I never really knew anything about Jimmy Carter except in any quiz he is as far back as i can go in my list of US Presidents before googling but from what i do hear today after his death aged 100 is that pretty much all the good stuff he did was after his Presidency ended.
The most significant while he was in Office was the Camp David accords which saw Israel and Egypt sign a peace agreement but as he only served one term, that wasn't enough to keep him in the job and in a 2002 interview i saw today, he said that it turned out to be a good thing because he did so much more once he left the White House.
I know it was noted in 2002 that while GW Bush and Tony Blair were lying their way to the Gulf War, Carter, who opposed the War, was being handed a Nobel peace prize for: 'Undertaking peace negotiations, campaigning for human rights, and working for social welfare' in recognition of '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'.
On leaving office, trounced by Ronald Reagan, he established the Carter Center to monitor elections and promote democracy and Global human rights, support scientific work on eliminating diseases and climate change and to mediate where possible to prevent conflict and met with the leaders of North Korea and Libya and criticised Israel's policies in Lebanon, the West Bank, and Gaza.
The Carter Center trained over 100,000 village-based health care workers in Africa, invested in education programs and provided water filters to protect people from parasites in drinking water.
Tellingly, one comment i heard today seemed to sum him up, 'Carter is widely considered a better man than he was a President' which i am sure he would take.
Monday, 30 December 2024
Jimmy Carter
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Its seems he was as good a man as he was bad as a president. Like most leftists, his intentions were good but his approach was out of sync with reality.
I could never stand him. My first vote in a presidential election was a vote against him.
just remembered. in 1980, i was a fortran computer programmer for one of brown & root's nuclear power plant projects. B&R was a global construction/engineering company. we were also building cities and ports for libya, syria, iran, and others in the ME. in total they were multi-billion dollar projects. carter blocked US companies from working in several ME nations. In december 1981, I left B&R and the business seemed okay. but the bans destroyed B&R. about a year after i left, B&R laid off 100,000 of its 120,000 employees... i left at a good time. the company continued to decline. thanks jimbo...
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