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Happy Birthday Jimmy Carter (1 Viewer)
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toshiba
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Great man who has done so much post-presidency. Happy Birthday!Jimmy Carter, the son of a peanut farmer who served as America's 39th president, turns 95 today. He is the oldest living former U.S. president, a title once held by the late George H. W. Bush, who died in late 2018 at 94.
Godsbrother
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He signed into law HR 1337 which legalized home brewing. Greatest president ever.
Ditkaless Wonders
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I believed of Carter that he truly held the best interest of all of the American people above party and above personal ambition. There were times when I found him not up to the job, but I never questioned his motives, his integrity. Basically a good and decent man and I wish him well. I hope his remaining days are spent fishing happily, free from attacking rabbits.
wikkidpissah
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I have Governor Carter to thank for the most interesting year of my life. One of my highschool buddies was a journalism major in the fall of '75 and, at lunch one day, he says "Y'oughta check this out. There's this dang fool basically going from house-to-house in New Hampshire, already campaigning for President next year (imagine the hubris of campaigning SIX MONTHS before the primary!!). He's going to coffee klatches and such. Bring your tape recorder."
I was producing commercials and reading the news for WCOZ and had just convinced the GM to let me do some reporting (i had found a group of old vaudevillians who still got together monthly on the site of their old theater and i had taped their luncheon & interviewed the principles - series got an award nom). I put my friend off til i got the go-ahead from my boss and procured a genuine press credential and we went up to meet Gov. James Earl Carter and his advance team at a coffee klatch in Hudson NH just after Halloween. He had more the bearing of a minister than a salesman, like other pols i'd met. He looked you all over while you talked, which gave folks the feeling he was interested but also judging you. I always had a sense that if he'd been a northerner he'd have been a nerd, but his gentility disguised his wonkishness well.
Once my boss approved my vaudeville story, i told him i had one with a political angle, got the go-ahead and got a 45-minute sitdown with the future President of the United States. He was very forthcoming (the only off-the-record was his view on nuclear, a bad issue politically in NH w the fight over licensing the new Seabrook plant) and i mostly remember his constant reminders that everything was indeed moral (anathema to the cynical, free-wheeling 70s) and that he sought the counsel of God in prayer because he felt the job of determining the proper course of morality to be too much for an individual. A deeply religious guy, but in a good way. It brought him down of course, because Iran hostage happened because he had the CIA terminate the keep-the-peace stipends being paid to its mullahs, because President Carter HATED the concept of men of God being bribed. I'm guessing that tape is still somewhere in the vaults @ WHDH (the parent station to the now-defunct COZ).
His staffers were verrrrry different from their boss, very young as well and i liked hanging out and even partying with them. Then one of the candidates, Terry Sanford, had a heart attack in my town and i was the first electronic media on the scene so was the voice of ABC News on the story and got a national press credential for my efforts (which i used to get into EVERYTHING, from the Olympics to the Bicentennial to the first MNF game in Schaefer Stadium) so i got to be on the pressbus with reporting legends like Jack Germond & RWApple whenever i chose, so i followed the entire campaign as well as the Carter candidacy. But the Governor always remembered your deets (he took my surprise by asking if my sister liked her car, when i hadn't remembered excusing myself months earlier because i was helping my baby sis buy her 1st new car) and was always decent & encouraging. Didn't vote for him (Sen Fred Harris, who i've talked about here before, got my vote), but was in the Carter suite for many of the social moments at the Convention. Great stuff.
I contrast that with 1980. One of the Carter campaign staffers i had most partied w became the chairman of the NY Dem Party and director of the '80 Convention and invited me. The Carters rarely came out to socialize with his supporters (he eschewed virtually every frivolous activity, even private ones, during the hostage crisis) and the entire scene was gloomy. I shook his hand once during a walkthru and the smile & the questions came back briefly, just as genuine as ever. Happy 95th, Governor!
I was producing commercials and reading the news for WCOZ and had just convinced the GM to let me do some reporting (i had found a group of old vaudevillians who still got together monthly on the site of their old theater and i had taped their luncheon & interviewed the principles - series got an award nom). I put my friend off til i got the go-ahead from my boss and procured a genuine press credential and we went up to meet Gov. James Earl Carter and his advance team at a coffee klatch in Hudson NH just after Halloween. He had more the bearing of a minister than a salesman, like other pols i'd met. He looked you all over while you talked, which gave folks the feeling he was interested but also judging you. I always had a sense that if he'd been a northerner he'd have been a nerd, but his gentility disguised his wonkishness well.
