# 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:** 9
**Author:** ![Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/marvin_the_martian/32/2898_2.png) [@Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marvin_the_Martian)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2024, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rest-in-peace-jimmy-carter-who-turned-100-on-october-1st-amazing-has-died-dec-29-2024/1004838/162 "2024-12-29T23:16:46Z")
Has any of the press even mentioned Carter’s most significant achievement as president? It pisses me off no end that the Camp David Accords seem to have been forgotten: > **[Camp David Accords](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_David_Accords)** > > The Camp David Accords were a pair of political agreements signed by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin on 17 September 1978, following twelve days of secret negotiations at Camp David, the country retreat of the president of the United States in Maryland. The two framework agreements were signed at the White House and were witnessed by President Jimmy Carter. The second of these frameworks (A Framework for the Conclusion of a Peace Treaty between Egypt Ca... > [@Dinsdale](#): > > I’m still embarrassed that in the first presidential election I voted in, I voted for that buffoon Reagan instead of a truly good man. My first election too, and I voted for Anderson. I want to go back in time and slap myself upside the head for that. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2024, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rest-in-peace-jimmy-carter-who-turned-100-on-october-1st-amazing-has-died-dec-29-2024/1004838/163 "2024-12-29T23:17:49Z")
Well, at least you voted. I didn’t really care for Reagan(voted for Carter) but when Reagan won I wasn’t devestated like I was in 2016 or 2024. What really annoys me is when people gripe and complain but didn’t vote at all. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2024, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rest-in-peace-jimmy-carter-who-turned-100-on-october-1st-amazing-has-died-dec-29-2024/1004838/164 "2024-12-29T23:23:11Z")
> [@Marvin\_the\_Martian](#): > > Has any of the press even mentioned Carter’s most significant achievement as president? It pisses me off no end that the Camp David Accords seem to have been forgotten The AP, BBC, and CBS (the three examples I looked at offhand) have all prominently mentioned it in their obituaries for him. [AP](https://apnews.com/article/jimmy-carter-dies-18c198c20352c835bca3eec276020dd7): > [@](#): > > His most acclaimed achievement in office was a Mideast peace deal that he brokered by keeping Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin at the bargaining table for 13 days in 1978. That Camp David experience inspired the post-presidential center where Carter would establish so much of his legacy. [BBC](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c163e0wzgn3o): > [@](#): > > On the international stage, he helped to broker an historic peace agreement between Egypt and Israel > [@](#): > > His Middle East policy began in triumph, with President Sadat of Egypt and Prime Minister Begin of Israel signing the Camp David accords in 1978. [CBS](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jimmy-carter-dies-age-100-former-president-nobel-peace-prize-winner/): > [@](#): > > He brokered the landmark Camp David Accords in 1978, establishing a framework for peace in the Middle East ---
**Author:** ![Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/marvin_the_martian/32/2898_2.png) [@Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marvin_the_Martian)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2024, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rest-in-peace-jimmy-carter-who-turned-100-on-october-1st-amazing-has-died-dec-29-2024/1004838/165 "2024-12-29T23:37:24Z")
Thanks. All I’ve been hearing is “better known for his work with Habitat for Humanity than for what he did as president” and similar. ---
**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:** [December 29, 2024, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rest-in-peace-jimmy-carter-who-turned-100-on-october-1st-amazing-has-died-dec-29-2024/1004838/166 "2024-12-29T23:45:06Z")
I remember his address to the nation during one of the many oil crises where he was wearing a sweater and encouraged the nation to do so to cut down on fossil fuel use. Conserve what now?! I’m not sure if he was ridiculed for it - but yeah he was. Installed Solar Heaters on the White House Roof Reagan removed them Obama put them back ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2024, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rest-in-peace-jimmy-carter-who-turned-100-on-october-1st-amazing-has-died-dec-29-2024/1004838/167 "2024-12-29T23:47:33Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > when Reagan won I wasn’t devestated like I was in 2016 or 2024. I was. 😢 And it’s changes Reagan made, such axing the fairness doctrine, that led us to Trump’s victory. > **[Fairness Doctrine](https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/archives/topic-guide/fairness-doctrine)** > > Fairness Doctrine. RIP President Carter, the best ex-president of my lifetime, and one of the best presidents, as well. You were too honest and decent for the job. ---
