I would imagine that like John McCain's funeral, Trump won't attend Jimmy's funeral but send Ivanka and Jared. The guy doesn't have the dignity to share a bench with the Obama's Bush's, Clinton's and Biden's nor should he stain their company.
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. Abraham Lincoln November 19, 1863
After he left office, Cater returned to his two bedroom house. He didn't do paid speeches and ghost written books, saying he never really wanted to be rich. Instead he built houses and worked to supply clean water.
Rosalynn Carter upset fashion world by wearing same gown to inaugural ball that she had worn when Jimmy was inaugurated as governor. She said she didn't really need another evening gown. Carter had (primitive at the time) solar panels installed in White House. They provided enough electricity for family's personal needs. Reagan's first act on assuming presidency was having them removed and returning to fossil fuels. Never replaced. Carter Center requested instead of sending flowers spend a day in community service.
Carter's last gift to the country. Flags at White House will still be flying half staff on Inauguration day. A reminder that we once had a decent honorable president.
I can still recite it up to the word battlefield. 4th grade. I soon forgot the rest over the next 10 years. And 4th-grade Sunday School, the books of the Old Testament. Same process, down to the 1st 5 books now. While I later discarded all those systems, there are gracious people on all sides of any issue. Jimmy Carter is in my favorite 3. He tried to live the unselfish, voluntary poverty values espoused in the 60s-70s Revolution. Maybe I'll get psyched up sometime and write his specifics here. I doubt it, I didn't write paragraphs and paragraphs about my Walton or West memories when they died.
You mean the deal Reagan made with Iran to delay ending the hostage situation until he was elected? Yeah Carter really fucked that up lol
Carter secured funding to start US Holocaust Museum. More important than ever with increasing scapegoating and many school districts banning teaching about the Nazi Holocaust because it makes white people uncomfortable.
No, the deal to remove the Shah and usher in Khomeini. Called Khomeini the second coming of Ghandi. Super "lol"
My biggest issue with Carter's presidency was when he tried to fix the economy by voting Taiwan out of the UN to gain favor with mainland China and their cheap labor and millions of consumers..Taiwan is still trying to get UN membership today.
Critics have it both ways. He was soft! He did too much! The CIA did Panama, Taiwan, and the Shah. The first two were in the bag during the Ford presidency. Khomeini was a spare leader. Western intelligence funds a couple for each country in case of need.
The fact that we go on with our lives with the same people leading this country who not only murdered a democratically elected president, but have been hiding that fact for decades, is why the current system can't continue for much longer.
Trump announced plan to crash President Carter's funeral because of course. It is absolutely not in his nature to sit quietly and respectfully while others speak words of praise to someone not him. What will he do to make himself center of attention?
