every telephone call made in the United States, including cellphones, and I presume email as well. We’ve gone a long way down the road of violating Americans’ basic civil rights, as far as privacy is concerned. — March 2014, commenting on U.S. intelligence monitoring after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks We accept self-congratulations about the wonderful 50th anniversary – which is wonderful – but we feel like Lyndon Johnson did it and we don’t have to do anything anymore. — April 2014, commenting on racial inequality during a celebration of the Civil Rights Act’s 40th anniversary. I had a very challenging question at Emory (University) the other night: “How would you describe the United States of America today in one word?” And I didn’t know what to say for a few moments, but I finally said, “Searching.” I think the country in which we live is still searching for what it ought to be, and what it can be, and I’m not sure we’re making much progress right at this moment. — October 2014 during a celebration of his 90th birthday. The life we have now is the best of all. We have an expanding and harmonious family, a rich life in our church and the Plains community, and a diversity of projects at The Carter Center that is adventurous and exciting. Rosalynn and I have visited more than 145 countries, and both of us are as active as we have ever been. We are blessed with good health and look to the future with eagerness and confidence, but are prepared for inevitable adversity when it comes. — From 2015 book, “A Full Life.”