{"id":10975816,"date":"2024-12-29T04:35:07","date_gmt":"2024-12-29T09:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/?p=10975816"},"modified":"2024-12-29T18:31:55","modified_gmt":"2024-12-29T23:31:55","slug":"rodricks-jimmy-carter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/2024\/12\/29\/rodricks-jimmy-carter\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Rodricks: Appreciating Jimmy Carter, honorable president and decent man | STAFF COMMENTARY"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fifty years ago, before the internet and smartphones, most Americans received their news from a handful of sources \u2014 the three major television networks, two or three national newspapers and their local dailies \u2014 and, therefore, collective memory was a real thing, not as scattered or fleeting as it is today.<\/p>\n

So what happened in 1974 informed votes in 1976<\/a>, when Americans made Jimmy Carter the 39th president of the United States.<\/p>\n

In 1974, a scandal-scarred Republican named Richard Nixon resigned the presidency to avoid being impeached. A month later, his successor, Gerald Ford, pardoned Nixon of any and all crimes in the attempted coverup of his administration\u2019s connection to the break-in of the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate Office Building.<\/p>\n

Ford said he granted the pardon in the nation\u2019s best interest. But a nation that had grown cynical \u2014 from a long war in Vietnam that Nixon had promised to end; from the corrupt practices of his vice president, Spiro Agnew, former governor of Maryland; from Nixon\u2019s efforts to stop the investigation of the Watergate scandal \u2014 did not buy Ford\u2019s high-minded claim.<\/p>\n

To many, the pardon suggested the president was above the law. It appeared to have been arranged in return for Nixon\u2019s resignation. And the most cynical among us believed Ford had agreed to the pardon a year earlier, when Nixon picked him to replace Agnew.<\/p>\n

So people remembered this in 1976, when Ford ran for election. It was the year of the nation\u2019s bicentennial, and, as if to restore pride in the country, a majority of voters looked for someone new, a real Washington outsider.<\/p>\n

Enter James Earl Carter Jr., a Naval Academy graduate<\/a>, a Democrat of Georgia, son of a peanut farmer and the state\u2019s former governor. Carter won, though his victory over Ford was narrow.<\/p>\n

For most of his first year in office, Carter enjoyed high approval ratings. But stuff happened. A lot of stuff. Bad stuff.<\/p>\n

There was a revolution in Iran that caused a slowdown in oil production, and that caused an energy crisis in 1979, the second one in six years. The Iranian revolution also inspired the takeover by militants of the U.S. embassy in Tehran and the taking of 52 American hostages, a crisis that lasted more than 400 days.<\/p>\n

After a disastrous attempt by the U.S. military to rescue the hostages, many Americans who had voted for Carter expressed bitter outrage at the failure. The president\u2019s reelection appeared to be doomed.<\/p>\n

There were other developments: An inflationary cycle that had started during Ford\u2019s time continued, unemployment grew, as did interest rates. (The average rate on a first mortgage was 11.2% in 1979.) There was also the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and, in response, Carter\u2019s call for an international boycott of the Summer Olympics in Moscow.<\/p>\n\n

The 39th president\u2019s approval rating plunged into the low 30s as he faced the Republican candidate, Ronald Reagan, the former Hollywood actor and California governor.<\/p>\n

Then, on Election Day 1980 came the march of the Reagan Democrats in eastern Baltimore County, perhaps the clearest sign anywhere in the country that Carter would be a one-term president.<\/p>\n

The east side was the stomping ground of Don Hutchinson, a Democrat and the county executive at the time. Hutchinson visited polling places and talked to poll workers and voters. Times had been tough in Essex, Dundalk and Middle River for those who had worked in Baltimore\u2019s traditional industries \u2014 steel, iron, port shipping and auto manufacturing. They had little patience for Carter\u2019s sermons about a national malaise and a \u201ccrisis in confidence.\u201d<\/p>\n

There was a robust turnout of blue-collar workers and their kin at every polling place. What Hutchinson heard from voters that day was loud and clear: They were determined to fire Jimmy Carter. People who had voted for Democrats for decades switched to Reagan the Republican. Many never switched back.<\/p>\n

