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Former US President Jimmy Carter, 95, has been admitted to hospital in Atlanta for a procedure to relieve brain pressure.

The pressure comes from bleeding caused by recent falls, the Carter Center said in a statement.

The procedure is scheduled to take place at the Emory University Hospital on Tuesday morning local time.

"President Carter is resting comfortably, and his wife, Rosalynn, is with him," the statement said.

Mr Carter is the country's oldest living leader.

The Democrat was the 39th president, serving one term from 1977 to 1981. He was defeated in his re-election bid by Ronald Reagan.

Since leaving the White House, he has remained active, carrying out humanitarian work with his Carter Center in recent years.

In 2002, he received the Nobel Peace Prize for his humanitarian work.

In May, Mr Carter underwent surgery for a broken hip after falling at his home in Georgia.

After a separate fall at his home, he made a public appearance at a charity event in October with a black eye.
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Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50384658.
 
DeadBall said:
Seconded. From Carter to Trump... totally opposite sides of the spectrum. Just goes to show what a circus (even more so) politics has become.
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If only there were more politicians like President Carter tody, the world would be a much better place!

Jeremy Corbyn and Bernie Sanders seem very decent human beings, but i can't see them winning their respective elections/nominations.
I guess it comes down to the masses, not voting for decent candidates!
 
Another figure who has been maligned & hounded by the Israel lobby simply for speaking the truth and trying to be even handed.
 
Former US President Jimmy Carter will end medical treatment and enter hospice care at his Georgia home, his foundation announced on Saturday.

The Carter Center said Mr Carter had decided to "spend his remaining time at home with his family," but did not say what had prompted the decision.

Mr Carter, 98, has suffered from recent health issues, including a melanoma that spread to his liver and brain.

The country's oldest living leader, he served one term in office from 1977-81.

During his tenure as president Mr Carter faced a spate of foreign policy challenges and the Democrat was defeated in his re-election bid by Ronald Reagan.

"He has the full support of his family and his medical team. The Carter family asks for privacy during this time and is grateful for the concern shown by his many admirers," the Carter Center said in a statement on Saturday.

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A great man. Would have been a great POTUS had the military not bodged the hostage rescue.
 
He did great speaking up for the Palestnians and calling Israel an aparthied state. Wish him good health.

Now US have a looney, mental old man in charge. :))
 
Pardoned Vietnam War draft evaders on his very first day in office. Often on the right side of history was Mr Carter.
 
Good humans seldom make good leaders for their country, Mr. Carter was an example.
 
The *ONLY* American president who was brave enough to say it on the camera that

"As a president of United States you cannot survive in the White House if you don't support Israel."

No wonder Zionists hated him the most.

May the heavens make it easy on him as he is in the twilight zone of his great life.
 
A man of the people. Always admired his 'practice what you preach' approach to life
 
I always had a soft spot for him - hope his final days go with ease.
 
Major said:
where can i read up more about him?
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Jonathan Alter has written a book called His Very Best: Jimmy Carter - A Life. If the book is too long, he's done several interviews summarising it and are available on YouTube.
 
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Jonathan Alter has written a book called His Very Best: Jimmy Carter - A Life. If the book is too long, he's done several interviews summarising it and are available on YouTube.
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I have his book 'Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid' at home, a great read and it was very brave of him to write such material. Must read.
 
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The only american president that i respect.
Get well soon president!
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Unfortunately, he is not going to get better, he is on hospice care , meaning peaceful and pain free last few days of his life and no active treatment , when death is imminent . Its always a tough and brave decision by the patient and the family.
 

Jimmy Carter, former US president and Nobel Peace Prize recipient, dead at 100​


Jimmy Carter, the earnest Georgia peanut farmer who as U.S. president struggled with a bad economy and the Iran hostage crisis but brokered peace between Israel and Egypt and later received the Nobel Peace Prize for his humanitarian work, died at his home in Plains, Georgia, on Sunday. He was 100.

U.S. President Joe Biden directed that Jan. 9 will be a national day of mourning throughout the United States for Carter, the White House said in a statement.

"I call on the American people to assemble on that day in their respective places of worship, there to pay homage to the memory of President James Earl Carter," Biden said.

Carter, a Democrat, became president in January 1977 after defeating incumbent Republican President Gerald Ford in the 1976 election. His one-term presidency was marked by the highs of the 1978 Camp David accords between Israel and Egypt, bringing some stability to the Middle East.

But it was also dogged by an economic recession, persistent unpopularity and the Iran hostage crisis that consumed his final 444 days in office. Carter ran for re-election in 1980 but was swept from office in a landslide as voters embraced Republican challenger Ronald Reagan, the former actor and California governor.

