#Happy 100th Birthday 🎂 🎉

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Former President Jimmy Carter in 2019. Credit: Curtis Compton/Atlanta Journal-Constitution, via Associated Press (AP)

An Open Letter To Jimmy Carter, On His 100th Birthday

— By Margaret Renkl | September 30,2024 | The New York Times

Dear President Carter,

I was in my second quarter of college when you returned to Plains, Ga., in January 1981. Ronald Reagan had just been inaugurated, and you came back to your hometown soundly defeated. You woke after the election, you later wrote, to “an altogether new, unwanted and potentially empty life.”

All of 18 at the time, I felt some of the same things. I was raised in a conservative family, but my religious beliefs and political values had become very different from my parents’ and from those of almost everyone else I knew. To have arrived at a fundamentally different understanding of the world, with diametrically opposed views about what this country should be and what role religion and government should play in it, deeply unsettled me. I had not left home, but I was a stranger in a strange land.

No one but a teenager in the midst of a convulsive shift in world views would call us two peas in a pod, Mr. Carter, but with the hubris of youth, I felt we were. You in Georgia and me in Alabama — at home but belonging nowhere.

Sometimes I still feel that way.

But when I think about the childhood you describe in your memoir “An Hour Before Daylight,” I know that this is our homeland as much as anyone’s. I know that it’s possible to see our world clearly and to love it anyway.

You are a child of the Jim Crow South who grew up on a farm at a time when Black sharecroppers were hardly more than slaves. But even raised in that world, you understood the injustice of it. “The time for racial discrimination is over,” you said at your gubernatorial inauguration in 1971. Your audience audibly gasped, but for the rest of your political career, you worked to even the playing field for Black Americans.

Jimmy Carter in New York City in 1976. Credit...Neal Boenzi/The New York Times

As president, you saw all the ways government could improve the lives of Americans. You appointed more women and attorneys of color to the federal bench than all the earlier presidents combined. You pardoned Vietnam War draft dodgers. You brokered an unlikely peace deal in the Middle East. And when it was time to leave Washington, you went home to Plains.

I hope you know what it means to white Southerners like me, then and now, to have had your example at a time when there were vanishingly few role models among white Southerners. Or what it means to white Christians like me, then and now, to have had your example of what living by the Gospels really means.

That interview with Playboy in which you confessed to the sin of lust — “I’ve committed adultery in my heart many times” — nearly cost you the 1976 election, but it was the admission of a good man who gives serious consideration to the moral and ethical requirements of his faith. So different from a later president, who bragged that he could grab any woman he cared to because “when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything.”

Your presidency was doomed by wars and unrest in the Middle East that led to oil and gas shortages here and to a hostage crisis in Iran that broke your heart and ours. But you recognized the looming threat of climate change even then, understanding that reliance on foreign oil was not the real danger we faced. I can’t help but wonder where the world would be now if Americans had embraced the environmental policies you initiated nearly 50 years ago.

Much of what you worked to do for the environment during your presidency was nothing less than visionary. Using executive powers, you protected a vast swath of the Alaskan wilderness, in the process doubling the size of the national parks system. You directed federal funds toward the development of renewable energy and installed solar panels on the White House. You began an enormous federal effort to bring the country to energy independence and tried to lead us by calling on our own better angels to make it through the crisis in the meantime.

“I’m asking you, for your good and for your nation’s security, to take no unnecessary trips, to use car pools or public transportation whenever you can, to park your car one extra day per week, to obey the speed limit and to set your thermostats to save fuel,” you said. “Every act of energy conservation like this is more than just common sense. I tell you it is an act of patriotism.”

As it turns out, we weren’t the patriotic citizens you believed us to be then, and we’ve become less so in the decades since. But your example remains a shining monument to what it means to be a good American and a good citizen of the earth.

Mr. Carter works at a Habitat for Humanity building project in Nashville in 2019. Credit...Mark Humphrey/Associated Press

Through the Carter Center and Habitat for Humanity, you have had the longest and most influential postpresidency in American history. Your efforts to promote peace, eliminate suffering and address the worst effects of poverty have occupied you for the better part of 50 years. In 2019, still in treatment for metastatic cancer, you came to Nashville for Habitat for Humanity and gave a speech while sporting a black eye you’d gained in a fall. “They took 14 stitches in my forehead,” you said to raucous cheers, “but I had a No. 1 priority, and that was to come to Nashville to build houses.” You were 95 when you picked up a hammer to help us build those homes.

