WEBVTT - Jimmy Carter 1924-2024 0:00:02.880 --> 0:00:06.720 Hello everyone, and welcome to a special edition of Amy 0:00:06.760 --> 0:00:10.160 and TJ. We are coming to you with some sad, 0:00:10.880 --> 0:00:15.120 some breaking news that the thirty ninth President of the 0:00:15.200 --> 0:00:18.239 United States, the longest living president here in this country, 0:00:18.720 --> 0:00:22.360 Jimmy Carter, has died at the age of one hundred. 0:00:22.360 --> 0:00:27.000 It happened around three forty five pm on Sunday afternoon 0:00:27.040 --> 0:00:30.280 at his home in Plains, Georgia, and so many people 0:00:30.280 --> 0:00:34.120 are now reflecting and remembering a president that so many 0:00:34.240 --> 0:00:38.640 said was the best former president this country has ever had. 0:00:39.320 --> 0:00:43.640 That's almost the leading line in everything you read about 0:00:43.720 --> 0:00:46.240 him and everything that folks say about him. And it's true. 0:00:46.280 --> 0:00:49.599 He is the I don't think there's any argument about that, 0:00:49.680 --> 0:00:51.920 but to the point that people almost forget his presidency. 0:00:51.960 --> 0:00:56.720 But it's tough to you always mourn than someone's passing. 0:00:56.800 --> 0:01:00.720 But man, if there's anybody with a life worth celebrating, 0:01:01.400 --> 0:01:05.080 it's this guy. You hear about his passing, you before 0:01:05.080 --> 0:01:08.120 you get sad, you almost smile a little and go 0:01:08.240 --> 0:01:13.160 oh uh, like wow, what a sweet guy. A sweet life, 0:01:13.240 --> 0:01:17.360 a sweet story, and almost even a sweet death to 0:01:17.400 --> 0:01:21.440 a certain degree. At his home planes Georgia at one hundred. 0:01:21.520 --> 0:01:24.880 He made it to one hundred. I mean, what a life. 0:01:24.880 --> 0:01:25.560 It's incredible. 0:01:25.640 --> 0:01:28.000 It is incredible. It is incredible. And you know we 0:01:28.000 --> 0:01:31.160 were talking about this. Anyone who has worked in a newsroom, 0:01:31.480 --> 0:01:34.600 and we've certainly been a newsroom since the mid nineties 0:01:35.680 --> 0:01:38.759 already had a Jimmy Carter oh bit ready to go. 0:01:39.360 --> 0:01:45.240 And I have never recalled more moments thinking someone had 0:01:45.280 --> 0:01:49.160 died or was about to die or could die than 0:01:49.960 --> 0:01:52.240 being ready and prepared for Jimmy Carter's passing. 0:01:52.280 --> 0:01:54.520 And yet it never happened. I mean, think about it. 0:01:54.560 --> 0:01:57.320 Even recently in twenty nineteen. 0:01:57.080 --> 0:02:02.440 He had a fall and that so my grandpa, it 0:02:02.520 --> 0:02:04.040 happened to him. When you get to a certain ager 0:02:04.080 --> 0:02:06.400 in your nineties, you fall, you break your hip, that's it. 0:02:06.920 --> 0:02:08.120 No, he kept going. 0:02:08.120 --> 0:02:10.760 And then four years before that, I think everyone remembers, 0:02:11.120 --> 0:02:14.359 he had liver cancer. Then he was diagnosed with metastatic 0:02:14.400 --> 0:02:16.160 melanoma that had spread to his brain. 0:02:16.240 --> 0:02:17.240 He thought that was gonna be. 0:02:17.160 --> 0:02:19.440 It, right, I mean, he was at that point in 0:02:19.480 --> 0:02:21.960 his nineties again. So and then months later he announced 0:02:22.000 --> 0:02:25.600 he was cancer free and no longer needed treatment because 0:02:25.639 --> 0:02:28.119 of a new type of cancer therapy. Here's the other 0:02:28.160 --> 0:02:33.200 remarkable thing. He has been in hospice care since February 0:02:33.200 --> 0:02:36.440 of twenty twenty three, so almost for two years. That 0:02:36.560 --> 0:02:40.400 is remarkable, and saw the passing of his beloved wife 0:02:40.440 --> 0:02:42.680 of seventy seven years, almost a year ago. Actually it 0:02:42.720 --> 0:02:48.240 was November nineteenth, twenty twenty three that Rosalind passed, and 0:02:48.280 --> 0:02:52.079 at her funeral, if we remember