Jimmy Carter, the longest-lived US president, dies aged 100 – video obituary

Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, broker of peace in the Middle East and a tireless advocate for global health and human rights, has died. Carter took office in 1977 as 'Jimmy Who?', a one-term Georgia governor and devout Christian whose unfamiliarity with the corridors of power in Washington was seen as a virtue after the official betrayals of the Watergate and Vietnam years.

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