Remembering Jimmy Carter
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🗓️ 30 December 2024
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USA TODAY Washington Bureau Chief Susan Page remembers former President Jimmy Carter.
A team of U.S. investigators is being assembled to aid South Korea's probe into a commercial plane crash Sunday that killed 179 people.
USA TODAY Congress and Campaigns Reporter Riley Beggin looks ahead to a new Congress.
A nonprofit helps foster dogs who accidentally cross over the border.
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| 0:13.1 | Good morning. I'm Taylor Wilson, and today is Monday, December 30th, 2024. |
| 0:18.6 | This is the excerpt. |
| 0:26.0 | Today, we remember former President Jimmy Carter. Plus, we have the latest from the aftermath of a massive plane crash in South Korea. And we look |
| 0:31.0 | ahead to a new Congress. Former President Jimmy Carter has died. He passed away yesterday in his hometown of Plains, Georgia, at the age of 100. |
| 0:41.6 | Carter's passing comes after his wife of 77 years. Rosalind last year also passed away in the modest house they built together in 1961, |
| 0:50.4 | when he had taken over his father's peanut warehouse business and was only beginning to consider a political career. |
| 0:56.3 | After serving a single term in the White House, Jimmy Carter would hold the status of former president longer than anyone in U.S. history. |
| 1:03.5 | And in 2019, he surpassed George H.W. Bush as the nation's oldest living ex-president. |
| 1:09.4 | I spoke with USA Today, Washington Bureau Chief Susan Page, |
| 1:12.5 | for more on Carter's life and legacy. Susan, thanks for making the time today. |
| 1:16.9 | Hey, it's great to be with you. So Susan, would you just start by walking us through |
| 1:21.2 | former president Jimmy Carter's early life? Well, he was born in Plains, Georgia, a town that |
| 1:27.3 | is now associated famous, mostly for Jimmy Carter. Having was born in Plains, Georgia, a town that is now associated, famous, mostly for Jimmy Carter. |
| 1:31.1 | Having been born there, returned there through his whole life, including the end of his life. |
| 1:35.4 | He was the son of the owner of a peanut warehouse. |
| 1:39.4 | He served in the Navy, came back to take over the peanut business from his family, and then got interested |
| 1:47.0 | in politics. You know, he only served a single term in the White House. How will he be |
| 1:52.2 | remembered as president? You know, I think that while he has achievements as president, including |
| 1:57.4 | the Camp David Accords, a historic peace agreement in the Middle East, |
| 2:02.5 | that there was a general sense by Americans that he was a little overwhelmed by the job, |
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