Bad president, great ex-president.
Just his work on eliminating guinea-worm disease alone would make him great. When I was travelling through Africa in the 1970s there were about 4 million cases a year-in 2022 there were 13- not 13 hundred thousand, not 13 thousand, not 13 hundred, but 13 in total new cases in all of Africa- mostly by the simple but effective task of walling off step wells and replacing them with walled wells. The Carter Foundation was instrumental in that.
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I wonder if Amy will be playing the piano at the funeral.
Rabin was great! 
Rabin was not a sunny soul. He was a hard drinker and a chain smoker. As a military man, he was compulsive in his attention to strategic and technical details, but he was never thought of as imaginative or daring. He was a difficult, taciturn man with whom it was nearly impossible to have light conversation. Serious, demanding and dismissive, he was almost incapable of charm. A man, in short, about whom it is hard to effuse, not one to inspire poetry. After a hard and unpleasant private talk with Jimmy Carter at the White House, the President asked Rabin if he’d like to hear little Amy, Carter’s daughter, play the piano. ‘‘No,’’ Rabin characteristically replied. He then proceeded to grind out a cigarette butt in the White House carpet.
Dec. 31, so this belongs here. And I don’t want her face at the top of the 2025 thread.
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