**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 29, 2024, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rest-in-peace-jimmy-carter-who-turned-100-on-october-1st-amazing-has-died-dec-29-2024/1004838/168 "2024-12-29T23:58:13Z")
The following is from today’s _Macon Telegraph_. Among his initiatives mentioned above, Carter helped alleviate chronic suffering for millions of people. _Jimmy Carter took great pride in pointing out that the United States didn’t start any new wars during his term as president. **But after he left office, he launched a war against “neglected” diseases — diseases in far-off lands that most Americans will never suffer from and may not have even heard of. Diseases like lymphatic filariasis, trachoma, river blindness, schistosomiasis … and a disease caused by a nasty little bug called a Guinea worm.** Guinea worms are spread through contaminated drinking water and eating undercooked fish. The female worms, which can be up to 3 feet long once mature, cause incredibly painful, open blisters usually on the infected person’s lower legs and feet — through which the worms emerge. It can take a toll for weeks or months, and sometimes permanently, leaving some people unable to support a family. If someone with Guinea worm has contact with water — perhaps to cool the burning pain caused by a worm’s emergence — the worm may release tens of thousands of baby worms, contaminating the whole body of water. The effort to end this disease did not rely on high-tech methods. “Guinea worm disease has no cure, no vaccination, basically the entire eradication effort is built on behavior change,” said Kelly Callahan, a public health worker who spent years fighting Guinea worm disease in southern Sudan with the Carter Center, the charity the ex-president and his wife created in partnership with Emory University. **That has meant teaching people in vulnerable areas to filter their water and giving them the low-cost tools to do so. Other strategies include providing access to safe water supplies, better detection of human and animal cases, cleaning and bandaging wounds, preventing infected people and animals from wading into water, and using larvicide to kill the worms. Because of Carter, the world has come incredibly close to wiping out Guinea worm.** _ Read more at: [https://www.macon.com/news/state/georgia/article287184285.html#storylink=cpy](https://www.macon.com/news/state/georgia/article287184285.html#storylink=cpy) ---
**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 30, 2024, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rest-in-peace-jimmy-carter-who-turned-100-on-october-1st-amazing-has-died-dec-29-2024/1004838/169 "2024-12-30T00:00:56Z")
@madmonk28 above said “Trump is who we are, and Carter is who we should have been”. This is a very deep truth, and the world has lost not only a great humanitarian but an exemplar _par excellence_ of what a former statesman can be and do. May he forever rest at that great peanut farm in the heavens. ---
**Author:** ![Bbbb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5daacb/32.png) [@Bbbb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bbbb)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2024, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rest-in-peace-jimmy-carter-who-turned-100-on-october-1st-amazing-has-died-dec-29-2024/1004838/170 "2024-12-30T00:06:06Z")
Can our government be decent and open? As rhe 38th president he has spoken. Jimmy Cartee says yes. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/I-3TabrzA70/hqdefault.jpg "Jimmy Carter Says 'Yes' by Gene Marshall") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-3TabrzA70) ---
**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:** [December 30, 2024, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rest-in-peace-jimmy-carter-who-turned-100-on-october-1st-amazing-has-died-dec-29-2024/1004838/171 "2024-12-30T00:13:10Z")
> [@Marvin\_the\_Martian](#): > > Has any of the press even mentioned Carter’s most significant achievement as president? NBC News called it his crowning achievement, something that nobody had been able to do. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2024, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rest-in-peace-jimmy-carter-who-turned-100-on-october-1st-amazing-has-died-dec-29-2024/1004838/172 "2024-12-30T00:24:47Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > Protocol is that the flag at Federal facilities is flown at half-staff for 30 days after the death of a current or former president. The symbolism of the flag flying at half-mast over the White House on January 20 will go far beyond recognizing the passing of a former president. ---
**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 30, 2024, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rest-in-peace-jimmy-carter-who-turned-100-on-october-1st-amazing-has-died-dec-29-2024/1004838/173 "2024-12-30T00:24:57Z")
Yeah, in some ways Trump is a lot like Carter. _A moderate Democrat, Carter ran for president in 1976 as a little-known Georgia governor with a broad grin, effusive Baptist faith and technocratic plans for efficient government. His promise to never deceive the American people resonated after Richard Nixon’s disgrace and U.S. defeat in southeast Asia._ _“If I ever lie to you, if I ever make a misleading statement, don’t vote for me. I would not deserve to be your president,” Carter said._ You see? ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2024, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rest-in-peace-jimmy-carter-who-turned-100-on-october-1st-amazing-has-died-dec-29-2024/1004838/174 "2024-12-30T00:39:11Z")
