President in Crisis, Peace Laureate: Carter's Life in Pictures
(Bloomberg) -- Former US President Jimmy Carter, who died Sunday at age 100, was elected in the aftermath of the Watergate scandal that brought down Richard Nixon and disillusioned American voters. A peanut farmer who served as governor of Georgia before winning the White House in 1976, Carter notched achievements including a historic Israeli-Egyptian peace accord while fighting an oil shortage, inflation and Iran’s seizing of American hostages — crises that overshadowed his presidency. The longest-lived US president in history, he made some of his biggest imprints in the decades after his single term, waging a worldwide campaign against war, disease and the suppression of human rights through the Atlanta-based Carter Center. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002.
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