Looking back at former U.S. Pres. Jimmy Carter’s life and legacy

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00:00He is the longest-lived president in the history of the United States.

00:04Number 39, though just a single-term president whose political achievements could have been

00:10much better with a follow-up term, is by far and without a doubt the best ex-president

00:16who accomplished so much after his term than any other president before or after him.

00:22BOA's Cain Faribault takes a look at President Carter's legacy of service and humanitarian

00:27work.

00:28Hi, Jimmy Carter, do solemnly swear.

00:32When Jimmy Carter took the oath of office on January 20th, 1977, he promised a government

00:38as good as its people.

00:40There can be no nobler nor more ambitious task for America to undertake on this day

00:49of a new beginning than to help shape a just and peaceful world.

00:55A world he continued to shape beyond his single term in the White House, becoming

00:59a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, heading the global non-profit, the Carter Center, whose

01:04mission is waging peace, fighting disease, and building hope.

01:07I look upon the Carter Center work as an extension of what I try to do as president.

01:12Carter was born in Plains, Georgia, in 1924.

01:15He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1946, serving as a submarine officer before

01:21returning to Plains in 1953 to run the family farm in the wake of his father's death.

01:27Carter entered politics during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, serving two terms as

01:31a Georgia legislator before becoming the state's governor in 1971.

01:36I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.

01:45Carter went from being an unknown southern governor in 1971 to the winning presidential

01:49candidate in 1976, narrowly defeating Republican Gerald Ford.

01:54Mediating the 1979 Camp David Accords and the eventual peace treaty between Egypt and

01:59Israel was the pinnacle of Carter's presidency.

02:02There had been four wars between Arabs and Israelis in the previous 25 years.

02:08With the Egyptians and the leadership supported by the Soviet Union, they were the only country

02:14that could really challenge Israel militarily.

02:18Carter also negotiated a treaty returning control of the Panama Canal to Panama and

02:23established full diplomatic ties with the People's Republic of China.

02:27But the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran would change the course of his presidency.

02:34Protests led by Shiite clerics toppled the U.S.-backed Shah, who fled the country.

02:39Militants later stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, taking 66 Americans hostage.

02:44In late November of that year, 13 hostages were released.

02:47In April 1980, Carter authorized a military operation to free the remaining hostages.

02:53It failed, and eight U.S. service members died.

02:57Carter also faced challenges at home.

02:59Inflation and rising unemployment hobbled the economy, contributing to his 1980 election

03:05defeat to Republican Ronald Reagan.

03:07On January 20, 1981, Reagan's inauguration day, Iran finally freed the American hostages.

03:15Carter, defeated and depressed, returned to Plains to plan his presidential library.

03:20I envisioned it to be a tiny thing, where I would have an office and some nice buildings

03:25in Atlanta.

03:27It became much more.

03:28A well-known global non-profit, the Carter Center has monitored over 100 elections and

03:33mediated disputes ranging from a nuclear standoff with North Korea in 1994 to a peace agreement

03:39between Uganda and Sudan.

03:42The center also promotes health and fights illness in the poorest parts of the planet.

03:48Eradicating guinea worm disease has been a primary goal.

03:51There's only been one disease in the history of humankind ever eradicated, and that was

03:57smallpox more than 30 years ago.

04:01So guinea worm is going to soon be the second disease in history to be wiped off the face

04:06of the earth.

04:07Carter's work helping humanity led to Oslo, Norway in 2002, where he accepted the Nobel

04:13Peace Prize.

04:14When I won the Nobel Peace Prize, for instance, it was because of the work of the Carter Center.

04:18So I would be perfectly satisfied to have a legacy based on peace and human rights.

04:22I mean, who wouldn't?

04:23Carter led an active life into his 90s, surviving brain cancer in 2015.

04:29But declining health and the 2020 global coronavirus pandemic kept him confined to his hometown

04:34of Plains in his final years.

04:37In one of his last public media appearances, Carter shared with VOA his hopes for the future.

04:42I would like to see the United States in the future strive to be the number one champion

04:49in the world of peace and human rights and environmental equality, and I would say treating

04:55everybody equal.

04:56If we could do that, we'd have a real superpower in a country that I love very much.

05:03Carter lived the longest of any occupant of the White House, and his 76-year marriage

05:07to wife Rosalynn is the longest of any president and first lady.

05:12Cain Fairbaugh, VOA News, Plains, Georgia.

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