Posted by Doug Draper on Niagara At Large
December 29th, 2024
former U.S. President and humanitarian extraordinaire Jimmy Carter
In my view, for what it is worth, no one as decent and as honest as Jimmy Carter has ever served as President of the United States since at least the end of the Second World War.
Even after he left office the Oval Office in 1981, he continued to devote his life to humanity effort as a founding member of Habitat for Humanity and in so many other ways.
The first and only U.S. president to install solar panels on the roof of the White House, he also continued to champion renewable energy and so many other causes aimed at making life better for people and other life on this planet.
Then U.S. President Jimmy Carter in Niagara Falls, New York in 1980, with Lois Gibbs, president of the then Love Canal Homeowners’ Association, after signing a second emergency declaration, to help Gibbs’ family and hundreds of others evacuate their homes around the Love Canal toxic waste dump.
While still president Jimmy Carter also made a big mark on the American side of the Niagara River when, during his presidency, he declared not one, but two federal emergencies that allowed hundreds of families to escape, without losing what they had invested in their homes, from buried industrial poisons spreading through the Love Canal neighbourhood where they lived.
The last news I read on him was that he mustered up all the energy he had at the age of 100 to cast his ballot for U.S. presidential candidate Kamala Harris this past November.
One can only imagine how broke hearted he must have felt when he learned that Donald Trump beat her.
Jimmy Carter visited Niagara with his wife Rosalyn at least once since he left political office and expressed his love for the natural heritage here.
In his memory, let’s double down in our efforts to protect and preserve that natural heritage.
RIP Jimmy Carter
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Doug Draper, Niagara At Large
To read a statement on the death of Jimmy Carter from Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, click on – https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/statements/2024/12/29/statement-prime-minister-passing-jimmy-carter .
To read a tribute Doug Draper wrote and posted on Niagara At Large on Jimmy Carter’s 100th birthday this past October 2024, click on – https://niagaraatlarge.com/2024/10/01/happy-100th-birthday-jimmy-carter-a-true-humanitarian-and-pioneering-climate-activist/
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I also agree with Doug that Carter was the most decent of presidents. His was a troubled administration but he did preside with calmness, lack of vanity, and tried to get America through troubled waters.
Bless him
Gail Benjafield
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It’s too bad that the leaders from around the world didn’t follow President Carter’s vision on the use of solar energy. We certainly would not be in the predicament that we are in today with Global Warming. https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2008/11/jimmy-carters-solar-panels/
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Beautifully said, Doug. Yes. A truly decent human who happened to be President of the USA. – Rosemary Drage Hale
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Nothing to add Doug but AMEN. A wonderful man and a wonderful wife and family as well. We need to restore decency to both public and private life. It seems to have disappeared. He was a devout Christian who actually LIVED his Christian ideals.
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