President Jimmy Carter Dead at 100

[Snargfargle]

Jimmy Carter attended the US Naval Academy during WWII and served as a submarine officer.

He helped save the city of Chalk River, Canada when a local reactor went into meltdown. He and his men took turns being lowered into the reactor 90 seconds at a time to disassemble the crippled reactor.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/chalk-river-nuclear-accident-1.6293574

Many consider him a "bad" President but nobody had anything but good things to say about his humanitarian work after he left office. He was instrumental in eliminating the Guinea Worm.

In 1986, the disease afflicted an estimated 3.5 million people a year in 21 countries in Africa and Asia. Today, thanks to the work of The Carter Center and its partners — including the countries themselves — the incidence of Guinea worm has been reduced by more than 99.99 percent to 14 cases in 2023.

https://www.cartercenter.org/health/guinea_worm/index.html

He strongly supported voting rights, civil rights, and affordable housing. He also acted as an "unofficial" ambassador when the US needed someone to go to a country and get the low down on what was really going on there. He was probably the single most influential President in his post-presidential capacity since Taft was a Supreme Court Justice.

A YouTube Commenter (Russell Morse) just now said this:

Was on a construction crew and saw on local news that Jimmy Carter was building houses for poor people. He was interviewed while working there and I realized with a slight detour I could drive right by on my way to the jobsite. This was 2 days after the interview and I'll be damned if he wasn't there driving nails. I went by many more times over the next month and I saw him several more times. So he wasn't doing it for publicity.

He was the only US President in history to live to 100.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_presidents_of_the_United_States_by_age

Edited December 30, 2024 by Snargfargle

[Admiral_Karasu]

I'd like to leave here

My condolences to former President Carter's family.

[Snargfargle]

1 hour ago, Admiral_Karasu said:

My condolences to former President Carter's family.

And a big family it is.

“We have a big family now,” he said. “We have 22 grandchildren and great-grandchildren, 38 of us in all. So, we try to hold our family together and just enjoy the family life.” -- Jimmy Carter in a 2015 interview.

[Justin_Simpleton]

He signed my copy of the book he wrote, 'The Hornets Nest'.  The book was a historical based fiction about a family in the Carolinas during the revolutionary war.  He knew how to write a good story.