What I Learned About Jimmy Carter and Life Itself When I Built Houses With Him

HUMILITY AND HUMANITY

The Daily Beast’s Eleanor Clift witnessed the humility and humanity of a man who put morality above all–even at the cost of the presidency.

Published Dec. 29 2024 5:56PM EST

Former president Jimmy Carter helps build a house as he visits the construction site run by his Habitat for Humanity foundation for victims of the January 2010 earthquake in Leogane, Haiti on November 26, 2012. — THONY BELIZAIRE/AFP via Getty Images

The Daily Beast’s brilliant political columnist Eleanor Clift reveals how she saw the truth about Jimmy Carter up close–and how when a source told her a story to attack Carter it really revealed the greatness of the man.

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What I Learned About Jimmy Carter and Life Itself When I Built Houses With Him

The Daily Beast’s Eleanor Clift witnessed the humility and humanity of a man who put morality above all–even at the cost of the presidency.

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