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President Jimmy Carter graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1946. He entered the submarine service at the dawn of the nuclear age.
Here is a photo of the future commander in chief having his rank affixed by his girlfriend Rosalynn and mother Ms. Lillian at graduation.
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This is the badge Lt. Jimmy Carter wore over his right breast, marking him as a submarine officer. They are called Dolphins.
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Jimmy Carter said Admiral Hyman Rickover would have greater impact on his life than any person besides his parents. The title of Carter’s autobiography was taken from a frequent challenge and rhetorical question often posed by the father of America’s nuclear navy: “Why not the best?”
Jimmy Carter was studying nuclear engineering, and working at a GE plant in Schenectady, New York, in 1952 helping engineers design a reactor prototype and studying reactor technology when the world’s first nuclear meltdown occurred in northern Ontario at Chalk River.
Chalk River was the site of Canada’s NRX reactor, and an important part of the Manhattan Project. Here is how President Carter described his train trip to the meltdown:
We went to Canada on a train,” Mr. Carter recalled in 2011 at the launch of a book covering his various links to Canada by author Arthur Milnes. “Nobody in the United States knew we were going, nobody in Canada knew we were coming.”
Documents that have emerged since then suggest that Mr. Carter led a team of 12 men that were present at Chalk River from Feb. 9 to March 2, 1953, alongside other U.S. personnel. The task that his team faced was the removal of the headers, the piping atop the reactor. The men worked in small groups and used a mock-up to practice disassembling the reactor to be sure they could accomplish the job swiftly and minimize their exposure to harmful radiation.
“Finally, outfitted with white protective clothes, we descended into the reactor and worked frantically for our allotted time,” Mr. Carter wrote in his 1975 book Why Not the Best?
The 39th president was being typically modest regarding what happened. The simple truth was that in 1952 there was exactly one person in the world who was qualified to lead a team into a nuclear reactor and stop a meltdown.
His name was Jimmy Carter and he was 27 years old. He was on the front edge of a brilliant naval career, and then his father died of pancreatic cancer.
He left the Navy, and went home to run the farm. Rosalynn Carter recalled her feelings at the time that their world was retracting, shrinking and receding as they set off for their small town and the peanut crop.
The nuclear engineer ran the farm, and the rest is history.
I’ve been thinking a lot about the unctuous and extremely obnoxious Vivek Ramaswamy pissing all over American culture this week.
Despite the catastrophes ahead, on the other side, we will be okay.
Why?
Because the United States produces people like Jimmy Carter, and those people are giants. They are good, decent and heroic.
Do yourself a favor tonight. Turn off the cable news crap, and watch a great documentary called “Jimmy Carter, Rock and Roll President.” It will put a smile on your face, and help you appreciate the greatness of this man.
Jimmy Carter was an American giant.
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