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January 3 - January 9, 2025
Hello from snowy Washington. Residents paused from their normal routines to visit the Capitol, where former President Carter lay in state.
Here’s what happened at State this past week. ⤵️
Remembering President Carter
 On January 9, 2025, Americans remembered Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States who died on December 29, 2024, at the age of 100.
As president, Carter established his reputation as an international peacemaker, largely through his mediation of the 1978 Camp David Accords. The Carter administration also articulated, devised, and implemented a human rights strategy that would serve as the cornerstone of Carter’s foreign policy.
In his remarks commemorating the 30th anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in December 1978, President Carter said:
“Human rights are not peripheral to the foreign policy of the United States. Our pursuit of human rights is part of a broad effort to use our great power and our tremendous influence in the service of creating a better world.”
After his term as president, he pursued a long career as an advocate for the poor and for democracy and human rights. Carter won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 for “his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development.”
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