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Week 12's Sunday Night Football matchup features two teams fighting for positioning in the NFC playoffs, as the Rams host the Eagles to cap Sunday's action. The Eagles enter the game aiming for the top seed in the NFC. Philadelphia is 8-2 and one game back of the Detroit Lions for the No. 1 spot in the conference. The Eagles are currently on a six-game winning streak, which includes two straight wins over division rivals Washington and Dallas. In his first season for the Eagles, Saquon Barkley has been a star, already rushing for 1,137 yards and eight touchdowns on 187 carries. On the receiving side, A.J. Brown missed three games earlier this year but has still totaled 33 catches for 618 yards and three touchdowns. STREAM: Watch Eagles vs. Rams live on Fubo (free trial) As for the Rams, they continue to fight for a playoff spot with a 5-5 record. L.A. is locked in a three-team tie for second place in the NFC West, one game behind the 6-4 Cardinals. Los Angeles began the season 1-4, but it's 4-1 in its past five games to get back into the playoff conversation. The Rams have gotten healthier over the past month, with Cooper Kupp and Puka Nacua leading the passing attack. Veteran quarterback Matthew Stafford has played in every game this year, producing 2,557 passing yards with 13 touchdowns and seven interceptions. The Sporting News tracks the live score, updates, and highlights in Sunday Night Football between Philadelphia and Los Angeles. NFL HQ: Live NFL scores | Updated NFL standings | Full NFL schedule Eagles vs. Rams box score 1 2 3 4 F Eagles Rams Eagles vs. Rams live updates 6:05 p.m.: Saquon Barkley has arrived in Los Angeles ready for the game. Suited Saquon Sunday 👔 @saquon | #FlyEaglesFly pic.twitter.com/3Jt531mbRz What time does Eagles vs. Rams start? Date: Sunday, Nov. 24 Time: 8:20 p.m. ET For the second straight week, Sunday Night Football will be live from SoFi Stadium, this time with the Rams hosting the Eagles at 8:20 p.m. ET, 5:20 p.m. local time. How to watch Eagles vs. Rams TV Channel: NBC (U.S.) | TSN 1/3/4/5, CTV (Canada) Streaming: Peacock, Fubo (U.S.) | DAZN (Canada) NBC will once again have the call for Sunday Night Football, giving viewers the option to stream on Peacock. For those who don't have access to NBC or Peacock, Fubo, which offers a free trial to new users , is another streaming option available. STREAM: Watch Eagles vs. Rams live on Fubo (free trial) Eagles 2024 schedule Here is a look at the rest of the Eagles schedule this season. Suited Saquon Sunday 👔 @saquon | #FlyEaglesFly pic.twitter.com/3Jt531mbRz Date Opponent Time Dec. 1 @ Baltimore Ravens 4:25 pm. ET Dec. 8 vs. Carolina Panthers 1:00 p.m. ET Dec. 15 vs. Pittsburgh Steelers 4:25 p.m. ET Dec. 22 @ Washington Commanders 1:00 p.m. ET Dec. 29 vs. Dallas Cowboys 4:25 p.m. ET TBD vs. New York Giants TBD Rams 2024 schedule Here is who the Rams will play to end the year. Date Opponent Time Dec. 1 @ New Orleans Rams 4:05 p.m. ET Dec. 8 vs. Buffalo Bills 4:25 p.m. ET Dec. 12 @ San Francisco 49ers 8:15 p.m. ET Dec. 22 @ New York Jets 1:00 p.m. ET TBD vs. Arizona Cardinals TBD TBD vs. Seattle Seahawks TBD If you purchase a product or register for an account through one of the links on our site, we may receive compensation. Learn more >Exclusive | Barclays fires over a dozen bankers, traders before Christmas — without giving them bonuses: sourcesWhen you think of "chowder," what do you imagine? Probably a filled with chunks of potato and some sort of seafood, likely clams. It's assumed chowder first appeared in the small fishing villages of Brittany, and then the made its way across the European continent and eventually across the waters, to England and then eventually to North America. There, the hearty, easy, and accessible seafood-rich soup found a home in similar fishing villages. While it's not entirely clear who exactly spread the good word of chowder across the world (whether traveling sailors, immigrants, or a mix of both), by the 1800s, chowder had appeared in American cookbooks. As chowder spread, though, it also changed. Ingredients were swapped out, making use of what was geographically on hand. As a result, today, your version of chowder may be different from another person's version, particularly if they live across the country or the world. For example, corn chowder is wildly different from New England clam chowder; even if you keep the clams, chowder can differ heavily from location to location, as is seen when you compare New England and Manhattan clam chowders. Here