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Article: Former President Carter visits Cuba.(Opinion & Editorial)
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- Manila Bulletin
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- May 20, 2002
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WHAT do former presidents do? Richard Nixon managed to redeem himself by acting as a senior statesman in foreign policy forays abroad, which had been his greatest asset as President before his fall from grace.
President Fidel Ramos and President Cory Aquino and now President Bill Clinton accept speaking engagements before prestigious institutions abroad, spreading the word for peaceful development. Former President Jimmy Carter has been perhaps the most active of all former Presidents, working with Habitat for Humanity building houses for the poor, observing contested elections and now, traveling to Cuba, the first high-ranking American official to do so, since ...