Carter lived longer than any U.S. president and, after leaving the White House, earned a reputation as a committed humanitarian. He was widely seen as a better former president than he was a president - a status he readily acknowledged.

World leaders and former U.S. presidents paid tribute to a man they praised as compassionate, humble and committed to peace in the Middle East.

"His significant role in achieving the peace agreement between Egypt and Israel will remain etched in the annals of history," said Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in a post on X.

The Carter Center said there will be public observances in Atlanta and Washington. These events will be followed by a private interment in Plains, it said.

Final arrangements for the former president's state funeral are still pending, according to the center.

In recent years, Carter had experienced several health issues including melanoma that spread to his liver and brain. Carter decided to receive hospice care in February 2023 instead of undergoing additional medical intervention. His wife, Rosalynn Carter, died on Nov. 19, 2023, at age 96. He looked frail when he attended her memorial service and funeral in a wheelchair.

Carter left office profoundly unpopular but worked energetically for decades on humanitarian causes. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 in recognition of his "untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development."

Carter had been a centrist as governor of Georgia with populist tendencies when he moved into the White House as the 39th U.S. president. He was a Washington outsider at a time when America was still reeling from the Watergate scandal that led Republican Richard Nixon to resign as president in 1974 and elevated Ford from vice president.

"I'm Jimmy Carter and I'm running for president. I will never lie to you," Carter promised with an ear-to-ear smile.

Asked to assess his presidency, Carter said in a 1991 documentary: "The biggest failure we had was a political failure. I never was able to convince the American people that I was a forceful and strong leader."

Despite his difficulties in office, Carter had few rivals for accomplishments as a former president. He gained global acclaim as a tireless human rights advocate, a voice for the disenfranchised and a leader in the fight against hunger and poverty, winning the respect that eluded him in the White House.

Carter won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 for his efforts to promote human rights and resolve conflicts around the world, from Ethiopia and Eritrea to Bosnia and Haiti. His Carter Center in Atlanta sent international election-monitoring delegations to polls around the world.

A Southern Baptist Sunday school teacher since his teens, Carter brought a strong sense of morality to the presidency, speaking openly about his religious faith. He also sought to take some pomp out of an increasingly imperial presidency - walking, rather than riding in a limousine, in his 1977 inauguration parade.

The Middle East was the focus of Carter's foreign policy. The 1979 Egypt-Israel peace treaty, based on the 1978 Camp David accords, ended a state of war between the two neighbors.

Carter brought Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin to the Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland for talks. Later, as the accords seemed to be unraveling, Carter saved the day by flying to Cairo and Jerusalem for personal shuttle diplomacy.

The treaty provided for Israeli withdrawal from Egypt's Sinai Peninsula and establishment of diplomatic relations. Begin and Sadat each won a Nobel Peace Prize in 1978.

By the 1980 election, the overriding issues were double-digit inflation, interest rates that exceeded 20% and soaring gas prices, as well as the Iran hostage crisis that brought humiliation to America. These issues marred Carter's presidency and undermined his chances of winning a second term.

On Nov. 4, 1979, revolutionaries devoted to Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini had stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, seized the Americans present and demanded the return of the ousted shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who was backed by the United States and was being treated in a U.S. hospital.

The American public initially rallied behind Carter. But his support faded in April 1980 when a commando raid failed to rescue the hostages, with eight U.S. soldiers killed in an aircraft accident in the Iranian desert.

Carter's final ignominy was that Iran held the 52 hostages until minutes after Reagan took his oath of office on Jan. 20, 1981, to replace Carter, then released the planes carrying them to freedom.

In another crisis, Carter protested the former Soviet Union's 1979 invasion of Afghanistan by boycotting the 1980 Olympics in Moscow. He also asked the U.S. Senate to defer consideration of a major nuclear arms accord with Moscow.

Unswayed, the Soviets remained in Afghanistan for a decade.

Carter won narrow Senate approval in 1978 of a treaty to transfer the Panama Canal to the control of Panama despite critics who argued the waterway was vital to American security. He also completed negotiations on full U.S. ties with China.

Carter created two new U.S. Cabinet departments - education and energy. Amid high gas prices, he said America's "energy crisis" was "the moral equivalent of war" and urged the country to embrace conservation. "Ours is the most wasteful nation on earth," he told Americans in 1977.

In 1979, Carter delivered what became known as his "malaise" speech to the nation, although he never used that word.
"After listening to the American people I have been reminded again that all the legislation in the world can't fix what's wrong with America," he said in his televised address.

