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Tributes pour in for Jimmy Carter for retirement peace work following his death at 100
Then US president-elect Jimmy Carter leans over to shake hands with some of the people riding the ‘Peanut Special’ to Washington, January 19, 1977
TRIBUTES have poured in for former US president Jimmy Carter following his death at 100 on Sunday.
Carter was US president from 1977-81.
Praise came even from countries long victimised by the United States, in a nod to Carter’s work in retirement for a more peaceful foreign policy.
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