are some of the most popular types of chowders and what makes them unique. New England clam chowder Possibly the most well-known type of chowder — you can buy it in just about any — New England clam chowder (also sometimes called Boston clam chowder) features a creamy broth base, potatoes, and, of course, clams. Depending on your recipe, you might also add bacon, onions, and celery to the mix, but you always serve it with a side of oyster crackers. It's the creamy broth that really makes New England clam chowder stand out from a lot of others, though. Whereas Manhattan clam chowder often has a red-tinted broth, and corn chowder a yellow-tinted broth, a classic New England clam chowder is stark white. Perhaps one of the primary reasons why New England clam chowder is so iconic and well-known is because it's simply old. Restaurants were serving Boston clam chowder in the city in the early 1800s, with some tracing the chowder's origins in the area back to the 1700s. Manhattan clam chowder Manhattan clam chowder does not contain the milk or cream that you would add to New England clam chowder, so it doesn't have a thick, white broth. Instead, the broth is a mixture of clam juice and chicken broth, and, thanks to the addition of tomatoes, it's a shade of red similar to what you might see in a vegetable soup. Manhattan clam chowder does still use the clams and potatoes that you would find in New England clam chowder, but the thinner broth is bulked up by the addition of more overall vegetables, such as bell peppers or carrots. Some believe that immigrant populations from Portugal brought the chowder with them to Manhattan, where it then took root. Other reports, however, claim that a Manhattan fish market, which sold a clam chowder originally more similar to New England clam chowder, started making Manhattan-style clam chowder only after milk became too expensive. Whatever the origins, though, this chowder is polarizing. While some love it, others think it's not worthy of mentioning in the same breath as New England clam chowder. Long Island clam chowder Long Island and Manhattan aren't that far apart — maybe 50 miles. Can chowder from the two destinations really be so different? Well... kind of. Long Island clam chowder is somewhat similar to Manhattan clam chowder, as well as New England clam chowder. Think of it like if the Manhattan and New England chowders got together and had a little chowder baby. That's what you'll get in Long Island. In fact, some restaurants have taken this idea of Long Island clam chowder so literally that they just blend half a bowl of each of the two parent chowders together and call it a day. The color is likely the first thing you'll notice. What do you get when you mix white and red? Pink — so, yes, this chowder is pink, thanks to Manhattan's tomatoes and New England's dairy. Otherwise, the chowder is fairly straightforward and unsurprising, with the requisite clams, potatoes, bacon, and a few vegetables. Rhode Island clam chowder Rhode Island clam chowder could be defined as "the clear one." That's right, rather than a white, red, or pink broth, Rhode Island clam chowder has a clear broth. The clear broth is not chicken broth, though. Instead, it's fully clam broth and clam juice. This broth is the main differentiator and, otherwise, the chowder is pretty standard, utilizing clams, potatoes, bacon, celery, and onion. While Long Island clam chowder has only gained popularity relatively recently, Rhode Island clam chowder shares the Manhattan and New England chowders' longevity. A clear clam chowder recipe can be traced back to an 1888 cookbook (though that recipe does throw in some tomatoes, a la Manhattan). Other reports call Rhode Island clam chowder the true original American chowder, enjoyed by Indigenous populations, rather than introduced by immigrants. Indigenous populations wouldn't have had access to the dairy needed to make New England clam chowder. Cows were introduced to North America by the Europeans, with mass importations occurring until the 1640s. Maine clam chowder Yes, while Maine is technically part of New England, that doesn't mean that you'll find New England chowder there — at least not the same New England chowder that you'll find in Boston. Instead, Maine puts its own spin on the dish, for a chowder that's very similar to the Bostonian version, but with one key difference: It's not as thick. Maine clam chowder does contain milk, so it has that white broth, but there's no thickening agent, like a roux, used in the cooking process. As such, you get a broth with a