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The Very Model of an Ex-president
Bird, Kai | November 12, 1990 issue

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It hasn't been easy, but Jimmy Carter, the U.S. President who a decade ago was humiliated at polls, is back. Suddenly, he seems to be everywhere, building homes for the poor, mediating civil wars in Africa and playing umpire of elections in dangerous places like Haiti, Panama and Nicaragua. The contrast with his ex-presidential peers is positively embarrassing, President Ronald Reagan greedily sells his cachet as a former President to Japanese for $2 million. Carter went a step further arid created an institution dedicated to carrying on his self-defined altruistic political agenda.

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PRESIDENTS -- United States; CARTER, Jimmy, 1924-; REAGAN, Ronald; PEERS; CIVIL war; UNITED States
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