Brian Lair on WNYC. We have just 10 minutes left in the show, and we're going to use them to check in on the funeral for Jimmy Carter, which is taking place right now. President Biden just gave a eulogy. We're going to

play a clip from that, an excerpt from that in just a second. But we also want to invite any last

thoughts about Jimmy Carter from you. We won't have time for a lot of calls, but we'll have time

for a few for you to tell us, if you've been thinking about Jimmy Carter in

these days since his death, what from his actual presidency or his post-presidency will most

stick with you about James Earl Carter? 212-433 WNYC, 212-433, 9692. Is it his wearing a cardigan sweater to give some of his televised

addresses to move away from an image of president as royalty? You know, Ronald Reagan made a point of

restoring formality and regal pomp and ceremony to the presidency as a backlash to Carter in that

respect. Was it solar panelists he put on the White House roof? We were just talking about climate

to model using renewable energy. It wasn't so much about climate in the 70s. It was just

energy conservation when there was an oil shock for other reasons.

Reagan took those down.

Was it his campaign, his Camp David Peace Accord between Egypt and Israel or more his post-presidency

where he controversially became one of the most prominent people early on to use the word

apartheid to describe the

segregation and second class living conditions that he saw Palestinians living under.

Was it his failure to win release of the U.S. hostages in Iran in his last year in office,

or maybe his patience in not attacking Iran militarily,

as some hawks urged him to do, military restraint, so the hostages could eventually come home

alive, which they all did. Anything about Jimmy Carter during or after his presidency,

212, 433, WNYC, 212, 433-9-692.

Politico has a story called Son of the South, how Jimmy Carter transformed America.

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