The life and legacy of President Jimmy Carter
Newshour
BBC
4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Tributes are being paid to the former US president and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Jimmy Carter, who has died at the age of 100.
He helped broker a peace accord between Egypt and Israel, but his time in office also saw a struggling US economy and a disastrous attempt to free American hostages seized in Iran.
Also on the programme: the president of Trinidad and Tobago has declared a state of emergency across the Caribbean nation; and a study finds that a single cigarette can take 20 minutes off a smoker’s life expectancy.
(Photo: Former US President Jimmy Carter gives the media an update on his recent cancer diagnosis at the Carter Center in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 20 August 2015. Credit: EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome to News Hour from the BBC World Service, coming to you live from London. |
| 0:09.1 | My name's Paul Henley. From around the world, tributes continue to be paid to the former US President Jimmy Carter, who has died at the age of 100. |
| 0:17.7 | He served one term in the White House from 1977. King Charles said he felt |
| 0:23.0 | great sadness at the news of Mr Carter's death. Pope Francis offered heartfelt condolences, |
| 0:29.3 | recording Mr Carter's firm commitment motivated by deep Christian faith to the cause of reconciliation |
| 0:34.6 | and peace. As you might just have heard in the news, |
| 0:37.7 | there will be a state funeral on the 9th of January |
| 0:40.2 | at Washington National Cathedral. |
| 0:42.4 | President Biden had this to say. |
| 0:44.7 | Jimmy Carter lived a life measured not by words but by his deeds. |
| 0:49.0 | Just look at his life, his life's work. |
| 0:51.8 | He worked to eradicate disease, not just at home, but around the world. |
| 0:55.9 | He forged peace, advanced civil rights, human rights, promoted free and fair elections around the world. |
| 1:03.3 | He built housing and homeless for the homeless with his own hands. |
| 1:07.1 | And his compassion and moral clarity led to people up and changed lives and saved lives all over the globe. |
| 1:13.3 | Well, it's been said about Jimmy Carter's presidency |
| 1:15.9 | that it was full of failures, frustrations and missed opportunities. |
| 1:20.2 | To what extent was that the case? |
| 1:22.1 | I've been speaking to U.S. journalist Jonathan Alter, |
| 1:24.7 | who wrote a biography of President Carter in 2020. |
| 1:28.8 | There are, there are definitely lots of failures. I'm not sure about how many missed |
| 1:33.5 | opportunities there were, but there were definitely some of those as well, particularly |
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