Not the best president but a great man. A humble example of how to help the less fortunate through caring and hard work. Probably our greatest ex-president.
When he was elected president, he owned a farm and agricultural business that sold machinery and supplies, it was a fairly successful and thriving business. He voluntarily chose to put all of his businesses into a blind trust in order to eliminate any possible impression of conflict of interest. The man he hired to run that business while he was president mismanaged it so badly that when Carter left office he found his businesses so profoundly mismanaged and in debt that he had to declare bankruptcy and sold pretty much everything to pay off the debts. He did pay all of his creditors, but it cost him everything. It was particularly painful because the farm was inherited from his father, and had much more meaning than just pure finances. It’s where he grew up.
Nov 4, 2019 Jimmy Carter tells church service he is 'absolutely and completely at ease' with death Former President Jimmy Carter said Sunday that he found he "was absolutely and completely at ease with death" after doctors told him in 2015 that his cancer had spread to his brain. "I assumed, naturally, that I was going to die very quickly," Carter said during a church service in Plains, Georgia. "I obviously prayed about it. I didn't ask God to let me live, but I asked God to give me a proper attitude toward death. And I found that I was absolutely and completely at ease with death." "It didn't really matter to me whether I died or lived. Except I was going to miss my family, and miss the work at the Carter Center and miss teaching your Sunday school service sometimes and so forth. All those delightful things," the 39th president added, smiling. The son of a peanut farmer who entered the US Naval Academy during World War II, Carter announced he beat cancer in December 2015 after he received experimental treatment for liver cancer that metastasized to his brain. During a news conference at the time, Carter said his fate was "in the hands of God" and vowed to continue teaching Sunday school at his church "as long as I'm physically able." When Carter celebrated his 95th birthday on October 1, he became the oldest living former US president, a title once held by the late George H. W. Bush, who died in late 2018 at age 94. Carter teaches Sunday school lessonsat Maranatha Baptist Church in his home state of Georgia, but after an October 21 fall in his home that led to a minor pelvic fracture, the church said he would miss his appearance. The church later announced the former president would teach as scheduled. Carter, who has recently spoken out about the chaos of Washington, also touched on the state of the nation in the Sunday morning service. "Wouldn't it be nice if the United States of America could be a superpower in maintaining peace? ... Suppose the United States was a super power in environmental policy. Suppose the United States was a superpower in treating people equally. See, that's the kind of superpower I'd like to have," said Carter Sunday, who once said that if he had one wish for the rest of his life it would be that he gets to see peace in the Middle East. Carter said the United States would be a better country if people reached out to somebody who might need a friend. "That's the way to make the United States a superpower," he said. "We can help the United States become more peaceful." https://www.cbs58.com/news/jimmy-ca...-absolutely-and-completely-at-ease-with-death
A truly great man and one of the biggest hearts to ever leave the presidency. To do what he did post presidency is unprecedented
How Jimmy Carter Saved a Canadian Nuclear Reactor After a Meltdown America's 39th president has held a lot of jobs in his time. Apart from being president of the United States (and sometimes while serving as president), Jimmy Carter has been a peanut farmer, preacher, professor and even a parole officer. But he started his adult life as a U.S. Navy officer, most famously working with Adm. Hyman Rickover, the "Father of the Nuclear Navy." Though he started his naval career aboard diesel electric submarines, Lt. Carter began working with the Naval Reactors Branch of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission -- the Navy's nuclear submarine program -- in 1952. Rickover was infamous in the Navy for demanding near-absolute perfection from those working under his command. His expectations of the then-28-year-old Carter were no different. The young lieutenant was being groomed as the engineering officer for the nuclear plant aboard the USS Seawolf, the Navy's second nuclear sub, and was designing the training program for its nuclear enlisted personnel. The Navy's work in developing the first nuclear submarine, the USS Nautilus, meant that Rickover and Carter had access to the latest and greatest in top-secret nuclear energy technology. So when Canada's Chalk River nuclear research facility experienced a power surge that damaged its reactor, the U.S. sent Carter and his team. He was one of a few people in the world who could do it. Fuel rods at the research reactor experienced a partial meltdown after the power surge. It ruptured the reactor and flooded the facility's basement with radioactive water, rendering the reactor core unusable. In his 2015 autobiography, "A Full Life: Reflections At Ninety," Carter described the incident and his preparations for repairing the reactor. They built an exact replica of the reactor, true to the last detail (except the actual nuclear material) on a nearby tennis court to practice and track their progress. Carter and his 22 other team members were separated into teams of three and lowered into the reactor for 90-second intervals to clean the site. It was estimated that a minute-and-a-half was the maximum time humans could be exposed to the levels of radiation present in the area. It was still too much, especially by today's standards. The future president had radioactive urine for months after the cleanup. "We were fairly well-instructed then on what nuclear power was, but for about six months after that, I had radioactivity in my urine," Carter told CNN in 2008. "They let us get probably a thousand times more radiation than they would now. It was in the early stages, and they didn't know." The exposure was especially dangerous for Carter, whose family medical history is full of cancer deaths. His father died of pancreatic cancer in 1953, which led to Carter leaving the Navy that year. Cancerous tumors were found on the former president's liver and brain in 2015 as he turned 91, but quick diagnosis and treatment led to a cancer-free bill of health a year later. His extensive knowledge of nuclear reactors and energy would come in handy when Carter became president in 1977, as other world leaders respected his knowledge on the subject. https://www.military.com/history/how-jimmy-carter-saved-canadian-nuclear-reactor-after-meltdown.html
Big human rights guy and was raised in the deep of the segregated south. Shows a lot about his character. Thought outside the box while he was surrounded by pretentious hateful mindsets.
He was the best president in my lifetime. Why do you blindly repeat Republican propaganda that he sucked? Your first quote is informative, though: The media kept his bankruptcy a secret; I didn't know that. Gee, I wonder who recommended his trust manager. Dirty tricks were played because he downsized intelligence agencies.
^^^THIS ! Not just because he's from my state (only 20 miles from me), but I always thought he got a bad rap on his presidency. Some of the things he was blamed for were were not of his own doing or out of his control. I truly believe that he really had the best of intentions but once he finally arrived in Washington he was greeted with corruption at its very worst. And much of the media wasn't exactly his ally either. I've met Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter and they're both extremely nice people of the highest degree and they treat everyone, and I mean everyone, like they're your next door neighbor.
Carter installed solar panels in the White House. Even with 1970s technology thy supplied enough energy for the family's personal needs. Reagan's first act as president was to have them removed and go back to fossil fuel.
My brother has done Habit For Humanity for years. About 15 years ago he was in South Africa building homes. The crew of the house going up next to the one he was working on was led by Jimmy. My brother said that Jimmy had ALL the cool toys and equipment and if you needed absolutely anything, all you had to do was ask. Jimmy was everywhere, helping everyone out. My bro is the king of cynics (especially when it comes to religion and politics) but he still considers Jimmy Carter one of the finest individuals he has ever met.....and a true Christian in a world full of wannabes.........
RIP! Always respected Jimmy and Rosalyn as great humanitarian people with good intentions. 96 was a hell of a run and she had a hell of a life.
