– As a president, he treated everyone with respect, – recalled US Ambassador to Poland Marek Brzezinski, who spoke to TVN and TVN24 reporter Piotr Kraska about Jimmy Carter. The former US president and Nobel Peace Prize winner died on Sunday at the age of 100.
During an interview on TVN24 BiS, Mark Brzezinski showed a framed letter placed in the entrance lobby of the US Embassy in Poland. The ambassador explained that the letter was written to him by Jimmy Carter.
– My father was President Carter’s national security advisor at the time. I was thirteen years old. I was about to be confirmed at St. Luke’s Church in McLean, Virginia. My father witnessed my confirmation, but it turned out that at the last moment he was called to a special mission to Egypt, – the ambassador recalled. He went on to say that President Jimmy Carter later offered to be his witness, but when Brzezinski’s father heard about the idea, he said it was “absolutely impossible.”
– President Carter wrote me this letter: “To Mark Brzezinski. Because your father was in Egypt on a peacekeeping mission, he was unable to witness your confirmation. He and I are especially proud of you. You can also meet your father be proud of yourself,” Brzezinski read.
Jimmy Carter’s letter to Marek Brzezinski when he was thirteen TVN24
– I put this letter on display here, at the entrance of the ambassador’s residence, to show what a great leader he was (Jimmy Carter – ed.). Very few things are important for great leaders, he emphasized.
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Brzezinski on Carter: a man with local roots and global reach
Brzezinski recalled that whenever he could talk to President Carter, he “showed respect to everyone.” – When he returned to the White House, for example, employees, housekeepers, kitchen workers, all crowded to welcome him, because he treated everyone with respect as the president, noted Brzezinski.
He recalled that Jimmy Carter, even though he was the president of the United States, said that “everyone is the image of God and everyone is important.” – He could buy a villa overlooking the ocean somewhere in California, and after four years in Washington, he wanted to return to the same small town (where he lived – ed.), – he noted. According to Brzezinski, Carter was “a person with local roots and global reach.”
Piotr Krasko’s entire interview with Marek Brzezinski about former US President Jimmy Carter
