When Jimmy Carter Spoke At a Wireless Tradeshow (cnn.com)
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- News link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/12/30/0251249/when-jimmy-carter-spoke-at-a-wireless-tradeshow
- Source link: https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/jimmy-carter-death-news-12-29-24/index.html
But it seems like today everyone has a story to tell. More than two decades later, long-time Slashdot reader [4]destinyland saw Jimmy Carter speak in Las Vegas in 2001 on the final day of the CTIA Wireless tradeshow. "I feel thrilled to be a part of this," 77-year-old Carter had said....
> Carter applauded the work of "entrepreneurs and scientists and engineers that are transforming the face of the globe." And he noted their technologies could address problems targeted by the Carter Center.
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> Interrupted by a few cellphone rings, the former President conversed on a stage at the Sands Expo and Venetian Hotel with Tom Wheeler, the president of the wireless communications trade association. Wheeler reminded the audience of Carter's decidedly nontechnical background, discussing [5] An Hour Before Daylight , Carter's memoir about growing up on a farm in Georgia during the Great Depression. "We were the only family blessed with an outhouse," Carter told the crowd.
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> Wheeler also asked a question many in the technology community could relate to. Carter, he pointed out, had been involuntarily retired. "What's it feel like?" The former President told the audience he'd re-focussed his energies into humanitarian efforts through the Carter Center, which is active in providing health services around the world as well as monitoring elections. Carter donated his appearance fee to the Carter Center...
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> Midway through the hour-long discussion, the former President touted his administration's record of deregulating several industries, including transportation, energy, and communications, saying "If it hadn't been for that deregulation, this environment in which you all live wouldn't have been possible." Carter also shared with the business crowd that it was a belief in free enterprise that made him want to enter politics, drawn from his experiences selling peanuts as a young boy for a dollar a day.
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> The audience greeted the former president warmly, giving him a standing ovation both when he took the stage and when he left. Carter joked it was almost enough to make him want to get back into politics.
Everyone has their own opinion. When a friend of mine was in high school, she got to meet Jimmy Carter early in his presidency. He'd seemed unusually kind and good, she said, but remembered her first reaction. "They're going to eat you alive." And yet then, pointing to the humanitarian work he would continue for four decades, she said he was also clearly America's very best ex-president.
And the liberal blog Talking Points Memo argues [6]Carter's accomplishments as president are being re-evaluated :
> Some found him to be distinctly unsung, with little attention given to his brokering of peace with the Camp David Accords and emphasis on global human rights. And some just liked him. A serious, intelligent, faithful, deeply honest man who spurned political expediency and burned through hundreds of pages of memos a day, he preached self-restraint, stewardship and commonality to an electorate that cast him off four years later for the glib excesses of Ronald Reagan.... "People assume that because he wasn't warm and cuddly with Congress that he didn't get much through," said John Alter [who wrote the first independent Carter biography in 2020]. "He signed more legislation in four years than Clinton or Obama did in eight. He has the most prodigious legislative record since World War II, with the exception of Lyndon Johnson."
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> That record includes, by Alter's count, 14 major pieces of environmental legislation. In one of Carter's more creative moves, he dusted off the 1906 Antiquities Act to keep pristine 56 million acres of Alaskan wilderness. His piecemeal approach, cloaked in distinctly unsexy bills like the 1978 Public Utilities Regulatory Policies Act, planted the seeds for a changing national energy system in the face of climate change. Carter had started underlining passages in scientific journals about what is now the most existential crisis of our time as early as 1971. What's most wrenching about Carter's improvements in energy and environmental policy now is what he wasn't able to accomplish. On his way out of office, he issued a report that included recommendations for cutting carbon emissions — at exactly the same rate the Paris Climate Accords coalesced behind 35 years later....
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> His Carter Center has virtually [7]eradicated certain devastating diseases on the African continent, part of the work for which he received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002. He and Rosalynn have also helped build and repair over 4,000 homes for Habitat for Humanity, work that continued well into his 90s.
I've got my own story. As a young boy I saw Jimmy Carter give a speech in 1977 — just six months after he'd assumed the presidency. A crowd of teenagers thrilled to see the president gave him a long, loud round of applause. And when it finally died down, Carter said...
"I wish I got that kind of reception from Congress."
