The 39th president of the United States has died at his home in Plains, Georgia.

Jimmy Carter was 100 years old.

He'd been in hospice care since February of 2023.

As soon as he heard the news, NPR Stephen Feller, headed for the Carter Center in Atlanta,

home to his presidential library.

In a lot of ways, it's a lot like his legacy, kind of understated behind the scenes.

There's a steady stream of Atlanta traffic going by.

Somebody just came by, dropped off a jar of peanut butter and lit a candle because Jimmy Carter

was the peanut farmer from Plains.

And there's going to be several days of remembrances and events in Georgia, in

Plains where Carter's from, and in Washington, D.C. So things for now are quiet.

Carter will, of course, be remembered for his achievements in office, the Camp David Accords,

for example, where he helped Israel and Egypt seal a historic peace deal, or the agreement he signed with

Panama to transfer control of the Panama Canal to the Central American nation.

But it was maybe after he left the White House that Carter seemed to come into his own.

He did more in his time and his decades out of office than in his four years in the White House.

I'm at the Carter Center where he was known for waging peace through things like fighting diseases.

He monitored democracy and elections across the world. He fought for equality in human rights.

And he worked for habitat for humanity, building houses and volunteering well up into his

advanced age.

So consider this.

Jimmy Carter's legacy is complex.

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