seeing him, he was weakened, 0:02:52.120 --> 0:02:54.120 he was feeble, he was in a wheelchair. He couldn't 0:02:54.120 --> 0:02:57.959 even speak, or chose not to. His daughter Amy read 0:02:57.960 --> 0:03:00.440 a letter that he had written to her seventy five 0:03:00.520 --> 0:03:02.720 years ago while he was in the Navy on his behalf, 0:03:03.080 --> 0:03:05.080 and it was moving and beautiful, but he was in 0:03:05.120 --> 0:03:07.120 such poor shape. I think a lot of us thought, well, 0:03:07.960 --> 0:03:11.400 now that Rosalind's gone and all of he's still he 0:03:12.240 --> 0:03:15.000 lasted a full year plus. 0:03:15.480 --> 0:03:20.160 It sounds morbid, but this happens in every single newsroom 0:03:20.240 --> 0:03:23.840 you step in. There are folks. I think Queen Elizabeth 0:03:23.880 --> 0:03:26.840 is one person that there has been no bit in 0:03:27.120 --> 0:03:31.880 every newsroom ready to go for decades, literally decades. I'm 0:03:32.200 --> 0:03:35.320 sure they have them for the King now ready to go. 0:03:35.440 --> 0:03:38.200 I mean, it's just what happens when folks get of 0:03:38.280 --> 0:03:40.080 that age, and you know, it's going to be a 0:03:40.120 --> 0:03:45.840 big story when they pass, So this is one that 0:03:45.880 --> 0:03:49.640 he was holding on. Jimmy Carter would not. 0:03:50.040 --> 0:03:53.680 Go yes, and then you had to keep updating. 0:03:53.720 --> 0:03:55.280 So I was one of the people who had to 0:03:55.400 --> 0:03:59.680 read and record these obituaries in anticipation of someone's passing. 0:03:59.680 --> 0:04:04.520 And so I fully remember reading Jimmy Carter's obituary or 0:04:04.560 --> 0:04:07.600 reading it into a microphone to be recorded ten years ago, 0:04:08.000 --> 0:04:11.720 fifteen years ago, and certainly recently people were thinking it 0:04:11.760 --> 0:04:13.440 was going to happen soon. So this is a guy 0:04:13.480 --> 0:04:18.840 who I think it's been incredible to see him continue 0:04:18.880 --> 0:04:24.000 on and continue on strong. His grandson actually talked about 0:04:24.120 --> 0:04:27.000 how Jimmy was. It's weird to say Jimmy Jimmy Carter. 0:04:27.240 --> 0:04:30.240 President Carter was even in the last few years, and 0:04:30.720 --> 0:04:34.280 while in hospice, his grandson Jason said that Jimmy Carter 0:04:34.400 --> 0:04:38.200 remained mentally and emotionally engaged in what was going on 0:04:38.279 --> 0:04:40.480 around him. And in the news we got word that 0:04:40.520 --> 0:04:43.320 he voted in this past election, just after turning one 0:04:43.400 --> 0:04:46.000 hundred for Vice President Kamala Harris. 0:04:46.040 --> 0:04:46.840 He did it by mail. 0:04:46.880 --> 0:04:48.960 He didn't actually go into a voting booth, but he 0:04:49.200 --> 0:04:53.279 was emotionally intellectually engaged in the world. 0:04:53.480 --> 0:04:55.719 You know, well, I'm trying to think of stories, but 0:04:56.000 --> 0:04:58.520 we didn't hear any ever coming out because we saw 0:04:58.600 --> 0:05:02.680 him active even in his nineties about him having any 0:05:02.720 --> 0:05:06.440 type of mental decline. No, he was active around the 0:05:06.480 --> 0:05:12.960 world literally and engaged in conflict resolution or election fairness. 0:05:13.000 --> 0:05:16.240 He was engaged. And I'm trying it. I'm stopping for 0:05:16.320 --> 0:05:20.400 a moment, but we did not have those reports about him. 0:05:20.800 --> 0:05:23.880 So to hear his family say that about him, I 0:05:23.880 --> 0:05:24.599 guess makes sense. 