true broth consistency, versus the thicker texture (described by some as "gluey") found in classic New England chowder. In some recipes, though, crackers are crushed and mixed into the final product, which does thicken the chowder a bit. Maine clam chowder otherwise contains the same ingredients as its sibling to the south, including bacon, potatoes, onion, and clams. Minorcan clam chowder Clam chowder isn't just a northern dish, though. Travel far, far south to Florida, and you'll find a chowder unique to St. Augustine and the surrounding area: Minorcan clam chowder. The chowder is similar in appearance to Manhattan clam chowder, with a tomato-infused broth that omits any dairy, and it also contains more vegetables than a New England chowder, such as carrots and bell pepper (alongside the requisite potatoes and clams). The secret ingredient that really makes this chowder stand out from all the others, though, is the datil pepper. Supposedly, indentured servants brought the datil pepper with them to Florida from Minorca, hence the chowder's name. Today, the descendants of those Minorcan immigrants are still using the peppers to make the region's unique chowder. It's no surprise if you don't recognize this chile's name, though. Datil peppers are similar to habaneros, but they're not quite as popular throughout most of the country. You may have a difficult time finding them outside of St. Augustine and the immediate surrounding areas. Hatteras clam chowder Also in the South, Hatteras clam chowder, sometimes called Outer Banks clam chowder, is native to the North Carolina coast (Hatteras is an island in the Outer Banks). Like Rhode Island clam chowder, Hatteras clam chowder is clear and puts the focus on the clams, with no dairy or tomatoes added. Some recipes will include bacon, red potatoes, and a mirepoix (a mix of diced onion, celery, and carrots), but others omit the carrots and celery, for a dish that's more or less just potatoes and clams in a seafood stock. You can find Hatteras clam chowder sold at many restaurants around the region and families pass down their own recipes, but it's unclear how this chowder got its start. However, it is historically clear why this clam chowder leaves the dairy out of the equation. Until it became a tourism destination, the Outer Banks was a relatively poor region and most living there did not have the funds necessary to buy milk or own a dairy cow. Southern Illinois chowder The history of chowder would have you believe that this is a coastal state-only dish. Introduced by seafaring peoples and immigrants flocking from Old World fishing villages, chowder and fresh seafood traditionally go hand in hand. However, you can find unique chowders hundreds of miles from any ocean, as is the case in Illinois. Southern Illinois chowder doesn't look like any other chowder on this list. It doesn't use any seafood. Instead, it combines beef and chicken. It also adds in a plethora of vegetables, including tomatoes, corn, multiple types of beans, potatoes, and celery. Seasoning is sometimes limited to salt, pepper, and hot sauce, for a chowder that's all its own. Additionally, in Illinois, the word "chowder" doesn't just refer to the food. It also refers to an event where chowder is made. State tradition dictates that a chowder is a social occasion, wherein community members gather to cook chowder in large quantities, over an outdoor fire, in a cauldron, with continuous stirring. In the past, community members would donate individual ingredients for the chowder-making, whatever they produced on their farm and had handy. Salmon chowder If we continue making our way across the United States, sampling the various regional chowders as we go, eventually we'll hit salmon chowder country, aka the Pacific Northwest. While it is possible to find local chowders in the Pacific Northwest that incorporate clams, there are several reasons why salmon is sometimes preferred instead. West Coast clams aren't as flavorful. Sometimes they're stringy. They can also be expensive. Thus, salmon becomes a good choice. From there, though, there are some deviations within the region. For example, some Northwest salmon chowder recipes share a quality in common with Long Island chowder: a pink hue. This isn't just because of the pink salmon. Some recipes may blend both dairy and tomatoes into the mixture, resulting in a pink broth. Still, other recipes may ditch the tomatoes and instead add corn into their salmon chowder for a result that's half-salmon chowder, half-corn chowder. Whatever the case, you're guaranteed a chowder