"The threat is nearly invisible in ordinary ways. It is a crisis of confidence. It is a crisis that strikes at the very heart and soul and spirit of our national will. The erosion of our confidence in the future is threatening to destroy the social and the political fabric of America."

As president, the strait-laced Carter was embarrassed by the behavior of his hard-drinking younger brother, Billy Carter, who had boasted: "I got a red neck, white socks, and Blue Ribbon beer."

Jimmy Carter withstood a challenge from Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination but was politically diminished heading into his general election battle against a vigorous Republican adversary.

Reagan, the conservative who projected an image of strength, kept Carter off balance during their debates before the November 1980 election.

Reagan dismissively told Carter, "There you go again," when the Republican challenger felt the president had misrepresented Reagan's views during one debate.

Carter lost the 1980 election to Reagan, who won 44 of the 50 states and amassed an Electoral College landslide.

James Earl Carter Jr. was born on Oct. 1, 1924, in Plains, Georgia, one of four children of a farmer and shopkeeper. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1946, served in the nuclear submarine program and left to manage the family peanut farming business.

He married his wife, Rosalynn, in 1946, a union he called "the most important thing in my life." They had three sons and a daughter.

Carter became a millionaire, a Georgia state legislator and Georgia's governor from 1971 to 1975. He mounted an underdog bid for the 1976 Democratic presidential nomination, and out-hustled his rivals for the right to face Ford in the general election.

With Walter Mondale as his vice presidential running mate, Carter was given a boost by a major Ford gaffe during one of their debates. Ford said that "there is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe and there never will be under a Ford administration," despite decades of just such domination.

Carter edged Ford in the election, even though Ford actually won more states - 27 to Carter's 23.

Not all of Carter's post-presidential work was appreciated. Former President George W. Bush and his father, former President George H.W. Bush, both Republicans, were said to have been displeased by Carter's freelance diplomacy in Iraq and elsewhere.

In 2004, Carter called the Iraq war launched in 2003 by the younger Bush one of the most "gross and damaging mistakes our nation ever made." He called George W. Bush's administration "the worst in history" and said Vice President Dick Cheney was "a disaster for our country."

In 2019, Carter questioned Republican Donald Trump's legitimacy as president, saying "he was put into office because the Russians interfered on his behalf." Trump responded by calling Carter "a terrible president."

Carter also made trips to communist North Korea. A 1994 visit defused a nuclear crisis, as President Kim Il Sung agreed to freeze his nuclear program in exchange for resumed dialogue with the United States. That led to a deal in which North Korea, in return for aid, promised not to restart its nuclear reactor or reprocess the plant's spent fuel.

But Carter irked Democratic President Bill Clinton's administration by announcing the deal with North Korea's leader without first checking with Washington.

In 2010, Carter won the release of an American sentenced to eight years hard labor for illegally entering North Korea.

Carter wrote more than two dozen books, ranging from a presidential memoir to a children's book and poetry, as well as works about religious faith and diplomacy. His book "Faith: A Journey for All," was published in 2018.

 
His term as President might be remembered as a damp squib but as an ex-President I am not sure there has been anyone better.
 
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why damp squib ?
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My views on this are shaped mainly by Robert K. Green’s book, Jimmy Carter's Presidency: A Captain with No Compass. He acknowledges many of Carter’s personal qualities, he acknowledges the constraints Carter faced, but ultimately concludes that his domestic policies miscarried. There was an expectation of substantial reforms which largely failed to materialise. For Green, “On the critical issue of the economy his administration failed to deliver any substantial improvements.”

We have seen how debilitating ‘uncontrolled’ inflation can be for incumbents in elections throughout the world in 2024. Carter’s administration was unable to control inflation. Nor was the administration able to reduce poverty - poverty in fact increased.

His healthcare and welfare bills became stuck in the committee stage. Of course there were reasons not entirely within in his control, but set against the goals he set, it was a damp squib.

He saw himself as a technocrat rather than ideologue. He therefore adopted - consistent with his engineering background - a technical approach to problems. He was also deeply moral in his approach to politics. This is all admirable in many ways but in the messy world of politics such an approach had its limitations when it came to bargaining with colleagues and persuading the public. Deal-making is part of politics. So is appealing to the heart. The UK Prime Minister’s political office at the time, described Carter as: “admired and respected rather than loved…a rather distant calculating man.”

His political limitations is not to diminish the genuine qualities of his personal character. He was detail oriented and extremely hard-working. He was very intelligent. Above all, his genuine belief in doing the right thing for the greater good, of being guided by a moral compass stands in commendable contrast to the narcissism of many world leaders today.

