Carter Administration - Post-presidential Years
Post-presidential Years
Jimmy Carter retired from office amid a barrage of criticism and derision. By the late 1980s Carter came into the news again as he championed and worked for the causes he believed in. He committed himself to humanitarian issues around the world and wrote policy books, memoirs, and poetry. After the constant stream of presidential scandals in the two decades following Carter's retirement, Americans came to admire Carter's honesty and his unwavering morality.
After he left the White House in 1981, Carter established the nonprofit Carter Center in Atlanta, Georgia. He took an active role in the organization, raising private funds and public grants for its programs, which ranged from promoting human rights and health care in Third World countries to monitoring democratic elections abroad and maintaining databases of immunization records for Atlanta children. Carter and his wife Rosalynn also built houses...
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