Former President Jimmy Carter, who led the country from 1977 to 1981, has chosen to receive hospice care at home “to spend his remaining time,” the Carter Center announced Saturday.
The former president’s organization said the 98-year-old has made the decision following a series of recent health setbacks.
“After a series of short hospital stays, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter today decided to spend his remaining time at home with his family and receive hospice care instead of additional medical intervention,” the organization said in the statement.
“He has the full support of his family and his medical team. The Carter family asks for privacy during this time and is grateful for the concern shown by his many admirers.”
James Earl Carter, Jr., the 39th president of the United States, was born Oct. 1, 1924, in the small farming town of Plains, Ga., and grew up in the nearby community of Archery, Ga., according to his official biography.
He attended Georgia Southwestern College and the Georgia Institute of Technology, and received a B.S. degree from the United States Naval Academy in 1946. In the Navy he became a submariner, serving in both the Atlantic and Pacific fleets and rising to the rank of lieutenant.
Chosen by Admiral Hyman Rickover for the nuclear submarine program, he was assigned to Schenectady, N.Y., where he took graduate work at Union College in reactor technology and nuclear physics and served as senior officer of the pre-commissioning crew of the Seawolf, the second nuclear submarine.
On July 7, 1946, he married Rosalynn Smith of Plains. Following his Naval career, the couple returned to Georgia and took over the Carter farms and Carter’s Warehouse, a general-purpose seed and farm supply company.
In 1962 Jimmy Carter won election to the Georgia Senate. He lost his first gubernatorial campaign in 1966, but won the next election, becoming Georgia’s 76th governor on January 12, 1971.
He was the Democratic National Committee campaign chairman for the 1974 congressional and gubernatorial elections, and on Dec. 12, 1974, he announced his candidacy for U.S. president.
He won his party’s nomination on the first ballot at the 1976 Democratic National Convention, and was elected president on Nov. 2, 1976.
During his time in office, Carter counted among his achievements the Panama Canal treaties, the Camp David Accords — the treaty of peace between Egypt and Israel — and the SALT II treaty with the Soviet Union.
He also established U.S. diplomatic relations with China and became one of the world’s foremost champions of human rights.
His presidency, however, was marked tough economic conditions, including high unemployment and rampant inflation, and his prestige was tarnished by the the Iranian Hostage situation, in which 52 Americans were held captive in Tehran for 444 days.
His bid for re-election in 1980 was ended with a landslide victory for Republican Ronald Reagan.
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Not one of our best Presidents by any means, but it is sad that he is faced with this. I have read in many places that, as a person, he is very gracious and displays great character.
After 42 years of a taxpayer Bankrupting Retirement salary with post Presidency Secret Service protection expenses, I hardly think the 4 years of wasted Presidential investment was worth the effort. At least when he finally cashes out, SOOOoo much richer than when he entered office, he will save us some Obamacare raised hospital expenses. His original Gubernatorial election in Georgia of this inept peanut farmer had more goobers than a bar full of Beer Nuts. There should be a law that any President who leaves office more than 10 times richer than when he got elected should forfeit all claims for a Government retirement, and pay for their own security expenses. Just how long will they keep Biden on life support at the expense of the fleeced American taxpayer?,,, whose brain went dead years ago? You can thank bumbling, fumbling Commander-in-Chief Jimmy, of all people for the fall of the Shah and the elevation of 40 plus years of successful Anti-American Iranian terrorism that has cost this country TRILLIONS, Don’t go away angry Jimmy, just get off the government payroll NOW!
If you don’t believe the MSM is not covering and rewriting History, try downloading “The Pepsi Syndrome” on youtube or anywhere else,,,that SNL skit humorously showing Carter spilling a Pepsi on the Nuclear reactor panel for a meltdown,,,has been removed,,,or Carter name removed from the skit.
Ok, I’d like to challenge your assertion that you can’t download “The Pepsi Syndrome” anywhere. I just did, from this site:
https://archive.org/details/saturday-night-live-s-04-e-16-richard-benjamin-04-07-1979
I scanned thru the file till I hit “The Pepsi Syndrome” and listened to the entire skit.
First off, in the skit, President Carter did not spill a soda on the control panel, it was one of the employees at 2 Mile Island. He actually spilled a large Coke to go. Per the skit, any cola, Pepsi, Coke, RC Cola, etc, would do damage, but 7-Up would not.
Second, President Carter figured quite prominently in the skit. It actually wasn’t him, but someone imitating him, of course. At one point he goes into the reactor room and is exposed to massive quantities of radiation, causing him to grow to enormous size. In the end he leaves Roslyn to marry an employee of 2 Mile Island who’s also grown to enormous size.
In the Duck Duck Go results I didn’t see any YouTube links, but nonetheless I did find this one. You might consider switching your default browser to either Duck Duck Go, or get the Tusk browser.
Hope you’re able to download and enjoy the skit!
Never should relied upon a Google search or Microsoft, YouTube says it is there, but shows nowhere in the SNL choices.