If the barometer is character and compassion, he stands like a rock in memory
Life after the presidency isn’t always graceful – not even in the US, where one president incited a riot to overthrow an election – but Jimmy Carter demonstrated how to forge a principled and significant career after one relinquishes the most powerful office on the planet.
But today, we salute the 98-year-old Carter as one of America’s greatest role models and a beacon of integrity over his last four decades of private citizenship, when he made the transition from a politician to a global altruist, one who lived the biblical edict to serve the least among us. With the Carter Work Project, he built thousands of homes with the Habitat for Humanity across the US and 13 other countries. He visited Haiti, the most impoverished country in the Americas, 11 times -- even while a sitting US president was referring to such places as “S-hole countries.” He made principled criticisms against successors over detention camps, drone warfare, and dodgy pardons.
Carter took office in the wake of Vietnam and Watergate, amid a growing sense that government was neither willing nor able to solve the problems of ordinary Americans. He was not an astute political animal: His biographer, Kai Bird, recalled a quote from his vice-president, Walter Mondale, in the: “The worst thing you could say to Carter if you wanted him to do something was that it was politically the best thing to do,” Mondale said.
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