Auburn University, my alma mater, is less than 90 miles down Highway 280, the road that leads to Plains. During my college years, I always hoped to make it to your Sunday school class. But I didn’t own a car in those days, and when you’re young, you believe there will always be another chance. By the grace of God, you have lived so long that I actually got that other chance: In 2018 I finally made it to Plains to hear you teach Sunday school.

“Happy Birthday, Mr. Carter.”

You have made the most of a long life, serving in nearly every way imaginable as an example of moral seriousness and service to others — not just to that college student whose worldview was shifting profoundly in 1981 but to all of us. At a time when it has become almost impossible to imagine our elected officials as true public servants or in any way concerned with questions of true justice or true morality, your life will always be a beacon of hope. Even, on good days, of faith in the country you love.

— Ms. Margaret Renkl is a contributing Opinion writer who covers flora, fauna, politics and culture in the American South.

[usnatarchives]

Happy 100th Birthday, Jimmy Carter! 🎂🎉

Jimmy Carter in the Grand Tetons, Wyoming - August 26, 1978.

You can also browse through some wonderful contact sheets from the First Family’s vacation in the Grand Tetons here.

Check out more presidential history posts from our @ourpresidents account.

[gottabegenki]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to me ✨🥲

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 Happy Birthday to me 🎂 🎈 🎉 I am officially another year older 😌   

Of course I'd treat myself with MalleJo, in the Disney 100th Anniversary, platinum wear 🤭💎✨💖💖💖 (Jo wearing the same outfit as Grim of course hehe ) Plus, means duo with Malleus 😆  

  

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And yes, Malleus. I'll go gargoyle sight seeing with you! 🤭💖  

  

  

[funcoolchickie]

Happy 100th birthday, President Carter!!! 🎂🎉

Link to special birthday message from President Biden - https://x.com/victorshi2020/status/1840415427324772498?s=46

[acebytaemin]

good evening ana :) i know we don’t know each other much however i want to wish you the best of the best of birthdays :) i hope each day you grow more confident and more satisfied with your life ❤️ i wish for you to never lose your passion that’s so clear in everything you do 🎂 happy birthday again i hope your day has been wonderful :* for more and more wonderful days to come 🎉

hiii oh my goodness you’re making me tear up for the 100th time today 🥹 you’re always so good with your words and i enjoy reading your insights on here so much always & this is no exception! thank you so so much 💗

[heavenboy09]

Happy Birthday 🎂 🥳 🎉 🎈 🎁 🎊 To A Very Most Elegant Asian Beauty & Highly Regarded Amazing Actress Of Remarkable & Critically Acclaimed Roles In Both National of Her country & International Roles in the US & etc.

She is A Chinese Born Actress & Singer

She was born in Wuchang, Heilongjiang, China. She initially had no intention of becoming an actress and enrolled specifically in a high school for prospective school teachers. However, upon graduation, she discovered her interest in acting and was eventually persuaded by a friend to join the Shanghai Theatre Academy in 1993.

She rose to fame after starring in Zhang Yuan's Seventeen Years (1999), which won her the Best Actress Award in the 1999 Singapore Film Festival. In 2001, She starred in the television series Young Justice Bao, which propelled her to become one of the most famous actresses in China.

She was subsequently labelled as an "action actress" as she starred in a number of wuxia television series, such as Taiji Prodigy and Eight Heroes.

She achieved breakthrough with her performance in Feng Xiaogang's A World Without Thieves. She then starred in Dayyan Eng's romantic comedy film Waiting Alone, for which she received her first Best Actress nomination at the Golden Rooster Awards.

In 2009, She won Best Actress at the 46th Golden Horse Film Awards for her performance in The Message, about Japanese invaders in China who try to ferret out a spy among their Chinese collaborators.

She then starred in Tsui Hark's 2010 action-mystery film Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame. She played Shangguan Jing'er, a fictional character based on Shangguan Wan'er, a prestigious politician during the Tang Dynasty. She established her studio in the same year, co-starring and co-producing the film 1911 with Jackie Chan, which was released in September 2011 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Xinhai Revolution.

Her first-time in an English-language film is Wayne Wang's Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, adapted from Lisa See's 2005 novel of the same title. The film premiered at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. She started to gain recognition in Hollywood after starring in Resident Evil: Retribution, playing Ada Wong. The same year, she was cast in action fantasy film 400 Boys, directed by British director Alastair Paton.

