Jimmy Carter, former US President and Nobel Peace laureate, dies at 100
India TodayJimmy Carter, who served as the 39th US President from 1977 to 1981, has died at the age of 100 at his home in Georgia, Reuters reported quoting US media on Monday. "My father was a hero, not only to me but to everyone who believes in peace, human rights, and unselfish love," Reuters quoted Chip Carter, the former US president's son, as saying on Sunday. US President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden issued an official statement and condoled Jimmy Carter's death and remembered him as an "extraordinary leader, statesman and humanitarian". But, what’s extraordinary about Jimmy Carter, though, is that millions of people throughout America and the world who never met him thought of him as a dear friend as well," Biden also wrote on X. President-elect Donald Trump said that Carter was a leader who worked to improve the lives of all Americans despite the adversities that he faced during his tenure. Jimmy Carter moved into the White House at a time when the US was still feeling the aftershocks of the Watergate scandal that led Republican Richard Nixon to step down as President in 1974 and make way for Vice President Gerald Ford, who rose to the highest office in the country.