“Nevertheless, whatever his qualities, history should come to regard Jimmy Carter as a good, possibly even a great man,” writes Green, “but never better than an average president. Whatever his personal qualities and the difficult challenges he faced, Carter’s overall record in domestic policy was more disappointing than successful.”
 
For anyone interested in learning more, a good podcast (History as it Happens) assessing Jimmy Carter came out yesterday:

And if you don't have the time, here are two passages from the podcast. First a compact assessment from the historian Jeremi Suri:

“Jimmy Carter's election to the presidency proves you don't have to give up your integrity to succeed in politics. He made it to the highest office in the world. He was elected governor of Georgia before that.

And he did this as a man who was...a thoughtful nuclear engineer, someone who cared about progressive racial politics, someone who believed he had to act honestly in all circumstances and believed in public service. He did not enrich himself when he was president or after he left the presidency. And I think it's important for us to remember this. You don't have to be a lying scumbag to get ahead.

Second thing about Carter that I think is very important for us today, is that there is a skill called politics, which involves not simply being right and being smart. We want our undergraduates and our fellow citizens to be right and to be smart. That's why we write books to help make them smart, we hope. But there's also a skill of working with people. Sometimes we call it compromise. Sometimes we call it manipulation. I like to call it cooperation. That involves give and take.

It involves understanding people's personalities, and it involves getting things done by doing the work that is more an art than a science, which is persuading and bringing people together. Carter was not strong on that. He could have been better on that if he valued it more.

I think his biggest failing was for all his skills, he thought his intelligence was enough to carry him through. But you need more than intelligence, you need the ability to work with people.”

Second, a quote from Cater himself from the 'Crisis of Confidence' speech in 1979. I think the passage says much about Carter and his strengths and weaknesses:

“It is a crisis of confidence. It is a crisis that strikes at the very heart and soul and spirit of our national will. We can see this crisis in the growing doubt about the meaning of our own lives and in the loss of a unity of purpose for our nation.

Our progress has been part of the living history of America, even the world. We always believed that we were part of a great movement of humanity itself called democracy, involved in the search for freedom. And that belief has always strengthened us in our purpose, but just as we are losing our confidence in the future, we are also beginning to close the door on our past in a nation that was proud of hard work, strong families, close-knit communities and our faith in God.

Too many of us now tend to worship self-indulgence and consumption. Human identity is no longer defined by what one does but by what one owns. But we've discovered that owning things and consuming things does not satisfy our longing for meaning.”
 
He had lot of issues but he did below:
1. Department of Education
2. Deregulated beer brewing, helped create good beer economy
3. Deregulated Oil controls
4. Deregulated trucking helped create trucking Independent economy (Motor Carrier Act)
5. Deregulated Airlines helped grow arilines


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By pushing for deregulation and adopting other reforms, President Carter left an enduring legacy on the U.S. regulatory system.
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Historically i hated him but more i read about him I realised even in today’s day I’m mostly in agreement with his policies.
 
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President Jimmy Carter honored with a state funeral at a Washington cathedral​


In a rare show of unity in these tumultuous times, every living American president filed into pews together Thursday to honor one of their own at the funeral for President Jimmy Carter at the Washington National Cathedral on Thursday.

Carter, who died late last month at 100 years old, is being remembered as a compassionate Christian and ahead-of-his-time progressive, despite serving a single term in the White House that was seen as a disappointment at the time.

Under the stained glass and stone filigree of the soaring Neo-Gothic nave, family members and dignitaries recalled private kindnesses and public sacrifices, noting that Carter taught Sunday school at his Plains, Georgia church "every Sunday from World War II to Covid."

“Carter was farsighted. He put aside his short-term political interests to tackle challenges that demanded sacrifice to protect our kids and grandkids,” said Walter Mondale wrote in a eulogy before his own death in 2021 and that was read Thursday by his son.

Living such a long life meant many of Carter's contemporaries have already passed, but several had prepared remarks for the occasion years ago.

Ted Mondale noted that "very few people in the 1970s had heard the term climate change," before recalling how Carter pushed renewable energy, while also noting he was a leader in women's rights and racial justice.

Stuart Eizenstat, a longtime top advisor to Carter, said his former boss "may not be a candidate for Mount Rushmore, but he belongs in its foothills, making the U.S. stronger and the world safer."

Together in front rows were presidents and vice presidents, past and present, Republican and Democrat, several of whom have run bitter elections against each other.