In 2013, She attended the 4th Annual US-China Film Summit and received the East-West Talent Award. Hollywood magazine Variety also named her Asian Star of the Year. The following year, She was featured in Transformers: Age of Extinction, the fourth installment of the film franchise. This helped solidify her success overseas.

In 2015, she was cast in 3D science fiction thriller Nest (also known as Guardians of the Tomb), a Chinese-Australian co-production that was finally released in January 2018. The same year, it was announced that She would play China's first female superhero in upcoming film Realm, written by Stan Lee.

In 2018, She starred with Jason Statham in The Meg, an American-Chinese shark film based on Steve Alten's 1997 novel Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror.

Her Best Well Know Role Is In the 2008 Martial Arts Film

Starring Jackie Chan & Jet Li

In

THE FORBIDDEN KINGDOM

As She Played The Iconic & Infamous China's Villainous Character in Chinese Martial Arts Films.

THE WHITE HAIRED WITCH 🧙‍♀️

She Is A Very Well Know Established Actress In China 🇨🇳 1 of the Many Great Actresses today

& A Charity Ambassador Of The Shanghai World 🌎 Expo & A Goodwill Ambassador Of UNEP

Even though she may not look it. She has aged Very Gracefully & Amazingly over the many years. As A Bad@$$  Action Actress In Wushia

Please Give A Very Well Round of Applause & A Very Happy Birthday Wishes To

The 1

& The Only

MS. LI BINGBING / BING BING LI

HAPPY 50TH BIRTHDAY 🎂 🥳 🎉 🎈 🎁 🎊 TO YOU MS. BINGBING & Here's To Many More 💖 

[urlocalthomasfan]

HAPPY 100TH BIRTHDAY SCOTSMAN!!! 🎂🎊🎉

[blueeyeddarkknight]

Happy 100th birthday to you, Marlon 🥺💐🎉🎂 👑

Happy 99th birthday anniversary to the godfather of cinema Marlon Brando 🎉🎂

Speaking about working with Brando, Kilmer said:

“Brando was everything you want the major icon in your world to be, a genius and a gentleman. I was getting divorced at the time and he was so gracious about offering me time and considered thought. He offered to call my ex on behalf of the children.

“He was one of the funniest men on earth. I still laugh out loud about some of the things he said and did. I mean he literally wore a salad bowl over his head.

Here's Val's hilarious Brando impression 😂🙌 (from inside the actors studio interview)

David Hudson teaches Marlon Brando and Val Kilmer how to play the didgeridoo at the Island of Dr. Moreau wrap party at Tanks Arts Centre in Cairns.

[themovievato]

Happy 100th Birthday to the late great @therealstanlee ! 🎂🎉🥳 Happy birthday, sir! We miss you! #happybirthday #stanlee #marvel https://www.instagram.com/p/CmvXmMVOyfd/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[exchangespirit]

Original caption: Happy 100th Birthday, Joseph!! 🎂⭐🎉👴

[schreibaby-of-the-skies]

Happy 100th birthday to you Master of Yokai that is Shigeru Mizuki! 👻🎉🎊🎂

[aphrodite1288]

00:00 in Korea!

Happy birthday to the most talented sweetest boy ever !! 🥂🥳👑✨🎉🥂🥳👑✨🎉🥳

Kim Jongin Legend ofy

performance

Happy birthday to Kyungsoo's love, Soulmate, boyfriend and bestfriend.. ❤️

Thank you Kim Jongin for always loving kyungsoo with all your heart ! Thank you for treating him like the treasure he is, thank you for always being by his side, thank you for always showing us how he meant the the world to you, Thank you for always giving Ksoo an unchanging love like you promised in 2013..

Since it is still KaiSoo DAY January 13th here and at the same time Jongin's Birthday in Korea, I'mma take this occasion to talk about Both Jongin and Kyungsoo and how much they mean to each other.

Here's Jongin spoiling Ksoo and giving him all his attention, while Ksoo is being sassy and spoiled 🤭🤗 ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Thank you KIM JONG IN for always putting a smile on our Kyungsoo, thank you for making him feel as he is the most loved person ever, thank you for making him feel appreciated for us! Thank you for giving him and expressing to him all the love we, as his fans, want to give him, on our behalf..❤️

Kim Jong In Thank you for making us Happy, Proud, Thank you for sharing all those beautiful and sad moments with us, Thank you for being with us through our hardships and Happy times throughout this whole decade, 19 years and you're still giving us performance,talent, love, support , good energy, happy positive vibes and Love!

