Former US President and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Jimmy Carter has died at 100. The longest-lived American president passed away on Sunday, more than a year after entering hospice care, at his home in the small town of Plains, Georgia. Mr Carter became the 39th US president taking office in 1977. Report by Jonesia. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00A peanut farmer from Georgia, Jimmy Carter was an unlikely U.S. president.
00:05Jimmy who?
00:06Jimmy Carter.
00:07Jimmy who?
00:08I don't know who he is.
00:10He took office in 1977.
00:12In the aftermath of Watergate and the Nixon resignation, America was a scandal-weary country.
00:17I, Jimmy Carter, do solemnly swear...
00:19A deeply religious man, Jimmy Carter promised a new type of politics
00:22and reached out to other nations to help solve the world's problems.
00:25We need your experience. We need your wisdom.
00:28We need your active participation in a joint effort
00:31to move the reality of the world closer to the ideals of human freedom and dignity.
00:37But he was soon confronted with problems much closer to home.
00:40Amid an energy crisis and rising oil prices,
00:43the U.S. economy took a succession of hits, leading to long lines at petrol stations.
00:47On foreign policy, though, there was an unexpected success.
00:51The Camp David Accords that saw a breakthrough peace deal between Egypt and Israel.
00:55It remains perhaps America's biggest diplomatic achievement in the Middle East.
00:59And it provides that Israel may live in peace within secure and recognized borders.
01:05However, it was foreign affairs that would seal his fate as a one-term president.
01:09The Iranian revolution brought a hardline clerical anti-U.S. regime to power.
01:14In November 1979, the U.S. embassy in Tehran was stormed,
01:17and 66 U.S. diplomats were taken hostage.
01:20To compound Jimmy Carter's humiliation,
01:22a rescue mission which he ordered ended in disaster
01:25and a crash in the Iranian desert that left U.S. commandos dead.
01:29The landslide election victory of Ronald Reagan in 1980 was no great surprise.
01:33But, leaving office at the age of 56, Jimmy Carter's best years were still ahead of him.
01:38His legacy as a social activist gave him deep respect.
01:42He was in his late 70s when he teamed up with Nelson Mandela and Bill Gates
01:45in the battle against Africa's rampant AIDS epidemic.
01:49In 2002, he won the Nobel Peace Prize for his campaigning for the underprivileged.
01:53I have been blessed by graduating from the White House at an early age
01:59enough so that I could use the prestige and the fame and knowledge and experience
02:08from being president of the greatest nation in the world
02:12to have access to leaders and to understand the problems that Carter Center might address.
02:18But, he said, his humanitarian work was not about bolstering his image.
02:21If I was primarily interested in legacy,
02:24why would I be in the most remote villages in the world
02:28where there are not any news reporters, no television cameras, no photographers?
02:33I don't really feel that my legacy needs polishing.
02:38Faith was at the heart of Jimmy Carter's identity.
02:41He was the little boy from Georgia who reached the White House
02:44and, in his final greatest act, a humanitarian who rebuilt his reputation across the world.