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Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, died Sunday, December 29th, 2024, at his home in Plains, Georgia.

As a former President, he created the Carter Center in Atlanta, began to write a series of books and travel around the world for human rights and free elections.

He has been in hospice care for nearly two years. He was 100. Jimmy Carter was America’s longest-lived president. His beloved wife, Rosalyn Carter, predeceased him in November 2023.

I had a front row seat to the political rise of Jimmy Carter to the presidency as a correspondent for USAPEOPLEANDPOLITICS, anchored by Bill Moyers, covering the 1976 campaign.

I first met Carter in 1976 when I went to Georgia to profile Charles Kirbo, Carter’s lawyer.

Kirbo was the most important advisor to Carter, as the Naval Academy graduate and nuclear submarine officer, returned to Georgia for a life as a peanut farmer/ businessman and politician.

It was an improbable journey from a one term governor of Georgia with little experience in national politics to capturing the Democratic nomination and defeating an incumbent president, Gerald Ford, after the nation had gone through the Watergate crisis and the resignation of President Richard Nixon.

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