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Jimmy Carter, who rose from a peanut farm to become the 39th U.S. president, died on Sunday at his home in Georgia. He was 100.
While his presidency is remembered more for its failures than for its successes, his tenure nevertheless included notable achievements, particularly in foreign affairs. His human rights policies set a new standard for how the U.S. should deal with abusive governments. The peace treaty he brokered between Israel and Egypt still holds decades later. And he signed a strategic arms limitation agreement with the Soviet Union and formalized diplomatic relations with China. Read Peter Baker’s full obituary here.
In his farewell address to the nation when leaving office in 1981, Carter told Americans that he planned to “take up once more the only title in our democracy superior to that of president — the title of citizen.” Under that mantle, he left a lasting imprint overseas, particularly in public health. One of his biggest accomplishments is also one of his most overlooked: the near total eradication of Guinea worm disease, a painful parasitic infection for which there is no treatment or vaccine. In 1986, it afflicted an estimated 3.5 million people, mostly in Africa and Asia.
More on Carter:
How the former president turned TV into a pulpit when he gave one of the White House’s most astonishing speeches.
On The Daily, Peter Baker, chief White House correspondent for The Times, explains Carter’s life, death and legacy.
In a culture where death as a subject is often taboo, Carter left a compilation of observations about the end. Here is a selection of those writings.
Carter projected authenticity not just through his actions, but also with his signature denim uniform, our fashion reporter writes.
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