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It's the NPR Politics Podcast.
I'm Sarah McCammon.
I cover Polit.
And it's 10:40am on Monday, December 30, 2024.
And on the pod today, we will look back at the life of President Jimmy Carter, who died on Sunday.
Ron Elving and Mara Liasson are joining me now to talk about his life and legacy.
Hi, Mara and Ron.
Hi there.
Good to be with you, Sarah.
Ron, I'm going to begin with you.
Jimmy Carter was, of course, a Democrat.
He was president from 1977 to 1981.
But I want to talk about his life before that, before he was president, how did he find his way to the highest office in the land?
Everybody knows, I suppose that he started life in rural Georgia in a little town called Plains.
His big break, in a sense, was going to the United States Naval academy in the 1940s, in the latter part of World War II, came out of that and went into, for a short time, the nuclear Navy under Admiral Rickover, a kind of a glamorous part of the Navy at that time.