President Jimmy Carter has set another milestone with this birthday: He is the first former commander-in-chief to be a centenarian.
Carter held the highest office in the country from 1977 to 1981. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 for his work as a global humanitarian in mediating international conflicts and advancing human rights.
Carter was an early environmentalist who pushed to expand of the national park system to include protection of 103 million acres of Alaskan lands. Feeling out of the loop? We'll catch you up on the Chicago news you need to know. Sign up for the weeklyCarter's defeat to Ronald Reagan in the 1980 election was viewed as a bit of an inevitability as Iran continued holding Americans captive, combined with continuing inflation at home.
The concept of human rights “became permanently encoded in the global conversation" during Ronald Reagan's presidency in the 1980s and subsequent decades, wrote Alter.Forty-three years is a lot of time, and Carter — the first president to go by his nickname of"Jimmy" — took full advantage of his position both domestically and abroad.
Outside of his humanitarian activities, Carter's diplomatic efforts began in the Middle East in the early 1980s. He was eventually sent him as far as east as North Korea and Taiwan in the 1990s.
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