Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, a Republican, has not publicly explained his reason for not lowering flags at Nassau County-operated buildings. Following Carter's death Sunday, President Biden called for flags to be flown at half-staff for 30 days at all federal facilities.

The fact that Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, chose to send their daughter, Amy, to D.C. public schools speaks volumes about Carter's moral character and his commitment to living the values he championed. Unlike contemporary Republicans and Democrats who have sent their children to elite private schools (yes, I'm looking at Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and 'Old Donald'), Mr. Carter enrolled Amy at Thaddeus Stevens School and, later, Rose Hardy Middle School.

In the aftermath of the Watergate scandal and Richard M. Nixon's disgracing of the White House, the country seemed cynical about government and all institutions of power. Along came Carter, the Democratic governor of Georgia who was allergic to lobbyists, disdainful of Washington's powerful social networks and adamant that government could be a force for good.

Still, Carter's biographers have concluded that the young idealists he seeded throughout the federal bureaucracy changed American life and the nation's role in the world by leading the deregulation of the airline and trucking industries, engineering diplomatic recognition of China, and emphasizing human rights in U.S. foreign policy.

After Reagan came in, a lot of us went into public interest jobs and exercised great oversight and got good things done,' she said. Jimmy Carter's life

'Old Donald' doesn't appreciate the American flag setting on his watch, even if it's to honor the 39th president of the United States. After the death of Jimmy Carter at age 100, President Joe Biden ordered American flags to be flown at half-staff, which is a customary tradition whenever the country is in mourning. American flags are to remain in the position for 30 days before standing tall again, and for Carter, this would be on January 28.

On X, a strong vocal group has pushed back against "Old Donald's" pushback of America's long-held tradition. American influencer Harry Sisson, a longtime critic of "Old Donald", felt the president-elect's response highlighted his immaturity. "He is truly the most selfish and self-centered toddler in America," Sisson wrote. Some others on X echoed Sisson's thoughts. However, "Old Donald's" statements had its critics even outside of the social media platform. On Yahoo! News, another poster quipped that Carter might've gotten the last laugh on his political rival before passing. "So Jimmy lived long to vote against him AND mess with his inauguration. Masterful," the user wrote.

Record Latinos in federal government, judicial appointments

Carter did not just bring qualified Latinos to work with him; he also selected people who had been part of the grassroots political and civil rights movements, Cardenas said.

At the time, Carter brought in a record number of Hispanics to work for his administration. They were able to do so because they recruited leaders from the emerging Latino civil rights and advocacy groups./

Then along came this born-again farmer-businessman from Georgia with a record of service in the Navy. He was a disciplined man of integrity and rock-solid values whose vision was to restore honor to government and, thus, change the mood of the capital and the country.

“Trust me,” Mr. Carter said again and again on the campaign trail. 'I will never lie to you.' His opponent, the incumbent president, Gerald Ford, was an honorable man, but had few defenses. The burden of the multiple duplicities and corruption of Mr. Ford’s predecessors was simply too heavy.

Jimmy Carter would not tell a lie. Did his honesty doom his presidency?

But that same character trait that first lifted Carter to the White House as the smiling, soft-spoken truth-teller who could be an antidote to the cynicism and corruption of Richard M. Nixon turned out to have a mixed legacy ' leaving Carter honored for committing himself to rigorous honesty, yet criticized for a naivete (or disingenuousness) that made it harder for him to get things done and stay in office.

On the heels of Nixon's abuses and deceptions, which led to his resignation from office in 1974, Carter won the presidency in 1976 buoyed by a blast of goodwill. He was ' as he reminded voters with his campaign slogan, 'Why not the best?' ' the rare candidate who promised he would never lie.

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'He stole my life,' Gene Mills said. 'That was my life. He took it away from me.'

In December 1979, the Soviets invaded Afghanistan, intending to prop up a Soviet-friendly regime. The United States, which was in the midst of the Iran hostage crisis, was quick to condemn the invasion and suspended arms negotiations as it considered other punishments.

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With the stubborn confidence of an engineer and an optimism rooted in his Baptist faith, Carter described his motivations in politics and beyond in the same way: an almost missionary zeal to solve problems and improve lives.

Carter was raised amid racism, abject poverty and hard rural living — realities that shaped both his deliberate politics and emphasis on human rights.

“He always felt a responsibility to help people,” said Jill Stuckey, a longtime friend of Carter’s in Plains. “And when he couldn’t make change wherever he was, he decided he had to go higher.”

And he began his political career in a whites-only Democratic Party.

As private citizens, he and Rosalynn supported integration as early as the 1950s and believed it inevitable. Carter refused to join the White Citizens Council in Plains and spoke out in his Baptist church against denying Black people access to worship services.

