Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States and known humanitarian, has just died at age 100. He was a president and a leader and a vanguard in many way for those who came after. Veuer’s Tony Spitz has the details.
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00:00Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States and known humanitarian, has just died at
00:05age 100. While his life was one which included many achievements, the former U.S. Navy submariner
00:11also had a lot of firsts for a president. Carter was the first president to be born in a hospital,
00:16coming into this world at Wise Sanitarium in the town of Plains, Georgia in 1924. He was also the
00:22first to live in public housing, moving his family into a housing project in his hometown. Carter
00:27attributes his stint in the public housing block as the ember that ignited his involvement with
00:32Habitat for Humanity, perhaps what he is best known for after being president. He and his wife
00:37Rosalind were also the first first couple to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue from the Capitol
00:41Building to the White House on Inauguration Day in 1977. The Secret Service pushed back initially,
00:47but every president since has made the journey on foot. And while James Earl Carter was not the
00:51first president to win a Grammy Award, he has earned three of them, all for spoken word albums
00:56of books he has written. In fact, the late president is the author of 30 books, ranging
01:01from memoirs to international affairs. After Carter's defeat to Ronald Reagan in 1980, he and
01:06his wife returned to the one and only home they ever purchased. That home resides at 209 Woodlawn
01:11Drive in Plains, Georgia, where they both lived to the end of their days.