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Commentary: We can’t forget Jimmy Carter’s shameful legacy in Afghanistan

While Jimmy Carter was president, his critics claimed his foreign policy was weak and had emboldened the Soviet Union. Carter, who is 98 and recently entered home hospice treatment, is today known for having prioritized human rights during his term. Yet this view forgets that in Afghanistan, Carter launched an…

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Warnock's campaign chief sees lessons from Dems in Georgia

When Quentin Fulks went back home to Ellaville, Georgia, last year, people kept telling him how proud they were to watch a native son lead Sen. Raphael Warnock’s reelection bid

The Independent UK

Joe Biden says Jimmy Carter has asked him to deliver his eulogy

President Joe Biden says he’s been asked to give the eulogy at the 39th president’s funeral. Jimmy Carter, 98, the longest-lived president, has been receiving end-of-life care.

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Ann Uccello, first female mayor in Connecticut, dies at 100

Antonina “Ann” Uccello, the first woman elected a mayor in Connecticut when she won an upset victory in Hartford as a Republican in 1967, has died

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Biden says Jimmy Carter asked him to deliver eulogy

ATLANTA — In what might have been a slip of the tongue, President Joe Biden said Monday night that former President Jimmy Carter asked him to deliver his eulogy.

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Louisville couple recalls helping Jimmy Carter build homes in Pike County

With former President Jimmy Carter at home in hospice care, many of the people he touched over his 98 years are remembering his service to others.

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President Biden says Jimmy Carter asked him to give his eulogy

The president made the remarks to attendees at a fundraiser in California, after which he added, "Excuse me, I shouldn't say that." Carter, 98, has been in hospice care since last month.

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Biden says Jimmy Carter has asked him to deliver his eulogy

President Joe Biden says he plans to deliver the eulogy at the funeral of former President Jimmy Carter, who remains under hospice care at his home in south Georgia

The Independent UK

Biden lets slip that he will deliver Jimmy Carter’s eulogy at a fundraiser

The 39th president has chosen to enter hospice care

The Independent UK

Jimmy Carter took on the awful Guinea worm when no one else would — and triumphed

Jimmy Carter took great pride in pointing out that the United States didn’t start any new wars during his term as president. But after he left office, he launched a war against “neglected” diseases — diseases in far-off lands that most Americans will never suffer from and may not have…

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Over 38 years, Emory students quizzed and grew to love Jimmy Carter

ATLANTA — For generations of Emory University students, Jimmy Carter was more than just the nation’s 39th president.

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Commentary: Jimmy Carter was right about human rights

When I first joined the U.S. State Department’s Foreign Service, I was optimistic about the positive role the United States played in the world. By the time I left not quite a decade later, I was haunted by how dangerous our shortsighted foreign policy can be.

Chicago Tribune

Jimmy Carter's African legacy: peacemaker, negotiator and defender of rights

When historians and pundits praise Jimmy Carter’s achievements as the US president and extol his exemplary post-presidential years, they mention the recognition of China, the Panama Canal Treaties and the Camp David Accords. Almost no one mentions what Carter achieved in Africa during his presidency. This is a serious oversight.

The Conversation

Ferghal Blaney - Shocking response of Government to energy real crisis for households

Our Mirrorman in Leinster House with the latest craic from the Corridors of Power

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Meet Soapy, Jimmy Carter’s longtime barber and fellow ‘tough old bird’

AMERICUS, Ga. — On any given day during much of James “Soapy” Herndon’s ongoing, 62-year run as a barber, passersby might have spotted his shop filled not with clients but with Secret Service agents.

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Activist Judy Heumann led a reimagining of what it means to be disabled

Heumann was instrumental in pushing to expand the civil rights of Americans with disabilities and continued to advocate for disability rights around the globe. She died on Saturday at age 75.

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Women's History Month grew out of a weeklong commemoration by Jimmy Carter in 1980

The first national Women's History Week occurred in 1980. Seven years later, Congress passed a law designating March as Women's History Month.

The Independent UK

The Carters: What you know may be wrong (or not quite right)

Exaggeration, misinformation and myth have always infected politics – even before social media took it to the extreme

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I've spent 5 years researching the heroic life of Black musician Graham Jackson, but teaching his story could be illegal under laws in Florida and North Dakota

The story of Graham Jackson is a timeless tale of American ingenuity, hard work and the cream rising to the top.

Axios

How Jimmy Carter and Joe Biden built an enduring friendship

A long friendship between the two Democrats lasted in the decades since.

Tribune News Service

Atlanta’s Carter Center preps for future without founder

ATLANTA — The first time Paige Alexander shook President Jimmy Carter’s hand, as a 12-year-old touring the White House Rose Garden with her mother, the Atlanta native joked that she never wanted to wash her hand.

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Why 'lost their battle' with serious illness is the wrong thing to say

When a dire disease strikes, it's easy to slip into war terms to describe the experience. But that sort of talk turns life into two outcomes: winning and losing. And that's not the way life works.

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Martin Schram: Remembering — and maybe rethinking — Carter’s presidency

As Jimmy Carter began his hospice care at home in his rural Plains, Georgia, precisely where he wanted to be for his final transition, well-wishers from politics and the media began reflecting about how our 39th president’s greatest contributions came after he left Washington.

The Independent UK

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The Independent UK

Jimmy Carter: Family affair to the White House and beyond

When Jimmy Carter stepped onto the national stage, he brought along those closest to him, introducing Americans to a colorful Georgia family that helped shape the 39th president’s public life and now, generations later, is rallying around him for the private final chapter of his 98 years

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