Jimmy Carter
speaker
288 appearances
16 recordings
12 series
first heard Sep 2024
last heard 1 May
Jimmy Carter’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Because he is so ugly and formidable looking, he's a very lonely little creature. And he's always searching for friends, but rarely finds any. Spends his time underneath the ocean, underneath the waters, but he can come up. to the top on occasion, and amazingly, he's able to speak different languages. In this particular case, he speaks English.
Well, I think so. Actually, I probably began telling these stories when I was still on a surface ship, but I always had submarines in the back of my mind, and one of the submarines I was on was a killer submarine designed exclusively to hunt and destroy Soviet submarines if we should have gone to war before they could hear us. It was extremely quiet and very small. and specially designed.
So we would stay submerged for sometimes days at the time and listen to the sound of shrimp and whales and dolphins on our very elaborate sonar equipment. And I think there's no doubt that having an undersea creature become a startling hero came from my experiences underneath the water for sometimes days or even months at a time.
Well, I had been through a horrible experience writing a book together with my wife a few years ago called Everything to Gain. It almost destroyed a marriage of 48 years because it was about a traumatic experience in our life, having been defeated for re-election as president, having lost all our money, having gone back home to an empty house with all our kids gone.
And the book was advice on how other people might deal with these unexpected and difficult events. Rosa and I could agree on 97% of the text, but the 3% became paramount. And we had a horrible experience. Literally, I'm not exaggerating. We could only communicate by writing ugly messages back and forth on our word processors.
And it was only a very enlightened editor who saved our book and saved our marriage by finally taking those 3% of paragraphs and dividing them half and half. Half of Jimmy's, half of Rosalind's. And you can put a J on your paragraphs. Rosen doesn't have to agree. And she can put an R on her paragraphs. And you don't have to agree. So we saved our book.
So I went into this event with Amy with that as a historical background. This time, though, Amy was off at graduate school. I was in Plains. And I felt that it was my story and my image of a snuggle fleasher. And Amy just had to fill in the gaps. But it turned out that Amy has an artist temperament.
When she decides on how something should look, how it should be presented, there's very little opportunity to change her mind. And I think not only did I discover this, but the Art Editor at Times Books found this out.
Another thing was that Amy had been very active in demonstrations against apartheid in South Africa.
And she had already been arrested or detained three times before that. She was very active in college as a leader in that respect. But at the same time, I think a very withdrawn and, if Amy will excuse my saying, the word shy person. She didn't want to be confronting TV cameras and news reporters, but she felt very deeply about these kinds of things.
I think never enough. You know, this is something that you always find to be startling when you look back and maybe tabulate how many hours you actually spend with your... sons or daughter whom you really love, and then you can go a year or so and all of a sudden realize, gee, I haven't spent but two or three days actually with my kids.
Nowadays, we have a fixed habit of going off for at least a week with the whole family together. There are 18 of us. And we do that every year so that we can kind of get to know each other better and And become acquainted. But this is a particularly exciting and unpredictable experience in my life, spending a few days with Amy on, you know, talking about this book.
Because I don't think I've ever had a real partnership before, even with my three sons. So I have approached it with some degree of trepidation.
Well, I'll let Amy answer that, too. But I stayed in the Oval Office and worked pretty hard. And we had three grown sons and Rosalind, who were out a lot, who would meet with elderly people, meet with those who were interested in abortions, meet with those who were interested in education and health and welfare and so forth. And Amy was going to a public school in Washington.
So around our dinner tables and so forth, supper tables, we had these intense discussions of what's going on in the world, what's going on out in the world. public school system or in the welfare lines and it was a very wonderful education for me. Amy went to school the first morning as a nine-year-old child and she was inundated with TV cameras and radio microphones being thrust in her face
And that evening on the television, they show this little child struggling up the walkway with a large sack of books, abused really by dozens of eager reporters. All the reporters... They were at the White House at that time. I think they wanted 1,200 then. They're more now. Got together after seeing this television display and pledged to one another they would leave Amy alone. So for the...
rest of the four years we were in the white house she led a kind of a protected life and and she would bring her classmates to the white house to go swimming or to watch movies and and so i think she had a fairly normal life as a child within the bounds of you know living in the white house maybe amy would disagree with me but that was my impression
Almost every night. The only exception was when we had a state banquet and some king or president would come from a foreign country To have an official banquet. On a few occasions, Amy went to the official banquets. And she was severely criticized.
For reading at the table.
That was when she was married to one of the Allman brothers, right?
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