Jimmy Carter's shock 'adultery' admission to Playboy...
and how it almost cost him the presidency READ MORE: Jimmy Carter dead at 100: Former US President passes away in his Georgia home By STEPHEN M. LEPORE FOR DAILYMAIL.COM Published: 03:05, 30 December 2024 | Updated: 03:11, 30 December 2024 e-mail 2 View comments Jimmy Carter shocked those who largely knew him as a devoted husband and Christian when he admitted to feelings of 'lust' and committing 'adultery many times in my heart' during an interview with Playboy magazine in 1976.
Carter has died at the age of 100 , almost two years after announcing he would spend his final days in hospice care . The Democrat and former peanut farmer served one term in the White House from 1977 to 1981 and dedicated the rest of his life to charity. However, ahead of the 1976 election, an interview that appeared in the spicy magazine with journalist Robert Scheer, in Carter's own words, 'nearly cost me the election.
' Carter spent five-plus hours with Playboy across several months - 'more time with you than with Time, Newsweek and all the others combined,' the nominee told Scheer and Playboy editor Barry Golson. During a five-hour conversation that spanned a breadth of topics, the Democrat nominee's most-remembered comments came at the end of their final session. Standing outside Carter's front door, Golson pressed Carter on whether his piety would make him a 'rigid, unbending president' unable to represent all Americans.
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