Jimmy Carter, 39th President of The United States, Passes Away at 100

[brihard]

Just breaking.

Jimmy Carter, U.S. President and Prolific Humanitarian, Dead at 100

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter died Sunday at the age of 100.

www.rollingstone.com

Whatever one’s politics are, by all accounts he was a good man and a good human being. May he rest in peace.

 

[Bruce Monkhouse]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/12/29/jimmy-carter-president-dead/

Loved the work for Habitat for Humanity he was part of.

 

[PMedMoe]

The oldest former president in U.S. history. RIP

CBS News

 

[JLB50]

He was quite a decent person to be president at a particularly difficult time in American politics. RIP.

 

[OldSolduer]

RIP Mr. President

 

[The Bread Guy]

RIP POTUS39

 

[Oldgateboatdriver]

One of the last great humanists

R.I.P. Mr. President

 

[vonGarvin]

Widely considered below-average as far as Presidents of the USA go, he did have some notable achievements, including the Camp David Accords (Peace treaty between Egypt and Israel) and the SALT II treaty with the USSR. He led global opposition to the USSR's invasion of Afghanistan, but his presidency was forever marred by events in Iran.

 

[dapaterson]

his presidency was forever marred by events in Iran.

You mean where the Republicans conspired with foreign powers to undermine the government of the United States of America?

 

[vonGarvin]

You mean where the Republicans conspired with foreign powers to undermine the government of the United States of America?

No.

 

[mariomike]

One of the last great humanists

R.I.P. Mr. President

Well said.

 

[Infanteer]

I think he will be remembered as one of the better elder Statesman in the US following his presidency as opposed to his actual term in office.

 

[brihard]

I think he will be remembered as one of the better elder Statesman in the US following his presidency as opposed to his actual term in office.

I saw some else describe him as “not the best president, but probably the best man to ever BE president”. That resounded.

 

[OldSolduer]

I saw some else describe him as “not the best president, but probably the best man to ever BE president”. That resounded.

Dan Carlin said it best:

Great men are not good men.

 

[dimsum]

Then there’s his work saving the Chalk River nuclear reactor when he was in the USN.

How Jimmy Carter Saved a Canadian Nuclear Reactor After a Meltdown

Before he was the 39th president of the United States, Jimmy Carter was a nuclear power expert with the U.S. Navy.

www.military.com

 

[Gorgo]

Then there’s his work saving the Chalk River nuclear reactor when he was in the USN.

How Jimmy Carter Saved a Canadian Nuclear Reactor After a Meltdown

Before he was the 39th president of the United States, Jimmy Carter was a nuclear power expert with the U.S. Navy.

www.military.com

I've always said he should have been awarded the Cross of Valour for that one.

 

[Blackadder1916]

I've always said he should have been awarded the Cross of Valour for that one.

And what about the other approx 1300 workers who also were involved in the clean-up of that nuclear accident? Especially those who were there during the several weeks after the accident before then Lt Carter's small US Navy team arrived.

And of course, the "Cross of Valour" hadn't yet been created in the 1950s (that did come until the 1970s); the equivalent level decoration at the time was the "George Cross".

Jimmy Carter and the NRX Accident – How Legends Grow - Society for the Preservation of Canada’s Nuclear Heritage

Morgan Brown wrote this article for the North Renfrew Times about former President Jimmy Carter's role in the cleanup following the NRX accident in 1952,

nuclearheritage.com

How Jimmy Carter once helped clean up a partial nuclear meltdown in Ontario

It was December 1952, the Cold War was raging and in a rural Ontario community a nuclear reactor had just partially melted down – the first serious reactor accident in the world. The partial meltdown at the experimental Chalk River Nuclear Laboratories, about 200 kilometres north of Ottawa, was...

www.ctvnews.ca

 

[FJAG]