APPRECIATING JIMMY CARTER: Walter Mears, an Associated Press special correspondent who won a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the 1976 presidential campaign, wrote this retrospective article prior to his death in 2022.
FILE - Associated Press Special Correspondent Walter R. Mears, right, talks with presidential candidate Jimmy Carter in Concord, N.H., before the New Hampshire primary election in 1976. As the former U.S. president starts hospice care in February 2023 at his home in Plains, Ga., many people are considering his impact. One man who knew him well was Mears, an AP special correspondent whose coverage of the 1976 presidential campaign won a Pulitzer Prize.
The man who conceded that some considered him"a failed president" made himself the most active and internationally engaged of ex-presidents."My role as a former president is probably superior to that of other presidents," he said in a 2010 television interview. He won the Democratic nomination and challenged President Gerald Ford, Nixon's appointed vice president.
For all that, Carter's term left landmarks, such as the Israel-Egypt peace accord he engineered in personal negotiations at Camp David in 1978. Carter graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1946, the year he married Rosalynn Smith, also of Plains. They had three sons and a daughter, Amy, the youngest child, who went with them to the White House.
He began the Carter Center which, he said later, offered"superior opportunities to do good." He and Rosalynn also worked with Habitat for Humanity, building housing for the poor in the United States and abroad.
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