Thanks to @InPursuitUSA for the opportunity to reflect on the presidency and life of Jimmy Carter in whose administration I worked. Carter was a modern-day Renaissance man whose post-presidency – the longest in U.S. history – was arguably the most successful of any American president before or since.
President Carter left office at 56 years of age. He lived another 44 years. During that period – 11 times the length of his presidential term – he showed how a former president, with no formal powers, could solve problems that no one else could or would even try to solve. Carter’s work led to the elimination of Guinea worm and river blindness in Africa. He helped monitor over 125 elections around the world and led significant peace missions to Haiti and North Korea. If the defining image of Carter’s presidency was a rescue helicopter downed in the Iranian desert, the defining image of Carter’s post-presidency was the former Commander-in-Chief building houses with Habitat for Humanity.
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President Carter left office at 56 years of age. He lived another 44 years. During that period – 11 times the length of his presidential term – he showed how a former president, with no formal powers, could solve problems that no one else could or would even try to solve. Carter’s work led to the elimination of Guinea worm and river blindness in Africa. He helped monitor over 125 elections around the world and led significant peace missions to Haiti and North Korea. If the defining image of Carter’s presidency was a rescue helicopter downed in the Iranian desert, the defining image of Carter’s post-presidency was the former Commander-in-Chief building houses with Habitat for Humanity.
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David Rubenstein (@DM_Rubenstein) writes about Jimmy Carter and a career whose most lasting work came after the presidency.
Carter left the White House at 56 following a single, difficult term. He spent the next 44 years working on global health and peacemaking through the Carter Center, and in 2002 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.View quoted post on X