0:05:24.640 --> 0:05:25.360 It's pretty cool. 0:05:25.400 --> 0:05:27.880 And I was you know, you said earlier when we 0:05:27.920 --> 0:05:30.800 started the podcast about him, that you, even though you 0:05:30.880 --> 0:05:33.920 know he's passed, you still feel like you want a smile, 0:05:34.000 --> 0:05:36.479 that he brings a smile to your face thinking about 0:05:36.520 --> 0:05:38.560 how he lived his life. And there are a lot 0:05:38.560 --> 0:05:40.520 of things we think of when we think of Jimmy Carter, 0:05:40.920 --> 0:05:43.599 but I for me, maybe this is the emotional woman 0:05:43.600 --> 0:05:45.279 in me, but the one I remember the story that 0:05:45.320 --> 0:05:47.919 I think stands out so much, even beyond all of 0:05:47.920 --> 0:05:51.640 his incredible political achievements. And he's a Nobel Peace Prize winner, 0:05:52.000 --> 0:05:54.640 just one of four US presidents ever to have that honor, 0:05:54.880 --> 0:05:57.840 so obviously he's accomplished so much professionally. But I think 0:05:57.880 --> 0:06:00.599 of the love story. I think of the love story 0:06:00.640 --> 0:06:03.360 between him and Rosalind, and I just think sometimes we 0:06:04.080 --> 0:06:08.880 need those types of stories to speak when things feel bleak. 0:06:08.960 --> 0:06:10.680 And I was reading. 0:06:10.760 --> 0:06:13.080 Part of I mentioned it earlier, the letter that his 0:06:13.200 --> 0:06:16.240 daughter Amy read, that he wrote to her while he 0:06:16.360 --> 0:06:19.040 was serving in the navy. We were learning about him 0:06:19.080 --> 0:06:21.839 as we were going back into his history seven years 0:06:21.880 --> 0:06:23.159 as a naval officer, and. 0:06:23.080 --> 0:06:26.640 I forgot a lot of that served the second nuclear 0:06:26.680 --> 0:06:28.920 submarine in the US history. 0:06:29.480 --> 0:06:33.200 What if you forget all of the early daring things 0:06:33.200 --> 0:06:34.839 that some of these great men have done, and Jimmy 0:06:34.839 --> 0:06:35.600 Carter is among them. 0:06:35.640 --> 0:06:38.400 But while he was in service, he wrote, Can I just. 0:06:38.360 --> 0:06:41.599 Read a little bit of the letter that Amy read, 0:06:41.640 --> 0:06:44.280 because this just just makes me so happy. This is 0:06:44.560 --> 0:06:47.040 Jimmy Carter to his wife Rosalind, while he was serving 0:06:47.080 --> 0:06:50.280 in the navy. My darling, every time I have ever 0:06:50.320 --> 0:06:52.760 been away from you, I have been thrilled when I 0:06:52.839 --> 0:06:57.160 returned to discover just how wonderful you are. While I 0:06:57.240 --> 0:06:59.640 am away, I try to convince myself that you really 0:06:59.680 --> 0:07:02.960 are not could not be as sweet and beautiful as 0:07:03.000 --> 0:07:05.919 I remember. But when I see you, I fall in 0:07:05.960 --> 0:07:07.640 love with you all over again. 0:07:08.960 --> 0:07:10.560 Wow. Okay, that's good. 0:07:10.720 --> 0:07:12.320 That's amazing. 0:07:12.640 --> 0:07:13.320 Okay, that's good. 0:07:13.720 --> 0:07:17.120 That is so sweet, And it's been pretty cool not 0:07:17.400 --> 0:07:20.480 He's survived by his four children. They had four children together, 0:07:20.600 --> 0:07:24.720 John who was Jack Chip, Jeff, and their daughter Amy, 0:07:24.720 --> 0:07:27.200 who I think we all remember being in the White House. 0:07:27.200 --> 0:07:30.200 I remember seeing her so much in all the news coverage. 0:07:30.200 --> 0:07:34.400 But he also had eleven grandchildren, fourteen great grand children. 0:07:34.440 --> 0:07:37.000 And I just love that the love story between him 0:07:37.000 --> 0:07:39.440 and Rosalind was, yes for us all to witness, but 0:07:39.520 --> 0:07:41.960 for them to benefit from it. It's just it was 0:07:42.000 --> 0:07:46.520 a huge, beautiful part of his incredible story that I've 0:07:46.560 --> 0:07:50.160 had a lot of. I've actually enjoyed getting to know 0:07:50.240 --> 0:07:55.240 him even more reading about all that he accomplished in 0:07:55.280 --> 0:08:01.080 his life. 0:08:04.840 --> 0:08:06.960 You stop folks on the street these days, I mean, 0:08:06.960 --> 0:08:08.880 how much can you can folks tell you about his 0:08:08.920 --> 0:08:12.240 presidency versus what they can tell you about his life. 0:08:12.840 --> 0:08:16.120 I guess he had forty plus years outside of I mean, 0:08:16.120 --> 0:08:17.640 he was a fairly young guy when he left the 0:08:17.640 --> 0:08:20.120 White House mid fifties. I think it was that's a 0:08:20.160 --> 0:08:22.720 lot of life. Yeah, and he did a lot with 0:08:22.880 --> 0:08:29.280 it afterwards. That's he is known as a as not. 0:08:29.680 --> 0:08:31.840 I don't know. What can you tell me about his presidency. 