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Humans love to imagine their own demise.

Jimmy Carter, the peanut farmer who won the presidency in the wake of the Watergate scandal and Vietnam War, endured humbling defeat after one<a class="excerpt-read-more" href=" More ...

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has died. He was 100 years old and had spent more than a year in hospice care.