# Rest in Peace, Jimmy Carter who turned 100 on October 1st. Amazing (has died, Dec. 29, 2024) **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [July 27, 2024, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rest-in-peace-jimmy-carter-who-turned-100-on-october-1st-amazing-has-died-dec-29-2024/1004838 "2024-07-27T00:47:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2024, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rest-in-peace-jimmy-carter-who-turned-100-on-october-1st-amazing-has-died-dec-29-2024/1004838/222 "2024-12-31T19:48:04Z")
Same day as the state funeral – that makes sense. _USA Today_ doesn’t really specify. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2024, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rest-in-peace-jimmy-carter-who-turned-100-on-october-1st-amazing-has-died-dec-29-2024/1004838/223 "2024-12-31T19:58:24Z")
Washington is going to be _busy_ the next several weeks; January 1 is of course a holiday, followed by the counting of electoral college votes on January 6, the state funeral on January 9, MLK Day on January 15 and then Inauguration Day on January 20. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2024, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rest-in-peace-jimmy-carter-who-turned-100-on-october-1st-amazing-has-died-dec-29-2024/1004838/224 "2024-12-31T20:16:59Z")
No attempted insurrections planned at the Capitol, fortunately. This time. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2024, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rest-in-peace-jimmy-carter-who-turned-100-on-october-1st-amazing-has-died-dec-29-2024/1004838/225 "2024-12-31T20:47:23Z")
That we know of… ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2024, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rest-in-peace-jimmy-carter-who-turned-100-on-october-1st-amazing-has-died-dec-29-2024/1004838/226 "2024-12-31T20:49:22Z")
Any resurrections? ---
**Author:** ![icon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c6cbf5/32.png) [@icon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/icon)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2024, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rest-in-peace-jimmy-carter-who-turned-100-on-october-1st-amazing-has-died-dec-29-2024/1004838/227 "2024-12-31T21:33:11Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > MLK Day on January 15 Just a correction, that was 2024, in 2025 it falls on the same day as the Inauguration January 20th. `//i\\` ETA: Being new year’s eve I changed it to show the years rather than last year and next year since that meaning will change in a few hours ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2024, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rest-in-peace-jimmy-carter-who-turned-100-on-october-1st-amazing-has-died-dec-29-2024/1004838/228 "2024-12-31T21:33:48Z")
Thanks for the correction. So _slightly_ less complicated than I thought. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2024, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rest-in-peace-jimmy-carter-who-turned-100-on-october-1st-amazing-has-died-dec-29-2024/1004838/229 "2024-12-31T23:52:46Z")
Jimmy certainty beat the odds by living to a 100. Several close family members died in middle age from cancer. It seems unusual that it was pancreatic cancer. I didn’t realize the same kind of cancer could run through a family. From Billy Carter Wikipedia > [@](#): > > Billy Carter was diagnosed with [pancreatic cancer](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancreatic_cancer) in the fall of 1987 and received unsuccessful treatments for the disease.[[27]](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Carter#cite_note-27) He died in Plains the following year at age 51,[[28]](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Carter#cite_note-28) five years after the death of his sister, [Ruth Carter Stapleton](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Carter_Stapleton), who also died of pancreatic cancer at age 54. Two years following his death, his older sister, [Gloria Carter Spann](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloria_Carter_Spann), died at age 63 from pancreatic cancer.[[19]](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Carter#cite_note-nytimes/1988/09/26/billy-carter-19) Their father, [James Earl Carter Sr.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Earl_Carter_Sr.), also died of the disease at age 58. His mother, [Bessie Lillian Gordy](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessie_Lillian_Gordy), died from [breast cancer](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breast_cancer) at age 85. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2025, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rest-in-peace-jimmy-carter-who-turned-100-on-october-1st-amazing-has-died-dec-29-2024/1004838/230 "2025-01-01T00:04:40Z")
> **Summary** > > We’re not talking about Reagan. > > [Usama bin Ladin: "American Soldiers Are Paper Tigers" - Middle East Forum](https://www.meforum.org/middle-east-quarterly/usama-bin-ladin-american-soldiers-are-paper-tigers) ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2025, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rest-in-peace-jimmy-carter-who-turned-100-on-october-1st-amazing-has-died-dec-29-2024/1004838/231 "2025-01-01T03:30:35Z")
**Moderating:** No, keep this thread on Carter please. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2025, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rest-in-peace-jimmy-carter-who-turned-100-on-october-1st-amazing-has-died-dec-29-2024/1004838/232 "2025-01-01T15:49:05Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > But why a Thursday? Well, he and Thor both used a hammer a great deal… ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2025, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rest-in-peace-jimmy-carter-who-turned-100-on-october-1st-amazing-has-died-dec-29-2024/1004838/233 "2025-01-01T18:02:27Z")
We were all geared up in 2020 to enter the Habitat Care-A-Vanners program, which is basically a bunch of RV folks showing up at a construction site and contributing to the building of a home. We were really looking forward to it, and had a project assigned in Taos. Then Covid shut the whole program down and we never got to go. By the time things got rolling again, we had moved and sold our RV. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2025, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rest-in-peace-jimmy-carter-who-turned-100-on-october-1st-amazing-has-died-dec-29-2024/1004838/234 "2025-01-02T00:22:32Z")
