National Security: Jimmy Carter

Our nation’s 39th president, Jimmy Carter, has died. As he turned 100 recently, he was our longest living president. He only served one term, from 1977 to 1981, but it was consequential. James Earl Carter, who much preferred the name “Jimmy,” was a native of the tiny town of Plains, Ga., or more precisely, the crossroads of Archery just west of Plains. Born in 1924, he was a small town boy, one of four children born to Earl and Lillian Carter. If you visit the town of Plains, you can se