#happy 100th birthday jimmy carter!

[locke-esque-monster]

Did you know that The Umbrella Academy and Jimmy Carter share a birthday?

My stream of news today has been a mix of "Carter is the first president to reach 100" and "the Brellies would have been 35 today"!

To me, it's a supremely weird combo of things to happen on the same day.

It's like my two nerd sides (fandom and history) are touching and I don't know how I feel about this.

That said there's probably a canon compliant TUA news story fic in here somewhere where the news is reporting about regular events on October 1st 1989 and making comments about Carter's 65th birthday today while insane reports are coming in cutting the birthday mention and other news off. Maybe it's an epistolary-style fic of footage and reports that week. Or an OC character fic of a news team arguing behind the scenes about reporting the insanity that was happening in the TUA world (and if it's even legit) while they debate bumping a fluff piece about Carter's birthday.

(Either way the progression is definitely: Step 1. Lol, that's National Inquirer fake. Step 2. Oh god, that's real. I'm seeing that with my own eyes. Step 3. Holy shit -there's MORE babies! Step 4. And a reclusive millionaire bought them?)

[professorambrius]

Happy 100th Birthday to Former President Jimmy Carter!

Former President Jimmy Carter is 100 years old today, a milestone that no other former president has reached

[funcoolchickie]

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

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

[mszmax]

TODAY IS A GOOD DAY!

Jimmy Carter is 100 years old!

President Carter is one of the best human beings this country has ever produced.

🇺🇸 Happy Birthday Jimmy Carter 🇺🇸

[bybruce]

Happy 100th birthday, President Jimmy Carter #tiktok #foryou #celebrity ...

[xtruss]

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.

[scottguy]

He was one of those rarest people, a truly good man. Americans rejected him even though his decency was obvious.

Happy Birthday 🎂

[batboyblog]

Happy 100th Birthday to President Jimmy Carter

Born October 1st 1924

Carter was America's 39th President serving from 1977 till 1981. President Carter is notable for many reasons, the first American President to oversee a Middle East peace deal ending 30 years of war between Egypt and Israel, the first President to address climate change, and established the Departments of Education and Energy. After his 1980 defeat by Republican Ronald Reagan Carter would redefine what it is a former President is supposed to do. His 40 years out of office saw the Carters work tirelessly on humanitarian projects around the world. Carter worked with Habitat for Humanity to build houses for those in need across America well into his 90s. Carter also worked to combat decease in the developing world particularly Africa. President Carter once said he wanted only to live long enough to outlive the last Guinea worm, a goal he may have reached, when the Carter Center started its work in 1986 there were 3.5 million cases, so far in 2024, 4. In 2002 President Carter became the first and only American President to win the Nobel Peace Prize for activities after their Presidency. He was awarded the prize for the Carter Center's work promoting Democracy and Human Rights around the world. Carter's political reputation in the US has long been overshadowed by his 1980 loss and the rough end of his Presidency but in 2010s and 2020s President Carter has become more engaged with domestic politics campaigning and speaking in his native Georgia. In February 2023 aged 98 President Carter decided to enter hospice care, and many believed the end was near. 19 months later Carter is celebrating his 100th birthday. Sadly his beloved wife of 77 years former First Lady Rosalynn Carter passed away in November 2023. Many commented on a frail President Carter's personal strength appearing in person at her funeral. President Carter's Family reports that since Kamala Harris entered the 2024 race he's become more alert and following events more closely. When asked about his upcoming birthday Carter told his grandson that he's looking forward to being 100, but what he really wants is to make it to November 5th and cast his last vote for Kamala Harris for President.

[citizenscreen]

“I have one life and one chance to make it count for something... My faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try to make a difference.”

- President Jimmy Carter, happy 100th birthday!

[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.

[deanofsam]

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[truth-has-a-liberal-bias]

In honor of former President Jimmy Carter’s 100th birthday, the North Lawn of the White House on Tuesday featured a giant “100” with the message,“Happy Birthday President Carter."

The display was set to remain on the North Lawn through the end of the day.

Carter, who entered home hospice care in February 2023, became on Tuesday the first former U.S. president to live to be 100. The 39th president, who held office from 1977 to 1981, is the longest-lived former chief executive in U.S. history.

President Joe Biden wished Carter a happy birthday in a new video from the White House.

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Biden praised Carter as one of "the most influential statesmen in our history" and praised the successes of the Carter Center.

"The moral clarity you showed throughout your career showed through again. And your commitment through the Carter Center and the Habitat for Humanity, you're solving conflicts, advancing democracy, preventing disease, so much more. It's transforming the lives of people, not only at home, but around the world," Biden said. [...]

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Ana Faguy at BBC News:

Jimmy Carter celebrates his 100th birthday on Tuesday, making him the first US president to reach the milestone. Carter, a Democrat who served in the White House from 1977 to 1981, has spent the past 19 months in hospice care in his home state of Georgia.

But the former peanut farmer, who first entered politics in the 1960s as a state senator, is "emotionally engaged and still having experiences and laughing, loving," his grandson, Jason, said in September. And the centenarian still has political ambitions: "I'm only trying to make it to vote for Kamala Harris" in November's election, the humanitarian and Nobel Prize recipient said, according to his grandson. To honour the occasion, volunteers with Habitat for Humanity - the housing charity Carter has worked with for 40 years - are building 30 homes in Minnesota this week. There will also be events in Plains, the former Georgia governor's hometown, to celebrate the occasion on Tuesday. There will be a flyover of military jets and 100 new citizens will have naturalisation ceremonies in his honour.

Happy 100th birthday to former President Jimmy Carter. 🎂

[anouckin]

Happy 100th Birthday to President Jimmy Carter! In hope he can have his last wish of voting for Kamala Harris and beat Trump.

[baseballbybsmile]

Happy 100th Birthday President Jimmy Carter!

[myvoicemyresistance]

Happy 100th Birthday to a great man President James E Carter.