Nobel prize winner Jimmy Carter’s push for peace ‘set a powerful model’ for ex-presidents despite brutal political blows
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JIMMY Carter set a powerful model for ex-presidents despite the political crises he faced in the White House. The beloved leader's legacy extended far beyond his one term in the Oval Office with his sad passing at the age of 100 marking the death of one of America's kindest souls.
![[Former President Jimmy Carter received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002]](https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2023/02/2002-nobel-peace-prize-chairman-797790838.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
James Earl Carter Jr. came from humble beginnings, born and raised on a peanut farm in Plains, Georgia,. He was also the only US Naval Academy graduate to be elected to the White House before he took public office. But it was Carter's background that was part of his appeal, according to political scientist and professor at the University of Oregon, Daniel Tichenor.
![[Carter was a peanut farmer and a navy man before he became president]](https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2023/02/grim-faced-president-jimmy-carter-523393958.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
Tichenor exclusively told The U.S. Sun, “[Carter] was kind of relatively inexperienced, but that was also his enormous appeal because most Americans had lost trust in government and the presidency in particular and feeling that it had been corrupted.".
![[The former president's legacy continued well beyond his years in the Oval Office]](https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2023/02/former-u-s-president-jimmy-796770768.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
Carter ran for president in 1976, just two years after Former President Richard Nixon resigned from office following the Watergate scandal. Tichenor added that Americans also felt as if there were "a lot of deceptions surrounding the Vietnam War," which ended in 1975 after two decades of fighting.
![[The former president volunteered with Habitat for Humanity]](https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2023/02/2007-san-pedro-california-former-797788071.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
“The national spirit was low and here was somebody who was coming in with fresh ideas who wanted to make human rights and American morality front center in our foreign policy," the expert said. "And [Carter] also was promising unprecedented transparency and honesty as an elected official.”.
![[Carter is survived by his wife, Rosalynn, their four children, and their many grandchildren]](https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2023/02/john-william-carter-annette-mrs-664074263.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