0:08:32.240 --> 0:08:34.040 We can tell you about some of the failures and 0:08:34.040 --> 0:08:36.720 why he might have left the White House is yes, 0:08:37.480 --> 0:08:39.200 I can tell you about elections. I can tell you 0:08:39.200 --> 0:08:44.520 about conflict resolution. I can tell you about disease eradication. Right, 0:08:44.600 --> 0:08:47.480 all these things I know I can see him doing 0:08:48.400 --> 0:08:49.600 after his presidency. 0:08:49.880 --> 0:08:52.600 You know what's cool. I think so much of our. 0:08:54.840 --> 0:08:58.880 Disdain or even just I don't know, you're just not 0:08:59.520 --> 0:09:02.959 into politics because of politicians, right, they aren't what they seem. 0:09:03.640 --> 0:09:05.920 They're in it for the power and the greed and 0:09:06.000 --> 0:09:08.120 the career. He wasn't in it for any of those things. 0:09:08.120 --> 0:09:10.240 And I think everyone can agree he was there for 0:09:10.280 --> 0:09:12.560 all the right reasons. So, yes, he might have had 0:09:12.600 --> 0:09:16.360 an average one term presidency. But to your point, he 0:09:16.400 --> 0:09:20.440 did so much with that platform beyond the presidency that 0:09:20.679 --> 0:09:22.360 is remarkable. I mean, I did find out. 0:09:22.400 --> 0:09:24.560 I don't. I'm kind of embarrassed to admit this. 0:09:24.679 --> 0:09:28.080 I didn't realize that while he was president, several of 0:09:28.080 --> 0:09:31.440 his victories included establishing the Department of Education, which we'll 0:09:31.440 --> 0:09:34.280 see what happens with Trump because He's talked about completely 0:09:34.600 --> 0:09:37.360 disassembling the Department of Education, so that would be an 0:09:37.360 --> 0:09:41.040 interesting moment, and then also the Department of Energy. 0:09:42.120 --> 0:09:42.840 I think a lot of. 0:09:42.880 --> 0:09:45.880 Us who are a certain age remember his probably his 0:09:45.880 --> 0:09:49.200 most notable achievement the Camp David Accords. He broke with 0:09:49.200 --> 0:09:54.040 the deal between Israel and Egypt that led to Egypt 0:09:54.080 --> 0:09:56.280 Israel peace treaty the following year. So that was kind 0:09:56.320 --> 0:10:00.800 of the big, big notch in his belt. But then conversely, 0:10:00.840 --> 0:10:07.040 the Iran hostage crisis pretty much ended his presidency. It's 0:10:07.040 --> 0:10:09.000 the reason, one of the many reasons, but probably the 0:10:09.040 --> 0:10:11.560 biggest reason why he was not re elected. 0:10:12.280 --> 0:10:15.440 You hit on something great there at the beginning about 0:10:16.320 --> 0:10:20.320 how he's viewed. If you watched him in his life 0:10:20.440 --> 0:10:22.760 after he left the White House, you would never look 0:10:22.800 --> 0:10:26.079 at that guy and think he was a Democrat, former Republican, 0:10:26.160 --> 0:10:29.160 or a former Democratic president. He was a former president. 0:10:29.559 --> 0:10:32.040 And when you start viewing people as human beings and 0:10:32.120 --> 0:10:35.840 just as humanitarians and just as I don't know, as 0:10:35.880 --> 0:10:39.760 people who aren't on one side or the other, maybe 0:10:39.760 --> 0:10:42.720 you start to get viewed differently. But yeah, he wasn't 0:10:42.800 --> 0:10:44.360 partisan once he left the White House. 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:46.120 That's a really good point, and. 0:10:47.600 --> 0:10:52.959 He took his platform and created the Carter Presidential Center. 