Peter Baker
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291 appearances
9 recordings
3 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 9 Jan
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And the Carter Center hands out millions of specialized drinking straws that filter out these worms. And basically, Guinea worm is almost gone now as a result of some of the things that he did. And now I call upon the Peace Prize Laureate of 2002, Jimmy Carter. All this finally, I think, leads to the Nobel Peace Prize that he didn't win while he was in office.
And during his acceptance speech, Carter demonstrates his humility, a genuine humility.
He praises the tireless efforts of other humanitarian workers.
And he urges others to devote themselves to the small, humble work that had defined the last several decades of his life.
And it's this service and modesty that he demonstrated that finally I think in some ways allows him to redeem himself for the failures of the time when he was in office. In fact, a lot of people say Carter was a better former president than he was president.
At one point, one of his biographers, Kai Bird, said Carter's the only president ever to use the White House as a stepping stone to doing bigger things. And it earned Carter a lot of respect, even among Republicans who otherwise didn't particularly like him and Democrats who were kind of disappointed in him.
But certainly I think the way most Americans remember Carter today is the man from Plains, Georgia, who's trying to use his platform of a former president to achieve things that, in fact, he couldn't do while in office. the modern presidency in some ways requires compromises he wasn't really willing to make and kind of performances that he wasn't maybe capable of.
And every successor, everybody who's come after him has thought about how not to be the kind of president Jimmy Carter was, even as they respect the kind of man that Jimmy Carter was. And that's why, for good or bad, it feels like we're never going to see someone like Jimmy Carter in the presidency again. Peter, thank you very much. Thank you. Appreciate it.
I've never seen it. I've covered politics 38 years and studied elections for long before that. I cannot think of an election that was this close, this close to election day.
The polls show we don't even want to talk to people who are on the other side. You know, they used to do polls back in the early 60s. They asked, would it bother you if your son or daughter married somebody from the other party? And about 4% or 5% at the time said, yes, today it's closer to 50%, right? I don't want no Republican at my Thanksgiving table.
I don't want no Democrat coming for Christmas. We don't want to be communicating with the other. And we're not communicating with each other. And therefore, having this conversation means you're on one side or the other. It's us versus them.
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