Also Happy Birthday to Jongin's Favorite Peach 🍑 he eats every night 🌃 🌚🌝

Dear Our Nini Bear 🐻 Thank you so much for existing ❤️🎂

Happy 28th Birthday, let's go together til your 100th birthday 🎂🎉🥳

#Queen_Aurore_Wishes_King_Jongin_Happy_Birthday ✨ 👑🥂👸🏻🤴👑🎉🥳💕❤️🥂🎉🎂👑✨

These are the used hashtags make sure to use them on twitter :

#종인아생일축하해

#너의모든날들을사랑해_종인아

#AllRounderKAIDay

#HappyKaiDay

#HappyJonginDay

#HappyNiniDay

@Queen_Aurore ✨👑👸🏻👑✨

[themculibrary]

It’s my birthday tomorrow and I was wondering if you have any avengers(would be cool if peter is there to) birthday fics

Happy birthday for tomorrow! 🎉🎂

Another Wasted Year (ao3) - lwielaura

Summary: "If I may, Happy Birthday, Sir" JARVIS’s voice echoed through the living room, unheard by anyone but him, and he could swear that his robot sounded a bit sad.

Independence Day (ao3) - Settiai

Summary: It's Steve's 90th birthday, and Tony wants to throw him a party. What could possibly go wrong?

On Safety and Worth and Birthdays (ao3) - betheflame

Summary: While Captain America’s birthday is July 4, Steve Rogers’ is October 3.

Steve Rogers’ Perfect Birthday Party (ao3) - kookykoi

Summary: Steve doesn’t want a fuss made about his 100th birthday. When a fuss is made, his loves hatch a plan to save him.

Unexpected Surprises (ao3) - Caahs

Summary: When The Avengers decided to plan a surprise birthday party for Tony, they didn't expect the man to get a gift that wasn't exactly on his list.

we're gonna be (okay) (ao3) - bukkunkun

Summary: It's Tony Stark's birthday, and Peter Parker wonders what could you possibly give to a man who has everything.

Wholesome superfamily (stony + spiderson) feels with a good ending, if you ignore the second chapter.

- Tori

[ririsasy]

Me scrolling through tumblr realizing I possess Zero talent to participate in creating any art or fic for steeb 100th birthday

Anyway Happy 100th birthday captain Rogers ! We love you so God damn much ! 🎂🎂🎂🎂🎊🎊🎊🎊🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[ablazeoffire]

Happy 100th Birthday 🎂🎊🎉🎁🎈 . Love you and miss you. Got a chance to see her film at the movies 🎥 today. It was so beautiful 😍. https://www.instagram.com/p/CY2TR78gtFx/?utm_medium=tumblr

[heavenboy09]

Happy Birthday 🎂 🥳 🎉 🎈 🎁 🎊 To The Creator and Founder Of Marvel Comics.

On December 28th, 1942 A Legend Was Born

He Is & Was The Legend That Started It All

This Reowned Comic Book Writer & Idealist Was Enlisted In WW2 & Started Doing Comic Strips & Cartoonist Illustrations During His Youth as a Writer for the Army During the War, along with a another Famous Icon in the same Camp & Regiment.

Mr. Hugh Hefner.

He Created The Greatest Comic Book Characters Known To Man & Co Creator To Alot Of Great Superheroes Of The Century.

Including The Greatest Superhero Of Marvel Comics Of All Times That Everyone Knows & Loves For All Ages & All Can Relate To In Life.

The Words Of Wisdom Will Make This Character A Legend In The Making Forever

WITH GREAT POWER,  COMES GREAT RESPONSIBILITY

The 1 & Only

THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 🕷

Later In Life, He Married His 1 True Love. Joan BooCook & Have Been Married Since 1947 until the very end.

She Passed Away In 2017

1 Year Later, Our Legend Joined His Beloved In Heaven.

He Passed Away in 2018 Of November Before His 96th Birthday

Today Would Have Been His 100th Birthday 🎂

Please Wish This Great Man 👨 A Very Happy Heavenly Birthday 🎂 🙏

To The Legend

The 1

& The Only

MR. STANLEY MARTIN LIEBER AKA

STAN LEE

HAPPY 100TH BIRTHDAY 🎂 IN HEAVEN . We Miss You 😢 Man..

As The One of The Greatest Comic Book Writers of All Times would say.

EXCELSIOR - STAN LEE. HEY THERE TRUE BELIEVERS.