r/moderatepolitics • u/Targren Stealers Wheel • 5d ago

Jimmy Carter: From peanut farmer to US president and Nobel peace prize winner News Article

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c163e0wzgn3o
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u/Targren Stealers Wheel 5d ago edited 5d ago

Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States, died on December 29, 2024. He was 100 years old - the first U.S. president to live to reach that milestone. The article is an obituary for President Carter.

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u/DanielCallaghan5379 2d ago

Jimmy Carter is rightly lionized for his post-presidential charity work, but I always thought that the most interesting thing about his legacy was that he was sort of a proto-Reagan in the sense that he pushed for things like spending restraint and deregulation (of airlines and breweries, for example). He was a leader of the left-leaning party who embraced somewhat right-leaning policies in some areas. The same thing happened with Labour PM James Callaghan in the UK before Thatcher came in. Carter was a very interesting transitional president.

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u/moleman7474 2d ago

The May 4th, 1974 Georgia Law Day Address should be required reading in all schools. The wisdom of that speech has lost none of its potency with time. Hunter S Thompson, who was at the occasion, put the entire thing verbatim in his article for his readers to absorb. Wonderful.

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u/HeyNineteen96 2d ago

He recorded it on a tape recorder as well. The audio quality is a bit shite, but it's preserved in a tangible way.