This article recounts the life of Jimmy Carter, highlighting his extraordinary journey from a Navy officer who narrowly survived a storm at sea to becoming the 39th President of the United States. It emphasizes his unique experiences in the Navy, including his involvement in nuclear power programs and the cleanup of a partially melted-down reactor.
Jimmy Carter, the oldest living U.S. president of all time, has died at his home in Plains, Georgia, according to his son. Two years out of Annapolis, a young officer in the Navy was on the tower of a submarine during a horrible storm. A wave washed that officer off and reports said he luckily took hold of a 5-inch deck gun and was able to get himself back up on the tower. Had he missed that grab, he would have been lost at sea.
That young officer went on to become the 39th President of the United States. 'Fate has a strange way of working because he survived that, we have everything that followed,' said Rear Admiral Samuel Cox. Cox is the Commanding Director of Naval History and Heritage. He has studied the former president and as a career Navy officer, Cox is quick to remind you that Carter was the only Annapolis graduate to go on to become President of the United States. 'He's going through the course; he's expecting to graduate in 45 or 46 and be involved in the invasion of Japan. He and his classmates are watching or reading about Kamikazes off Okinawa so he's anticipating being in some really bad situations,' Cox explained. 'But, the atomic bomb ended the war and he was shocked that he had not the slightest hint that that weapon existed and he wrote about that in later life.' Carter went on to become a submariner, and Admiral Hyman Rickover chose him to be part of the Navy nuclear power program working with the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. In 1952 a nuclear reactor at a Canadian research facility partially melted down and the Navy turned to Carter. 'He got tasked to lead the team to assist with the cleanup and he had to build a complete replica of the reactor so they could practice every move and because of radiation, anyone in space could only be there 90 seconds and had to get out—even Carter took turns going into contaminated area,' Cox said. Carter wanted a career in the Navy but that was cut short after his father died unexpectedly in 195
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