{"id":2663,"date":"2025-03-28T03:48:58","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T03:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/?post_type=furman-update&#038;p=2663"},"modified":"2025-03-28T03:48:58","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T03:48:58","slug":"statesman-alumnus-riley-54-reflects-on-carters-legacy","status":"publish","type":"furman-update","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/news\/statesman-alumnus-riley-54-reflects-on-carters-legacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Statesman, alumnus Riley \u201954 reflects on Carter\u2019s legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"news-quick-view-block-author\">\n<div class=\"nsb-one-date-updated\">Last updated January 3, 2025<\/div>\n<div class=\"nsb-one-date-updated\">By Tina Underwood<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"news-quick-view-block-content\">\n<p>Two-term South Carolina Governor and U.S. Secretary of Education\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/people\/richard-w-riley\">Richard W. Riley<\/a>\u00a0spoke to\u00a0<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>\u00a0Anchor 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\u2019s campaign manager for South Carolina and considered him a \u201cgreat friend.\u201d Riley told Robelot that Carter\u2019s 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\u00a0<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>\u00a0documenting Carter\u2019s visit to Startex Mills (Startex, South Carolina) in 1980, there are several photos of then Governor Riley, but he is not named.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last updated January 3, 2025 By Tina Underwood &nbsp; Two-term South Carolina Governor and U.S. Secretary of Education\u00a0Richard W. Riley\u00a0spoke to\u00a0WYFF News 4\u00a0Anchor Jane Robelot about the special relationship he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2664,"template":"","update-categories":[2],"class_list":["post-2663","furman-update","type-furman-update","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","furman-update-category-media-coverage"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/2663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/furman-update"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/2663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2665,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/2663\/revisions\/2665"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"furman-update-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/update-categories?post=2663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}