Jimmy Carter has died today at age 100

Jimmy Carter, humanitarian and Nobel Peace Prize winner has died today at age 100.

The ongoing and unrelenting focus on humanitarian efforts which included peace and human rights enhancement worldwide characterized his life. He appeared to be sincere and care deeply about people; people he knew well and those he had never met. He worked to expand healthcare access, decrease social inequality and poverty, and eradicate disease. Jimmy Carter as President helped to increase advancements in green energy and consumer safety. After leaving the White House in 1981, he spent decades building houses with Habitat for Humanity, monitoring elections in dozens of countries, and helping decrease Guinea worm disease. On most Sundays, he taught Sunday school in his rural Georgia Baptist church (Maranatha Baptist Church).

He was a prolific author. His book, “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid” published in November 2006 provided a blueprint that could be utilized today to secure peace in the Middle East.

He did appear to have a relatively high level of intuition (objective methodology of determining this has been shown in earlier posts with genesis being Holland’s Theory of Career Choice) and empathy (see Holland’s Theory : Strengthening It for definition and dynamics of this construct) . This combination of traits in a US President in the 20th Century may help account for his record of peaceful accomplishments both during and outside of his years as US President.

History will rightfully place Jimmy Carter as one of the the greatest US Presidents and certainly the greatest current living President from the day he left office until his passing today. Jimmy Carter revealed in 2017 that he voted for Bernie Sanders in the Democratic Primaries. Jimmy Carter reportedly said “So we have got to get people involved. And you do that by being honest about the real problems they face and come up with real solutions.” He also reportedly said soon afterward: “Can y’all see why I voted for him?”

On a personal note, he was the first public figure that this author made a prediction (in 1975 in writing as part of a high school English class assignment ) about — Jimmy Carter would win the Democratic Iowa Caucus and Democratic Nomination — based not only upon his identified political views (content) in real time but how (process) he verbally communicated well appearing to be sincere and genuine and evidencing integrity with a relatively high level of intelligence.

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