that's filled with succulent bites of fresh salmon. Irish fish chowder But what about the chowders from Europe? The ones that supposedly started it all? While those chowders may've given birth to American chowders, they're still unique in their own ways. For example, take Irish fish chowder. A favorite once viewed as only a "poor man's food," Irish chowder doesn't always include clams. Instead, it reliably incorporates various fish, such as salmon, haddock, and/or white fish, with some recipes then incorporating other seafood, like clams, prawns, or mussels. The chosen fish is often smoked, which provides an extra layer of flavor that American chowders typically get by adding in bacon. Additionally, recipes call for leeks either in place or on top of onions. Otherwise, recipes do incorporate potatoes, onions, and celery, as well as a creamy broth — though the broth is thinner than what you might find in a New England clam chowder. Then, once the chowder is ready, you probably won't get it with a packet of crackers; instead, it's served with a side of hearty bread. Finnan haddie chowder Not too far away, in Scotland, they enjoy something known as finnan haddie chowder, and have for centuries. "Finnan haddie" refers to smoked haddock — but particularly smoked haddock from one Scottish town. "Finnan" is a stand-in for the town name of Findon, and "haddie," obviously is a nickname for "haddock." In the 1800s, the town's fishwives regularly salted and smoked haddock over peat fires, hanging the fish in their chimneys, the peat smoke giving the fish a unique flavor. While finnan haddie can be enjoyed on its own, you can also turn it into a chowder and when that happens, the chowder is called "cullen skink." Much like the finnan haddie gets its name from a town and ingredient, so does the cullen skink, named after the town of Cullen and the "skink" or "shin" of a cow. Originally, the dish would have been made with beef, but when beef became too expensive, the finnan haddie was the obvious replacement. The chowder is relatively simple compared to American chowder. It's mostly just a broth, the smoked haddock (or finnan haddie), and roughly mashed potatoes added as a thickener, for a chowder that's a bit like a potato soup with fish. Bermuda fish chowder It might be a fish chowder, but this dish from Bermuda is far from the fish chowders of the nearby U.S. East Coast. On the thin side and with a tomato-based broth, Bermuda fish chowder contains a vast array of vegetables, spices, and seasonings, including, uniquely, turnips, cloves, marjoram, cinnamon, and curry powder. Additionally, it's often finished with dark rum and sherry pepper sauce. The result is a chowder that's likened more to bouillabaisse than any New England chowder. Not familiar with one of the chowder's key ingredients, sherry pepper sauce? It's a Bermuda specialty that dates back hundreds of years. Locals would sell peppers to sailors stopping at the island during their travels between North America and England. The sailors would store the peppers in sherry, creating what they called "pepper wine." The sailors would use the product as a condiment on food that spoiled during their long voyages, for a more palatable flavor. Don't worry: Modern sherry pepper sauce isn't masking the flavors of any spoiled food in your fish chowder. It is, though, adding a sweet kick of heat. Corn chowder Much like New England clam chowder, can be purchased from a handful of brands in the aisle of your local grocery store. It's easy to see why, too, corn chowder has grown in popularity to a point that it's sold on a mass scale (as compared to some of the other chowders on this list that are only available regionally, and then only at restaurants or in private homes). Corn chowder is accessible, affordable, and palatable to those who aren't quite keen on seafood. When comparing corn chowder to a seafood chowder, there are only a few similarities. The broth is thick. There are potatoes and sometimes bacon. There's milk (though a small number of recipes do go with a clear broth approach). It's a hearty, warming dish. That's about it. The corn really dominates a corn chowder in a way you don't really see a single ingredient dominant most chowders, seafood or no. Additionally, corn chowder doesn't have the same rich history as most seafood chowders. Potato chowder Lastly, what if you just did away with all the "extra" ingredients in a seafood chowder? Toss the seafood. Ditch the carrots or peppers. Keep the potatoes and the milk. You'd basically have a potato chowder. What, you may ask, is the difference between a potato chowder and a ? The two terms can be used interchangeably on occasion. Technically, though, a chowder is thicker and creamier than a soup, which actual chunks of ingredients throughout. That said, you may have a dish that's all of these things, and some may still reference it as a potato soup. And you can even find some recipes for "potato chowder soup"! If you do want to try your hand at making a potato chowder, just be sure to use the , i.e., a variety that will both act as a thickener and also retain some shape, providing your chowder with the necessary chunks. Yukon gold potatoes are a good pick. Recommended

