Jimmy Carter
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288 appearances
16 recordings
12 series
first heard Sep 2024
last heard 1 May
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And they both came.
I remember when King Hussein came to the White House the first or second time with his sons, and we had, I think Rosen had briefed Amy, you know, very carefully about, you know, your Royal Highness and so forth.
Well, we're sending a message of a peaceful Christmas, a Christmas filled with love, wishing for harmony among friends, people in families who have different faiths. So I think this year is more of a wish for peace and love than it is for happiness or merriment.
One of the things that I have described in Christmas in Plains is how we have to accommodate those times of sadness or distress or sometimes maybe even fear or sorrow when we've lost a loved one right before Christmas. We can't be expecting happiness or merriment or celebration except a celebration of things, as I said earlier in the program, that never change, that are precious to us.
One of the things that Rose and I do nowadays, since we've got, I think, 23 members in our family, is to try to bring together all the members of our family at least once a year. So over a period of years, as I describe in the book, we've carved out for ourselves the week after Christmas.
So on the 27th of December each year, we gather our whole family together and we go somewhere that's attractive enough to bring the grandkids along with us. And our children and grandchildren who have jobs save up their vacation time for those few days, and we all go to some interesting place. Rosa and I generally try to pay all the bills.
We save up our frequent flower miles to pay the transportation, and we just get reacquainted. So I think in that respect, no matter what the outside world is doing, the Carter Center still preserves the essence of Christmas.
You'd be amazed at how many frequent flyer miles.
Yes.
Well, we actually buy tickets of tourist class, but Delta Airlines is nice enough to me and Rosen so that when they have a vacant seat, two vacant seats, they don't have first class, they have business class. They sometimes, most of the time, elevate us to a higher status. But one of the things that I have done ever since I left the White House is every time I get on a plane...
to travel anywhere, a commercial plane. As you know, I don't have an Air Force One anymore. I go back and shake hands with everybody on the plane before we take off. And it's a very pleasant thing for me. And I meet a lot of old friends there and people that share experiences with me. And the flights that I took immediately after the September 11th tragedy,
When I did this, there were four rounds of applause that I did it. I think at first, when I told Rosalyn about it, she said, I thought that they were just glad to see me. And she said, Jimmy, what they were glad to see was a Secret Service on the plane with you. But I enjoyed doing that. And I think that kind of brings out maybe something of the spirit of Christmas.
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I would not tell a lie. I would not mislead the American people. And I would not betray your trust.
War may sometimes be a necessary evil, but no matter how necessary, It is always evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
Well, I would say as far as public service is concerned... I was a champion of peace and human rights. I've sought to carve out for myself a productive and I hope useful and certainly a gratifying life. I've been very lucky.
Well, I had come home from the Navy, having been 11 years a full-time naval officer, a submarine officer. started a small business, and had never run for elective office. I was a chairman of the Sumter County School Board in the heat of the integration years. I was concerned about the closing down or the subversion of our public school system.
And I was disgusted in a way with the slow pace of the civil rights changes in the South. And then along came the bright halcyon days of the... one-man, one-vote ruling where the Democratic white rural primary was going to be stricken down. I thought it was a new day in Georgia and the United States where the democracy would prevail and honesty would be there and equality would be ensured.
And so I decided I would run for the state senate. And the only request I would make and did finally make was to be on the education committee. And I entered this little community over in the western part of Georgia, Georgetown, Georgia, And I found shocking fraud, corruption, stuffing ballot boxes, abuse of citizens. That was incredible to me.
Well, I was ahead in the election going into this little tiny county on the Chattahoochee River, just across the river from Alabama. There was a political boss in the county named Joe Hurst. He was chairman of the only political organization, the Democratic Committee. He was a state legislator. His wife was a welfare director.
Georgetown was the only post office in the United States, for instance, where all the welfare checks came to the same post office box. And he and his wife would personally deliver the welfare checks to families that they decided should be on welfare. One of the prerequisites for getting welfare payment was to vote the way George Hearst told them.
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