Jimmy Carter lived longer than any other U.S. president

My name is Jimmy Carter. From Georgia peanut farmer to president of the United States. The people are looking for honest answers, not easy answers. Jimmy Carter served one term in the White House. People did not expect him to win. But he really was able to capture this anti-Watergate, anti-Washing mood. Carter's most notable achievements were on the foreign policy front the Camp David Accords, the Panama Canal treaties, and the establishment of US diplomatic relations with China. And I was able to do *** number of good things when I was, which I'm very grateful, and that was *** high point of my life, politically speaking. He faced Soviet aggression abroad while battling high inflation and an energy crisis at home. The Iran hostage crisis dominated the last year of Carter's presidency. *** failed secret rescue mission doomed him politically. America, the most powerful country on the planet, was really powerless. His greatest regret I wish I had sent one more helicopter to get the hostages and uh we would have rescued them and I, I would have been re-elected, but that may have. But he said 4 more years in the White House would have delayed the founding of the Carter Center, which he started in 1982 with his wife Rosalyn, and what came after their years in the White House set *** model for *** life post-presidency. The Carter Center's work focused on global health and democracy. He traveled the world to promote free and fair elections. *** champion of human rights, Carter was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002. And he spent decades volunteering his time building homes with Habitat for Humanity. Then in 2015, Carter was diagnosed with cancer. When asked at that time about his greatest accomplishment, his answer was simple. Well, the best thing I ever did was marry. Over his remaining years, he often said he leaned on his faith in God as the cancer went into remission. Then in February of 2023, he entered hospice care at His wife's health failing too, and in November their 77 year love story came to *** close. Tell him I beat him and I'm waiting on him. The former first lady's funeral marked the final time we saw President Carter in public. He was unable to speak, so their daughter read an old love letter he wrote to Roselyn. When I see you, I fall in love with you all over again. Does that seem strange to you? It doesn't to me. Goodbye darling until tomorrow, Jimmy, and in Washington, I'm Kayla Norwood.