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Carter traveled to Ghana, Togo and Mali in February as part of an effort to eradicate Guinea worm -- a painful disease that has ravaged parts of Africa since Biblical times.
He spent a week in June in rural Alabama and Georgia helping build houses with Habitat for Humanity -- an annual tradition he plans to take to Mexico next year.
In July, he joined Carter Center staff in Indonesia to monitor that nation's first round of elections, followed by a vacation in the Galapagos Islands.
He traveled to Venezuela in May and August for more election monitoring.
Last month, he spoke at his party's national convention in Boston.
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"If I was primarily interested in a legacy, why would I be in the most remote villages in the world, where there are not any news reporters or television cameras or photographers?" he said. "That is kind of a moot question for me."
He also vigorously defends his tenure in the White House.
He helped broker a lasting peace between Egypt and Israel at Camp David, normalized diplomatic relations with China, and signed the SALT II arms-control treaty with the Soviet Union.
"I don't really feel that my legacy needs polishing," Carter said. "We kept our nation at peace, we promoted human rights, we increased the size of our national parks, we tripled the size of our wilderness areas. There wasn't any scandal in our government
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-carter-turns-80,0,437265.story?coll=sns-ap-nationworld-headlinesHe also teaches Sunday School, gives monthly lectures at University, woodworks, oil paints and writes high-class snark letters to GA pond scum.
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