Reagan and Mondale was even more of a landslide. Only Minnesota, Mondale’s state, won. BTW, Mondale was Carter’s vice president, and he selected a woman, Geraldine Ferraro, as his running mate. When McCain picked Sarah Palin to be his veep candidate, I was shocked and honestly a bit horrified at how few people didn’t know that she was NOT the first woman on a major party ticket. Shortly before this, Ms. Ferraro had made a little blip in the news because she said she was taking thalidomide for multiple myeloma, the disease that killed her a few years later. > **[Geraldine Ferraro](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geraldine_Ferraro)** > > Geraldine Anne Ferraro (August 26, 1935 – March 26, 2011) was an American politician, diplomat, and attorney. She served in the United States House of Representatives from 1979 to 1985, and was the Democratic Party's nominee for vice president in the 1984 presidential election, running alongside Walter Mondale; this made her the first female vice-presidential nominee representing a major American political party.\[nb 1\] She was also a journalist, author, and businesswoman. > Ferraro grew up in ... ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2025, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rest-in-peace-jimmy-carter-who-turned-100-on-october-1st-amazing-has-died-dec-29-2024/1004838/235 "2025-01-02T00:29:07Z")
FWIW, solar cells are thousands of times more efficient now than they were in the 1970s. My first presidential election was 1984, and my staunchly Republican parents were horrified that they had raised a Democrat, when they found out I had attended a local Mondale rally. Make that two Democrats now, and one who probably votes third party on purpose so he won’t pick the winner (my sister and brother, respectively). ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2025, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rest-in-peace-jimmy-carter-who-turned-100-on-october-1st-amazing-has-died-dec-29-2024/1004838/236 "2025-01-02T00:36:13Z")
My understanding is that what Carter put on the roof of the White House wasn’t photovoltaic solar cells but instead panels to heat water. I don’t think _that_ technology has advanced much in the decades since. ---
**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2025, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rest-in-peace-jimmy-carter-who-turned-100-on-october-1st-amazing-has-died-dec-29-2024/1004838/237 "2025-01-02T07:55:27Z")
> **hid off topic post** > > The notion is that by having any solar tech on the roof of the white house, you’re insulting your donors in the petroleum and ethanol (corn) industry. > > Trump will have them removed (oddly nothing about him doing so the first time around) and perhaps replace them with “clean coal” water heaters, Solar power and windmills are the cause of global warming as everyone knows. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2025, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rest-in-peace-jimmy-carter-who-turned-100-on-october-1st-amazing-has-died-dec-29-2024/1004838/238 "2025-01-02T08:54:50Z")
**Moderating:** This thread is not about Trump. I’ll hide your inappropriate post. Keep this thread about Carter. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2025, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rest-in-peace-jimmy-carter-who-turned-100-on-october-1st-amazing-has-died-dec-29-2024/1004838/239 "2025-01-02T11:15:29Z")
In January 1980 I enlisted and shipped off to boot camp. I ended up serving 14 years, and Carter was the first of four Presidents I served under (Carter, Reagan, Bush senior, Clinton). Later in 1980 was the first election I ever voted in: Carter vs Reagan vs John B. Anderson. That was the second consecutive election in which an incumbent president was defeated: Carter had defeated Ford in 1976. After the Nixon and Agnew debacles of 1973 and 1974, both Ford and Carter were refreshing leaders with integrity and moral backbone. It’s been 50 years (not quite to the day) and I still remember being a young paper boy and delivering this issue of the Hartford Courant. It was by far the largest headlines my young eyes had ever seen to that point. [![](https://i.imgur.com/dSbgeS2.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/dSbgeS2.jpeg) Jimmy and Rosalynn came at a time when our nation needed them most. Let’s hope that his legacy of decency is an example to all future leaders to come. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2025, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rest-in-peace-jimmy-carter-who-turned-100-on-october-1st-amazing-has-died-dec-29-2024/1004838/240 "2025-01-03T02:17:48Z")
I was in basic training in 1974. The only television we got to see was when the Commander in Chief resigned. ---
**Author:** ![Boycott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boycott/32/6741_2.png) [@Boycott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boycott)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2025, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rest-in-peace-jimmy-carter-who-turned-100-on-october-1st-amazing-has-died-dec-29-2024/1004838/241 "2025-01-03T13:26:26Z")
This is an interesting story told by the Secret Service agent Jerry Parr who famously shielded Reagan from the Hinckley gun shot. In a way it sums up the misfortune of Carter’s presidency and the strength of Carter as a man at the same time. [![](https://i.imgur.com/0v4uwLU.png) ](https://i.imgur.com/0v4uwLU.png) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rest-in-peace-jimmy-carter-who-turned-100-on-october-1st-amazing-has-died-dec-29-2024/1004838.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rest-in-peace-jimmy-carter-who-turned-100-on-october-1st-amazing-has-died-dec-29-2024/1004838.md?page=13)