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Jimmy Carter Built His Biggest Legacy Post-Presidency

WSJ What’s News

The Wall Street Journal

News, Daily News

4.14.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Special Edition for Dec. 29. Jimmy Carter, America’s 39th president and the one with the longest post-presidency, has died . Former WSJ Washington editor Gerald F. Seib discusses Carter’s legacy, from the famous Oval Office address that tackled an energy crisis with a rare, introspective call to action, to the foreign-policy error that may have cost him re-election in 1980 and a post-presidency spent eschewing fame in favor of modesty and good works. Sign up for the WSJ's free What's News newsletter.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:01.9

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0:02.7

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0:06.0

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0:12.1

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0:13.5

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0:14.2

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0:17.6

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0:22.6

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0:26.7

money you invest. This is a high-risk investment, and you should not expect to be protected if something

0:29.4

goes wrong.

0:32.9

This is a special edition of What's News. I'm Lou Fargus for the Wall Street Journal.

0:39.0

Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, has died. He was 100. The Georgia

0:46.1

peanut farmer, who served one term in the Oval Office and was later awarded the Nobel Peace Prize,

0:51.5

was the longest-lived former president in U.S. history and had been

0:56.0

in hospice since February 23. Today, we'll be taking a look back at Carter's time in the White

1:02.9

House and after, with some reflections from the Wall Street Journal's Jerry Saib. He was a reporter

1:08.3

in our Washington Bureau during the final year of the Carter administration,

1:12.6

and he's our former Washington editor.

1:18.3

One of the key domestic challenges that Carter faced is one that might feel familiar today,

1:23.9

inflation. Under his administration, the economy was settled with high energy prices, and in a

1:29.6

1977 TV speech, he sat next to a fireplace wearing a cardigan sweater and said this to

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