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Former US President Jimmy Carter greeting guests2. Various of Carter seated and speaking to guests in office3. Wide shot of interview4. SOUNDBITE (English) Jimmy Carter, Former US President:\"I have...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eAtlanta, Georgia - September 22, 2004\u003cbr/\u003e1. Former US President Jimmy Carter greeting guests\u003cbr/\u003e2. Various of Carter seated and speaking to guests in office\u003cbr/\u003e3. Wide shot of interview\u003cbr/\u003e4. SOUNDBITE (English) Jimmy Carter, Former US President:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I have been blessed by graduating from the White House at an early age, enough so that I could use the prestige and fame and experience from being president of the greatest nation in the world to have access to leaders and understand the problems that they face.\"\u003cbr/\u003eCaracas, Venezuela - August 2004  \u003cbr/\u003e5. Carter meeting with electoral officials\u003cbr/\u003e6. Carter inspecting polling station\u003cbr/\u003eAtlanta, Georgia - September 22, 2004\u003cbr/\u003e7. Carter seated in interview\u003cbr/\u003e8. SOUNDBITE (English) Jimmy Carter, Former US President:\u003cbr/\u003e\"The bottom line is that it's an enjoyable thing. Nothing that I do is sacrificial, it adds an interesting dimension to my life.\"\u003cbr/\u003e9. Wide shot of lecture hall\u003cbr/\u003e10. Carter with former First Lady Rosalynn Carter\u003cbr/\u003e11. Audience listening\u003cbr/\u003e12. Rosalynn Carter listening\u003cbr/\u003e13. SOUNDBITE (English) Jimmy Carter, Former US President:\u003cbr/\u003e\"We got through holding an election in July in Indonesia, we were already in that region of the world, so we came back by the Kamchatka Peninsula in eastern Russia and went down a wild river for five days and caught some of the largest rainbow trout I've ever hooked. So we are able to combine those types of things with our duties. So I think that is one of the lessons that you learn with advancing age, it's no matter how intense your commitment is to a profession or your current duties, there's always time to expand your life, to stretch your heart and mind and to have things that are much more enjoyable in your life.\"\u003cbr/\u003eWashington, DC - August 1995\u003cbr/\u003e14. Carter walking out of White House West Wing to talk to journalists\u003cbr/\u003eAtlanta, Georgia - September 22, 2004\u003cbr/\u003e15. SOUNDBITE (English) Jimmy Carter, Former US President:\u003cbr/\u003e\"If I was primarily interested in a legacy, why would I be in the most remote villages in the world, where there are not any news reporters or television cameras or photographers? So I think that is kind of a moot question for me. I don't really feel that my legacy needs polishing.\"\u003cbr/\u003eNew York City, New York - October 2003\u003cbr/\u003e16. Unveiling of monument to US Nobel Prize Winners\u003cbr/\u003e17. Name of Jimmy Carter engraved on monument\u003cbr/\u003eAtlanta, Georgia - September 22, 2004\u003cbr/\u003e18. SOUNDBITE (English) Jimmy Carter, Former US President:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I don't mind undertaking a difficult task just because it may not turn out completely successful. Just doing it - trying it - is kind of gratifying to me.\"\u003cbr/\u003e19. Exterior of Carter Centre entrance\u003cbr/\u003e20. Wide of Carter Centre\u003cbr/\u003e21. Fountains in courtyard of Carter Centre\u003cbr/\u003eJimmy Carter could enjoy being just a full-time resident of Plains in the US state of Georgia, simply teaching his Sunday school class, relaxing with family and reflecting on a life that's taken him from his hometown's peanut fields to the White House and back.\u003cbr/\u003eInstead, Carter, who turns 80 on Friday, continues to use his status as a one-time US president to push peace, health and voting initiatives across the globe at a sometimes startling pace for his age.\u003cbr/\u003eCarter, who left the presidency at 56, said this week he had been \"blessed by graduating from the White House at an early age, enough so that I could use the prestige and fame and experience from being president of the greatest nation in the world to have access to leaders and understand the problems that they face.