Jimmy Carter

The Nobel Peace Prize 2002

USA president. Nuclear physicist. Peanut farmer. Devout Christian. Egypt-Israel peace agreement. Carter Center promoting human rights. Ceased neutron bomb development. Protested Soviets invading Afghanistan. Panama Canal treaty. Established Departments of Energy, Education. Mental Health Systems Act. Housing. Jimmy Carter smile!

“We must adjust to changing times while holding unchanging principles.”

Hobbies

Writing books and poems. Woodwork and painting. Football, jogging, tennis. Teaching Sunday school.

“I have been writing poems since I was in the Navy - to Rosalynn. I found I could say things in poems that I never could say in prose. Deeper, more personal things. I could write a poem about my mother that I could never tell my mother. Or feelings about being on a submarine that I would have been too embarrassed to share with fellow submariners.”

“I have just finished my 20th book this past year and I am working on my 21st book about the Middle East right now that I will finish this year. And I get up early in the morning and when I get tired of the computer and tired of doing research, I walk 20 steps out to my woodshop and I either build furniture or paint paintings. I am an artist too.”

“My paintings have gotten to be pretty popular and I have taken a little bit more interest in painting the last few years. In fact, for my novel that I wrote not too long ago, 'The Hornet's Nest,' I painted the cover picture for it and I do a good bit of painting now.”