Pres. Jimmy Carter


 
Carter Center: Former President Jimmy Carter in hospice care
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ATLANTA (AP) — The Carter Center said Saturday that former President Jimmy Carter has entered home hospice care.

The charity created by the 98-year-old former president said on Twitter that after a series of short hospital stays, Carter “decided to spend his remaining time at home with his family and receive hospice care instead of additional medical intervention."

It said he has the full support of his medical team and family, which “asks for privacy at this time and is grateful for the concern shown by his many admirers.”

Carter, a Democrat, became the 39th U.S. president when he defeated former President Gerald R. Ford in 1976. He served a single term and was defeated by Republican Ronald Reagan in 1980.

In August 2015, Carter had a small cancerous mass removed from his liver. The following year, Carter announced that he needed no further treatment, as an experimental drug had eliminated any sign of cancer.

Carter celebrated his most recent birthday in October with family and friends in Plains, the tiny Georgia town where he and his wife, Rosalynn, were born in the years between World War I and the Great Depression.

The Carter Center, which the 39th president and the former first lady established after their one White House term, last year marked 40 years of promoting democracy and conflict resolution, monitoring elections, and advancing public health in the developing world.

James Earl Carter Jr. won the 1976 presidential election after beginning the campaign as a little-known, one-term Georgia governor. His surprise performance in the Iowa caucuses established the small, Midwestern state as an epicenter of presidential politics. Carter went on to defeat Ford in the general election, largely on the strength of sweeping the South before his native region shifted heavily to Republicans.


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  • brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 42,130
    I read about this earlier.  I guess we knew his time could not be long- and certainly is not now- but it's still going to be a very sad day when he is gone.  All political issues aside (its true he made some blunders), the fact remains he is a fine human being, a good soul, and a steadfast advocate for peace.  In my estimation, one of our best.
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  • josevolutionjosevolution Posts: 29,687
    Like you said a truly great human! 
    jesus greets me looks just like me ....
  • Gern BlanstenGern Blansten Mar-A-Lago Posts: 20,446
    He's a national treasure
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  • One of the most kind and decent human beings, to ever walk this planet.
    Take me piece by piece.....
    Till there aint nothing left worth taking away from me.....
  • PoncierPoncier Posts: 16,964
    Had hoped he would reach 100.
    May not have had the greatest Presidency, but lived a dignified respectful life and showed what it was like to be a statesman and a human. Plenty of politicians (frankly just about all of them) could learn a lot from Mr. Carter.
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  • mickeyratmickeyrat Posts: 38,826
    gift article from 2018...


     

    The un-celebrity president

    Jimmy Carter shuns riches, lives modestly in his Georgia hometown
    Story by Kevin Sullivan and Mary Jordan
     
    Photos by Matt McClain
    AUGUST 17, 2018

    PLAINS, Ga.

    Jimmy Carter finishes his Saturday night dinner, salmon and broccoli casserole on a paper plate, flashes his famous toothy grin and calls playfully to his wife of 72 years, Rosalynn: “C’mon, kid.”

    She laughs and takes his hand, and they walk carefully through a neighbor’s kitchen filled with 1976 campaign buttons, photos of world leaders and a couple of unopened cans of Billy Beer, then out the back door, where three Secret Service agents wait.

    Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter walk home with Secret Service agents along West Church Street after having dinner at a friend’s house in Plains, Ga. The former first couple, who were born in Plains, returned to the town after leaving the White House.

    They do this just about every weekend in this tiny town where they were born — he almost 94 years ago, she almost 91. Dinner at their friend Jill Stuckey’s house, with plastic Solo cups of ice water and one glass each of bargain-brand chardonnay, then the half-mile walk home to the ranch house they built in 1961.


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  • josevolutionjosevolution Posts: 29,687
    mickeyrat said:
    gift article from 2018...


