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From the New York Times, it's the headlines.
I'm Tracy Mumford.
Today's Monday, December 30th.
Here's what we're covering.
Jimmy Carter, the longest living president in American history, has died after nearly two years in hospice care.
He was 100 years old.
World leaders and others are remembering Carter this morning as a dedicated humanitarian
and a global statesman who pushed for peace and democracy around the globe.
Jimmy Carter from Georgia.
I hope to be your next president.
Carter's path to the presidency began on a peanut farm in Georgia,
where he was raised with no electricity or running water.
He served in the Navy and as governor of his home state before launching his campaign for the White House.
He was elected in 1976, just two years after President Richard Nixon resigned in a maelstrom of scandal.
I came along at a time when Americans still remembered painfully the lies told and Watergate.
In 2006, Carter spoke with the Times about his presidency in footage that was released after his death.
I brought a fresh face of a peanut farmer, a working man who's for never to tell a lie or make a misleading statement.
Carter went into his presidency hoping he could be a breath of fresh air in American politics.
But he faced a tumultuous landscape, navigating a domestic energy crisis and soaring inflation abroad.
He negotiated a nuclear agreement with Russia.