Reviewing his four years, January 1977 to January 1981, it\u2019s clear that Carter\u2019s defeat was guaranteed by both circumstances beyond his control and by bad luck. (The disastrous military operation to free the hostages in Iran in April 1980 \u2014 eight U.S. service members were killed in an air accident and their bodies left behind in the desert \u2014 was likely the last straw for most Americans.)<\/p>\n

Reagan won in a landslide. The hostages were freed on the day of his inauguration, though he had little to do with it. The record shows that Carter had negotiated tirelessly with Tehran, but that the Iranians deliberately stalled the release of the hostages. In the book, \u201cGuests of the Ayatollah,\u201d journalist Mark Bowden wrote that the Iranians had decided to accept a deal and send the hostages home, \u201cbut they had also decided to deny Carter the satisfaction of seeing it happen on his watch.”<\/p>\n

So that was the end of the Carter presidency.<\/p>\n

But not the end of Jimmy Carter. He became a respected former president, a superb role model, an author, an inspiring humanitarian.<\/p>\n

News of his home hospice care arrived with Presidents’ Day 2023. But last month, at age 100, he managed to vote in the 2024 presidential election for Kamala Harris. He died Sunday. Despite the bruises he incurred during the rough patch of history that marked his administration, Jimmy Carter will be remembered as a man who served the nation honorably \u2014 never impeached or forced to resign, never vulgar, never scornful of the law, modest, humane and decent.<\/p>\n

Have a news tip? Contact Dan Rodricks at drodricks@baltsun.com.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Despite the bruises he incurred during the rough patch of history that marked his administration, Jimmy Carter will be remembered as a man who served the nation honorably.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99999,"featured_media":130409,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2024-11-01T17:13:13Z","apple_news_api_id":"1f577bc6-2179-4742-b367-d6801d85ba66","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2024-12-29T21:40:04Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AH1d7xiF5R0KzZ9aAHYW6Zg","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":true,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"middle","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"subheadline":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[83,96,99],"tags":[26010,24457],"feature":[],"location":[223],"type-of-work":[],"coauthors":[404],"class_list":["post-10975816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-headlines","category-opinion","category-opinion-columnists","tag-jimmy-carter","tag-social","location-maryland"],"post_status":"","edit_last":0,"edit_lock":0,"highlights":"","original_byline":"","original_canonical":"","original_category":"","original_email":"","original_id":0,"original_pubdate":"","original_source":"","primary_section":"99","primary_tag":26010,"print_workflow_body":{"deck_headline":"","print_title":"Dan Rodricks: Appreciating Jimmy Carter, honorable president and decent man | STAFF COMMENTARY","print_subheadline":"","print_priority":"","print_placement":"cover","print_planned_ready":"","print_pub_date":1735516800,"print_slug":"TBS-L-RODRICKS-1230","print_content":"

Fifty years ago, before the internet and smartphones, most Americans received their news from a handful of sources \u2014 the three major television networks, two or three national newspapers and their local dailies \u2014 and, therefore, collective memory was a real thing, not as scattered or fleeting as it is today.<\/p>\n

So what happened in 1974 informed votes in 1976<\/a>, when Americans made Jimmy Carter the 39th president of the United States.<\/p>\n

In 1974, a scandal-scarred Republican named Richard Nixon resigned the presidency to avoid being impeached. A month later, his successor, Gerald Ford, pardoned Nixon of any and all crimes in the attempted coverup of his administration\u2019s connection to the break-in of the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate Office Building.<\/p>\n

Ford said he granted the pardon in the nation\u2019s best interest. But a nation that had grown cynical \u2014 from a long war in Vietnam that Nixon had promised to end; from the corrupt practices of his vice president, Spiro Agnew, former governor of Maryland; from Nixon\u2019s efforts to stop the investigation of the Watergate scandal \u2014 did not buy Ford\u2019s high-minded claim.<\/p>\n

To many, the pardon suggested the president was above the law. It appeared to have been arranged in return for Nixon\u2019s resignation. And the most cynical among us believed Ford had agreed to the pardon a year earlier, when Nixon picked him to replace Agnew.<\/p>\n

