Former President Jimmy Carter, who died at the age of 100 on Sunday, was interviewed by NPR severaltimes over the years. Here's a sampling:
In August 2008, Carter appeared on NPR's Talk of the Nation, speaking with host Neal Conan amid the Democratic National Convention that nominated then-Sen. Barack Obama as the party's presidential candidate.
Carter acknowledged the Democratic party's Jim Crow legacy and said that since the 1960s, "the Republicans have very shrewdly capitalized on racism in order to become dominant in the Southern states. And they still have enormous strength there, politically, because of the subtle and sometimes overt appeals to racism."
The former president added: "I think and believe that this nomination, I hope the election of Barack Obama, will bring an end to that heritage of racism that has existed since the foundation of our nation."
Four years later, in 2012, Carter was in Egypt as part of a Carter Center mission to observe the first democratic elections in Egyptian history. In an interview with NPR's Michele Kelemen, he said that the polls -- which ultimately saw Mohamed Morsi elected president -- were "a step-by-step process of a complete revolution deviating from a 60-year military dictatorship."
And in 2018, Carter was on 1A with host Joshua Johnson, talking about his cancer diagnosis and his then-newly published book, Faith: A Journey For All.
Carter had been diagnosed with cancer in his liver and four places in his brain and, at the time, had fully expected to live only weeks. He told NPR that following the diagnosis, "I was amazed to find out that I wasn't very sad or despondent about it, I was just grateful for the good life that I had had before that."
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