"Carter won countercultural credibility when the gonzo journalist Hunter S Thompson wrote about his successful 1976 campaign against Gerald Ford.
Thompson said he had never heard “a sustained piece of political oratory that impressed me more”
than an address Carter made in 1974 that he called
“a king-hell bastard of a speech”.
Carter reportedly caught Thompson’s attention when he cited the musician Bob Dylan for his understanding about what was right and wrong,
pointing to Dylan’s Maggie’s Farm,
among others. According to the Art Newspaper,
Carter counselled Dylan when he considered converting to Christianity.
In the visual arts realm, Andy Warhol travelled to Carter’s home in tiny Plains, Georgia, in 1977 and made three portraits, including Jimmy Carter I, a photo-collage that the Carter campaign sold as a series of 50 $1,000 prints.
The Carter family, Warhol later recalled, “were very normal. We got along very well … Jimmy Carter gave me two big bags of peanuts which he signed. That made the whole trip worthwhile.”
Robert Rauschenberg also contributed to Carter’s Inaugural Impressions, a portfolio that included representations by Roy Lichtenstein and Jamie Wyeth. "
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/30/jimmy-carter-arts
"had started to view Israel’s occupation of the Palestinians as something that started in 1967 as an accident but was now becoming
an enterprise with colonial intentions,” Berman said in his letter to Carter.
Shortly before Carter’s death, Peter Beinart, described as “the most influential liberal Zionist of his generation”, said the time had come for the former president’s critics to apologise for the
“shameful way that the book was received by many significant people”.
"He was thrown under the bus by leading members of his own Democratic party,” he said.
That included Nancy Pelosi,
who was about to become speaker of the House of Representatives. She said Carter “does not speak for the Democratic party on Israel”, aipac does.
Carter told the Observer that he did not regret describing the occupation as apartheid.
“The word is the most accurate available to describe Palestine.
Apartheid is when two different people live in the same land, and they are forcibly segregated, and one dominates or persecutes the other. .
That’s what’s happening in Palestine: so the word is very, very accurate.
It’s used widely, and every day, in Israel,” he said.
"The Center warned that collective punishment and the murder of civilians was contrary to international law – a warning that looks prescient now that Israel’s prime minister,
Benjamin Netanyahu, has been indicted for war crimes
alongside his former defence minister .
and the Hamas military leader, Mohammed Deif.'
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/30/jimmy-carter-israel-apartheid-palestinians
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