Alex Ovechkin has a broken left fibula and is expected to be out four to six weeks, an injury that pauses the Washington Capitals superstar captain’s pursuit of Wayne Gretzky’s NHL career goals record. The Capitals updated Ovechkin’s status Thursday after he was evaluated by team doctors upon returning from a three-game trip. The 39-year-old broke the leg in a shin-on-shin collision Monday night with Utah's Jack McBain, and some of his closest teammates knew it was not good news even before Ovechkin was listed as week to week and placed on injured reserve. “Everyone’s bummed out,” said winger Tom Wilson, who has played with Ovechkin since 2013. “We were sitting there saying: ‘This is weird. Like, it’s unbelievable that he’s actually hurt.’ It’s one of those things where like, he’s going to miss games? I’ve been around a long time, and it’s new to me.” Ovechkin in his first 19 seasons missed 59 games — and just 35 because of injury. Durability even while throwing his body around with his physical style is a big reason he is on track to pass Gretzky’s mark of 894 goals that once looked unapproachable. “He doesn’t go out there and just coast around,” Wilson said. “He’s played 20 years every shift running over guys and skating. He’s a power forward, the best goal-scorer ever maybe, and he’s a power forward that plays the game really hard.” Ovechkin surged to the top of the league with 15 goals in his first 18 games this season. He was on pace to break the record and score No. 895 sometime in February. “You know when goal-scorers start scoring, it’s dangerous,” said defenseman John Carlson, who has been teammates with Ovechkin since 2009-10. “There was a bit of that in the downs that everyone was feeling about it too, of course. We see him coming to the rink every day, we know what’s at stake. You never want anyone to get injured, but there’s a lot to it and certainly he was playing his best hockey in years.” ___ AP NHL: https://apnews.com/hub/nhl Stephen Whyno, The Associated Press

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By BILL BARROW, Associated Press PLAINS, Ga. (AP) — Newly married and sworn as a Naval officer, Jimmy Carter left his tiny hometown in 1946 hoping to climb the ranks and see the world. Less than a decade later, the death of his father and namesake, a merchant farmer and local politician who went by “Mr. Earl,” prompted the submariner and his wife, Rosalynn, to return to the rural life of Plains, Georgia, they thought they’d escaped. The lieutenant never would be an admiral. Instead, he became commander in chief. Years after his presidency ended in humbling defeat, he would add a Nobel Peace Prize, awarded not for his White House accomplishments but “for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development.” The life of James Earl Carter Jr., the 39th and longest-lived U.S. president, ended Sunday at the age of 100 where it began: Plains, the town of 600 that fueled his political rise, welcomed him after his fall and sustained him during 40 years of service that redefined what it means to be a former president. With the stubborn confidence of an engineer and an optimism rooted in his Baptist faith, Carter described his motivations in politics and beyond in the same way: an almost missionary zeal to solve problems and improve lives. Carter was raised amid racism, abject poverty and hard rural living — realities that shaped both his deliberate politics and emphasis on human rights. “He always felt a responsibility to help people,” said Jill Stuckey, a longtime friend of Carter’s in Plains. “And when he couldn’t make change wherever he was, he decided he had to go higher.” Defying expectations Carter’s path, a mix of happenstance and calculation , pitted moral imperatives against political pragmatism; and it defied typical labels of American politics, especially caricatures of one-term presidents as failures. “We shouldn’t judge presidents