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America Still Needs Jimmy Carter’s Health Care Agenda—Even If It Flopped

Carter’s willingness to tackle the politically perilous task of trying to rein in health care costs offers a template for the kind of leadership and focus needed to address the health care system’s enduring flaws in 2024.

Guian McKee

Remembering Jimmy Carter

“Some consider him to be the nation’s greatest former president,” wrote Robert A. Strong of the Miller Center, a nonpartisan affiliate of the University of Virginia that focuses on presidential scholarship.

Robert Strong

Jimmy Carter’s Legacy as a Champion of Peace, Public Health, and Affordable Housing

Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, who tirelessly championed peacekeeping and humanitarian causes after leaving the Oval Office, died on Sunday. He was 100.

Robert Strong

State Funerals’ Pomp Has Long U.S. History

“State funerals for presidents, whether they die unexpectedly in office by assassination or long after their presidencies – as in Carter’s case – give Americans and the world the public opportunity to grieve and also pay their respects to the late leader of the United States,” said Barbara A. Perry, the J. Wilson Newman Professor of Governance in presidential studies at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center of Public Affairs.

Barbara Perry

Health

How Jimmy Carter shaped the oral history program

Carter was "absolutely indispensable" for the emergence of the Presidential Oral History Program

C-VILLE Weekly

7 Facts About Jimmy Carter Before He Became President

“There are people who enter politics late in life, like Dwight Eisenhower or Donald Trump or Ronald Reagan, but they were famous in their earlier endeavors,” Strong says. In contrast, Carter was the kind of unknown, “dark horse” candidate who Strong says “almost never gets to the White House”—except he did.

Robert Strong