{"id":35675,"date":"2025-01-03T10:46:23","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T15:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=35675"},"modified":"2025-01-06T13:17:10","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T18:17:10","slug":"statesman-alumnus-riley-54-reflects-on-carters-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/statesman-alumnus-riley-54-reflects-on-carters-legacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Statesman, alumnus Riley &#8217;54 reflects on Carter&#8217;s legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two-term South Carolina Governor and U.S. Secretary of Education <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/people\/richard-w-riley\">Richard W. Riley<\/a> spoke to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wyff4.com\/article\/south-carolina-statesman-dick-riley-reflects-on-50-year-friendship-with-jimmy-carter\/63307955\">WYFF News 4<\/a> Anchor Jane Robelot about the special relationship he shared with former President Jimmy Carter who passed away at the age of 100 on Dec. 29, 2024. Riley, a 1954 alumnus of Furman University, trustee emeritus and the namesake of The Riley Institute at Furman, was Carter&#8217;s campaign manager for South Carolina and considered him a &#8220;great friend.&#8221; Riley told Robelot that Carter&#8217;s honesty and humility won him the election in 1976 at a time when the nation was still reeling from the Watergate scandal.<\/p>\n<p>In a photo essay published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/picture-gallery\/news\/2024\/12\/30\/1980-president-jimmy-carter-visited-startex-in-spartanburg-county\/11320827002\/\">The Greenville News<\/a> documenting Carter&#8217;s visit to Startex Mills (Startex, South Carolina) in 1980, there are several photos of then Governor Riley, but he is not named.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former South Carolina Governor and U.S. Education Secretary Richard Riley &#8217;54 sat down with WYFF News 4&#8217;s Jane Robelot to talk about the life and legacy of Jimmy Carter, for whom Riley served as South Carolina presidential campaign manager. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":35680,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,32,29,2262,120],"tags":[3202,329,3201],"class_list":["post-35675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-in-the-news","category-politics-and-international-affairs","category-riley-institute","category-the-greenville-news","category-wyff-tv","tag-1976-presidential-campaign","tag-dick-riley","tag-jimmy-carter"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35675"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35697,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35675\/revisions\/35697"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}