A Tribute to US President Jimmy Carter

Volume 6, Issue No. 23

OPINION/COMMENTARY

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Our latest as of Friday, January 3, 2025 

~ Jimmy Carter, at 100 the longest-lived president in American history, was the epitome of honour, dignity, humility, and altruism, according to our guest writer, Gus Mercado, a friend and colleague from California days who now lives and runs his telecom/IT company in Texas. He pays tribute to the 39th US president who passed on December 29, 2024 in his hometown of Plains, Georgia in this guest commentary he shares with Filipino communities in the US and Canada. 

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REMEMBERING THE SAINTLY JIMMY CARTER

Epitome of Honour, Dignity, Humility 

A Role Model for All National and World Leaders

By GUS MERCADO 

Chairman and CEO at Datalogix Texas Inc.

DALLAS, Texas - When Jimmy Carter was still alive, I was asked who in my view was the best past president of the United States. Without hesitation or fear of contradiction, I answered Jimmy Carter.

Jimmy Carter who died last Sunday (December 29, 2024) at age 100, epitomized a life of honour, dignity, humility and altruism fully lived. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter).

He was a small town boy, Navy man, farmer, loving husband and father, governor, president, peacemaker, ang globally-renowned humanitarian.

His efforts to leave a better world did not end with his presidency in 1981. He went to troubled countries and brought peace, and provided support, comfort and hope to victims of poverty, genocide and famine.

Throughout the world, he was an apostle preaching human equality and advocating for building homes for the homeless, a passion that he spent many decades pursuing until the very end.

His saintly life is a beautiful example of love, leadership and sacrifice. It is a role model for all national and world leaders to emulate - a rare and elusive shining gem that we may never see again in our lifetime.

His all-consuming sense of humanity was devoted to human equality and dignity, rooted as it was in a deep, abiding, generous and passionate Christian faith. Jimmy Carter now belongs to the ages. (Gus Mercado, Dallas, Texas: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gus-mercado-674a1b1/). (Copyright 2025. All Rights Reserved).