Of peanuts and principles: Jimmy Carter dies
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The Economist
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🗓️ 30 December 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
After a single term and a landslide loss to Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter’s presidency was judged unduly harshly. What matters, though, are the principles he held dear for all his 100 years. The first of our series The World Ahead outlines the big trends coming in 2025 (11:39). And a reading list for those who want to know how Elon Musk thinks (20:42).
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| 0:00.0 | The Economist. |
| 0:10.3 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. |
| 0:13.8 | I'm Rosie Bloor. |
| 0:15.0 | And I'm Jason Palmer. |
| 0:16.6 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 0:24.8 | Tariffs, a solar storm, and 4G on the moon. |
| 0:27.9 | These are all things we might see in the next 12 months. |
| 0:31.3 | Nope, it won't all be Trump. |
| 0:33.4 | Today, we're launching our World Ahead series predicting the top themes of 2025. |
| 0:38.4 | I hope you're ready. |
| 0:42.6 | And in the spirit of knowing a bit more about what's coming, |
| 0:45.9 | our next installment of the Economist Reads series outlines the books you should have a look at |
| 0:51.0 | if you want to understand Elon Musk, a bit of biography and quite a lot of science fiction. |
| 1:01.7 | First up, though. |
| 1:06.9 | There can be no nobler, nor more ambitious task for America to undertake on this day of a new beginning |
| 1:21.4 | than to help shape a just and peaceful world that is truly humane. Our commitment to human rights must be absolute. |
| 1:35.5 | Our laws, fair, our natural beauty, preserved the powerful... |
| 1:43.2 | In Washington, on January 20, 1977, a giant peanut-shaped balloon covered over the inauguration |
| 1:50.0 | of America's 39th president, a foxy but ambitious peanut farmer named Jimmy Carter. |
| 1:56.0 | It wasn't an easy time in America or in the world. |
| 2:00.0 | Mr. Carter inherited and presided over crisis after crisis, not least in the supply of oil. |
| 2:06.8 | And I'm asking you for your good and for your nation's security. |
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