Good evening.
This is a special night for me.
Exactly three years ago, on July 15th 1976
I accepted the nomination of my party
to run for President of the United States.
Jimmy Carter was the 39th President
of the United States.
He served during the late '70's.
He's known for being
one of the least effective presidents
while in office, with the richest life after office.
He got out of office when he was around 56 years old,
which was the youngest surviving president
to leave office at the time
and he did a lot of stuff after that.
In this video, I wanna talk about the book
Life At Ninety, that he recently wrote,
and go over some of the life lessons
that we can learn from Jimmy Carter.
- Each day, the world's most important information
flows into the Oval Office.
- [Narrator] Lesson number one is tell the truth.
One of the strongest points that Carter ran on
when he was the president
and also when he was the governor,
was his phrase don't elect me if I ever lie to you.
He was a big proponent of telling the truth
in all aspects and that was going against
what a lot of the politicians were doing at the time.
The president right before Jimmy Carter
was Gerald Ford, who was Richard Nixon's vice-president,
and Gerald Ford didn't get re-elected
because he pardoned Nixon for his crimes,
and Nixon didn't have to go to trial or anything.
And that was seen as a very dishonest move,
so when Jimmy Carter comes in
with his tell-the-truth strategy,
seems to do really well.
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The other big lesson from Jimmy Carter was
life keeps going.
Jimmy Carter was very similar to Arnold Schwarzenegger
if you go and watch that video,
how he did so many things in one life.
Jimmy Carter was a missionary.
Then he came back and ran his family business.
He was a farmer, he sold seeds,
turned his family business into a very successful business,
became Governor of Georgia,
and then turned that into a run for the presidency.
He was the president for one term,
then left the presidency, became a preacher
and a consultant to other presidents.
He's worked with a bunch of other presidents,
and what that means is what you're doing today
really has no bearing on what you're gonna be doing
in 10 or 20 years, unless you want it to.
If you're in a career you really love,
keep going, you can work in that career
your entire life, but you can change careers
every 10 years, every 20 years, even every five years,
and Jimmy Carter's a very good example
of somebody who was able to do that.
Which actually brings us to our third point
about Jimmy Carter and his career,
which is do the hard things.
(speaking in a foreign language)
Jimmy Carter is known for negotiating with Panama
and giving Panama back the Panama Canal,
which was owned by the U.S. for the longest time.
They had this little stretch of land in Panama,
it was causing a lot of discontent,
but no presidents before Jimmy Carter
wanted to deal with the situation
because there was a lot of back and forth needed,
there was a lot of governments getting overturned,
and Panama was not the most stable country at the time,
but Jimmy Carter actually negotiated with Panama,
cut a deal for the United States,
gave them back the Panama Canal,
and did what nobody else wanted to do.
He became the go-to guy
for everything related to the Panama Canal,
to the point where every president after him
that's had to deal with Panama in any way
has sent Jimmy Carter on his behalf
instead of dealing with Panama directly.
So he did one of the hard things of that era,
which was negotiating with Panama,
and that put him on the speed dial
of all future presidents that wanted to talk about Panama.
Do the things nobody else wants to do,
and then you become the guy
who people call when they want info
on that specific thing.
Become that expert.
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