by how popular they are in their day. That’s a very narrow way of assessing them,” Carter biographer Jonathan Alter told the Associated Press. “We should judge them by how they changed the country and the world for the better. On that score, Jimmy Carter is not in the first rank of American presidents, but he stands up quite well.” Later in life, Carter conceded that many Americans, even those too young to remember his tenure, judged him ineffective for failing to contain inflation or interest rates, end the energy crisis or quickly bring home American hostages in Iran. He gained admirers instead for his work at The Carter Center — advocating globally for public health, human rights and democracy since 1982 — and the decades he and Rosalynn wore hardhats and swung hammers with Habitat for Humanity. Yet the common view that he was better after the Oval Office than in it annoyed Carter, and his allies relished him living long enough to see historians reassess his presidency. “He doesn’t quite fit in today’s terms” of a left-right, red-blue scoreboard, said U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who visited the former president multiple times during his own White House bid. At various points in his political career, Carter labeled himself “progressive” or “conservative” — sometimes both at once. His most ambitious health care bill failed — perhaps one of his biggest legislative disappointments — because it didn’t go far enough to suit liberals. Republicans, especially after his 1980 defeat, cast him as a left-wing cartoon. It would be easiest to classify Carter as a centrist, Buttigieg said, “but there’s also something radical about the depth of his commitment to looking after those who are left out of society and out of the economy.” ‘Country come to town’ Indeed, Carter’s legacy is stitched with complexities, contradictions and evolutions — personal and political. The self-styled peacemaker was a war-trained Naval Academy graduate who promised Democratic challenger Ted Kennedy that he’d “kick his ass.” But he campaigned with a call to treat everyone with “respect and compassion and with love.” Carter vowed to restore America’s virtue after the shame of Vietnam and Watergate, and his technocratic, good-government approach didn’t suit Republicans who tagged government itself as the problem. It also sometimes put Carter at odds with fellow Democrats. The result still was a notable legislative record, with wins on the environment, education, and mental health care. He dramatically expanded federally protected lands, began deregulating air travel, railroads and trucking, and he put human rights at the center of U.S. foreign policy. As a fiscal hawk, Carter added a relative pittance to the national debt, unlike successors from both parties. Carter nonetheless struggled to make his achievements resonate with the electorate he charmed in 1976. Quoting Bob Dylan and grinning enthusiastically, he had promised voters he would “never tell a lie.” Once in Washington, though, he led like a joyless engineer, insisting his ideas would become reality and he’d be rewarded politically if only he could convince enough people with facts and logic. This served him well at Camp David, where he brokered peace between Israel’s Menachem Begin and Epypt’s Anwar Sadat, an experience that later sparked the idea of The Carter Center in Atlanta. Carter’s tenacity helped the center grow to a global force that monitored elections across five continents, enabled his freelance diplomacy and sent public health experts across the developing world. The center’s wins were personal for Carter, who hoped to outlive the last Guinea worm parasite, and nearly did. As president, though, the approach fell short when he urged consumers beleaguered by energy costs to turn down their thermostats. Or when he tried to be the nation’s cheerleader, beseeching Americans to overcome a collective “crisis of confidence.” Republican Ronald Reagan exploited Carter’s lecturing tone with a belittling quip in their lone 1980 debate. “There you go again,” the former Hollywood actor said in response to a wonky answer from the sitting president. “The Great Communicator” outpaced Carter in all but six states. Carter later suggested he “tried to do too much, too soon” and mused that he was incompatible with Washington culture: media figures, lobbyists and Georgetown social elites who looked down on the Georgians and their inner circle as “country come to town.” A ‘leader of conscience’ on race and class Carter carefully navigated divides on race and class on his