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Collage of photos with President Jimmy Carter with American diplomats

 

Claire Coleman: I was honored to meet President Carter back in August 2010.  He came to the State Department to meet with Secretary Clinton. I was a member of her staff at the time and President Carter graciously agreed to a staff photo.

 

 

Renee Earle: Jimmy and Roslynn Carter came to Almaty (Alma-Ata until 1994) in November 1992 to meet with Kazakhstani officials to discuss coverage of ethnic minorities in the media with members of the Commission on Television Policy and freedom of the press in general in the post-Soviet republics with media leaders.  I was control officer for his meetings with the media and we hosted a breakfast for the Carters with local journalists at the embassy where Carter gave freely of his time to answer all our guests’ questions.
DCM at the time, Jackson McDonald recalls greeting President Carter at the airport and being surprised that Carter, ever humble, was carrying his own bag down the steps from the aircraft.  He eventually allowed Jackson to carry it to the car.

Ted McNamara: 21 years after this 1978 treaty signing ceremony, I went with Jimmy Carter to the ceremony transferring the Panama Canal Zone and Canal peacefully and beneficially to Panama, as provided in the treaty.   The transfer reflected the wishes of the two nations and of the entire hemisphere.  Since the transfer, Panama has invested billions of dollars, almost doubling the capacity of the canal, and making the canal much more important and economical for the large freighter and container ships that now dominate sea-shipping.

Bill Harrop: President Carter was always open to contact with African leaders. As Acting Assistant Secretary of State and former Ambassador to Guinea, I attended the meeting between Jimmy Carter and President Sekou Touré on August 8, 1979 during Touré’s private visit to the United States in search of foreign investment and, in some respects, as a representative of the non-aligned movement in which Guinea was active. They discussed improvement in bilateral relations as well as Africa and the non-aligned movement more generally.

David C. Litt: Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter visited Niamey, Niger, in 1992 to advocate for The Carter Center’s program to eradicate guinea worm disease in Africa. I was Deputy Chief of Mission and attended many of President Carter’s meetings with Nigerian officials and civic leaders.  He even devoted some time to understanding the grievances and aspirations of the Nigerian Tuareg community, as the nation was preparing to establish a multi-party democracy.  As this photos demonstrate, President Carter spent time with the American and international communities both at work and at play.  As anyone who has served in West Africa in those days can attest, softball was a huge international sport both for American schools and the international career professionals who worked there.

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