> [@Dr\_Paprika](#): > > Yeah, in some ways Trump is a lot like Carter. See also: > **[You People Made Me Give Up My Peanut Farm Before I Got To Be President](https://theonion.com/you-people-made-me-give-up-my-peanut-farm-before-i-got-1819585048/)** > > For generations, U.S. presidents have gone to great lengths to avoid potential conflicts of interest. When I was elected, I followed suit by placing my small business in a blind trust to assure our citizens that I would always put the country’s... (Disclaimer: not actually written by Carter - or was it?) ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2024, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rest-in-peace-jimmy-carter-who-turned-100-on-october-1st-amazing-has-died-dec-29-2024/1004838/175 "2024-12-30T00:49:37Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Googling, the flag code says the period should be thirty days for a former president. Which will put it into Trump’s term. I’m morbidly curious whether Trump will be petty enough to order that period cut short. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2024, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rest-in-peace-jimmy-carter-who-turned-100-on-october-1st-amazing-has-died-dec-29-2024/1004838/176 "2024-12-30T00:52:00Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > Trump,is who we are, Carter is who we should have been This is a brilliant and depressing observation. ---
**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:** [December 30, 2024, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rest-in-peace-jimmy-carter-who-turned-100-on-october-1st-amazing-has-died-dec-29-2024/1004838/177 "2024-12-30T00:56:48Z")
> No legacy is so rich as honesty. > > - William Shakespeare, “All’s Well That Ends Well” ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2024, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rest-in-peace-jimmy-carter-who-turned-100-on-october-1st-amazing-has-died-dec-29-2024/1004838/178 "2024-12-30T02:00:22Z")
This is one of the things he’s least known for, which I think is sad. Literally _millions_ of people have been saved awful suffering due to his advocacy. [From NPR:](https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/02/23/1158358366/jimmy-carter-took-on-the-awful-guinea-worm-when-no-one-else-would-and-he-triumph) > When Carter got involved in Guinea worm eradication in 1986 there were 3.6 million cases. Now, nearly four decades later, that number has plummeted. Between January and early December 2024, there were just 11 human cases of Guinea worm reported worldwide. The Carter Center notes that final figures for 2024 won’t be available until next year. ---
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> [@Chronos](#): > > I’m morbidly curious whether Trump will be petty enough to order that period cut short. I bet Trump is already mad about it for taking his media spotlight away for half a day. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2024, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rest-in-peace-jimmy-carter-who-turned-100-on-october-1st-amazing-has-died-dec-29-2024/1004838/180 "2024-12-30T02:10:14Z")
> [@romansperson](#): > > [From NPR:](https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/02/23/1158358366/jimmy-carter-took-on-the-awful-guinea-worm-when-no-one-else-would-and-he-triumph) > > > When Carter got involved in Guinea worm eradication in 1986 there were **3.6 million cases**. Now, nearly four decades later, that number has plummeted. Between January and early December 2024, there were just **11 human cases** of Guinea worm reported worldwide. The Carter Center notes that final figures for 2024 won’t be available until next year. (My bold) 😲 This is an astonishing achievement! ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2024, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rest-in-peace-jimmy-carter-who-turned-100-on-october-1st-amazing-has-died-dec-29-2024/1004838/181 "2024-12-30T02:11:12Z")
In fact, Trump was very gracious in his remarks earlier today > “Those of us who have been fortunate to have served as President understand this is a very exclusive club, and only we can relate to the enormous responsibility of leading the Greatest Nation in History,” he wrote. > “The challenges Jimmy faced as President came at a pivotal time for our country and he did everything in his power to improve the lives of all Americans. For that, we all owe him a debt of gratitude.” > In his message, Trump said, “Melania and I are thinking warmly of the Carter Family and their loved ones during this difficult time. We urge everyone to keep them in their hearts and prayers.” > while I strongly disagreed with him philosophically and politically, I also realized that he truly loved and respected our Country, and all it stands for.” > He worked hard to make America a better place, and for that I give him my highest respect. He was a truly good man and, of course, will be greatly missed,” Trump continued. > **[Donald Trump reacts to Jimmy Carter’s death with heartfelt statement: ‘We all...](https://nypost.com/2024/12/29/us-news/donald-trump-reacts-to-jimmy-carters-death-with-heartfelt-statement/?utm_source=reddit.com)** > > President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday said the nation owes former President Jimmy Carter “a debt of gratitude.” In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump said the 39th president, who … [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=8) [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=10)