way to the Oval Office. Born Oct. 1, 1924 , Carter was raised in the mostly Black community of Archery, just outside Plains, by a progressive mother and white supremacist father. Their home had no running water or electricity but the future president still grew up with the relative advantages of a locally prominent, land-owning family in a system of Jim Crow segregation. He wrote of President Franklin Roosevelt’s towering presence and his family’s Democratic Party roots, but his father soured on FDR, and Jimmy Carter never campaigned or governed as a New Deal liberal. He offered himself as a small-town peanut farmer with an understated style, carrying his own luggage, bunking with supporters during his first presidential campaign and always using his nickname. And he began his political career in a whites-only Democratic Party. As private citizens, he and Rosalynn supported integration as early as the 1950s and believed it inevitable. Carter refused to join the White Citizens Council in Plains and spoke out in his Baptist church against denying Black people access to worship services. “This is not my house; this is not your house,” he said in a churchwide meeting, reminding fellow parishioners their sanctuary belonged to God. Yet as the appointed chairman of Sumter County schools he never pushed to desegregate, thinking it impractical after the Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown v. Board decision. And while presidential candidate Carter would hail the 1965 Voting Rights Act, signed by fellow Democrat Lyndon Johnson when Carter was a state senator, there is no record of Carter publicly supporting it at the time. Carter overcame a ballot-stuffing opponent to win his legislative seat, then lost the 1966 governor’s race to an arch-segregationist. He won four years later by avoiding explicit mentions of race and campaigning to the right of his rival, who he mocked as “Cufflinks Carl” — the insult of an ascendant politician who never saw himself as part the establishment. Carter’s rural and small-town coalition in 1970 would match any victorious Republican electoral map in 2024. Once elected, though, Carter shocked his white conservative supporters — and landed on the cover of Time magazine — by declaring that “the time for racial discrimination is over.” Before making the jump to Washington, Carter befriended the family of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., whom he’d never sought out as he eyed the governor’s office. Carter lamented his foot-dragging on school integration as a “mistake.” But he also met, conspicuously, with Alabama’s segregationist Gov. George Wallace to accept his primary rival’s endorsement ahead of the 1976 Democratic convention. “He very shrewdly took advantage of his own Southerness,” said Amber Roessner, a University of Tennessee professor and expert on Carter’s campaigns. A coalition of Black voters and white moderate Democrats ultimately made Carter the last Democratic presidential nominee to sweep the Deep South. Then, just as he did in Georgia, he used his power in office to appoint more non-whites than all his predecessors had, combined. He once acknowledged “the secret shame” of white Americans who didn’t fight segregation. But he also told Alter that doing more would have sacrificed his political viability – and thus everything he accomplished in office and after. King’s daughter, Bernice King, described Carter as wisely “strategic” in winning higher offices to enact change. “He was a leader of conscience,” she said in an interview. Rosalynn was Carter’s closest advisor Rosalynn Carter, who died on Nov. 19 at the age of 96, was identified by both husband and wife as the “more political” of the pair; she sat in on Cabinet meetings and urged him to postpone certain priorities, like pressing the Senate to relinquish control of the Panama Canal. “Let that go until the second term,” she would sometimes say. The president, recalled her former aide Kathy Cade, retorted that he was “going to do what’s right” even if “it might cut short the time I have.” Rosalynn held firm, Cade said: “She’d remind him you have to win to govern.” Carter also was the first president to appoint multiple women as Cabinet officers. Yet by his own telling, his career sprouted from chauvinism in the Carters’ early marriage: He did not consult Rosalynn when deciding to move back to Plains in 1953 or before launching his state Senate bid a decade later. Many years later, he called it “inconceivable” that he didn’t confer with the woman he described as his “full partner,” at home, in