President Jimmy Carter Turns 100. Happy Birthday!

Jimmy Carter, 39^th president of the United States of America. Jimmy Carter, a courageous man, an honourable man, a wise and gentle man, and a man with a steel backbone.

From History.com: Perhaps President Carter’s most significant accomplishment was the Camp David Accords. For nearly two weeks in September 1978, the president moved back and forth between delegations at Camp David, the presidential retreat in Maryland. The parties agreed on the general framework for peace, but it would take several more months of negotiations before President Anwar Sadat of Egypt and Prime Minister Menachem Begin of Israel signed the Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty on the North Lawn of the White House on March 26, 1979.

President Carter also faced major economic challenges at home. Unemployment and interest rates remained high, and inflation continued to climb. After entering office, President Carter signed a stimulus package to boost the economy; he also argued that reforming the regulatory system would reduce costs, lower prices, and benefit households across the country. Carter’s deregulation of the airline, savings and loan, transportation, and telecommunication industries spurred new investment, increased competition, and gave consumers more choices.

More at History.com – and – WhitehouseHistory.org

Jimmy Carter is now the first president to become a centenarian, living 43 years (and counting) after leaving the Oval Office in 1981. NBC News.