Former President Jimmy Carter Wins Nobel Peace Prize
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Tom Brokaw
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10/11/2002
10/11/2002
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2002
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Former President Jimmy Carter is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his many humanitarian missions
around the world. Carter admits his life and accomplishments after the White House have been more
gratifying and rewarding.
Keywords
Former, President, Jimmy Carter, Nobel, Peace, Prize, Iraq, War, Communism, Habitat for Humanity,
George W. Bush, Humanitarian, Work, Middle East, Peace, Camp David, Accords, Anwar Sadat,
Menachem Begin, Israel, Egypt, Carter Center, Georgia, First Lady, Rosalynn Carter
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Former President Jimmy Carter Wins Nobel Peace Prize
TOM BROKAW, anchor:
Jimmy Carter, the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for his tireless missions around the world from AIDS
in Africa to conflicts in the Middle East, elections in South America. In selecting the former President,
who opposes President Bush's plans for Iraq, the Norwegian Nobel Committee made it clear the award is
also a statement against U.S. Iraq policy. Whatever the political overtones, for Jimmy Carter, it is a
historic tribute to a life after the White House.
1980, the winter of President Carter's discontent.
Former President JIMMY CARTER: I can't stand here tonight and say it doesn't hurt.
BROKAW: A landslide re-election loss, his personal savings all but gone, his marriage strained. From
leader of the free world to the peanut farms of Plains. Today, Jimmy Carter admitted that his years as an
American President were not his most rewarding.
Fmr. Pres. CARTER: The last 20 years of my life have been, I would say, the most gratifying of all after I
left the White House.
BROKAW: And this morning, the Nobel Committee announced it agreed.
Mr. GUNNAR BERGE (Norwegian Nobel Committee): He has shown outstanding commitment to human
rights.
BROKAW: At the Democratic Convention in 2000, Carter told me that his life after the White House
made him aware of his shortcomings as President.
Fmr. Pres. CARTER: If I had had that vivid insight into how desperate their lives were and how worthy
those people are, I would have been a better world leader.
BROKAW: Citizen Carter has made up for lost time. Among his peacemaking efforts, he and Habitat for
Humanity have built homes for the impoverished everywhere. He helped derail fixed election results in
Panama. In 1994, he helped avert a U.S. invasion in Haiti. He would speak out against Cuban
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Communism as a guest of Fidel Castro. And most recently, Carter has been vocal about what he called a
belligerent and divisive Bush Administration that it too eager to go to war with Iraq.
Today, he didn't disagree with the idea that his prize sent a message.
Fmr. Pres. CARTER: The message that I derive from this is a--is a commitment to peace, to the honoring
of--of international law.
BROKAW: And the choice of Carter was popular even among those who were in the running. Finalist and
Afghan President Hamid Karzai.
President HAMID KARZAI: He had many, many years of work for peace in a very concerted way, in a
very human way.
BROKAW: President Carter, admired internationally, but anchored by family.
Fmr. Pres. CARTER: I'm especially grateful to--to Rosalynn.
BROKAW: And now, as always, still embracing small-town Georgia.
Fmr. Pres. CARTER: My roots are too deep here to be changed, really. And I'm too old.
BROKAW: A man of peace, at last at peace with himself.
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