Jimmy Carter
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288 appearances
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12 series
first heard Sep 2024
last heard 1 May
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And then you get close, it's a ring of flies that stay on their eyes all the time.
So the eye gets infected, and the upper eyelid turns inward, and every time you blink your eyes, it slices a cornea. But how do you prevent flies from... you have to get rid of the flies. And so we teach the kids how to wash their faces, first of all, which they've never tried before. So we have to teach them.
And we also have found out that in certain parts of Africa, a woman is absolutely prevented by taboos from relieving herself in the daytime. So they have to hide and urinate or defecate. So we decided to try an experiment in Ethiopia. So we taught them how to build a latrine, an outdoor toilet. It only costs about a dollar. If they do the work themselves. Oh, wow.
So we thought we might have 100 or 1,000. We've just finished 2,300,000 latrines in Africa. Oh, my god. Wow. That's incredible. So I've become famous as the number one latrine builder in the world. I'm not famous for peace between Israel and Egypt, but, you know. Maybe they'll change the name from the John to the Jimmy.
But the net income of the average dairy farm family in Wisconsin is less than $7,000 a year. As a farmer myself, I think that's disgraceful. And as president, I'm going to change it.
Consider This from NPR · The people and the waterway at the center of the Panama Canal · 3 Feb 2025
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They mark the commitment of the United States to the belief that fairness and not force
If we could just have a government, as I've said a thousand times, as good as our people are, that's all we can hope for, and that's all we can expect, and that's enough. We're going to have a great government, a great nation, and it's because of you, not me.
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Well, one reason is that although I have been governor of Georgia, I have been president of the United States, I have won a Nobel Peace Prize. I have 11 grandchildren, and they don't think I'll be a success in life until I've been on The Daily Show. And if I was president, I couldn't be here.
All right. Thank you for that.
It's a very small segment.
Well, I told the truth. And this book has now been out about six weeks. Nobody's found anything wrong with it. It points out, I think, in very vivid terms... It's still on sale. Um... That, um...
Absolutely. And there have been dramatic and unprecedented basic changes in America's policies that are deeply concerning to me. It's not Democratic versus Republican. It's not liberal versus conservative. These are radical changes compared to what was done in all previous administrations, including George Bush Sr. and Dwight Eisenhower and Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan.
and all democratic presidents as well. These are radical changes, and that's what I thought I'd devote my time to. It's my first book that's been about political issues.
That's true, in religion and in politics. And lately, what's been of great concern, in addition to what I've already said, is the merger of the two, the merger of religion and politics. Because I happen to be a Christian, and I think that my religion teaches me that you should render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, unto God the things that are God's.
And Thomas Jefferson, one of our founding fathers, said that we should build a wall between the church and state. That wall is being deliberately and ostentatiously, not secretly, broken down. So there's been an increasing merger in this country of fundamentalism on the religious side, fundamentalism on the political side, and the two have come together.
Well, as a matter of fact, in the year 2000, I think the Democrats won. So it did reflect that. Yeah. And in 2004, the results of election were predictably distorted because about 9 or 10 percent of the American people will tell you today that they vote for the incumbent president even if they don't agree with him or his policies.
as long as he is the commander-in-chief of our young men and women overseas with their lives in danger. So there's a tremendous effect of patriotism in this country. And I think that patriotic inclination was strongly savaged, but also very greatly utilized by the Republicans. And that changes the politics of it.
Paramount Podcasts.
Well, I think it's been a rare thing in history to have a president who was a published poet. I imagine a lot of folks who have been in the White House have written a poem or two.
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