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Jimmy Carter: Prize, Glory
Aired December 10, 2002 - 06:31 ET
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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: It is often said that Jimmy Carter is the best former president the United States has ever had.
CNN's Jonathan Mann looks at what sets the ex-president apart from other former leaders.
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JONATHAN MANN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Think of the leaders who have made history in our time. A few remain influential, but most make their mark and then see their moment pass. Jimmy Carter is a special case. No leader in our era has been so active or so effective since leaving office.
HENRY KISSINGER, FMR. SECRETARY OF STATE: He is a very special kind of American, and Americans like to think they have an obligation to solve the world's problems. And I think if you look at his performance and the respect in which he is held around the world, he has -- that contribution is significant.
MANN: Carter has traveled to more than 120 countries, the vast majority of them not as president, but as chairman of the Carter Center. He founded the center 20 years ago in Atlanta, not long after leaving Washington. It's not quite a one-man United Nations -- 150 people work at its headquarters and at projects worldwide -- but it's close.
The Carter Center has taken on disease, delivering medicine to protect millions of people against river blindness, leading efforts that have nearly eradicated the scourge of Guinea worm. It sent observers to more than 40 elections in emerging democracies from Latin America to East Timor.
It also mediates some of the world's most difficult conflicts. In Sudan alone, Carter and the center have been involved for more than a decade. The concerns today, the same ones Carter had as president years ago.
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY, CARTER BIOGRAPHER: Carter constantly human rights, human rights, human rights into the international fray. He refuses to allow that term to disappear. He's not a practitioner of real politic. He's somebody who's an idealistic peacemaker, and I think we need people like that in a way.
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Aired December 10, 2002 - 06:31 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: It is often said that Jimmy Carter is the best former president the United States has ever had.
CNN's Jonathan Mann looks at what sets the ex-president apart from other former leaders.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
JONATHAN MANN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Think of the leaders who have made history in our time. A few remain influential, but most make their mark and then see their moment pass. Jimmy Carter is a special case. No leader in our era has been so active or so effective since leaving office.
HENRY KISSINGER, FMR. SECRETARY OF STATE: He is a very special kind of American, and Americans like to think they have an obligation to solve the world's problems. And I think if you look at his performance and the respect in which he is held around the world, he has -- that contribution is significant.
MANN: Carter has traveled to more than 120 countries, the vast majority of them not as president, but as chairman of the Carter Center. He founded the center 20 years ago in Atlanta, not long after leaving Washington. It's not quite a one-man United Nations -- 150 people work at its headquarters and at projects worldwide -- but it's close.
The Carter Center has taken on disease, delivering medicine to protect millions of people against river blindness, leading efforts that have nearly eradicated the scourge of Guinea worm. It sent observers to more than 40 elections in emerging democracies from Latin America to East Timor.
It also mediates some of the world's most difficult conflicts. In Sudan alone, Carter and the center have been involved for more than a decade. The concerns today, the same ones Carter had as president years ago.
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY, CARTER BIOGRAPHER: Carter constantly human rights, human rights, human rights into the international fray. He refuses to allow that term to disappear. He's not a practitioner of real politic. He's somebody who's an idealistic peacemaker, and I think we need people like that in a way.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com.
