He sure seemed like a legitimately good man.
I think one of my favorite stories about him is that he helped resolve a nuclear reactor meltdown
https://www.military.com/history/how-jimmy-carter-saved-cana...
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#22Best President US has seen in modern times, the campaign that unseated him bordered on treason.
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#23Of all the presidents I've seen in my lifetime, I think President Carter might be the only one who felt genuine and didn't exhibit narcissism.
Jimmy Carter feels very likely to be the last "normal person" who will ever be elected president. That doesn't absolve his presidency of mistakes obviously, but if you run through the list of presidents since him, the vibes point to that for me.
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#24Rest in Peace, one of the last good presidents of the US.
He was a terrible President. Fantastic human, but terrible commander in chief.
of the 45 commanders we have how many were not terrible then - like 5 maybe…? he certainly was neither a terrible President nor terrible commander in chief
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#25RIP Jimmy Carter. A model of living meaningfully in old age.
The Onion has many funny bits on the guy's age[0]. "Former President Jimmy Carter, 98, announced Tuesday that he had gotten his recent vasectomy reversed," "Jimmy Carter Makes Pact With Dianne Feinstein That If Both Single In 50 Years They’ll Marry Each Other,""Jimmy Carter Concerned Desire For Fresh Faces In Democratic Party May Hurt His Chances In 2020"
I always hoped he read those and would laugh - he seemed the type of guy that would.
[0] https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Ftheonio...
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#26Can someone explain whats going on in this pic of Bidens and Carters? https://apnews.com/article/jimmy-carter-government-and-polit...
Older people shrink and there's a bit of (unintentional?) forced perspective going on
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#28Can someone explain whats going on in this pic of Bidens and Carters? https://apnews.com/article/jimmy-carter-government-and-polit...
A very wide angle lens.
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#29https://www.cfr.org/conference-calls/conversation-jimmy-cart...
Conversation, part of the Council on Foreign Relations' History Makers series.
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#30If you didn't follow what Jimmy Carter did after his presidency, this short habitat for humanity vignette highlights it well - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajWLdawnCPU (11 mins)