     

    The un-celebrity president

    Jimmy Carter shuns riches, lives modestly in his Georgia hometown
    Story by Kevin Sullivan and Mary Jordan
     
    Photos by Matt McClain
    AUGUST 17, 2018

    PLAINS, Ga.

    Jimmy Carter finishes his Saturday night dinner, salmon and broccoli casserole on a paper plate, flashes his famous toothy grin and calls playfully to his wife of 72 years, Rosalynn: “C’mon, kid.”

    She laughs and takes his hand, and they walk carefully through a neighbor’s kitchen filled with 1976 campaign buttons, photos of world leaders and a couple of unopened cans of Billy Beer, then out the back door, where three Secret Service agents wait.

    Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter walk home with Secret Service agents along West Church Street after having dinner at a friend’s house in Plains, Ga. The former first couple, who were born in Plains, returned to the town after leaving the White House.

    They do this just about every weekend in this tiny town where they were born — he almost 94 years ago, she almost 91. Dinner at their friend Jill Stuckey’s house, with plastic Solo cups of ice water and one glass each of bargain-brand chardonnay, then the half-mile walk home to the ranch house they built in 1961.


    continues....

    Incredible life style the little things have the biggest meanings! 
    jesus greets me looks just like me ....
  • brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 42,130
    mickeyrat said:
    gift article from 2018...


     

    The un-celebrity president

    Jimmy Carter shuns riches, lives modestly in his Georgia hometown
    Story by Kevin Sullivan and Mary Jordan
     
    Photos by Matt McClain
    AUGUST 17, 2018

    PLAINS, Ga.

    Jimmy Carter finishes his Saturday night dinner, salmon and broccoli casserole on a paper plate, flashes his famous toothy grin and calls playfully to his wife of 72 years, Rosalynn: “C’mon, kid.”

    She laughs and takes his hand, and they walk carefully through a neighbor’s kitchen filled with 1976 campaign buttons, photos of world leaders and a couple of unopened cans of Billy Beer, then out the back door, where three Secret Service agents wait.

    Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter walk home with Secret Service agents along West Church Street after having dinner at a friend’s house in Plains, Ga. The former first couple, who were born in Plains, returned to the town after leaving the White House.

    They do this just about every weekend in this tiny town where they were born — he almost 94 years ago, she almost 91. Dinner at their friend Jill Stuckey’s house, with plastic Solo cups of ice water and one glass each of bargain-brand chardonnay, then the half-mile walk home to the ranch house they built in 1961.


    continues....


    Nice! 
    Warren Buffett lives modestly as well considering his fortunes:
    Warren Buffett Lives in a Modest House Worth 001 of His Total Wealth

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  • bootlegger10bootlegger10 Posts: 15,969
    It's amazing a good person like him was able to become president.  He'd probably be too boring of a candidate now to make it out of the primaries. 
  • brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 42,130
    It's amazing a good person like him was able to become president.  He'd probably be too boring of a candidate now to make it out of the primaries. 

    Oh what I would give for a Jimmy Carter in just about any office right now!
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  • mickeyratmickeyrat Posts: 38,826
    gift article

    A nuclear reactor was melting down. Jimmy Carter came to the rescue. By Gillian Brockell February 20, 2023 at 6:15 ET The world was in the grip of the Cold War in 1952 when a nuclear reactor began melting down. That reactor, located at Chalk River Laboratories in Ontario, had suffered an explosion on Dec. 12. Radioactive material had escaped into the atmosphere, and millions of gallons of radioactive water flooded into the reactor’s basement. Thankfully, no one was injured, but the Canadians needed help to disassemble the reactor’s damaged core. The United States sent 28-year-old Jimmy Carter. Carter, who entered home hospice care this weekend at 98, is best known for being the nation’s 39th commander in chief and oldest living president. But his service to the country began when he was a teenage plebe at the U.S. Naval Academy and continued for four decades after his presidency. In the years after graduating from Annapolis in 1946, Carter was promoted to lieutenant and took a dangerous assignment aboard a submarine. He was away from his young bride, Rosalynn, and their growing family quite a bit.

