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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJimmy Carter will be 97 years old a week from today on October 1
I think we should have a Jimmy Carter week starting from tomorrow.
mcar
(42,306 posts)Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)Put me down for bringing the peanut butter pralines.
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)He's our national treasure.
MustLoveBeagles
(11,593 posts)President Carter was underappreciated and (undeservedly) much maligned. As NurseJackie said he's a national treasure.
MyMission
(1,850 posts)Boiled fresh here in the south, or my preference is honey roasted.
Great idea to celebrate a great man.
Treefrog
(4,170 posts)One tough guy.
One of the best presidents ever, imo.
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malaise
(268,949 posts)He is one tough guy who loves life
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(268,949 posts)malaise
(268,949 posts)James Earl Carter's ancestors had lived in America since the 1630s. They were residents of Georgia since just after the Revolution. Jimmy Carters parents, Earl and Lillian Carter, owned a peanut farm and warehouse and a store outside the small town of Plains, Georgia. Earl was bright, hardworking, and a very good businessman. "Miz" Lillian had been trained as a nurse, but abandoned her career when she became pregnant soon after marriage. She named the first of her four children James Earl, for his father. Jimmy's mother, well read and curious about the world around her, crossed the then-strict lines of segregation in 1920s Georgia by counseling poor African American women on matters of health care.
The family became moderately prosperous, but when Jimmy was born in 1924, the first American president to be born in a hospital, he was taken back to a house that lacked electricity and indoor plumbing. By the time he was ten, the boy stacked produce from the family farm onto a wagon, hauled it into town, and sold it. He saved his money, and by the age of thirteen, he bought five houses around Plains that the Great Depression had put on the market at rock-bottom prices. These homes were rented to families in the area. His father was stern but proud of Jimmy. His mother, Lillian, while also demanding, nurtured and encouraged his reading.
Entertainment was hard to come by in the rural Georgia of the 1930s, and for Jimmy his mother's brother offered a glimpse of the outside world. Uncle Tom Gordy had joined the United States Navy, and sent postcards to the Carters from around the globe. His nephew was fascinated with all the exotic places depicted in the cards and began to tell his parents that someday he'd be in the Navy, too. Before he even entered high school he had written the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, to ask for a catalogue. In 1941, he graduated as class valedictorian of his tiny high school.
mitch96
(13,895 posts)I don't think I could stand it... He needs a good voodoo curse or a backpfeifengesicht.
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malaise
(268,949 posts)but I would love the obvious crimes in Georgia to finally destroy him. I would find that hilarious on several levels.
mitch96
(13,895 posts)mitch96
(13,895 posts)Hit it again and it went thru... weird, eh?
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