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What I Learned About Jimmy Carter and Life Itself When I Built Houses With Him

HUMILITY AND HUMANITY

The Daily Beast’s Eleanor Clift witnessed the humility and humanity of a man who put morality above all–even at the cost of the presidency.

Eleanor Clift
Eleanor Clift
Former president Jimmy Carter helps build a house as he visits the construction site run by his Habitat for Humanity foundation for victims of the January 2010 earthquake in Leogane, Haiti on November 26, 2012.
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Eleanor Clift

Eleanor Clift

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