0:10:53.120 --> 0:10:55.360 That was in nineteen eighty two, and that is what 0:10:55.640 --> 0:10:59.000 ultimately ended up leading to his Nobel Peace Prize in 0:10:59.000 --> 0:11:02.560 two thousand and two because he took that foundation and 0:11:02.600 --> 0:11:08.079 he focused on ending conflicts, on promoting human rights and democracy, 0:11:08.080 --> 0:11:12.079 youth at, preventing disease, all of those things. He volunteered 0:11:12.120 --> 0:11:17.800 to mediate disputes between the US and North Korea and Libya. 0:11:18.120 --> 0:11:22.559 He all remembered Sorry Habitat for Humanity in nineteen eighty four, 0:11:22.600 --> 0:11:25.480 that's an Atlanta based organization. He and Rosalind joined that 0:11:25.840 --> 0:11:29.800 and were huge advocates and supporters of that organization. 0:11:29.880 --> 0:11:32.200 So his life was truly of service. 0:11:32.960 --> 0:11:36.160 Also interesting, I didn't know this. In between his seven 0:11:36.200 --> 0:11:39.480 years as a naval officer and entering politics in nineteen 0:11:39.520 --> 0:11:42.840 sixty two, he was a two term state senator. He 0:11:43.440 --> 0:11:47.360 for eight years was simply a farmer. He was he 0:11:47.640 --> 0:11:51.360 worked his family farm, the peanut farm in plains, Georgia, Maya. 0:11:51.520 --> 0:11:53.880 I don't know why I remember this story, my mom 0:11:54.000 --> 0:11:59.240 telling me this story about everybody, the election happening, whatever 0:11:59.320 --> 0:12:04.040 year that was, seventy seventy sixty six, she said, Yeah, 0:12:04.040 --> 0:12:06.640 we all went to bed one night and woke up 0:12:06.679 --> 0:12:10.880 and said, who's president. It was such a surprise. It's 0:12:11.000 --> 0:12:14.000 peanut farmer from Georgia is now the president of the 0:12:14.040 --> 0:12:16.520 United States. I always remember being funny as a kid 0:12:16.559 --> 0:12:17.480 telling me that story. 0:12:18.360 --> 0:12:20.720 Yeah, because you were born in nineteen seventy seven. So 0:12:21.200 --> 0:12:25.320 the president that was the current president was Jimmy Carter. 0:12:25.880 --> 0:12:28.240 When and I remember, oh, my brother and I. 0:12:28.200 --> 0:12:31.319 Used to imitate Jimmy Carter from Georgia, the peanut farmer, 0:12:31.360 --> 0:12:32.680 like we would try to do his accent. 0:12:32.840 --> 0:12:34.360 And I mean I remember doing that as. 0:12:34.240 --> 0:12:35.800 A good and you know, we would we would put 0:12:35.840 --> 0:12:38.200 up the peace side peace because even then, as a 0:12:38.240 --> 0:12:41.160 little kid, I knew that Jimmy Carter stood for peace. 0:12:41.320 --> 0:12:43.680 It's it's kind of funny, but I have such a 0:12:43.880 --> 0:12:48.160 memory of that, and it's something he stood for his 0:12:48.320 --> 0:12:50.360 entire life. It wasn't just in the moment. It wasn't 0:12:50.400 --> 0:12:53.280 just to win an election, which is pretty cool. Also, 0:12:54.080 --> 0:12:55.840 I was looking this up and I think the numbers 0:12:55.840 --> 0:12:57.520 we right. He wrote and I want to say at 0:12:57.640 --> 0:13:00.079 least but he wrote thirty two books. From what I 0:12:59.880 --> 0:13:00.760 can gather. 0:13:00.720 --> 0:13:01.400 It's impressive. 0:13:01.640 --> 0:13:03.560 Thirty two books. 0:13:04.200 --> 0:13:07.559 They range from his political philosophy to his deep faith. 0:13:07.600 --> 0:13:10.800 He was a Christian man, he actually was born again 0:13:11.240 --> 0:13:12.959 a Christian, and a. 0:13:12.880 --> 0:13:15.199 Book all about his mother. I mean, he he had 0:13:15.320 --> 0:13:16.040 so much to say. 0:13:16.080 --> 0:13:18.599 And the cool thing is that it lives on, you know, 0:13:19.360 --> 0:13:21.520 not just in his family, but in his words and 0:13:21.559 --> 0:13:23.400 in his books and all thirty two of them. 0:13:23.440 --> 0:13:25.280 Apparently that's a lot of writing. 