Jimmy Carter Is A Role Model For Ex-Presidents And All Americans

Former President Jimmy Carter has passed away, and the way that Carter led his life both before his presidency and after is a role model for every American.

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Jimmy Carter’s Legacy Is So Much More Than The Presidency

James Earl Carter was a person of deep Christian faith. He was one of the few presidents who lived his life guided by that faith. To detail Jimmy Carter’s political accomplishments would be a disservice to the man and his life.

The biggest impacts that Carter had on his country and the world aren’t measured by legislative or foreign policy accomplishments. Carter will always be politically remembered for the Iran Hostage Crisis that ended up consuming and ending his presidency, but Carter may have saved the nation by winning the presidency itself.

Jimmy Carter won the first presidential election after the foundation-shaking Watergate scandal. The nation had yet to find its footing as Gerald Ford served out the rest of Richard Nixon’s second term.

Ford's pardon of Richard Nixon tainted his presidency. In 1976, …