[1] https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/jimmy-carter-death-news-12-29-24/index.html
[2] https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/10/01/1617232/former-us-president-jimmy-carter-turns-100
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwykRTPJwoI
[4] https://slashdot.org/~destinyland
[5] https://www.amazon.com/Hour-Before-Daylight-Memories-Boyhood/dp/0743211995?crid=17VZIQ5VDXOCC&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.xcA53CIVbloQQZT06W75e9TTSsoY2A5kTxPBN9hDDFKqKmAcHBbkqdUpv0deaaBel3hfIdUmeEwjB6rpg4ghCPxQ1G-PzWs46yaoq0iWya6cZ9KvUnJLcY6YZNRaJGUqC2tKsRcIngt0T3YkJL56tBKMGRGMfCms1mV4KfdEy0gUBpMUSzj6XGv28E17K2W8.Ki35xpDwu49Gdiwi-peH91fZL8UqGfAIgJWMK8rEJSY&dib_tag=se&keywords=hours+before+daylight+carter&qid=1735524223&sprefix=hours+before+daylight+carter,aps,171&sr=8-1&linkCode=sl1&tag=destinyland-20&linkId=25efa67a22f7c01038b26a3020c8c33d&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl
[6] https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/jimmy-carter-presidency
[7] https://www.cartercenter.org/news/features/anniversary/30-leader-disease.html
When Carter was in the Navy (Score:4, Interesting)
From his book, about something that happened in 1951:
> I was on duty when our submarine went into port in Nassau and tied up at the Prince George Wharf, and I was the officer who accepted an invitation from the governor-general of the Bahamas for our officers and crewmen to attend an official ball to honor the U.S. Navy. There was a more private comment that a number of young ladies would be present with their chaperones. All of us were pleased and excited, and Captain Andrews responded affirmatively. We received a notice the next day that, of course, the nonwhite crewmen would not be included. When I brought this message to the captain, he had the crew assemble in the mess hall and asked for their guidance in drafting a response. After multiple expletives were censored from the message, we unanimously declined to participate. The decision by the crew of the K-1 was an indication of how equal racial treatment had been accepted - and relished.
> I was very proud of my ship.
Sometimes (Score:1)
you need a Carter to get a Ronald Reagan.
Re:Sometimes (Score:4, Insightful)
Carter got the job because Nixon fucked up royally. They wanted someone who wasn't a wheeler-dealer type of politician. And Carter was the one that people believed was the honest guy. The snag is that he inherited the snafus from Nixon, which caused huge inflation. And voters not understanding this thought it was Carter's fault, because American politics is almost always about blaming who's in power today rather than following the unraveled yarn back to the sweater.
I grew up in a generally Republican leaning small town, so I rarely heard good things about him. But then I went for 3 weeks on an exchange to Germany while in high school. The people there, conservative people, were saying things like "You must be so proud of your president", and "how do you like your president", and so on. I was confused by the attitude since I'd only heard negative things before, and I wasn't digging into getting the full story (wasn't a voter yet).
I think also, despite the grumbling about Carter and inflation and all that, no one ever accused him of being dishonest or lying.
What a wild bunch of gaslighting (Score:1)
with little attention given to his brokering of peace with the Camp David Accords and emphasis on global human rights.
Whatever truth there may be in that statement, Jimmy Carter's role in the Iran we have today undoes any other possible good he may have done his entire existence on this Earth alone.... and there are MANY other fuckups of equal magnitude.
Yes he was very appealing to listen to but never forgive someone who has made such monstrous mistakes because they can make you chuckle.
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I don't think you can blame Carter for what happened in Iran.
That is, there is nothing he could have done to stop Khomeini from taking over the country.
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I invite you to evaluate the legacy of every president since Carter -- mistakes and all -- using the same scrutiny. Share your thoughts with us right here. We'll wait.
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WTF? Iran isn't his fault. Where did you learn that? Rush Limbaugh? I know a dittohead who thought Carter took us off the gold standard and blamed the mess that ensued on Carter - it took me about 3 years to finally straighten the guy out because Rush wouldn't ever lie...
As far as the rescue of the hostages being completely fucked up by a commander, that resulted in Carter advising Obama to not trust the military so he insisted on sending in 2 choppers to get Bin Ladden. Obama might not have thought they'
Non technical background (Score:3)
> Wheeler reminded the audience of Carter's decidedly nontechnical background...
What, no mention of his service on a nuclear powered submarine?
> He then served as executive officer, engineering officer and electronics repair officer aboard submarine SSK-1, which was laid down in 1949 by Electric Boat in Groton, Conn., as an experimental attack sub called Barracuda III and launched in 1951 as K-1.
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> Naval History and Heritage Command, the young officer would be instrumental “in the design and development of nuclear-propulsion plants for naval vessels.”
[1]source [usni.org]
But I bet he didn't know any javascript.
[1] https://news.usni.org/2024/12/29/jimmy-carter-39th-u-s-president-and-submariner-dies-at-100
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> But I bet he didn't know any javascript.
Well, I don't think he was a weapons officer.
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> What, no mention of his service on a nuclear powered submarine?
Having served on a nuclear submarine he knew that the meltdown at Three Mile Island as a "nothing burger" but he didn't want to go against the Democrat Party policy of being anti-nuclear. His actions as POTUS likely set back the nuclear power industry by decades.
Had he stood his ground in defending the safety of nuclear power then maybe we would not have had the global warming alarmism we've had for the last few decades. By not driving a stake through the heart of new nuclear power plant construction we m
NYT (Score:2)
One of the authors of Carter's pre-written obituary at the New York Times died in 2017:
[1]https://www.nytimes.com/2024/1... [nytimes.com]
> By Peter Baker and Roy Reed
> Peter Baker is the chief White House correspondent for The Times; Roy Reed, who died in 2017, was a Times national correspondent who for many years covered the South.
> Dec. 29, 2024 Updated 7:24 p.m. ET
> Jimmy Carter, who rose from Georgia farmland to become the 39th president of the United States on a promise of national healing after the wounds of Watergate and Vi
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/29/us/politics/jimmy-carter-dead.html
Jimmy Carter (Score:2)
Your value play in an ex-president. RIP Mr. President.