Please let me add my thanks for your post. It was excellent. It’s how I remember his presidency, too.
Made official last Friday, according to Navy Times.
Also cool on any number of levels (and not new):
When David Letterman features someone on his Youtube channel, that’s an indication, lots of times, that the featured person has died. That’s how I found out that Jeff Beck died.
So I saw a Jimmy Carter video featured on Letterman’s Youtube and assumed that Carter has died. If he hasn’t yet, I wish him well.
One thing that never seems to get mentioned is his foundation’s work to eradicate guinea worm. It’s been massively successful and has saved millions of people from being infected:
Since 1986, Carter and his Carter Center in Atlanta have led the global battle against the worm, which causes a disease for which there is no test or treatment. Stopping it requires hard, ongoing and less-than-glamorous work: raising funds, distributing water filters, educating people at risk and funding cutting-edge research, all while drawing in help from national governments, businesses and philanthropists.
The effects have been astounding. More than 3 million people were infected with the parasite in the mid-1980s, when Carter adopted the issue. Last year, the global total dipped to an all-time low of just 13 cases. Some epidemiologists estimate that the campaign against Guinea worm has prevented up to 90 million infections.
Apparently Nixon did have a state funeral. Wikipedia says:
“Nixon’s state funeral is unique among recent presidential state funerals in that, in accordance with his own wishes, none of the elements of the state ceremonies occurred in the nation’s capital.”
(Sorry I didn’t create a link to the article, i couldnt do it from my phone.)
that is seriously amazing.
Yes, and much to his credit.
That alone justifies his Nobel Peace Prize. Deservedly so.
Why would they name it after Hawkman?
Excuse me, that’s Katar Hol. 
Published today: still hanging on …
May the Lord bless and keep him.
Seconded.
And now sadly Rosalynn too:
She was diagnosed with dementia in May.
Rosalynn has passed away.
A very classy lady, and he probably wouldn’t have become President without her. May she rest in peace.
We lived in the Atlanta suburbs in the 1990s and early 2000s and even though people around us were quite conservative, no one had a bad thing to say about the Carters. If you did, you’d be considered an asshole by most people. And back then, people didn’t want to be considered assholes.
The Carters were revered, both of them. Considered both morally upright and dignified without being the least bit uptight.
RIP Rosalynn Carter.
The Carters were all that and more.
