Mark Brzezinski shared his boyhood memories of the former president, who he recalls as a warm, generous man and the “kindest of human beings you have ever met.”
Carter passed away on December 29 at the age of 100.
Brzezinski noted that his father Zbigniew Brzezinski, who was Carter’s national security adviser, helped develop the Carter doctrine, a policy that focused on human rights in the world’s authoritarian regimes.
The ambassador said the doctrine “used human rights as a moral anchor.”
“The effort to undercut the Soviet Union was successful because of the Carter Doctrine,” he added.
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