government and at The Carter Center. “We developed a partnership when we were working in the farm supply business, and it continued when Jimmy got involved in politics,” Rosalynn Carter told AP in 2021. So deep was their trust that when Carter remained tethered to the White House in 1980 as 52 Americans were held hostage in Tehran, it was Rosalynn who campaigned on her husband’s behalf. “I just loved it,” she said, despite the bitterness of defeat. Reevaluating his legacy Fair or not, the label of a disastrous presidency had leading Democrats keep their distance, at least publicly, for many years, but Carter managed to remain relevant, writing books and weighing in on societal challenges. He lamented widening wealth gaps and the influence of money in politics. He voted for democratic socialist Bernie Sanders over Hillary Clinton in 2016, and later declared that America had devolved from fully functioning democracy to “oligarchy.” Yet looking ahead to 2020, with Sanders running again, Carter warned Democrats not to “move to a very liberal program,” lest they help re-elect President Donald Trump. Carter scolded the Republican for his serial lies and threats to democracy, and chided the U.S. establishment for misunderstanding Trump’s populist appeal. He delighted in yearly convocations with Emory University freshmen, often asking them to guess how much he’d raised in his two general election campaigns. “Zero,” he’d gesture with a smile, explaining the public financing system candidates now avoid so they can raise billions. Carter still remained quite practical in partnering with wealthy corporations and foundations to advance Carter Center programs. Carter recognized that economic woes and the Iran crisis doomed his presidency, but offered no apologies for appointing Paul Volcker as the Federal Reserve chairman whose interest rate hikes would not curb inflation until Reagan’s presidency. He was proud of getting all the hostages home without starting a shooting war, even though Tehran would not free them until Reagan’s Inauguration Day. “Carter didn’t look at it” as a failure, Alter emphasized. “He said, ‘They came home safely.’ And that’s what he wanted.” Well into their 90s, the Carters greeted visitors at Plains’ Maranatha Baptist Church, where he taught Sunday School and where he will have his last funeral before being buried on family property alongside Rosalynn . Carter, who made the congregation’s collection plates in his woodworking shop, still garnered headlines there, calling for women’s rights within religious institutions, many of which, he said, “subjugate” women in church and society. Carter was not one to dwell on regrets. “I am at peace with the accomplishments, regret the unrealized goals and utilize my former political position to enhance everything we do,” he wrote around his 90th birthday. Pilgrimages to Plains The politician who had supposedly hated Washington politics also enjoyed hosting Democratic presidential contenders as public pilgrimages to Plains became advantageous again. Carter sat with Buttigieg for the final time March 1, 2020, hours before the Indiana mayor ended his campaign and endorsed eventual winner Joe Biden. “He asked me how I thought the campaign was going,” Buttigieg said, recalling that Carter flashed his signature grin and nodded along as the young candidate, born a year after Carter left office, “put the best face” on the walloping he endured the day before in South Carolina. Never breaking his smile, the 95-year-old host fired back, “I think you ought to drop out.” “So matter of fact,” Buttigieg said with a laugh. “It was somehow encouraging.” Carter had lived enough, won plenty and lost enough to take the long view. “He talked a lot about coming from nowhere,” Buttigieg said, not just to attain the presidency but to leverage “all of the instruments you have in life” and “make the world more peaceful.” In his farewell address as president, Carter said as much to the country that had embraced and rejected him. “The struggle for human rights overrides all differences of color, nation or language,” he declared. “Those who hunger for freedom, who thirst for human dignity and who suffer for the sake of justice — they are the patriots of this cause.” Carter pledged to remain engaged with and for them as he returned “home to the South where I was born and raised,” home to Plains, where that young lieutenant had indeed become “a fellow citizen of the world.” —- Bill Barrow, based in Atlanta, has covered national politics including multiple presidential campaigns for the AP since 2012.