Former American president Jimmy Carter is 100 years old today!

Retro · 1 Oct 2024

Former American president Jimmy Carter has reached the ripe old age of 100 years old today. Happy Birthday Jimmy!

Just think how different the world was on 01.10.1924. Such an incredible technological and political change in one lifetime.

This is a first for American presidents and the reason why I'm posting this is because of all the good that he did in retirement. He was more interested in trying to fix things around the world than making himself ever more millions on the speaking circuit and so on. He even won the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts. Huge respect!

Here's an excerpt from Wikipedia on his achievements:

After leaving the presidency, Carter established the Carter Center to promote and expand human rights; in 2002 he received a Nobel Peace Prize for related work. He traveled extensively to conduct peace negotiations, monitor elections, and further the eradication of infectious diseases. Carter is a key figure in the nonprofit housing organization Habitat for Humanity. He has also written numerous books, ranging from political memoirs to poetry, while continuing to comment on global affairs, including two books on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Polls of historians and political scientists generally rank Carter as a below-average president, though scholars and the public more favorably view his post-presidency, the longest in U.S. history.

Of course, unsurprisingly, he's a Democrat.