Greetings and welcome to this special edition of the Daily Article podcast for December 30th,

2024. I'm Chris Elkins with the Denison Forum, narrating this special edition daily article

written by Dr. Jim Denison and Dr. Ryan Denison. Former President Jimmy Carter passed away

Sunday, December the 29th, 2024,

at the age of 100. He had been in and out of the hospital several times before deciding last year

to spend his remaining time at home with his family and receive hospice care instead of additional

medical intervention.

And so Carter's life ended much as it began, surrounded by family and friends in a small,

unassuming Georgia town.

What he accomplished in between, however, was truly historic.

James Earl Carter Jr. was born on October 1, 1924 in Plains, Georgia.

His father, Earl Carter, was a peanut farmer who served in the Georgia State Legislature while his mother, Lillian, was a registered nurse.

Later in life, she would volunteer to serve with the Peace Corps in India.

Jimmy grew up in Plains before graduating from the U.S. Naval Academy with distinction in

1946.

He married Rosalind Smith, whom he had known since childhood shortly after his graduation.

He would go on to serve as a naval officer on submarines in both the Atlantic and Pacific

fleets for the next seven years, rising to the rank

of lieutenant. During his time in the Navy, Carter was selected to train in the Nuclear Submarine

Program, taking graduate level courses at Union College in Reactor Technology and Nuclear

Physics. Upon completing his coursework, he became senior officer of the pre-commissioning crew of the USS Seawolf,

America's second nuclear submarine. However, following his father's death in 1953, Carter left the

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