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Letters: Jimmy Carter our best ex-president

Former President Jimmy Carter teaches Sunday School class at Maranatha Baptist Church in his hometown of Plains, Ga, on Sunday. It was his first lesson since detailing the intravenous drug doses and radiation treatment planned to treat melanoma found in his brain after surgery to remove a tumor from his liver.
Former President Jimmy Carter teaches Sunday School class at Maranatha Baptist Church in his hometown of Plains, Ga, on Sunday. It was his first lesson since detailing the intravenous drug doses and radiation treatment planned to treat melanoma found in his brain after surgery to remove a tumor from his liver. David Goldman AP
Columbia, SC

Jimmy Carter may well be the best ex-president America has ever had. I had the distinct privilege of a small exchange with him while serving as a professor at Shaw University, and he was as gracious to me as he would be to any world figure. Never mind that he is an author of 29 books, or that he won the Noble Peace Prize; he was a follower and teacher of Jesus Christ

I have read much about Jimmy Carter, and he did not sell his soul to make a quick buck giving speeches. In fact, he gave much of his money to charity, and started a healing center in Atlanta for the diseased and destitute. What a model of a great man, a true “mensch.” And his long marriage to Rosalyn was a example of his belief in Christian marriage.

Like our son, also a former nuclear submarine officer, he knew deep down that only faith in Christ was the answer to the life-and-death demonism of the world’s l5,000 nuclear missiles. Hallelujah.

Albert Jabs

Lexington

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