Jimmy Carter’s Biographer on the Late President’s Biggest Regret
KIRO Newsradio colleagues remember Pres. Jimmy Carter fondly
It's hard to find anyone to say anything negative about Jimmy Carter as a man and members of the KIRO Newsradio team are no exception.
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Former US President Jimmy Carter Remembered for Rising Above Politics
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President Jimmy Carter did more for the security of Israel than any American president other than Harry Truman.
Jimmy Carter’s legacy of radical pragmatism enabled him to broker peace between Egypt and Israel, and his approach can serve as a model for current leaders to address the Israeli-Palestinian
One of the world’s most complex regions hosted the humble Southerner’s biggest triumph and most stinging defeat, as seen on front pages of The Washington Post.
With the most powerful Arab army withdrawn, no other Arab army, including Syria’s, was in a military position to invade Israel.
President Jimmy Carter did more for the security of Israel than any American president other than Harry Truman.
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Early in his presidency, in May 1977, then-President Jimmy Carter gave a commencement speech at the University of Notre Dame that outlined a new approach to America’s role in the world: Carter said human rights should be a “fundamental tenet of our foreign policy.
As a member of the elite, informal club of U.S. presidents past and present, Jimmy Carter was uniquely positioned to do important work for his successors, whether Democrat or Republican.
As noted by diplomat Dennis Ross: “He [Carter] is the hero of Camp David, and the agreements would never have emerged without him. He played the role of mediator, often explaining each to the other. He literally drafted the Egyptian-Israeli part of the accords and held the summit together at the moments when it might otherwise have collapsed.”
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AP WAS THERE: Carter announces Middle East peace agreementOne of Jimmy Carter's crowning achievements as president was the Camp David talks that would deliver Israel's first peace agreement with an Arab nation and make Nobel Peace Prize winners of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin.
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Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has died at his home in Plains, Georgia. His death comes more than a year after the former president entered hospice care.
While Carter was celebrated for his part in the negotiations, Sadat was lambasted by his own countrymen. Carter said he viewed the Egyptian leader's death at the hands of jihadists as Sadat paying the ultimate price for peace they had brokered in the wooded mountains of Maryland.
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