Reflecting on Jimmy Carter

When the 2007 Ridenhour Prizes for Courageous Truth-telling awarded its Courage Prize to President Jimmy Carter, we were honored that a president of the United States had agreed to accept it. Carter had just published Palestine: Peace not Apartheid. Previous winners of the Courage Prize had been Daniel Ellsberg, Seymour Hirsh, and Gloria Steinem.

The Prizes memorialize my friend Ron Ridenhour, noted whistleblower and George Polk Award winning investigative reporter who died suddenly in 1998. Like Ron Ridenhour, Carter was a truth-teller.