Jimmy Carter

Americans long remembered Carter's presidency for inflation, gas queues and the Iran hostage crisis, and he lost re-election by a landslide. Abroad he was seen differently: the Camp David Accords, a human rights policy that dissidents in Latin America and the Soviet bloc credited, and decades of election monitoring and the near-eradication of Guinea worm through the Carter Center. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002. By his death in December 2024, the domestic verdict had moved much closer to the foreign one.