0:13:27.120 --> 0:13:31.480 That's so important. And again it's we we're so aware 0:13:31.480 --> 0:13:33.960 of him in news stories when he pops up here 0:13:34.040 --> 0:13:36.680 or there, there's a birthday, or he does something daring, 0:13:36.840 --> 0:13:40.040 or he's somewhere around the world. But it has been 0:13:40.120 --> 0:13:43.880 interesting and just reading up on him and you go, oh, oh, 0:13:43.960 --> 0:13:46.319 that's right. Oh I forgot about that. Oh I didn't 0:13:46.360 --> 0:13:49.800 know that, And that's a lot of that is has 0:13:49.840 --> 0:13:53.280 been interesting. I forgot completely even that he was a 0:13:53.360 --> 0:13:54.000 naval officer. 0:13:54.160 --> 0:13:56.000 Yeah, I don't know that I knew he was. 0:13:57.040 --> 0:13:59.640 Forgot that completely right. And how he made his way 0:13:59.720 --> 0:14:02.680 up through the ranks, and how he had one career 0:14:02.800 --> 0:14:07.160 kind of derailed, if you will, because his father passed 0:14:07.160 --> 0:14:10.679 and he went back to run the family peanut farms. 0:14:10.679 --> 0:14:13.760 Pretty remarkable. That's a huge He was a peanut farmer. 0:14:13.800 --> 0:14:15.319 I said he was the son of a peanut farmer, 0:14:15.360 --> 0:14:18.640 but he actually became a peanut farmer himself, in between 0:14:18.880 --> 0:14:23.320 a storied naval career and a pretty incredible political career 0:14:23.360 --> 0:14:26.240 that he rose very quickly. You know, it's funny. I 0:14:26.280 --> 0:14:29.760 met him one time in my life. I was in 0:14:29.840 --> 0:14:33.560 my second year at w CBD TV two Action News 0:14:33.560 --> 0:14:36.120 in Charleston, South Carolina, and he came in. He was actually, 0:14:36.160 --> 0:14:38.600 I think, being interviewed by I actually think it was 0:14:38.600 --> 0:14:41.520 Good Morning America. We were the ABC affiliate, so he 0:14:41.640 --> 0:14:45.160 just used our studios to do the talk back, and 0:14:45.240 --> 0:14:48.200 everybody was so excited, and we didn't have phones back then, 0:14:48.240 --> 0:14:50.840 but we had cameras and people were getting pictures taken 0:14:50.880 --> 0:14:52.960 with him, and I didn't want to bother him. I 0:14:53.000 --> 0:14:56.240 shook his hand, I met him, but I so badly 0:14:56.240 --> 0:14:57.680 wanted to get a picture, but then I just didn't 0:14:57.720 --> 0:15:01.000 want to add to him feeling overwhelmed, so I didn't 0:15:01.000 --> 0:15:02.920 get one. And I it's always one of those moments 0:15:02.920 --> 0:15:05.080 where like I wish I had, Like I just didn't 0:15:05.120 --> 0:15:07.600 want to bother him, but and I think maybe if 0:15:07.600 --> 0:15:09.360 I had had a phone and you could do a selfie, 0:15:09.400 --> 0:15:11.320 it would have been easier, but I just felt like 0:15:11.360 --> 0:15:13.480 I didn't want to join in on the line waiting 0:15:13.480 --> 0:15:14.520 to get a picture with him. 0:15:15.040 --> 0:15:18.280 Don't feel that way. You You have a story to tell, 0:15:18.400 --> 0:15:22.440 you have an experience to tell, and reducing Yule's relationship 0:15:22.920 --> 0:15:25.960 just a photo would have changed the dynamic and change 0:15:26.000 --> 0:15:26.520 the story. 0:15:26.640 --> 0:15:27.120 That's true. 0:15:27.160 --> 0:15:30.600 And I remember watching him be so kind and so patient, 0:15:30.640 --> 0:15:32.400 and that's why I was like, oh, I don't want 0:15:32.440 --> 0:15:35.720 to add to but I remember thinking how I mean, 0:15:35.760 --> 0:15:38.840 he was an older man, like, Wow, he's getting up there. 0:15:38.880 --> 0:15:41.520 And to think that now, I mean that was seriously 0:15:41.800 --> 0:15:42.960 almost thirty years ago. 0:15:43.920 --> 0:15:45.960 He was in his like mid or late seventies, and 0:15:46.000 --> 0:15:47.840 I thought, oh, you know, he's getting up there. 