Former US President and Nobel laureate Jimmy Carter dies at home at age 100

Carter was in the White House from 1977-1981 and lived longer after his term in office than any other US president.

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00:00Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has died at the age of 100. Carter entered the White

00:08House in 1977, pledging to clean up politics following the Watergate scandal and Vietnam

00:14War. President Joe Biden mourned Carter's death, saying the world has lost an extraordinary

00:19leader, statesman and humanitarian.

00:23He forged peace, advanced civil rights, human rights, promoted free and fair elections around

00:30the world. He built housing for the homeless with his own hands. And his compassion and

00:36moral clarity lifted people up and changed lives and saved lives all over the globe.

00:42Carter ran for the presidency in 1976, and his promise to never deceive the American

00:47people resonated after Richard Nixon's disgrace. Carter set the stage for an economic revival

00:54and sharply reduced America's dependence on foreign oil by deregulating the energy industry.

01:00He established the Departments of Energy and Education, appointed record numbers of women

01:05to federal posts, and pardoned most Vietnam draft evaders. His achievements also included

01:11brokering peace in the Middle East by keeping the Egyptian and Israeli leaders at Camp David

01:16for 13 days in 1978. But his presidency began to collapse after the 444-day hostage crisis

01:25in Iran. After Carter reluctantly agreed to admit the exiled Shah of Iran to the U.S.

01:31for medical treatment, the American embassy in Tehran was overrun in 1979. Talks to free

01:37the hostages broke down, and eight Americans died when a top-secret military rescue attempt

01:42failed. His negotiations did ultimately bring the hostages home, but they weren't released

01:48until the inauguration of Ronald Reagan in 1981. After he left the White House, Carter

01:54pledged to do whatever he could to try to make a difference. He founded the Carter Center

01:59in 1982 and spent the next 40 years traveling the world as a peacemaker, human rights advocate,

02:05and champion of democracy. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 for his decades

02:12of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts. After a cancer

02:18diagnosis in 2015, Carter said he felt perfectly at ease with whatever comes. He died surrounded

02:25by his family at his home in Georgia.