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  • Poncier said:
    Had hoped he would reach 100.
    May not have had the greatest Presidency, but lived a dignified respectful life and showed what it was like to be a statesman and a human. Plenty of politicians (frankly just about all of them) could learn a lot from Mr. Carter.
    Agreed.  He did put solar panels on the white house too.  I thought that was cool.

    @lolobugg Where you at?  This is your guy.
  • Poncier said:
    Had hoped he would reach 100.
    May not have had the greatest Presidency, but lived a dignified respectful life and showed what it was like to be a statesman and a human. Plenty of politicians (frankly just about all of them) could learn a lot from Mr. Carter.
    Agreed.  He did put solar panels on the white house too.  I thought that was cool.

    @lolobugg Where you at?  This is your guy.
    A no more starker policy contrast between the parties as one of Ronny Rayguns first acts upon occupying the oval was to remove said solar panels. Imagine if from all that time of Carter, solar panel research & technology had been invested in and promoted rather than abandoned, where we might be today as it relates to usage and climate? Same with Hillary’s health care plan. Pass it, tweak it, roll it out, change it as needed. Instead another generation wasted because, “ ‘gubmint.” There are other examples. Like train brakes for instance. But you know…..
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  • Poncier said:
    Had hoped he would reach 100.
    May not have had the greatest Presidency, but lived a dignified respectful life and showed what it was like to be a statesman and a human. Plenty of politicians (frankly just about all of them) could learn a lot from Mr. Carter.
    Agreed.  He did put solar panels on the white house too.  I thought that was cool.

    @lolobugg Where you at?  This is your guy.
    A no more starker policy contrast between the parties as one of Ronny Rayguns first acts upon occupying the oval was to remove said solar panels. Imagine if from all that time of Carter, solar panel research & technology had been invested in and promoted rather than abandoned, where we might be today as it relates to usage and climate? Same with Hillary’s health care plan. Pass it, tweak it, roll it out, change it as needed. Instead another generation wasted because, “ ‘gubmint.” There are other examples. Like train brakes for instance. But you know…..
    I thought Bush jr replaced them with new ones?  I knew Reagan stopped the R&D with the DOE.  Didn't know that he removed them, always thought it was Dubya.

    You learn something new every day.
  • mickeyratmickeyrat Posts: 38,826

     
    Appreciating Jimmy Carter, outspoken but 'never irrelevant'
    By WALTER MEARS
    Today

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Ever the outsider, Jimmy Carter served a turbulent term in the White House. His presidency was beset by soaring interest and inflation rates, gasoline pump lines and the Iran hostage crisis that eventually led to his re-election defeat.

    But he rose to even greater heights with his post-presidential career, devoting another four decades to working as an international envoy of peacemaking and democracy. James Earl Carter Jr., a peanut farmer who became the 39th president of the United States, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002.

    —-

    EDITOR’S NOTE — Walter Mears was an Associated Press special correspondent who won a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the 1976 presidential campaign. Prior to his death in 2022, Mears wrote this retrospective article in appreciation of Carter, who entered hospice care on Feb. 18.

    —-

    Trounced by Ronald Reagan in the 1980 election, Carter was, at 56, a politician with only a past and "a potentially empty life" ahead. Then, in 1982, he organized the Carter Center in Atlanta.

    It kept him traveling, negotiating, leading election observation teams and speaking out, often to the discomfort or even resentment of the government he'd once led. Carter's Nobel citation honored "his decades of untiring effort" to resolve conflicts, promote democracy and foster economic development.

    The man who conceded that some considered him "a failed president" made himself the most active and internationally engaged of ex-presidents. "My role as a former president is probably superior to that of other presidents," he said in a 2010 television interview.

    When he ran for president as a one-term former Georgia governor, Carter was so improbable a candidate that he said his mother asked him, "President of what?"