Some, like Vice President Kamala Harris, sat quietly looking ahead. While others, like President-Elect Donald Trump and former President Barack Obama, could be seen chatting and even laughing together.

Also in attendance are members of Congress, Supreme Court justices, members of Carter’s administration and foreign dignitaries.

President Joe Biden, who served in the U.S. Senate as a young man when Carter came to Washington, said Carter “taught me that strength of character is more than a title or the power we hold. It’s the strength to understand that everyone should be treated with dignity and respect," he said.

“To young people, to anyone in search of meaning and purpose, study the power of Jimmy Carter’s example," Biden continued. “Character, faith, love -- a true patriot.”

The funeral, coming just two weeks before Biden is set to hand over power to a political figure he reviles at Trump's second inauguration, was rare moment for attendees to set aside politics.

The casket of former President Jimmy Carter is carried out of the Capitol on Thursday.Jeenah Moon / Pool via AFP - Getty Images
"There’s an old line that two presidents in a room is too many," said the son of the man Carter defeated to win the presidency, former President Gerald Ford, reading a eulogy prepared by his father's death.

"But we immediately decided to exercise the privilege of former presidents: To immediately forget what either of us said about the other in the heat of battle," Ford continued. "There is indeed life after the White House."

Carter understood that, seeing his public image soar during his post-presidency as he threw himself into charitable causes at home and abroad, while continuing to live a relatively humble life with his beloved wife, Rosalyn, who died just a year before him in late 2023.

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Jason Carter spoke of his grandfather as a down-to-earth family man — “just regular folk” — who carried his bags on Air Force One while president and afterward, would answer the door in a T-shirt and Crocs.

“Yes, he lived in the governor’s mansion and in the White House, but that was for a total of eight years,” Carter said. “For the other 92 years, his home was Plains, Georgia, a 600-person village, many miles from an interstate or an airport.”

Politically, he said his grandfather’s values were “not just ahead of their time, they were prophetic.”

In an era when most white Southerners resisted integration, Carter, as governor of Georgia, fought racial discrimination and mass incarceration. He was a “climate warrior,” Jason Carter continued, who protected more public land than any previous president. He wanted to decriminalize marijuana. And he deregulated industries in ways that allowed for the rise of craft beer and cheap airline tickets.

“So, basically, almost 50 years ago, he might have been the first millennial,” the younger Carter joked.

Tributes have been pouring in since Carter's death on Dec. 29, as his body has made a slow progression through Georgia and Washington to be witnessed by thousands.

Before the funeral, his casket laid in state in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol Building, draped with an American flag and resting on the catafalque that once held Abraham Lincoln's body.

Now, the proceedings will continue to Georgia, where there will be a private family funeral. Carter will then be buried on the grounds of his home in Plains.

Carter was a little-known figure outside his native Georgia before running for and winning the presidency in 1976.

He served only one term, rejected by voters upset about a global oil crisis and the kidnapping of American diplomats by Islamist revolutionaries in Iran.

For decades, the Democrat’s legacy was overshadowed by his successor, Republican Ronald Reagan, who tore up much of Carter’s agenda, including the experimental solar panels Carter had installed on the White House roof to promote alternative energy.

But Carter’s legacy was upgraded over the years in the eyes of historians and the general public, both for his charitable post-presidency, when he devoted himself to causes like Habitat for Humanity, and for the accomplishments of his presidency that are now seen as ahead of their time on issues like civil rights, women’s rights and environmentalism.

Source: NBC News.
 
More and more I read about him, he had a heart and tried showing the wrong ways to Americans, even from Indian Pov he was very good after the terrible Nixon-Kissinger govn
 
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More and more I read about him, he had a heart and tried showing the wrong ways to Americans, even from Indian Pov he was very good after the terrible Nixon-Kissinger govn
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It is interesting to compare him with Manmohan Singh. Both passed away around the same time. Both were technocratic leaders. Both were public service oriented. Both had a moral vision of politics. And both were influenced by religion.

In the case of Carter the influence of religion was more obvious. His belief in being guided by a moral conscience was clearly deeply rooted in his understanding of the Christian faith. Less well know is how Sikhism shaped Manmohan Singh. But the economist Pritam Singh argues, that the former Indian Prime Minister’s “egalitarian inclinations” were partly embedded in his understandings of the “teachings of Guru Nanak.” Pritam Singh believes, that “the formative influence of his Sikh upbringing on his economic vision is mainly unknown, especially to economists.”

In a world of populism, coarsening public discourse and a scepticism of experts, the memory of the lives of Jimmy Carter and Manmohan Singh provide an emollient refreshment.
 
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