Mr. Carter named 57 minority judges and 41 female judges to the federal judiciary during his single term in the White House, which, according to the Carter Center, was more than all previous presidents combined. One of those judges was Ruth Bader Ginsburg, whom Mr. Carter nominated in 1980 to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The 39th president, who came of age politically during the civil rights era but came to embrace the movement publicly later in his political career, also appointed the first Black woman to serve in a presidential Cabinet ' Patricia Roberts Harris.

“This is not my house; this is not your house,” he said in a churchwide meeting, reminding fellow parishioners their sanctuary belonged to God.

What spaceflight owes to Jimmy Carter: The president's little-known NASA legacy

Yet, it was Carter who ultimately saved NASA’s space shuttle program — giving the country perhaps its most iconic space vehicle. And it is Carter’s words that have been journeying aboard the Voyager probes for more than 45 years, carrying a message of peace and hope deep into the cosmos.

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How world leaders are reacting to Jimmy Carter's death

Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino:

“I offer my condolences to the family and to the people and government of the United States on the death of former President Jimmy Carter. His time in the White House marked complex times, which were crucial for Panama in order to negotiate and agree on the Torrijos-Carter Treaties in 1977, which achieved the transfer of the canal to Panamanian hands and the full sovereignty of our country. May his soul rest in peace.'

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky:

“We express our heartfelt condolences to the American people and to the family of former US President Jimmy Carter on his passing. He was a leader who served during a time when Ukraine was not yet independent, yet his heart stood firmly with us in our ongoing fight for freedom. We deeply appreciate his steadfast commitment to Christian faith and democratic values, as well as his unwavering support for Ukraine in the face of Russia’s unprovoked aggression. He devoted his life to promoting peace in the world and defending human rights. Today, let us remember: peace matters, and the world must remain united in standing against those who threaten these values. May his memory be eternal.”

Twelve months that crippled Jimmy Carter's presidency

For Jimmy Carter, the 12 months that culminated in the 1980 general election were marked by economic turmoil, international humiliation and a political challenge from the most recognizable family name in the Democratic Party. Together, they would drive Carter from office, leaving a punctuation mark on his one-term presidency that only the passage of time, and his remarkable post-presidency, have helped to change.

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“The challenge facing this country is the moral equivalent of war,” Carter said in 1979. He was talking about the threat from OPEC oil producers to strangle the U.S. economy with high oil prices, not the threat of rising CO2 pollution to cook the planet. But it hardly mattered. He was the Greta Thunberg of the 1970s, saying bold, politically blunt things about greed and consumption and fossil fuel addiction that nobody wanted to hear. And this was all the more remarkable because he was not a Swedish teenager. He was the President of the United States.

Shortly after Carter took office in 1977, he delivered what has become known as the "sweater speech." Sitting by a lit fireplace, he wore a cardigan sweater and addressed the country on television.

Had the United States stayed the course, and we had not had volatility in our federal efforts in alternative energy, we would maybe still be the premier country for alternative energy," Jaffe says. Instead, she says, the U.S. is playing catch-up with countries like Denmark and Spain on wind energy, and China for solar and electric vehicles.

In a statement, it says Carter passed away peacefully on Sunday at his home in Plains, Georgia, surrounded by family.

In truth, portraying a great divide between Jimmy Carter's presidency and his post-presidency is a bit simplistic. He was a complicated man, but consistent in his principles, which were guided, perhaps more than those of any other modern American president, by his religious beliefs.

How Jimmy Carter helped build 4,390 homes with Habitat for Humanity

In the decades since he left the White House, Carter used his own hammer and tool belt to help build, renovate or repair 4,390 homes in 14 countries for Habitat for Humanity, the organization said. In the process, Carter, who died on Sunday at the age of 100, made his volunteer work building affordable and decent housing a significant part of his legacy.

It did not take long for the Carters to support Habitat, which is based only a few miles from their home in Americus, Ga. But it wasn’t until 1984, when Carter had a speaking engagement at a New York church, that the family became even more hands-on.

During that first build in New York, the former president recalled to reporters how he had seen an elderly woman cooking food over a trash fire that she built between two bricks, and realized what affordable housing could mean to the neighborhood and others like it.

There is no shortage of stories about Carter, who famously had a no-nonsense work ethic on build sites, Reckford told The Post. The CEO recalled a 1999 project in the Philippines in which Carter and a group of 14,000 volunteers were building 293 houses at six sites in the largest-ever Carter Work Project. Realizing they were falling behind schedule, Carter did what he could to help speed things up.

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