{"id":29363,"date":"2024-12-30T13:37:07","date_gmt":"2024-12-30T13:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/30\/my-friend-jimmy-carter-will-be-remembered-long-after-other-presidents-are-forgotten-heres-why-gordon-brown\/"},"modified":"2024-12-30T13:37:07","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T13:37:07","slug":"my-friend-jimmy-carter-will-be-remembered-long-after-other-presidents-are-forgotten-heres-why-gordon-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/30\/my-friend-jimmy-carter-will-be-remembered-long-after-other-presidents-are-forgotten-heres-why-gordon-brown\/","title":{"rendered":"My friend Jimmy Carter will be remembered long after other presidents are forgotten. Here\u2019s why | Gordon Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>His rise to the Oval Office was meteoric. But what he did afterwards set the standard for statesmanship and public service<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gordon Brown was UK prime minister from 2007 to 2010<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Though Jimmy Carter was, at the age of 100, the US president who had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/dec\/29\/jimmy-carter-dead-longest-lived-us-president\">lived longer<\/a> than any of the other 45 occupants of the office, he will be remembered for a more important reason. He is, and will be, mourned in every country and continent where civil liberties are valued and peace has proved elusive; revered as the leader who stood with all those who faced imprisonment, torture or persecution for defending democracy and human rights. Carter gave oppressed people hope. I was proud to learn from him and to count him and his wonderful wife, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2023\/nov\/20\/rosalynn-carter-obituary\">Rosalynn<\/a> \u2013 who was also his closest adviser \u2013 as friends.<\/p>\n<p>How to assess such a life? History will probably see Carter\u2019s second act \u2013 his work as a former president \u2013 as more momentous than his four years in the Oval Office, from 1977 to 1981. In office, despite his negotiation of the landmark <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/1979\/mar\/27\/israel\">peace deal<\/a> between Israel and Egypt, he was engulfed by intractable problems \u2013 the first oil shock, rampant inflation that was to reach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.federalreservehistory.org\/essays\/great-inflation#:~:text=Inflation%20began%20ratcheting%20upward%20in,than%2014%20percent%20in%201980.\">14% in 1980<\/a> \u2013 and, with the rise of a militant Iran, the destabilisation of the Middle East, problems that condemned him to a one-term presidency.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2024\/dec\/30\/friend-jimmy-carter-remembered-statesmanship-public-service\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His rise to the Oval Office was meteoric. 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