#264 Andrew Young on Jimmy Carter
The Road to Now
Benjamin Sawyer
4.8 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Andrew Young was already an iconic civil rights leader and sitting Congressman from Georgia's 5th District when a dark horse candidate named Jimmy Carter asked for his support in the 1976 Presidential election. Young found Carter to be an honest man and spoke highly of him. Carter, in turn, appointed Young as the US Ambassador to the United Nations and tasked him with reshaping American foreign policy.
In this episode, Andrew Young joins Bob for a conversation about his work in the Carter administration, the shared vision of US foreign policy in Africa that strengthened their relationship, and the mutual trust that developed from their time working together.
This conversation was recorded on May 11, 2021 as part of the audio docu-series Concerts of Change: The Soundtrack of Human Rights, which Bob produced with SiriusXM in 2022. You can hear that series on the SiriusXM app and learn more about it in RTN #228.
This episode was edited by Bob Crawford and Ben Sawyer.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Bob Crawford. |
| 0:05.7 | I'm Ben Sawyer. |
| 0:07.1 | And this is the road to now. |
| 0:08.9 | That's right. |
| 0:09.9 | And Bob is on the road right now. |
| 0:11.3 | I am. |
| 0:12.3 | I'm back on the road just for a couple days here. |
| 0:14.2 | And Ben, you're aware that on February 18th, the Carter Center announced in a statement |
| 0:18.8 | that after a series of short hospital stays, |
| 0:21.9 | former President Jimmy Carter had decided to spend his remaining time at home with his family |
| 0:27.3 | and receive hospice care instead of additional medical intervention. |
| 0:32.7 | And so President Carter is now at home, peacefully resting, surrounded by family, the 98-year-old ex-president, |
| 0:40.8 | who's had one of the greatest ex-presidencies, the longest living ex-president, is ready to pass. |
| 0:47.2 | He's ready to leave this earth. |
| 0:49.6 | And it got me thinking about ways to kind of remember him or think about him in these days. |
| 0:57.0 | And I realized that last year, when I was working on the Concerts of Change project with Sirius XM, |
| 1:06.0 | I interviewed former ambassador Andrew Young. |
| 1:09.0 | And we talked about President Carter. You know, when you do one of these |
| 1:14.1 | documentaries, you only use a few clips from each interview, but we spoke for the better part of 45 minutes. |
| 1:22.0 | Not only did Ambassador Young talk about his time with President Carter and special relationship they share, but he talked |
| 1:29.9 | about his work with Dr. King, his work both in and outside of the Carter administration, trying to |
| 1:36.8 | end apartheid in South Africa, finding a settlement to the Rhodesia issue. Rudisia, of course, is now |
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