ATLANTA (AP) – If he were pressed into service as a presidential debate moderator, Jimmy Carter said that he’d ask the candidates to speak about how they would encourage peace and human rights.
The former U.S. president spoke Tuesday night at an annual question-and-answer session for supporters of The Carter Center, the human rights nonprofit he and his wife founded in Atlanta. Rosalynn Carter accompanied her husband at the event.
Here’s a look at the broad range of topics the pair covered:
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Carter, who dedicated a portion of his 1977 inaugural address to human rights, said “it would be hard to imagine” either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump making a similar speech in January.