0:15:48.200 --> 0:15:51.320 If you had told me, hey, Amy, in thirty years, 0:15:51.520 --> 0:15:53.880 he's still going to be around, like what you got, 0:15:53.880 --> 0:15:57.720 it's remarkable remark because to think that I was that 0:15:57.840 --> 0:16:00.440 young and thought he was that old and he just 0:16:00.520 --> 0:16:11.360 now passed, that's a pretty dang good life. 0:16:11.720 --> 0:16:15.440 I don't know what his his regimen was, what his yea, 0:16:15.560 --> 0:16:17.920 his diet was. I don't know if he's ever put 0:16:17.960 --> 0:16:20.200 that out. I mean just maybe it's just good jeans. 0:16:20.720 --> 0:16:23.080 Who knows what it is? Or just good living, or 0:16:23.120 --> 0:16:25.040 maybe the Good Lord said we need this one to 0:16:25.080 --> 0:16:28.560 stick around for a while because he's doing good. Who knows. Yeah, 0:16:28.600 --> 0:16:34.359 but that dude and his wife, what a year Yeah apart, 0:16:35.000 --> 0:16:37.240 she was ninety. 0:16:36.320 --> 0:16:40.200 Six, she was ninety six, I believe, Yes, unbelievable. That's 0:16:40.200 --> 0:16:44.280 a sweet, amazing life. You don't hear about love stories 0:16:44.320 --> 0:16:48.200 and lives like that. And yeah, they are together now. 0:16:48.240 --> 0:16:50.480 I love thinking about that. We were also getting we 0:16:50.520 --> 0:16:53.520 want to mention a lot of reaction, as you might imagine, 0:16:53.600 --> 0:16:57.400 from former presidents, but even the current one, President Joe Biden, 0:16:57.440 --> 0:16:58.880 and we were going to read a couple of the 0:17:00.000 --> 0:17:03.360 some of the really lovely words that we're hearing from 0:17:03.360 --> 0:17:05.520 our leaders about the passing of Jimmy Carter. So I'll 0:17:05.520 --> 0:17:09.600 start with President Biden. He says, today America and the 0:17:09.600 --> 0:17:15.439 world lost an extraordinary leader, statesman, and humanitarian. Over six decades, 0:17:15.600 --> 0:17:18.679 we had the honor of calling Jimmy Carter a dear friend. 0:17:19.160 --> 0:17:22.000 But what's extraordinary about Jimmy Carter, though, is that millions 0:17:22.040 --> 0:17:24.360 of people throughout America and the world who never met 0:17:24.440 --> 0:17:28.040 him thought of him as a dear friend as well. 0:17:28.160 --> 0:17:30.240 I think that is so true, and I was going 0:17:30.320 --> 0:17:32.720 to skip down to the end of this because I 0:17:32.760 --> 0:17:34.960 thought this was really sweet. He said, to all of 0:17:34.960 --> 0:17:37.639 the young people in this nation, and for anyone in 0:17:37.680 --> 0:17:39.560 search of what it means to live a life of 0:17:39.600 --> 0:17:43.840 purpose and meaning, the good life, study Jimmy Carter, a 0:17:43.880 --> 0:17:47.520 man of principal faith and humility. He showed that we 0:17:47.680 --> 0:17:50.359 are a great nation because we are a good people, 0:17:50.720 --> 0:17:55.879 decent and honorable, courageous and compassionate, humble and strong. And 0:17:55.960 --> 0:17:58.919 President Biden said, he let a few of. 0:17:58.920 --> 0:17:59.560 The details out. 0:17:59.560 --> 0:18:02.359 He's going to be ordering an official state funeral. It'll 0:18:02.359 --> 0:18:06.800 be held in Washington, d c. For Jimmy Carter, who 0:18:06.800 --> 0:18:09.280 he says, he called I love that he gave all 0:18:09.280 --> 0:18:11.000 of his titles. I'm gonna read them because the're really cool. 0:18:11.280 --> 0:18:14.840 Thirty ninth President of the United States, seventy sixth Governor 0:18:14.880 --> 0:18:18.760 of Georgia, Lieutenant of the United States Navy, graduate of 0:18:18.800 --> 0:18:23.040 the United States Naval Academy, and favorite son of Plains Georgia, 0:18:23.440 --> 0:18:27.240 who gave his full life in service to God and country. 0:18:27.520 --> 0:18:31.400 That chokes me up even to hear that. And that's 0:18:31.440 --> 0:18:32.359 that was beautiful. 0:18:32.440 --> 0:18:36.879 That's really really well said yeah by President President Biden. 