So people remembered this in 1976, when Ford ran for election. It was the year of the nation\u2019s bicentennial, and, as if to restore pride in the country, a majority of voters looked for someone new, a real Washington outsider.<\/p>\n

Enter James Earl Carter Jr., a Naval Academy graduate<\/a>, a Democrat of Georgia, son of a peanut farmer and the state\u2019s former governor. Carter won, though his victory over Ford was narrow.<\/p>\n

For most of his first year in office, Carter enjoyed high approval ratings. But stuff happened. A lot of stuff. Bad stuff.<\/p>\n

There was a revolution in Iran that caused a slowdown in oil production, and that caused an energy crisis in 1979, the second one in six years. The Iranian revolution also inspired the takeover by militants of the U.S. embassy in Tehran and the taking of 52 American hostages, a crisis that lasted more than 400 days.<\/p>\n

After a disastrous attempt by the U.S. military to rescue the hostages, many Americans who had voted for Carter expressed bitter outrage at the failure. The president\u2019s reelection appeared to be doomed.<\/p>\n

There were other developments: An inflationary cycle that had started during Ford\u2019s time continued, unemployment grew, as did interest rates. (The average rate on a first mortgage was 11.2% in 1979.) There was also the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and, in response, Carter\u2019s call for an international boycott of the Summer Olympics in Moscow.<\/p>\n

The 39th president\u2019s approval rating plunged into the low 30s as he faced the Republican candidate, Ronald Reagan, the former Hollywood actor and California governor.<\/p>\n

Then, on Election Day 1980 came the march of the Reagan Democrats in eastern Baltimore County, perhaps the clearest sign anywhere in the country that Carter would be a one-term president.<\/p>\n

The east side was the stomping ground of Don Hutchinson, a Democrat and the county executive at the time. Hutchinson visited polling places and talked to poll workers and voters. Times had been tough in Essex, Dundalk and Middle River for those who had worked in Baltimore\u2019s traditional industries \u2014 steel, iron, port shipping and auto manufacturing. They had little patience for Carter\u2019s sermons about a national malaise and a \u201ccrisis in confidence.\u201d<\/p>\n

There was a robust turnout of blue-collar workers and their kin at every polling place. What Hutchinson heard from voters that day was loud and clear: They were determined to fire Jimmy Carter. People who had voted for Democrats for decades switched to Reagan the Republican. Many never switched back.<\/p>\n

Reviewing his four years, January 1977 to January 1981, it\u2019s clear that Carter\u2019s defeat was guaranteed by both circumstances beyond his control and by bad luck. (The disastrous military operation to free the hostages in Iran in April 1980 \u2014 eight U.S. service members were killed in an air accident and their bodies left behind in the desert \u2014 was likely the last straw for most Americans.)<\/p>\n

Reagan won in a landslide. The hostages were freed on the day of his inauguration, though he had little to do with it. The record shows that Carter had negotiated tirelessly with Tehran, but that the Iranians deliberately stalled the release of the hostages. In the book, \u201cGuests of the Ayatollah,\u201d journalist Mark Bowden wrote that the Iranians had decided to accept a deal and send the hostages home, \u201cbut they had also decided to deny Carter the satisfaction of seeing it happen on his watch.\"<\/p>\n

So that was the end of the Carter presidency.<\/p>\n

But not the end of Jimmy Carter. He became a respected former president, a superb role model, an author, an inspiring humanitarian.<\/p>\n

News of his home hospice care arrived with Presidents' Day 2023. But last month, at age 100, he managed to vote in the 2024 presidential election for Kamala Harris. He died Sunday. Despite the bruises he incurred during the rough patch of history that marked his administration, Jimmy Carter will be remembered as a man who served the nation honorably \u2014 never impeached or forced to resign, never vulgar, never scornful of the law, modest, humane and decent.<\/p>\n

