Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter died on Dec. 29, three months after turning 100. Carter was elected the 39th president in 1976, and served one term in office from 1977 to 1981. Upon Carter’s death, U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas commented that Carter re-imagined how we care for communities in need as his administration laid the foundation for disaster response today. As a professor of disaster and emergency management, I respect Carter’s significant contributions to emergency management and his responses. Rarely has an American president had the science and technological prowess that helps to constructively contribute to the management of emergencies.
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