RIP President Carter

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, 100, dies — The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

 

What an amazing life he lived.

 

RIP Mr President.

 

RIP

 

Read an excellent paper about his Presidency (from a national security perspective): “Jimmy Carter, a Man before His Time? The Emergence and Collapse of the First Post-Cold War Presidency.” The thesis was that his foreign policies would have been much more successful had he become President in, say, 1993 rather than 1977.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/27551107

 

Rest in peace, President Carter. You were a great man.

 

What a truly wonderful example of humanity. A fine man and a life well lived

 

Set the standard for post-presidential life. RIP.

 

His life in photos:



Jimmy Carter's life in pictures

 

Great humanitarian.

 

He made an honest effort to live what he preached, and largely succeeded.

 

Carter's work with Habitat for Humanity was extremely touching.
His devotion to his wife was even more so.

 

Rest in Peace. A genuinely good man.

 

Might be the last POTUS to get into heaven.

 

Pretty good human being in many respects although he sorta stabbed the Shah of Iran in the back. One of my relatives helped take care of the Shah at Memorial Sloan Kettering, if I'm remembering correctly. If Carter had beaten Reagan in 1980 I don't think inflation would have been ended as soon as it was. As Milton Friedman said, as presidents go, Reagan was one of the very few who was strong enough to stand by Fed Chairman Paul Volker when he raised interest rates to kill inflation. Reagan's approval ratings dropped into the 30's.

As a politician, William F Buckley said Jimmy had the Midas touch in reverse. Sometimes that's just the luck of the draw.

Jimmy outlived his brother Billy by 49 years (100 to 51). Maybe drinking lots of beer isn't the way to go.

I had a girlfriend who was previously married to an Iranian guy named Reza, same first name as the Shah, Reza Pahlavi. Nicest guy I ever met. I think g8orbill might have met him 30+ minutes west of Orlando but I'm not going there (don't ask Bill Cork).

My former girlfriend came from a family of migrant farm workers. She spent some of her early childhood in Plains, Georgia. I looked at her Twitter a few years ago and there she was with Jimmy and Rosalyn inside what seemed to be a very modest home. In another photo she was shaking hands with UN Sec Gen Ban Ki-moon. My former gf was a master manipulator.

Years ago my best friend in Orlando walked into a massage parlor next door to a famous dive bar called Wally's. A famous comedian squeezed past him in a hallway. My friend nodded to the comedian and said, "Carrot." Turns out that comedian has a Jimmy Carter story that reflects well on the man

 

From a post on X from @filthyamerican

"Early in 1977, Blumenthal told Carter that he had prepared a reading list for him considering the president’s desire for tax reform. “Oh, Mike,” Carter responded, “I’m way ahead of you. I’ve started reading the Internal Revenue Code.” It was as if somebody interested in automotive engineering had started by reading a mechanic’s manual word for word. “Mr. President,” said Blumenthal, “I really don’t think that’s the way to go about it.” Carter flashed the frozen smile and steely gaze, saying: “But, Mike, I do, and I am the president.” That summed up the Carter presidency.
- Robert Novak, The Prince of Darkness"