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Article: Citizen Carter: the very model of an ex-President. (Jimmy Carter's social activism)
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- The Nation
- Article date:
- November 12, 1990
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CITIZEN CARTER THE VERY MODEL OF AN EX-PRESIDENT It hasn't been easy, but Jimmy Carter, the President who a decade ago was humilated at the polls, is back. Suddenly, he seems to be everywhere, building homes for the poor, mediating civil wars in Africa and playing umpire of elections in dangerous places like Haiti, Panama and Nicaragua. His hair has turned white, and the wrinkles around his eyes betray his 66 years, but this Southern Baptist politician has createdc for himself an admirable extraconstitutional role as ex-President. In his quiet, methodical way, he has spent the Reagan/Bush years tacking some of the most intractable of humainity's problems, whether it be ...