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Today, we remember Jimmy Carter and listened back to excerpts of the interviews I recorded with him

over the years. He died at the age of 100 and had been the oldest living former president in American

history. In the New York Times, Peter Baker wrote this summary of Carter's public life, quote,

Mr. Carter was a political sensation in his day, a new generation Democrat who,

after a single term as governor of Georgia, shocked the political world by beating a host of better

known rivals to capture his party's presidential nomination in 1976, then ousting the incumbent

Republican president, Gerald Ford, in the fall. Over the course of four

years in office, he sought to restore trust in government following the Vietnam War and the

Watergate scandal, ushering in reforms that were meant to transform politics. He negotiated the landmark

Camp David Accords, making peace between Israel and Egypt.

But a sour economy and a 444-day hostage crisis in Iran, in which 52 American diplomats were

held captive, undercut his public support, and he lost his bid for re-election to former Governor

Ronald Reagan of California in 1980.

He spent his post-presidency, however, on a series of philanthropic causes around the world,

like building houses for the poor, combating guinea worm, a parasitic tropical disease,

promoting human rights in places of repression, monitoring elections,

and seeking to end violent conflicts. His work as a former president in many ways came to eclipse

his time in the White House, eventually earning him the Nobel Peace Prize, unquote.

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