Have a news tip? Contact Dan Rodricks at drodricks@baltsun.com.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","print_budget_line":"","print_excerpt":"Despite the bruises he incurred during the rough patch of history that marked his administration, Jimmy Carter will be remembered as a man who served the nation honorably.","print_notes":"","photo_limits":"Photo limits are: 1 featured image, 5 featured gallery images, 5 embedded gallery images and 5 in-article embedded images. Articles that exceed these limits will not export. Please adjust images to reflect these limits.","print_featured_gallery_richtext":"","print_inline_galleries_richtext":"","print_inline_images_richtext":""},"print_workflow_exported_ts":"1735508514","print_workflow_exported_username":"Tricia Bishop","print_workflow_shapes":"","print_workflow_side":{"print_section":24225,"print_status":24232,"print_endpoint":"tribune","add_export_buttons":""},"really_short_title":"","short_title":"","syndication_source":"","market_neutral_title":"","social_title":"","dfm_hub_post_id":0,"paywall_level":"premium","featured_media_content":{"content_type":"image","content":{"id":130409,"title":"V5Y73WKCHVAD3BYZ7T63OQ4XSA","filename":"V5Y73WKCHVAD3BYZ7T63OQ4XSA.jpg","url":"https:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/migration\/2023\/02\/17\/V5Y73WKCHVAD3BYZ7T63OQ4XSA.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/2023\/02\/17\/us-naval-academy-is-renaming-a-building-after-jimmy-carter-photos\/v5y73wkchvad3byz7t63oq4xsa\/","alt":"In June 1978, President Jimmy Carter attended ceremonies at his alma mater, the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, with, from left, First Lady Rosalynn Carter, Sen. Charles Mathias of Maryland, and Adm. Kinnard McKee, the academy\u2019s superintendent.","author":"154","description":"In June 1978, President Jimmy Carter attended ceremonies at his alma mater, the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, with, from left, First Lady Rosalynn Carter, Sen. Charles Mathias of Maryland, and Adm. Kinnard McKee, the academy\u2019s superintendent.","caption":"In June 1978, President Jimmy Carter attended ceremonies at his alma mater, the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, with, from left, First Lady Rosalynn Carter, Sen. Charles Mathias of Maryland, and Adm. Kinnard McKee, the academy\u2019s superintendent.","name":"v5y73wkchvad3byz7t63oq4xsa","status":"inherit","uploadedTo":130288,"date":1676610000000,"modified":1730453126000,"menuOrder":0,"mime":"image\/","type":"image","subtype":"","icon":"https:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.svg","dateFormatted":"February 17, 2023","nonces":{"update":false,"delete":false,"edit":false},"editLink":false,"meta":false,"authorName":"Migration Temp","authorLink":"","uploadedToTitle":"U.S. Naval Academy is renaming a building after Jimmy Carter | PHOTOS","uploadedToLink":null,"filesizeInBytes":405678,"filesizeHumanReadable":"396 KB","context":"","height":785,"width":1200,"orientation":"landscape","sizes":{"thumbnail":{"height":"150","width":"150","url":"https:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/migration\/2023\/02\/17\/V5Y73WKCHVAD3BYZ7T63OQ4XSA.jpg?w=150&h=150&crop=1","orientation":"landscape"},"medium":{"height":196,"width":300,"url":"https:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/migration\/2023\/02\/17\/V5Y73WKCHVAD3BYZ7T63OQ4XSA.jpg?w=300","orientation":"landscape"},"large":{"height":670,"width":1024,"url":"https:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/migration\/2023\/02\/17\/V5Y73WKCHVAD3BYZ7T63OQ4XSA.jpg?w=1024","orientation":"landscape"},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/migration\/2023\/02\/17\/V5Y73WKCHVAD3BYZ7T63OQ4XSA.jpg","height":785,"width":1200,"orientation":"landscape"}},"credit":"J. PAT CARTER \/ Baltimore Sun","custom_caption":"In June 1978, President Jimmy Carter attended ceremonies at his alma mater, the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, with, from left, First Lady Rosalynn Carter, Sen. Charles Mathias, and Adm. Kinnard McKee, the academy\u2019s superintendent."},"data":[{"id":130409,"title":"V5Y73WKCHVAD3BYZ7T63OQ4XSA","filename":"V5Y73WKCHVAD3BYZ7T63OQ4XSA.jpg","url":"https:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/migration\/2023\/02\/17\/V5Y73WKCHVAD3BYZ7T63OQ4XSA.