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00:00And this week we will mark the life of a great statesman who died at the age of 100 years
00:22old, a great American president but also a great human being, Jimmy Carter, who came
00:30here at a low point in United States-India relations and sought to lay down a foundation
00:36or to reclaim perhaps the friendship that had defined the relationship between our peoples
00:43that had lasted for more than 200 years here in India where the United States of America
00:48as a young country took its second consulate that it ever founded anywhere in the world
00:53and put it in Kolkata, here in a country where we advocated even against our close ally,
01:00Great Britain, for the independence of the Indian people.
01:04But for a moment our relations had hit a lower point, and President Carter came here, came
01:10to this city, and I don't know if it was his mother's service in the Peace Corps in Maharashtra
01:16that inspired him.
01:18Maybe it was just he and Rosalind's personality, their desire to serve the world, to think
01:23about others before themselves.
01:25But he came to something that was the outskirts of New Delhi at the time, now is part of greater
01:31New Delhi in Haryana, a town now called, a small village then, but a town called Karcharpuri
01:37that was renamed in his honor.
01:40And it reminds all of us that these moments when we're at a speech, whether we're giving
01:47it, whether we're listening to it, whether we're covering it as members of the media
01:51or maybe students for the first time hearing an American national security advisor, that
01:56sometimes we don't recognize or feel history as it happens.
02:00But I assure you, this audience, this is one of those moments of history, the completion
02:04of a chapter as a new one begins, the summary of the work that has happened, not just between
02:11two governments, between two national security advisors, a president and a prime minister,
02:16but the peoples, the institutions, the thinkers, the researchers, the investors, the builders,
02:22the doers, those folks that come together to imagine a world that is not yet, but that
02:28when we close our eyes, we hope may be.
02:31Nick Sullivan, I had the honor of introducing here in this country about a year ago, when
02:36he came a year into what he had been one of the fathers of.