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President Carter's One Leg Up As The Elder Statesman of America 12-30-24 · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Speaker 1: Here's your host, Alex Garrett. I wanted to voice my
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  Speaker 1: thoughts on the passing of one hundred year old Jimmy Carter,
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  Speaker 1: the thirty ninth President of the United States. Firstly, he
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  Speaker 1: was the elder statesman of our entire nation as president
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  Speaker 1: and then ex president. He then oversaw advise and held
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  Speaker 1: the mantle for seven more presidents in his one hundred
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  Speaker 1: year life. Can you imagine still being advising to the
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  Speaker 1: current president and in his late nineties, which Carter was
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  Speaker 1: to Joe Biden. Can you imagine this man who may
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  Speaker 1: have had a rocky presidency yet love this country so much.
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  Speaker 1: He was always there for the seventh presidents that followed
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  Speaker 1: after him. He even prayed for President Trump and said
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  Speaker 1: so publicly and personally. He got to know my mom
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  Speaker 1: and I am my dad a little bit too, as
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  Speaker 1: my mom said a prayer at President Carter's church in
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  Speaker 1: the eighties, and then my dad and I in the
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  Speaker 1: nineties met him at a book signing in Barnes and
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  Speaker 1: Noble for his children's book, and he insisted we get
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  Speaker 1: a picture where that picture is. I have no idea
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  Speaker 1: but for the man to hold this country together just
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  Speaker 1: by being alive I think, and showing up and being
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  Speaker 1: vocal about who he was going to vote for in
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  Speaker 1: this election alone, he of course voted for Kamala Harris.
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  Speaker 1: He's an example of living a long successful life, moral
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  Speaker 1: based life also, but a long successful, special kind of life.
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  Speaker 1: And not only is he amazing for seeing the mantle
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  Speaker 1: and holding the mantle for seven presidents after him, he
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  Speaker 1: held on quite a long, quite a couple of years,
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  Speaker 1: longer after his wife, his beloved Roslind Carter passed, held
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  Speaker 1: on long enough to for Kamala. That's sticking with it
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  Speaker 1: to the very end. So it is fitting that as
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  Speaker 1: we close twenty twenty four, with it goes the Elder Statesman. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the challenge is, how do we as Americans to keep
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  Speaker 1: it together like Jimmy Carter would want? How would we
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  Speaker 1: as people who love America as much as Jimmy Carter did.
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  Speaker 1: You don't go into habitat for humanity. You don't go
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  Speaker 1: and still be advisor for seven presidents after you were
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  Speaker 1: voted out. If you didn't love this country like Jimmy
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  Speaker 1: Carter did. Hell, you wouldn't even become a You won't
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  Speaker 1: even go from peanut farmer to president if you didn't
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  Speaker 1: love the country like Jimmy Carter did. And he did.
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  Speaker 1: And I love the documentary on him where they included
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  Speaker 1: the Allman Brothers on the campaign tour back in the
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  Speaker 1: nineteen seventies. He was cool and personable, and I look
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  Speaker 1: at and that likable character in the office of the
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  Speaker 1: United States President, in the oval office should be something
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  Speaker 1: every president strives for. Carter one with charisma. Maybe the
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  Speaker 1: loss of Jimmy Carter will inspire those with charisma to
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  Speaker 1: lead our country and those who might be seen as
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  Speaker 1: little rough around the edges lightens up a bit as
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  Speaker 1: present and becomes personable Jimmy Carter was. And maybe that
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  Speaker 1: man of faith side of Jimmy Carter could also appear
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  Speaker 1: in the White House again. He loved the country, He
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  Speaker 1: stuck to his morals and his faith. And a couple
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  Speaker 1: of more thoughts before I end tonight. I think the
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  Speaker 1: Democrats could learn from how President Carter maneuvered and engineered
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  Speaker 1: the Camp David Accords between Egypt and Israel. That's one
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  Speaker 1: of the biggest accomplishments he had in his presidency. And
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  Speaker 1: then finally President Carter, through habitat for humanity and just
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  Speaker 1: his community feel kept America together, kept his communities together.
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  Speaker 1: See in his stead after we lose the elder statement
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  Speaker 1: of the country, Jimmy Carter, why don't we work to
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  Speaker 1: keep America together? Because we're already a great country. And
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  Speaker 1: President Carter Shore was an example of it, and he
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  Speaker 1: did it his way