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/2023\/02\/17\/us-naval-academy-is-renaming-a-building-after-jimmy-carter-photos\/v5y73wkchvad3byz7t63oq4xsa\/","alt":"In June 1978, President Jimmy Carter attended ceremonies at his alma mater, the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, with, from left, First Lady Rosalynn Carter, Sen. Charles Mathias of Maryland, and Adm. Kinnard McKee, the academy\u2019s superintendent.","author":"154","description":"In June 1978, President Jimmy Carter attended ceremonies at his alma mater, the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, with, from left, First Lady Rosalynn Carter, Sen. Charles Mathias of Maryland, and Adm. Kinnard McKee, the academy\u2019s superintendent.","caption":"In June 1978, President Jimmy Carter attended ceremonies at his alma mater, the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, with, from left, First Lady Rosalynn Carter, Sen. Charles Mathias of Maryland, and Adm. Kinnard McKee, the academy\u2019s superintendent.","name":"v5y73wkchvad3byz7t63oq4xsa","status":"inherit","uploadedTo":130288,"date":1676610000000,"modified":1730453126000,"menuOrder":0,"mime":"image\/","type":"image","subtype":"","icon":"https:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.svg","dateFormatted":"February 17, 2023","nonces":{"update":false,"delete":false,"edit":false},"editLink":false,"meta":false,"authorName":"Migration Temp","authorLink":"","uploadedToTitle":"U.S. Naval Academy is renaming a building after Jimmy Carter | PHOTOS","uploadedToLink":null,"filesizeInBytes":405678,"filesizeHumanReadable":"396 KB","context":"","height":785,"width":1200,"orientation":"landscape","sizes":{"thumbnail":{"height":"150","width":"150","url":"https:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/migration\/2023\/02\/17\/V5Y73WKCHVAD3BYZ7T63OQ4XSA.jpg?w=150&h=150&crop=1","orientation":"landscape"},"medium":{"height":196,"width":300,"url":"https:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/migration\/2023\/02\/17\/V5Y73WKCHVAD3BYZ7T63OQ4XSA.jpg?w=300","orientation":"landscape"},"large":{"height":670,"width":1024,"url":"https:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/migration\/2023\/02\/17\/V5Y73WKCHVAD3BYZ7T63OQ4XSA.jpg?w=1024","orientation":"landscape"},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/migration\/2023\/02\/17\/V5Y73WKCHVAD3BYZ7T63OQ4XSA.jpg","height":785,"width":1200,"orientation":"landscape"}},"credit":"J. PAT CARTER \/ Baltimore Sun","custom_caption":"In June 1978, President Jimmy Carter attended ceremonies at his alma mater, the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, with, from left, First Lady Rosalynn Carter, Sen. Charles Mathias, and Adm. Kinnard McKee, the academy\u2019s superintendent."}],"rendered_content":"\"In"},"attachments":[],"authors":[{"ID":629,"display_name":"Dan Rodricks","description":"","first_name":"Dan","last_name":"Rodricks","user_nicename":"dan-rodricks","user_login":"dan-rodricks","user_email":"","type":"guest-author","linked_account":0,"website":"https:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com","twitter":"","facebook":"","google_plus":""}],"taxonomies":{"category":[{"term_id":83,"name":"Latest Headlines","slug":"latest-headlines","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":83,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":72148,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":96,"name":"Opinion","slug":"opinion","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":96,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":101122,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":99,"name":"Opinion Columnists","slug":"opinion-columnists","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":99,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":96,"count":6030,"filter":"raw"}],"post_tag":[{"term_id":26010,"name":"Jimmy Carter","slug":"jimmy-carter","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":26010,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"Former US President Jimmy Carter, Nobel Peace Prize winner, has died at 100.","parent":0,"count":8,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":24457,"name":"social","slug":"social","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":24457,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":8116,"filter":"raw"}],"location":[{"term_id":223,"name":"Maryland","slug":"maryland","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":223,"taxonomy":"location","description":"","parent":0,"count":243541,"filter":"raw"}]},"featured_media_array":{"id":130409,"title":"V5Y73WKCHVAD3BYZ7T63OQ4XSA","filename":"V5Y73WKCHVAD3BYZ7T63OQ4XSA.jpg","url":"https:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/migration\/2023\/02\/17\/V5Y73WKCHVAD3BYZ7T63OQ4XSA.