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:
My first election too, and I voted for Anderson. I want to go back in time and slap myself upside the head for that.
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.
The AP, BBC, and CBS (the three examples I looked at offhand) have all prominently mentioned it in their obituaries for him.
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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.
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
I was. 
And it’s changes Reagan made, such axing the fairness doctrine, that led us to Trump’s victory.
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.
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
@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.
Can our government be decent and open?
As rhe 38th president he has spoken.
Jimmy Cartee says yes.
NBC News called it his crowning achievement, something that nobody had been able to do.
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.
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?
See also:
(Disclaimer: not actually written by Carter - or was it?)
Which will put it into Trump’s term. I’m morbidly curious whether Trump will be petty enough to order that period cut short.
This is a brilliant and depressing observation.
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
- William Shakespeare, “All’s Well That Ends Well”
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.
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.
I bet Trump is already mad about it for taking his media spotlight away for half a day.
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This is an astonishing achievement!
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.