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Jimmy Carter's extraordinary life in pictures, from peanut farm to White House to Nobel Prize
cbsnews.com ^ | December 30, 2024 | Jordan Freiman, Caroline Linton, Paula Cohen

Posted on 12/30/2024 9:26:25 AM PST by V_TWIN

Former President Jimmy Carter, who died Sunday at the age of 100, led an extraordinary life that began at a peanut farm in Plains, Georgia, and went on to include four years in the world's most powerful office, travels around the globe and a Nobel Peace Prize.

President Biden declared a state funeral will be held on Jan. 9 in Washington, D.C., with additional services and ceremonies planned throughout the week. Carter will be buried at the same ranch house where he returned to live after his time in the White House, next to his beloved wife of 77 years, Rosalynn Carter, who died in 2023.

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1 posted on 12/30/2024 9:26:25 AM PST by V_TWIN
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To: V_TWIN

Carter shall not be missed.


2 posted on 12/30/2024 9:33:55 AM PST by wildcard_redneck
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Additional services and ceremonies, I see. And it’s all part of the plan to make folks forget about the inauguration of Donald Trump. I seriously doubt the rat party’s plan will work.


3 posted on 12/30/2024 9:35:35 AM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: wildcard_redneck

By any true conservative.


4 posted on 12/30/2024 9:35:52 AM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: V_TWIN
They forgot one...


5 posted on 12/30/2024 9:53:31 AM PST by Hatteras
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To: V_TWIN
An extraordinary life in pictures.


6 posted on 12/30/2024 9:54:06 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: V_TWIN

No-bell prizes are as important as pulitzers any more.


7 posted on 12/30/2024 10:00:32 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within ? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: V_TWIN

“Extraordinary life?”

The guy was an unmitigated disaster.


8 posted on 12/30/2024 11:03:18 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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Won’t be missed for a NANOSECOND.


9 posted on 12/30/2024 11:11:32 AM PST by LeonardFMason
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10 posted on 12/30/2024 4:10:02 PM PST by Paal Gulli
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Now the Nobel Prize is little more than a participation trophy; just as obama.


11 posted on 12/31/2024 10:09:38 AM PST by CoastWatcher
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