President Jimmy Carter – What a decent person, honest statesman, and great role model for all of us!!!!

President Jimmy Carter turned 99 on October 1, 2023. Our Director met the President on August 12, 1989, on a United flight from Portland to Denver. Sitting near him and his wife Rosalynn, the President asked to see the book he was reading: Biodiversity by E. O. Wilson. Our Director gave him the book and in return, Jimmy Carter signed [ironically] a disturbance bag that thanked him for the book. A discussion of Biodiversity followed. This meeting led our Director to establish The Habitat Institute in 1998. The Habitat Institute is a science and educational non-profit organization working to enhance and sustain habitats and their biodiversity through time, a necessary precondition for the well-being of mankind and our natural world.

President Jimmy Carter – What a decent person, honest statesman, and great role model for all of us!!!!