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We've never been united as a country, and so the fact that we're divided over flags at half-staff for Jimmy Carter and interrupting the Trump inaugural is to be expected,
Shirley told the Washington Examiner He was a terrible president,
Republican strategist Scott Jennings said on CNN Recollections of the Carter presidency will be perceived and processed through partisan lenses, and, even if his passing brings Americans together for a brief moment, the unity is unlikely to last long,
Panagopoulos told the Washington Examiner Both pursued the same policies and both failed, and both will go down in history as lousy presidents, but Carter, in his defense, was an honest man,
Today is Jimmy Carter's 100th birthday,
House Speaker Mike Johnson spokesman Bobby LaValley wrote in an email to reporters in October Many Americans will be unable to see past the party label attached to his name,
I’m not complaining … It’s natural for a president to call on someone who’s been there more recently,
This is something on which I’m going to continue to work with a very high degree of my priority for the rest of my life,
That’s what I prefer to think,
Yet, with a twinkle in his eye, he added If I get home at midnight on Saturday, I still teach on Sunday morning,
It’s where our family has always lived. It’s where we own our land, our home – the only home we’ve ever owned,
I do not promise a quick way out of our nation's problems"
He admitted as much in his infamous "crisis of confidence" speech of July 15, 1979, in which he ill-advisedly said His presence itself was a message to the Nepalese population and voters about the integrity of the election,
Jimmy never forgave him, ... As president, Jimmy appointed a U.S. attorney who indicted Culver over some gambling issue. We all assumed that Jimmy put him up to it. Jimmy volunteered to testify against Culver and was deposed in the White House. Culver was acquitted."
a former Republican state legislator told Newsmax If we saw the same conditions in another country that we were seeing in the U.S. — the lack of trust in election institutions, polarization and growing concern of political violence — it is exactly the kind of country we would prioritize to see if we could play a constructive role,
In my fumbling Spanish, I stood up on a table, and I denounced the election as fraudulent,
Carter recalled in a 2015 video marking the center’s 100th election observer mission I have no interest in making any comment about Carter. I hope you understand."
There was deadlock in the country. Political parties were not sitting together, and there was no way out on how the process will move on,
said Bhojraj Pokharel, Nepal’s chief election commissioner in 2008, who later worked with Carter in Congo and Myanmar Carter Dies At 100 After Life Guided By Moral Principles
read the Page One story in the Financial Times, leading to a tribute by veteran FT correspondent Jurek Martin that hailed the 39th president as one who devoted his post-White House years You can help strong systems be in place, but they need to be watched continually. You can never rest on your record on democracy and elections. You always have to be vigilant and keep an eye on the process,
