An account of Jimmy Carter's life after presidency, focusing on his work with the Carter Center, his dedication to various causes, and his unique approach to leadership.
As the media has been filled with well-deserved praise for President Jimmy Carter's noble life, it feels as though everything has now been said... but perhaps just not yet by everybody. While I didn't serve in the Carter campaign or in his administration, for a dozen years—from 1989 to 2001—I worked with him on various projects after he left office. He wanted to expand the new Carter Center with business support, to work with other U.S.
presidents and to support the Atlanta Olympics-related 'Atlanta Project,' among other initiatives. This close view showed me how, after his election defeat, he improbably rebounded to be widely crowned as 'America's greatest ex-president.' It was not just his accomplishments but his unconventional earnest style which often worked—and sometimes backfired.The glowing New York Times assessment regarding lessons for leaders movingly summarized Carter's dedication to environmental conservation, Mideast peace efforts, and other such noble causes as well as the range of his post-Oval-Office commitments 'using the residual star power of his office to help his successors and his country as a peacemaker, backstage diplomat, human rights champion, monitor of free elections and advocate for the homeless while finding time to write poetry and, by his own example, providing the best possible case for traditional religious values.' My vantage was that I saw a more personal side of his unconventional style beyond the glistening list of accomplishments showcased while in office and the chronicling after his exit so many have offered.I was not a Carter supporter in the 1976 Democratic primary when he ran for the presidency, and many people at the university where I worked rallied around Senators Frank Church, Mo Udall, Jerry Brown, and Henry 'Scoop' Jackson, among others ultimately coalescing into a desperate 'Anybody but Carter' movement. I came to be one of his biggest enthusiast
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