The Life & Legacy Of Jimmy Carter

The NPR Politics Podcast

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🗓️ 30 December 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Though he only served one term, Jimmy Carter occupies a unique place among U.S. presidents. His presidency was defined by challenges at home and abroad, but his overall legacy is largely shaped by his post-presidential work. We explore how Carter ascended to the presidency, and how he will be remembered.

This episode: political correspondent Sarah McCammon, senior national political correspondent Mara Liasson, and senior editor and correspondent Ron Elving.

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0:30.5	I'm Sarah McCammon.
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0:32.9	And it's 10.40 a.m. on Monday, December 30th, 2024.
0:37.1	And on the pod today, we will look back at the life of
0:39.5	President Jimmy Carter, who died on Sunday. Ron Elving and Mara Liason are joining me now to talk about
0:44.9	his life and legacy. Hi, Mara and Ron. Hi there. Good to be with you, Sarah. Ron, I'm going to begin
0:50.5	with you. Jimmy Carter was, of course, a Democrat. He was president from
0:54.6	1977 to 1981. But I want to talk about his life before that, before he was president.
1:01.2	How did he find his way to the highest office in the land?
1:04.7	Everybody knows, I suppose, that he started life in rural Georgia and a little town called
1:08.8	Plains. His big break in a sense was going to the
1:11.5	United States Naval Academy in the 1940s in the latter part of World War II, came out of that
1:17.2	and went into for a short time the nuclear Navy under Admiral Rickover, kind of a glamorous
1:22.8	part of the Navy at that time. But the family business needed help. He went back to help the Carter family
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