The death of former US President Jimmy Carter has highlighted his unwavering 'decency,' a quality seen as increasingly rare in contemporary politics.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The death of Jimmy Carter has brought to the fore a defining characteristic of the late US president's life: his 'decency,' seen as a product of a bygone era in today's caustic political environment.Joe Biden on Monday repeated the word three times while speaking to reporters about his late White House predecessor.Biden, who will be replaced in the White House by Donald Trump on Jan.
20, added: 'Can you imagine Jimmy Carter referring to someone by the way they look or the way they talk?'Despite the struggles he faced during his single term in office — from economic malaise to the Iran hostage crisis — Carter has emerged as a nostalgic figure.He spent his years after the White House advocating for global democracy, fighting neglected public health scourges and teaching Sunday school.'He was an utterly honest, transparent and healing presence in the White House, which was just what the US needed after the Watergate scandal' under Richard Nixon, Barbara Perry, a professor specializing in the history of US presidents, told Agence France-Presse (AFP).Eulogies 'tell us as much about ourselves as they do about the person being contemplated and commemorated,' historian Jon Meacham told broadcaster MSNBC.'Carter is a sad but illuminating instance of someone who — while imperfect — believed in the centrality of character... at a moment in American politics where character is not at the forefront of most people's minds.'Born in rural Plains, Georgia, he died in the same house he and his wife — who he was married to for 77 years — bought in 1961.And his modest lifestyle served as an inspiration to many Americans — even if other presidents didn't join in themselves.To name a few: allegations of John F. Kennedy's extramarital trysts, Bill Clinton's affair with a White House intern, and Donald Trump's well-documented sex scandals have 'lowered all such standards in American politics,' Perry sai
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