Read NPI contributor Joel Connelly's appreciation of our thirty-ninth president, who died December 29th, 2024, at the

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age of one hundred.

When Jimmy Carter launched his successful longshot 1976 presidential campaign, his mother Miss Lillian reacted by asking: “President of what?”

A half century later, tributes are flowing in from around the world.

Carter is remembered as architects of the peace accord between Israel and Egypt, for the peaceful transfer of the Panama Canal to Panamanian control — which Donald Trump has spoken of trying to get reversed — and the one hundred and four million acre Alaska Lands Act, which doubled size of America’s national park system.

He also lived to be one hundred and was the most active former president in the history of the republic. He monitored elections in Nicaragua and Panama, campaigned to eradicate the Guinea ringworm, wrote twenty-three books, traveled to North Korea to free a prisoner and climbed Japan’s Mount Fuji at the age of seventy.

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