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Happy 96th Jimmy Carter! You are the longest living president. Have a 🥜

Wag

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(CNN)Jimmy Carter, the son of a Georgia peanut farmer who'd go on to be America's 39th president, turns 96 today. He's the oldest living former US president -- and he's outlived every other occupant of the Oval Office.
At 96, the Nobel Peace Prize winner remains the longest-living president in US history, surpassing George H. W. Bush, who died in 2018 at 94.
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https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/01/us/jimmy-carter-96-birthday-trnd/index.html

JC is old enough to remember The Depression and WWII. What a life.
 
BebopCola

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EDIT - of course someone already beat me to the Simpsons meme in the other thread haha
 
SquirrelSaysNuts

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Jimmy Carter: A Full Life
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ChaosXVI

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To this day I wonder how different America would be had he beat Reagan in 1980. What an honorable man. Never too late to run again! :D
 
MisterHero

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If I had a button that would obliterate you from the face of the Earth, I wouldn't use it. Good job Mr. Carter

Happy Birthday
 
RustyNails

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Bya said:
Was he a good one? I can't keep track of all these presidents
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He was alright. He was not cutthroat enough to be in politics and got rolled in lot of things. He didn't use the 3D supermajority congress to pass huge reforms for example. But he did broker peace between warring countries of Egypt and Israel. Installed solar panels on white house roof, etc.
 
NihonTiger

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Bya said:
Was he a good one? I can't keep track of all these presidents
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He was alright as president. Rusty brings up a few points here that are worth mentioning. His post presidency is very much the standard for which presidents will be judged by, though.

It's kind of sad because Carter was way ahead of his time on energy issues and we'd be in a lot better place if some of his policies had been allowed to take root. But Reagan destroyed them all.
 
Nairume

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NihonTiger said:
It's kind of sad because Carter was way ahead of his time on energy issues and we'd be in a lot better place if some of his policies had been allowed to take root. But Reagan destroyed them all.
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He was actually ahead of the curve on a lot of ideas. A lot of people at the time flipped their shit over his Crisis of Confidence speech (remembered as the Malaise speech) but he was honestly right about most of he said in it

I really recommend people give it a read/listen/watch

Obviously he still had a lot of issues as president, because (and we know this now more than ever) Washington outsiders often come with a lot of pretty big drawbacks, but he meant well, was entirely genuine about everything he did, and was utterly done dirty by this country.
 
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