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He returned to Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Ga., a week ago to teach Sunday school and ruminated about the possibility of death. Recalling a bout with cancer four years ago, he said he would be at peace at the end.
“I, obviously, prayed about it,” he said. “I didn’t ask God to let me live, but I just asked God to give me a proper attitude toward death. And I found that I was absolutely and completely at ease with death.”
Mr. Carter, the nation’s 39th president, served one term from 1977 to 1981, determined to restore trust in government after the Watergate and Vietnam eras. He brokered a landmark peace agreement between Israel and Egypt at Camp David and passed treaties handing over control of the Panama Canal to Panama. But economic woes and the Iran hostage crisis hurt him politically, and he lost re-election to Ronald Reagan.
In his busy post-presidency, Mr. Carter set up a center to promote conflict resolution, eradication of certain diseases in Africa, democratic election monitoring and other humanitarian causes. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 and achieved a measure of redemption after the indignity of his re-election defeat.
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