As former President Jimmy Carter remains in hospice care at his home in Plains, Georgia, many are considering his impact. The late AP special correspondent Walter Mears wrote about Carter's life as an international envoy of peacemaking and democracy.
The man who conceded that some considered him “a failed president” made himself the most active and internationally engaged of ex-presidents. “My role as a former president is probably superior to that of other presidents,” he said in a 2010 television interview.
He won the Democratic nomination and challenged President Gerald Ford, Nixon’s appointed vice president. He won the beginnings of an energy conservation policy. He gained ratification of the treaties that yielded U.S. control of the Panama Canal. He opened full diplomatic relations with China. The departments of energy and education were created. But his administration struggled and Carter shook up his Cabinet amid “a crisis of confidence.”On Nov. 4, 1979, Iranian demonstrators invaded the U.S.
After he lost his presidential re-election bid, a shaken Carter retreated to Plains, to “an altogether new, unwanted” chapter in his life.He began the Carter Center which, he said later, offered “superior opportunities to do good.” He and Rosalynn also worked with Habitat for Humanity, building housing for the poor in the United States and abroad.
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