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Article: Jimmy Carter, Nobel laureate: Did his diplomacy help?(The Providence Journal)
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- October 22, 2002
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WASHINGTON _ It is the best of times and the worst of times for Jimmy Carter.
It is the best of times because the former president has been lobbying for the Nobel Peace Prize for years, and this time he finally captured the brass ring. This puts him in company with a rather better class of presidents _ Theodore Roosevelt (1906), Woodrow Wilson (1919) _ than he usually finds himself in, and he has the satisfaction of beating out Bill Clinton. America's only living Democratic ex-presidents are not overly fond of each other, and Clinton's two bids for the honor (in Northern Ireland and the Mideast) are not looking so good these days.
Best of all, former ...