0:18:37.160 --> 0:18:38.600 A lot of the you know a lot of I 0:18:38.640 --> 0:18:41.959 was reading here from former President George W. Bush and 0:18:42.000 --> 0:18:43.480 it kind of went in line. I'm not going to 0:18:43.520 --> 0:18:46.080 read this whole thing here, but I'll pluck this line out, 0:18:46.200 --> 0:18:50.040 and it said he was a man of deeply held convictions. 0:18:50.040 --> 0:18:53.240 He was loyal to his family, his community, and his country. 0:18:53.520 --> 0:18:55.320 And this is the part I love ropes. He said, 0:18:55.400 --> 0:19:00.480 President Carter dignified the office. Wow, and his efforts to 0:19:00.560 --> 0:19:03.640 leave behind a better world didn't end with the presidency. 0:19:04.040 --> 0:19:09.119 That's awesome to hear that he dignified the office. 0:19:09.240 --> 0:19:12.399 That just gave me chills to hear that. That is 0:19:12.520 --> 0:19:14.359 really cool. That's beautiful. 0:19:15.400 --> 0:19:20.080 We're also hearing from President Bill Clinton. He talked about 0:19:20.080 --> 0:19:23.320 how he and Hillary were warning the passing of President 0:19:23.400 --> 0:19:27.360 Jimmy Carter. He mentioned, this is what President Clinton said, 0:19:27.359 --> 0:19:30.160 from his commitment to civil rights as a state senator 0:19:30.320 --> 0:19:32.960 and governor of Georgia, to his efforts as president to 0:19:33.000 --> 0:19:37.560 protect our natural resources in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, 0:19:37.720 --> 0:19:41.679 make energy conservation and national priority, return the Panama Canal 0:19:41.720 --> 0:19:45.159 to Panama, secure peace between injured in Israel, to his 0:19:45.200 --> 0:19:49.080 post presidential efforts at the Carter Center, supporting honest elections, 0:19:49.280 --> 0:19:53.720 advancing peace, combating disease, promoting democracy. I mean, he just 0:19:53.720 --> 0:19:55.440 goes on and on to list all of the things 0:19:55.480 --> 0:19:57.840 that Jimmy Carter did to make this country and this 0:19:57.920 --> 0:20:02.639 world a better place. Also mentions about how he was 0:20:02.680 --> 0:20:06.080 proud to have presented the Middle of Freedom to President 0:20:06.160 --> 0:20:09.000 Carter and Rosalind in nineteen ninety nine. I hadn't realized 0:20:09.040 --> 0:20:13.320 that either, But cool that President Clinton mentioned that as well. 0:20:14.000 --> 0:20:16.919 You know, there's a I'm reading through what the Obama's 0:20:17.000 --> 0:20:20.080 their statement, and it's very personal and it's a longer reading, 0:20:20.119 --> 0:20:23.240 and they kind of weave through a story that lands 0:20:23.320 --> 0:20:28.880 on this President Carter's decency, right, And I guess that's 0:20:29.000 --> 0:20:32.280 I know, people say nice things about people after they passed, right, 0:20:33.359 --> 0:20:36.200 But it seems like there's a theme that to this guy, 0:20:36.400 --> 0:20:40.920 and to a certainly to a politician, that's it stands out. 0:20:42.200 --> 0:20:44.280 So that's really kind of cool to see. And he 0:20:44.680 --> 0:20:48.320 ended up in office because of scandal. He was one 0:20:48.320 --> 0:20:50.240 that was helping to get our moral. 0:20:50.000 --> 0:20:52.160 Balance after the Watergate scandal. 0:20:52.280 --> 0:20:55.160 Yeah, so it's it's just to see now people talk 0:20:55.160 --> 0:20:57.800 about him in this way. Is it's kind of cool? 0:20:57.960 --> 0:21:01.639 Now we have to mention that President elect Trump, but 0:21:01.720 --> 0:21:07.480 out of statements as well, it has some Trump. 0:21:08.000 --> 0:21:10.080 Yes here, I've got it actually right in front of me. 0:21:10.119 --> 0:21:13.119 He said, this is quoting President elect Trump. I just 0:21:13.200 --> 0:21:15.520 heard of the news about the passing of President Jimmy Carter. 0:21:16.000 --> 0:21:18.080 Those of us who have been fortunate to have served 0:21:18.080 --> 0:21:21.800 as president understand this is a very exclusive club and 0:21:21.920 --> 0:21:24.720