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/2023\/02\/17\/us-naval-academy-is-renaming-a-building-after-jimmy-carter-photos\/v5y73wkchvad3byz7t63oq4xsa\/","alt":"In June 1978, President Jimmy Carter attended ceremonies at his alma mater, the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, with, from left, First Lady Rosalynn Carter, Sen. Charles Mathias of Maryland, and Adm. Kinnard McKee, the academy\u2019s superintendent.","author":"154","description":"In June 1978, President Jimmy Carter attended ceremonies at his alma mater, the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, with, from left, First Lady Rosalynn Carter, Sen. Charles Mathias of Maryland, and Adm. Kinnard McKee, the academy\u2019s superintendent.","caption":"In June 1978, President Jimmy Carter attended ceremonies at his alma mater, the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, with, from left, First Lady Rosalynn Carter, Sen. Charles Mathias of Maryland, and Adm. Kinnard McKee, the academy\u2019s superintendent.","name":"v5y73wkchvad3byz7t63oq4xsa","status":"inherit","uploadedTo":130288,"date":1676610000000,"modified":1730453126000,"menuOrder":0,"mime":"image\/","type":"image","subtype":"","icon":"https:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.svg","dateFormatted":"February 17, 2023","nonces":{"update":false,"delete":false,"edit":false},"editLink":false,"meta":false,"authorName":"Migration Temp","authorLink":"","uploadedToTitle":"U.S. Naval Academy is renaming a building after Jimmy Carter | PHOTOS","uploadedToLink":null,"filesizeInBytes":405678,"filesizeHumanReadable":"396 KB","context":"","height":785,"width":1200,"orientation":"landscape","sizes":{"thumbnail":{"height":"150","width":"150","url":"https:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/migration\/2023\/02\/17\/V5Y73WKCHVAD3BYZ7T63OQ4XSA.jpg?w=150&h=150&crop=1","orientation":"landscape"},"medium":{"height":196,"width":300,"url":"https:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/migration\/2023\/02\/17\/V5Y73WKCHVAD3BYZ7T63OQ4XSA.jpg?w=300","orientation":"landscape"},"large":{"height":670,"width":1024,"url":"https:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/migration\/2023\/02\/17\/V5Y73WKCHVAD3BYZ7T63OQ4XSA.jpg?w=1024","orientation":"landscape"},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/migration\/2023\/02\/17\/V5Y73WKCHVAD3BYZ7T63OQ4XSA.jpg","height":785,"width":1200,"orientation":"landscape"}},"credit":"J. PAT CARTER \/ Baltimore Sun","custom_caption":"In June 1978, President Jimmy Carter attended ceremonies at his alma mater, the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, with, from left, First Lady Rosalynn Carter, Sen. Charles Mathias, and Adm. Kinnard McKee, the academy\u2019s superintendent."},"syndication_canonical":"https:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/2024\/12\/29\/rodricks-jimmy-carter\/","apple_news_notices":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/baltimoresun.com\/2024\/12\/29\/rodricks-jimmy-carter\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Dan Rodricks: Appreciating Jimmy Carter, honorable president and decent man | STAFF COMMENTARY","url":"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/2024\/12\/29\/rodricks-jimmy-carter\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/2024\/12\/29\/rodricks-jimmy-carter\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/migration\/2023\/02\/17\/V5Y73WKCHVAD3BYZ7T63OQ4XSA.jpg?w=150","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/migration\/2023\/02\/17\/V5Y73WKCHVAD3BYZ7T63OQ4XSA.jpg"},"articleSection":"Other","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Dan Rodricks"}],"creator":["Dan Rodricks"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Baltimore Sun","logo":"https:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/baltimore-sun-fallback.png?w=600"},"keywords":["jimmy carter","social"],"dateCreated":"2024-12-29T09:35:07Z","datePublished":"2024-12-29T09:35:07Z","dateModified":"2024-12-29T23:31:55Z"},"rendered":"