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(NewsNation) — Jimmy Carter was "the astir impactful one-term president" successful modern American history, according to his erstwhile home argumentation advisor Stuart Eizenstat, who defended the 39th president's legacy pursuing Carter's decease Sunday astatine property 100.
Eizenstat, speaking with NewsNation earlier Carter's passing, cited the former president's achievements successful vigor information and overseas policy, arguing that Carter's presidency laid important groundwork for America's aboriginal contempt his 1980 electoral decision to Ronald Reagan.
"The vigor information which we bask arsenic a state today, the deficiency of dependence connected OPEC oil… rests connected the instauration of 3 large vigor bills that helium passed," Eizenstat said.
He besides credited Carter for initiating defence programs that would aboriginal beryllium associated with the Reagan administration, including the cruise rocket and stealth bomber.
His post-presidential enactment done the Carter Center included monitoring implicit 100 antiauthoritarian elections and helping combat diseases successful Africa.
"This was a beingness good lived," Eizenstat said, "not conscionable successful longevity, but successful its interaction from the clip helium got into nationalist beingness and served arsenic a submariner to the clip helium passed away."
