Americans remember Jimmy Carter

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00:00Americans are sharing reflections on the country's 39th president, Jimmy Carter,

00:05following his death Sunday at the age of 100.

00:08VOA's Scott Stearns has some of their remembrances.

00:14Outside the White House, where flags are flying at half-staff,

00:17Californian Cheryl Jones says Jimmy Carter was her favorite president.

00:22He was just a good man, a decent man, an honest man,

00:26something we don't see very much of when we're young.

00:29Kit Burns, a resident of the Washington State City of Tacoma,

00:33best remembers Carter for his work building homes for people in need.

00:37There's a number of Habitat for Humanity housing near where I live.

00:42And his dedication to helping other people,

00:44I think that's the primary purpose for all of us in our lives.

00:48And it's terrible, the state of the world is where we're not helping people.

00:55And he's set such an example for so many years.

00:58Carter showed the importance of caring about people, says Virginia Natosha Walker.

01:03You're a public service, you're here to serve people.

01:06So that's the most important quality, and leading by example.

01:10You know, he had Bible study, he did Habitat for Humanity.

01:14Those are all good examples of how we should lead

01:18and how we should interact with our fellow Americans.

01:22The New York Stock Exchange held a moment of silence

01:24for the former president before its opening bell Monday.

01:28New Jersey resident Dolores Spivak remembers Carter's work with Israelis and Palestinians.

01:34I am so in awe of him.

01:36I'm in awe of his presidency because he was the one who fought for the environment, civil rights.

01:43But afterwards, his books that he wrote, especially on the Mideast, were tremendous.

01:48I get chills when I think about the Camp David Agreement.

01:52Carter's death is an opportunity to learn more about his life and presidency,

01:57says Connecticut resident Kim Potvin.

01:59I think a lot of the policy that he was involved with that I wasn't aware of,

02:03and also just kind of the economics and history of that time.

02:06So I always think that we learn a lot from history because it translates a lot to present day.

02:13In Carter's hometown of Plains, Georgia,

02:16Sondra Walters remembers a friend who grew up across the street.

02:19Thank you, Lord, for letting him live a hundred years and do all the things that he wanted to do.

02:26And I think he accomplished so much that who could be sad over anybody

02:32who had done what that man had done from a little town in Plains, Georgia,

02:37raised on a peanut farm and became the president of the United States.

02:44Carter will be buried in Plains after a state funeral in Washington on January 9th.

02:50Scott Stearns, VOA News.

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