\"\u003cbr/\u003eThe majority of the work that Carter does is through The Carter Centre - the hybrid of the presidential library and \"mini-United Nations\" he and his wife, Rosalynn, founded in 1982 on a wooded patch of land in Atlanta.\u003cbr/\u003eThe rising octogenarian, who two years ago won the Nobel Peace Prize, has remained active on other fronts as well, from his woodworking shop in Plains to the stage of the Democratic National Convention in Boston.\u003cbr/\u003eWitness his schedule for this year: Carter travelled to Ghana, Togo and Mali in February as part of an effort to eradicate Guinea worm, a painful disease that has ravaged parts of Africa since Biblical times.\u003cbr/\u003eHe spent a week in June in rural Alabama and Georgia helping build houses with Habitat for Humanity, an annual tradition he plans to take to Mexico next year.\u003cbr/\u003eIn July, he joined Carter Centre staff in Indonesia to monitor that nation's first round of elections, followed by a vacation in the Galapagos Islands.\u003cbr/\u003eHe travelled to Venezuela in May and August for similar election monitoring.\u003cbr/\u003eLast month, he spoke at his party's national convention in Boston. \u003cbr/\u003eAnd throughout the year, he continued to teach Sunday school in Plains and lectured at least once a month at Atlanta's Emory University, where he has been on the faculty since leaving the White House.\u003cbr/\u003eCarter published his 19th book - \"Sharing Good Times\" - late last year and spent much of this year working on a sequel to \"The Hornet's Nest\", a novel of historical fiction set during the Revolutionary War.\u003cbr/\u003eHe also has weighed in on public issues from the Bush administration's prelude to war in Iraq to an aborted attempt in Georgia to remove the word \"evolution\" from school curriculums.\u003cbr/\u003eAnd he continued to make time for hobbies that include woodworking and oil painting, which he took up in earnest for the first time last year.\u003cbr/\u003eFor Carter, the ability to keep up such a pace at age 79 is twofold.\u003cbr/\u003eSince his days as Georgia's governor, from 1971 to 1975, some observers have called Carter a micro-manager by nature. \u003cbr/\u003eHe says his later years have taught him to delegate day-to-day duties to others.\u003cbr/\u003e\"That's one of the lessons you learn with advancing age,\" he said. \u003cbr/\u003e\"No matter how intense your commitment is to a profession or your current duties, there's always time to expand your life, to stretch your heart and mind and to have things that are much more enjoyable in your life.\"\u003cbr/\u003eWhat truly makes his work easy, Carter says, is that it doesn't feel like work.\u003cbr/\u003e\"The bottom line is that it's an enjoyable thing,\" he said. \"Nothing that I do is sacrificial.\"\u003cbr/\u003eEven in recent years, Carter's harshest critics have called his post-presidency work a bid to redeem a failed presidency.\u003cbr/\u003eCarter has described his overwhelming defeat by Ronald Reagan in 1980 as a personal low. \u003cbr/\u003eMassive inflation, spiralling gas prices and a demoralising hostage crisis in Iran left the public sour toward the soft-spoken Georgian and ready for Reagan's \"Morning in America\" message.\u003cbr/\u003eBut Carter said his work today is not about bolstering his image.\u003cbr/\u003e\"If I was primarily interested in a legacy, why would I be in the most remote villages in the world, where there are not any news reporters or television cameras or photographers?\" he said. \u003cbr/\u003e\"That is kind of a moot question for me.\"\u003cbr/\u003eEven opponents of Carter's politics largely celebrate his post-White House work. \u003cbr/\u003eAnd in the nations where The Carter Centre works to combat disease, broker peace and ensure fair elections, the former president's image has reached almost mythic proportions.\u003cbr/\u003eLooking forward, Carter predicts no slowdown. \u003cbr/\u003eHe said he hoped his work can serve as an example to government leaders both in the United States and 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