Jimmy Carter, Everyman President

When Jimmy Carter launched his successful longshot 1976 presidential campaign, his mother Miss Lillian reacted by asking: “President of what?” A half century later, tributes are flowing in from around the world.

Carter is remembered as architect of the peace accord between Israel and Egypt, for the peaceful transfer of the Panama Canal to Panamanian control — which Donald Trump has spoken of trying to get reversed — and the 104-million-acre Alaska Lands Act, which doubled size of America’s national park system.

He also lived to be 100 and was the most active former president in the history of the republic. He monitored elections in Nicaragua and Panama, campaigned to eradicate the Guinea ringworm, wrote 23 books, traveled to North Korea to free a prisoner, and climbed Japan’s Mount Fuji at the age of 70.

He was a pious Baptist who taught Sunday school every two weeks, and stayed loyal to wife Rosalynn in a marriage lasting 77 years. She died late last year.

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