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EXCLUSIVE – Chip Carter helped launch the 39th annual Habitat for Humanity Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work Project in October, praising his late father for his bipartisan efforts to build homes.

The Carter Work Project is a weeklong event the Carters created in 1984. Over the years, they worked alongside more than 100,000 volunteers to build, renovate and repair nearly 4,400 homes, according to Habitat for Humanity.

Chip said building homes appealed to his parents because it was a wholly apolitical pastime.

"You know, Mom and Dad spent so much time here at Habitat and working on these things and giving of themselves and I think one of the reasons he really liked it is because it's totally not political," Carter told Fox News

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