BREAKING: Former US President Jimmy Carter has died

Jimmy Carter was a former President of the United States who, until this evening (Sunday), was considered the oldest president in the world. He began his term in 1977 and completed it in 1981. This evening, as mentioned, the family announced his passing after a series of hospitalizations that ended about a year and a half ago, when the family decided to transfer him to a "home hospice" arrangement until he passed away surrounded by his family.

About two years ago, when he was 98 years old, his family announced that the former president had decided to receive home care, as it was estimated that he had only a few days left to live.

The former president, who served for four years, is nonetheless one of the most remembered leaders in the history of the United States. On one hand, Carter brought a lot of color to the White House, even claiming to have seen a UFO, and on the other hand, he worked extensively and, for example, led to one of the most stable peace agreements in the Middle East - the peace between Israel and Egypt. After his presidency, he was considered one of Israel's most vocal critics, according to the KitKat report.

Carter was in the political arena from the early 1960s, and for part of that time, he was considered a political genius, a person who knew how to eliminate political opponents even before they thought of declaring their candidacy against him—a strategy that also served him in two of the most important elections of his life: the gubernatorial election in Georgia and the presidential election.

Even before he jumped into the political waters of the world's powerful democratic superpower, Carter, during the 1950s, was among those opposing racial segregation between blacks and whites, a time when the civil rights movement that led the struggles did not yet exist.

The Senate

For two terms, Carter served in the Senate, but his election was not a foregone conclusion. In his state, Georgia, a seat became available - but Carter announced his candidacy only two weeks before Election Day.

After the elections, the vote counting began - but in the end, it turned out that Carter lost the elections. The situation changed after irregularities were uncovered, and Carter was elected to the position.

Although Carter was one of the early supporters of racial integration, over time he did not want to be associated with civil rights movements for fear of upsetting his voter base.

After four years as a senator, he decided to run for the position of Governor of Georgia, but lost the election, so he turned to farming for a while - until the elections of 1970-5731.

Governor of Georgia

Remember at the beginning of the article when we talked about Carter's sharpness? For the next round after the loss, he came much sharper and prepared against his opponent - Karl Sanders.

Throughout the election campaign, Carter made sure to tightly attack Sanders as a rich and privileged person who doesn't really know how to take care of others - in other words, "America first."

Alongside this, Carter refused to support Martin Luther King's movements - for reasons similar to those he took in the Senate elections - fear of the white base.

"The time of racial segregation is over," Carter said in his inaugural speech as governor—a speech that disappointed many of his supporters, a large number of whom were enthusiastic supporters of the continuation of racial segregation and claimed that Carter had actually staged a coup and deceived them throughout the campaign.

President of the United States

Two years into his term as governor, Carter started to sniff the White House and began preparations for the presidential election.

After a tough election campaign, he defeated the Republican candidate Gerald Ford, who had a significant advantage over him due to being the incumbent president - but despite the advantage, he beat him by a small margin of two percent.

Carter's term is not necessarily remembered fondly, as it ended after he was defeated by Reagan amid a severe economic crisis.

But it wasn't just failures for Carter; most of the successes were outside the borders of the United States, primarily a historic agreement that, although signed in the United States, still affects the Middle East to this day.

Carter decided to touch the hot potato - Israel and peace. After heavy pressure from him on Israel to make concessions and heavy pressure on the Egyptians, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Prime Minister Menachem Begin signed a historic peace agreement, months after the Egyptian president's visit to Israel.

And not only on our neighborhood did he manage to make an impact. Carter also normalized trade relations with China and became one of the people who made human rights a cornerstone of U.S. foreign policy, requiring countries cooperating with Washington to work towards the promotion of human rights in their own countries.

During his time, the pro-Western Shah's regime also fell, as the Revolutionary Guards took power in his place. Carter came out of the affair with nothing to gain from any direction after expressing opposition to providing aid to the Shah's family, arguing that it would lead to a crisis with the new Iranian regime - but in the end, he backed down, and thus he was not signed on providing political asylum, and the United States also found itself in the famous hostage crisis.

Do aliens exist?

During his tenure as governor, Carter was one hundred percent certain that he, along with about ten other people, saw a UFO in the skies of Georgia. This incident led him to say after entering the White House that he would be patient regarding attitudes towards possible extraterrestrial beings.

After becoming president, he also underwent an investigation and hearings about the sighting he reported - but according to estimates, what Carter saw was simply the planet Jupiter...

The end

As mentioned, Carter lost the presidency after a difficult economic situation and a severe energy crisis, but the final nail in Carter's political coffin was actually... A rabbit.

During the year 1979, President Carter went fishing, and the crew around him saw the president struggling. After it came out, it turned out to be a rabbit. The then-president recounted: "The hunting dogs chased the rabbit, which jumped into the water and swam towards my boat." When he almost reached there, I splashed some water with the paddle.

Carter insisted that the rabbit swam to him - but how does a rabbit know how to swim? This raised criticism in the press about Carter and his leadership abilities.

Anyway, this bizarre event has entered the archive of the strangest events involving U.S. presidents.