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Jimmy Carter, Former U.S. President and Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Dies at 100
Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the U.S., who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts in resolving international conflicts, died at 100.
Elected in the wake of the Watergate scandal, Carter was unknown nationally when he began his presidential campaign in December 1974, with pundits asking, “Jimmy who?” He even appeared on the game show “What’s My Line,” in which a panel of celebrities, usually blindfolded, try to guess a guest’s profession is. His personal biography — a Georgia peanut farmer, with a wide grin, from the small town of Plains — seemed like a breath of fresh air against a Washington still reeling from the resignation of Richard Nixon, his pardon by his successor Gerald R. Ford and the after-effects of failed American policy in Vietnam. His presidency paralleled the disco era and what could best be described as “rural chic,” with movies like “Smokey and the Bandit” and TV shows like “The Dukes of Hazzard” drawing on Southern humor while avoiding the thorny civil rights struggles of the previous decade.
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