Jimmy Carter dead aged 100

Press release from Habitat for Humanity


ATLANTA (Dec. 29, 2024) — Habitat for Humanity joins the world in mourning the death of former U.S. President Jimmy Carter. A champion for affordable and decent housing, he and Rosalynn Carter donated their time and leadership each year to build and improve homes with Habitat around the world. President Carter died peacefully Sunday, Dec. 29, at his home in Plains, Georgia, surrounded by his family.​
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“We are deeply saddened by President Carter’s passing, and our prayers are with the Carter family,” said Jonathan Reckford, CEO of Habitat for Humanity International. “President and Mrs. Carter began volunteering with Habitat for Humanity near their home in southwest Georgia more than 40 years ago, and soon brought worldwide attention to the need for decent and affordable housing. We are grateful for the incredible impact the Carters have had on Habitat and on the families who have benefited from their shining example. The Carters put Habitat for Humanity on the map, and their legacy lives on in every family we serve around the world.”​
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After leaving the White House, the Carters sought out meaningful ways to continue their commitment to social justice and basic human rights. They first volunteered with Habitat for Humanity in Americus, Georgia, near their home of Plains, in March 1984. Later that same year, the Carters joined Habitat volunteers in New York City’s Lower East Side to renovate an abandoned building in partnership with families in need of affordable housing. That trip marked Habitat for Humanity’s first Jimmy Carter Work Project (later renamed the Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work Project).​
Each year since then until 2019, the Carters volunteered with Habitat to build or improve houses alongside homeowners in communities across the United States and around the world. President Carter also served as a member of the organization’s board of directors from 1984-1987.​
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“I think every human being has within himself or herself a desire to reach out to others and to share some of our blessings with those who are in need,” President Carter has said. “What’s opened up that avenue for me and my wife and hundreds and thousands of others is Habitat for Humanity. It makes it easy for us to reach out and work side by side with the homeowner who’s never had a decent house, perhaps. I haven’t been on a Habitat project that I wasn’t thrilled and inspired and wept.”​
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Over the last three decades, the Carter Work Project has touched lives around the world by inspiring more than 108,000 volunteers across the U.S. and in 14 countries to build, renovate and repair 4,447 Habitat homes. Since its founding in 1976, Habitat has served more than 62 million people around the world.​
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In 2016, Habitat named President and Mrs. Carter as the inaugural Habitat Humanitarians for their extraordinary dedication to service in alignment with Habitat’s vision of a world where everyone has a decent place to live.​
 
Imogene said:
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No, this thread is NOT politics. It’s about a man’s passing.

I am sure you’re plenty old enough to have been told by your mother if you can’t say anything nice about a newly deceased person don’t say anything at all.

Start another thread if you’re that intent on ripping the man to shreds.

You picked the wrong female to go up against if that’s what you’re trying to do.
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His passing and his history of service for the country and his kindly nature. I remember a little bit of his time in office and I read the book he wrote and I was impressed with his decency.
 
JustDave said:
Good grief. I liked Carter. I think you're looking for a reason to beat on someone. I was being sarcastic mirroring the inappropriate behavior of others. Go beat on them. Politics are not allowed. You didn't start that, others did. I was just pointing it out.
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I've found that 'sarcasm' rarely comes off well in online chats. You need the visuals, the body language as well, and that's just not possible in a setting like this.
 
Debrah N. said:
Holy cow! Just took a look at the lineup of titles and I'm officially amazed at the breadth of his writing. He must have been a wonderful person to sit and talk with.
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He oversaw the installation of computer systems in the White House, but wasn't familiar with laptops. In the early- to mid-80s, DS1 worked with him at the Carter Center and taught him to use a laptop to use for writing his next book. According to DS1, he was very down-to-earth, very humble and very easy to work with.

One of my favorite photos (framed, of course!!!) is of DS1 with the President and Mrs. Carter, addressed to DS1 and signed by them both.
 
We have a presidential historian here from nearby Plains, PA who was able to befriend Mr. Carter from Plains, GA. Mr. Carter visited up here to auction off some of his memorabilia for charity, and spoke once at a memorial service commemorating the annual observance of the Wyoming Massacre. (There was a Wyoming Valley here before the state of Wyoming. The massacre occurred during the American Revolution by the British, Tories and Indians.)
 
RIP Jimmy Carter.
He and Rosalynn lived a full life devoted to service and peace. They were united in working as true humanitarians.
I listened to his grandson's speech given during Rosalynn's funeral. She was quite a remarkable woman.
Jimmy will join her now.
They both will be dearly missed. They were both humble and pure. Something that our present politicians could learn about.
 
He was an honorable man. I didn't vote for him. That is something I have come to regret later in life.
 
Yet, both portraits miss the mark. Carter was neither as ineffective a president as his critics allege, nor as liberal a politician as his new fans believe. Instead, the 39th president scored enormous policy successes—but observers often missed them because they didn’t grasp that Carter was one of the most substantively conservative presidents of the last half-century. In some ways, Carter actually did more to push American economic policy to the right than his Republican successors Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, and Donald Trump. Understanding this reality paints Carter’s presidency in a totally different light.


Carter often described himself as a “conservative progressive,” which he defined as being “a fiscal conservative, but quite liberal on such issues as civil rights, environmental quality, and helping people overcome handicaps to lead fruitful lives.” Carter’s fiscal conservatism was perhaps natural for a successful, peanut farmer. Lol

Was jimmy carter a nuclear engineer? - Military Modelling (of course there are counter conspiracy theories)

He was a president with a winning smile. Unlike most politicians of the day and later.
 
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Since his passing ,I have heard many good things about president Carter that I never knew.

He was very intelligent , helped in a nuclear emergency when he was a navy Lieutenant way back when.

His first day in office [they say] he received a phone call from Elvis, said Elvis was high as a kite . Elvis wanted a favor that Carter couldn't do.
 
Tish said:
He died at his home on Sunday afternoon, local time.

“My father was a hero, not only to me but to everyone who believes in peace, human rights, and unselfish love,” Mr Carter’s son, Chip Carter, said in a statement.

“My brothers, sister and I shared him with the rest of the world through these common beliefs. The world is our family because of the way he brought people together, and we thank you for honouring his memory by continuing to live these shared beliefs.”

R.I.P. Sweet man, your legacy will live on.

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He showed true class when he knew the American people wanted a change in leadership.
 
Pepper said:
What was the favor, do you know?
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The story said, Elvis had a friend [local sheriff] that had been arrested, and he was asking for a presidential pardon. This was on talk radio so ?? And no I haven't researched it.
 

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