![Associated Press Special Correspondent Walter R. Mears, right, talks with presidential candidate Jimmy Carter in Concord, N.H., before the New Hampshire primary election in 1976.](https://imagenes.elpais.com/resizer/v2/UW2YKB2WUN45XL7QR5QIPKQMV4.jpg?auth=2d6b4981b560d2ee4ebd55b2ca0192495f7c0372866bcf4c1e5d9351ce12e658&width=414&height=233&smart=true)
Appreciating Jimmy Carter, outspoken but ‘never irrelevant’
The man who conceded that some considered him “a failed president” made himself the most active and internationally engaged of ex-presidents
The man who conceded that some considered him “a failed president” made himself the most active and internationally engaged of ex-presidents