Carter says he thinks the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision has “changed our political system from a democracy to an oligarchy. Money is now preeminent. I mean, it’s just gone to hell now. ” He says he believes that the nation’s “ethical and moral values” are still intact and that Americans eventually will “return to what’s right and what’s wrong, and what’s decent and what’s indecent, and what’s truthful and what’s lies. ” But, he says, “I doubt if it happens in my lifetime. ” The Jimmy Carter National Historic Site draws nearly 70, 000 visitors a year and $4 million into the county’s economy.
” Presidential historian Michael Beschloss said that Gerald Ford, Carter’s predecessor and close friend, was the first to fully take advantage of those high-paid post-presidential opportunities, but that “Carter did the opposite. ” Since Ford, other former presidents, and sometimes their spouses, routinely earn hundreds of thousands of dollars per speech. “I don’t see anything wrong with it; I don’t blame other people for doing it, ” Carter says over dinner. “It just never had been my ambition to be rich.
Carter attended the school, which served first through 11th grades. Today, the school is home to the Jimmy Carter National Historic Site. He said he regrets not doing more to unify the Democratic Party. When Carter looks back at his presidency, he says he is most proud of “keeping the peace and supporting human rights, ” the Camp David accords that brokered peace between Israel and Egypt, and his work to normalize relations with China. In 2002, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts. “I always told the truth, ” he says.
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The federal government pays for an office for each ex-president. Carter’s, in the Carter Center in Atlanta, is the least expensive, at $115, 000 this year. The Carters could have built a more elaborate office with living quarters, but for years they slept on a pullout couch for a week each month. Recently, they had a Murphy bed installed. Carter’s office costs a fraction of Obama’s, which is $536, 000 a year. Clinton’s costs $518, 000, George W. Bush’s is $497, 000 and George H.
Carter has been an ex-president for 37 years, longer than anyone else in history. His simple lifestyle is increasingly rare in this era of President Trump, a billionaire with gold-plated sinks in his private jet, Manhattan penthouse and Mar-a-Lago estate. Carter is the only president in the modern era to return full-time to the house he lived in before he entered politics — a two-bedroom rancher assessed at $167, 000, less than the value of the armored Secret Service vehicles parked outside. Ex-presidents often fly on private jets, sometimes lent by wealthy friends, but the Carters fly commercial.
“I grew up in church with him, ” says Maya Wynn. “He’s a nice guy, just like a regular person. ” “He’s a good ol’ Southern gentleman, ” says David Lane. Carter says this place formed him, seeding his beliefs about racial equality. His farmhouse youth during the Great Depression made him unpretentious and frugal. His friends, maybe only half-joking, describe Carter as “tight as a tick. ” That no-frills sensibility, endearing since he left Washington, didn’t work as well in the White House. Many people thought Carter scrubbed some of the luster off the presidency by carrying his own suitcases onto Air Force One and refusing to have “Hail to the Chief” played.
He says his peanut business, held in a blind trust during his presidency, was $1 million in debt, and he was forced to sell. “We thought we were going to lose everything, ” says Rosalynn, sitting beside him. Carter decided that his income would come from writing, and he has written 33 books, about his life and career, his faith, Middle East peace, women’s rights, aging, fishing, woodworking, even a children’s book written with his daughter, Amy Carter, called “The Little Baby Snoogle-Fleejer. ” With book income and the $210, 700 annual pension all former presidents receive, the Carters live comfortably. But his books have never fetched the massive sums commanded by more recent presidents.
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” But now, after radiation and chemotherapy, Carter says he is cancer-free. In October, he will become the second president ever to reach 94; George H. Bush turned 94 in June. These days, Carter is sharp, funny and reflective. The Carters walk every day — often down Church Street, the main drag through Plains, where they have been walking since the 1920s. Gene Mattson, who owns Plains Mtd, feeds cats outside the convenience store. Veterinarian Frank Pierce sits outside his clinic in Plains.
The painting at right was done by Carter. “He doesn’t like big shots, and he doesn’t think he’s a big shot, ” said Gerald Rafshoon, who was Carter’s White House communications director. Carter costs U. S. taxpayers less than any other ex-president, according to the General Services Administration, with a total bill for him in the current fiscal year of $456, 000, covering pensions, an office, staff and other expenses. That’s less than half the $952, 000 budgeted for George H. W. Bush; the three other living ex-presidents — Clinton, George W. Bush and Obama — cost taxpayers more than $1 million each per year.
“I may have overemphasized the plight of the hostages when I was in my final year, ” he says. “But I was so obsessed with them personally, and with their families, that I wanted to do anything to get them home safely, which I did. ” Visitors watch a video about Carter’s life in the theater at Plains High School.
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Stuart E. Eizenstat, a Carter aide and biographer, said Carter’s edict eliminating drivers for top staff members backfired. It meant that top officials were driving instead of reading and working for an hour or two every day. “He didn’t feel suited to the grandeur, ” Eizenstat said. “Plains is really part of his DNA. He carried it into the White House, and he carried it out of the White House. ” Carter’s presidency — from 1977 to 1981 — is often remembered for long lines at gas stations and the Iran hostage crisis.
He has helped renovate 4, 300 homes in 14 countries for Habitat for Humanity, and with his own hammer and tool belt, he will be working on homes for low-income people in Indiana later this month. But it is Plains that defines him. After dinner, the Carters step out of Stuckey’s driveway, with two Secret Service agents walking close behind. Carter’s gait is a little unsteady these days, three years after a diagnosis of melanoma on his liver and brain. At a 2015 news conference to announce his illness, he seemed to be bidding a stoic farewell, saying he was “perfectly at ease with whatever comes.
Carter has been notably quiet about President Trump. But on this night, two years into Trump’s term, he’s not holding back. “I think he’s a disaster, ” Carter says. “In human rights and taking care of people and treating people equal. ” “The worst is that he is not telling the truth, and that just hurts everything, ” Rosalynn says. Carter says his father taught him that truthfulness matters. He said that was reinforced at the U. Naval Academy, where he said students are expelled for telling even the smallest lie. “I think there’s been an attitude of ignorance toward the truth by President Trump, ” he says.
Stuckey says that on a recent flight from Atlanta to Los Angeles, Carter walked up and down the aisle greeting other passengers and taking selfies. Carter is pictured at his house after teaching his 800th Sunday school lesson at Maranatha Baptist Church since leaving the White House. Every other Sunday morning, he teaches at Maranatha, on the edge of town, and people line up the night before to get a seat.
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