Monica Potts:I think he was unlucky, but I also think Carter wasn't the best at handling crises. The missteps of the Carter presidency were oftencommunication problems. Hedidn't like giving speechesand maybe was
Jimmy Carter: I’m a Birmingham boy. I was born and raised in Birmingham. I went to school at the Talladega school for the blind. My parents were Christian people. My mom, dad and I were very close, and they had six boys. I don’t have a sister (laughs). But I’m...
the humble, hometown jimmy carter who some thought, when he first burst on the scene, must have been putting on some sort of bullshit act. at his plains pulpit, he appears as a silver-penumbra
Carter. All three would die of pancreatic cancer. Advertisement In later life, he would often talk about how, in profoundly spiritual and moral ways, he was influenced by a Black sharecropper, Rachel Clark. “Rachel had the aura of a queen,” Mr. Carter wrote in a book of his poems. ...
Because Jimmy Carter believed, as deeply as he believed anything, that we are all created in God's image. Whenever I had a chance to spend time with President Carter, it was clear that he didn't just profess these values. He embodied them. And in doing so, he taught all of us what...
“He doesn’t quite fit in today’s terms” of a left-right, red-blue scoreboard, said U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who visited the former president multiple times during his own White House bid. At various points in his political career, Carter labeled hi...
Jimmy Carter Why I believe the mistreatment of women is the number one human rights abuse PostedJun 2015 More news and ideas from Jimmy Carter TEDWomen 5 talks for Women’s Equality Day August 26, 2016 Today marks the 45th anniversary of Women’s Equality Day, which was designated in 1971...
How's she doing?" And I said -- at the time my mother wasn't doing too well -- "She's sick." She had been battling dementia. And he told me about, you know, he reiterated the work that Rosalynn Carter was doing with mental health. And he asked me if my mother...
We have heard much today and in recent days about President Carter’s impact in the four decades after he left the White House. Rightly so. Jimmy Carter established a new model for what it means to be a former president and leaves an extraordinary post-presidential legacy, from founding the...
Jason Carter said Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter are "just meeting with family right now, but they're doing it in the best possible way: the two of them together at home."