Once my boss approved my vaudeville story, i told him i had one with a political angle, got the go-ahead and got a 45-minute sitdown with the future President of the United States. He was very forthcoming (the only off-the-record was his view on nuclear, a bad issue politically in NH w the fight over licensing the new Seabrook plant) and i mostly remember his constant reminders that everything was indeed moral (anathema to the cynical, free-wheeling 70s) and that he sought the counsel of God in prayer because he felt the job of determining the proper course of morality to be too much for an individual. A deeply religious guy, but in a good way. It brought him down of course, because Iran hostage happened because he had the CIA terminate the keep-the-peace stipends being paid to its mullahs, because President Carter HATED the concept of men of God being bribed. I'm guessing that tape is still somewhere in the vaults @ WHDH (the parent station to the now-defunct COZ).
His staffers were verrrrry different from their boss, very young as well and i liked hanging out and even partying with them. Then one of the candidates, Terry Sanford, had a heart attack in my town and i was the first electronic media on the scene so was the voice of ABC News on the story and got a national press credential for my efforts (which i used to get into EVERYTHING, from the Olympics to the Bicentennial to the first MNF game in Schaefer Stadium) so i got to be on the pressbus with reporting legends like Jack Germond & RWApple whenever i chose, so i followed the entire campaign as well as the Carter candidacy. But the Governor always remembered your deets (he took my surprise by asking if my sister liked her car, when i hadn't remembered excusing myself months earlier because i was helping my baby sis buy her 1st new car) and was always decent & encouraging. Didn't vote for him (Sen Fred Harris, who i've talked about here before, got my vote), but was in the Carter suite for many of the social moments at the Convention. Great stuff.
I contrast that with 1980. One of the Carter campaign staffers i had most partied w became the chairman of the NY Dem Party and director of the '80 Convention and invited me. The Carters rarely came out to socialize with his supporters (he eschewed virtually every frivolous activity, even private ones, during the hostage crisis) and the entire scene was gloomy. I shook his hand once during a walkthru and the smile & the questions came back briefly, just as genuine as ever. Happy 95th, Governor!
McJose
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wikkidpissah
Footballguy
CletiusMaximus
Footballguy
Perhaps not the best president, but he's been without question the best ex-president in my lifetime.
wikkidpissah
Footballguy
And one could do much worse with their charity dollar than The Carter Center. Besides Habitat & peace camps, their Lifestraw kicked off the portable water filter movement in the Third World. Give the world a JC95 gift today!
McJose
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tri-man 47
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wikkidpissah
Footballguy
i've told this story a dozen or more times around here, as recently as a coupla wks ago.
Jimmuh was not even the favorite in the MA primary so yet to have Secret Service protection. i covered his campaign visit to a pub in Southie, walked into the gents to let go of some stout and the Governor was hanging at the wizz trough already. took my spot next to him, thought to myself that this guy could be the President, so i shot a gander for posterity. Solid presidential unit, tuft of reddish pubes. nufced
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Henry Ford
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Might be the the best Former US president, ever - Black eye, 14 stitches, still shows up for Habitat for Humanity
https://twitter.com/jiveDurkey/status/1181223806305742848
https://twitter.com/jiveDurkey/status/1181223806305742848
Ditkaless Wonders
Footballguy
I believe it is referred to as the First Penis, the first Penis of the United States or F-POTUS, or the Presidential Pen.
wikkidpissah
Footballguy
pinkham13
Footballguy
Carter is a communist just like Obama and his followers
https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/barack-obama-populated-the-us-government-with-communists
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2006/01/jimmy-carter-parades-the-worlds-10-worst-dictators/
https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/barack-obama-populated-the-us-government-with-communists
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2006/01/jimmy-carter-parades-the-worlds-10-worst-dictators/
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He's being interviewed on MSNBC, stitches, patch, bloody eye and all. His inspiritation is Habitat for Humanity. At 95, his verbal fluency and awareness are high. Says he couldn't do the presidency if he were 80, as its too demanding, but says it's not a commentary on any candidate. Advice to Trump, paraphrasing: tell the truth for a change, give the evidence so the House, Senate and public can make a decision about impeachment. And stop tweeting.Sinn Fein said:
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rockaction
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No, it's not. I hope this is a case where thoughts and prayers for his health aren't scorned as frivolous. T&P, Mr. President.
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[scooter]
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Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter have been married for 73 years and 4 months -- longer than any other President and First Lady in the history of the United States. (They recently eclipsed the record set by George and Barbara Bush.)
BTW, the record for the shortest marriage between a President and First Lady belongs not to Donald and Melania Trump (14 years), but to Woodrow Wilson and his 2nd wife Edith, who were married for 8 years when he died in 1924.
BTW, the record for the shortest marriage between a President and First Lady belongs not to Donald and Melania Trump (14 years), but to Woodrow Wilson and his 2nd wife Edith, who were married for 8 years when he died in 1924.
E Street Brat
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Woodrow Wilson... Now there's a President whose' penis I would have liked to have seen.
HellToupee
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Poor guy has been going down a very tough path this year
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