    To answer that and his all-but-invisible name recognition rating, he started campaigning early. Carter covered some 50,000 campaign miles, his garment bag draped over his shoulder.

    He won the Democratic nomination and challenged President Gerald Ford, Nixon's appointed vice president.

    Ford had pardoned Nixon for any Watergate crimes. In the aftermath of Watergate, Carter was the anti-Richard Nixon figure. "I will never lie to you," he told voters. But Carter was elected by only 2 percentage points.

    The newly elected president and wife Rosalynn shunned the limousine and walked from the Capitol to the White House after his inauguration and tried to drop some of the pomp surrounding the presidency. But his solo style and unintended snubs left him short of political allies when he'd need their help.

    For all that, Carter's term left landmarks, such as the Israel-Egypt peace accord he engineered in personal negotiations at Camp David in 1978.

    He won the beginnings of an energy conservation policy. He gained ratification of the treaties that yielded U.S. control of the Panama Canal. He opened full diplomatic relations with China. The departments of energy and education were created. But his administration struggled and Carter shook up his Cabinet amid “a crisis of confidence.”

    And then things got worse.

    On Nov. 4, 1979, Iranian demonstrators invaded the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, incited by their ayatollah to retaliate for the exiled former shah's admission into the United States for medical treatment. Fifty-two Americans were held hostage for more than a year. Carter tried to negotiate, and when that didn't work, he ordered the military rescue attempt that failed disastrously in the desert in April 1980.

    Eight Americans were killed in the attempt. It was Carter's bleakest hour.

    The hostage crisis shadowed and essentially crippled Carter's re-election campaign. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy challenged him in the Democratic primaries.

    After that, it was all uphill against Reagan. Carter carried only six states to Reagan's 44.

    Minutes after Reagan was inaugurated on Jan. 20, 1981, the hostages were freed after 444 days in captivity. Carter's first major act as an ex-president was as Reagan's special envoy to welcome the freed hostages in Wiesbaden, Germany, the next day.

    Jimmy Carter, the only president inaugurated by nickname, was born in tiny Plains, Georgia, where he arranged to be buried. The father for whom he was named was in the peanut business, with a farm and warehouse. His father, brother, Billy, and two sisters all died of pancreatic cancer.

    Carter graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1946, the year he married Rosalynn Smith, also of Plains. They had three sons and a daughter, Amy, the youngest child, who went with them to the White House.

    Carter spent nearly seven years in the Navy's nuclear submarine force, resigning to take over the family business after his father died in 1953. His first political stop was in the Georgia State Senate. A Democratic moderate with a New South image, Carter was elected governor of Georgia in 1970, succeeding segregationist Lester Maddox and gaining his first national note when he declared in his inauguration address "the time for racial discrimination is over."

    After he lost his presidential re-election bid, a shaken Carter retreated to Plains, to "an altogether new, unwanted" chapter in his life.

    He began the Carter Center which, he said later, offered "superior opportunities to do good." He and Rosalynn also worked with Habitat for Humanity, building housing for the poor in the United States and abroad.

    Carter was a tireless peacemaker who bypassed usual diplomatic channels and, as he said in 1994, went "where others are not treading" — places such as Ethiopia, Liberia and North Korea, where he secured the release of an American who had been imprisoned after wandering across the border in 2010.

    He helped oversee democratic elections in Nicaragua and Haiti, and the first Palestinian elections. Altogether, he participated in 39 of the center’s 100 election observation trips.

    Carter said his center "filled vacuums in the world. When the United States won't deal with troubled areas, we go there."

    And not always quietly.

    He went to Cuba in 2002, met with Fidel Castro, then delivered a televised speech calling for an end to the U.S. trade embargo. He likened Israeli policy toward the Palestinians to apartheid. He denounced the Iraq war as "based upon lies." He said George W. Bush was the worst president in history in foreign affairs.

    That prompted a Bush White House spokesman to describe Carter as "irrelevant."

    He could be meddlesome, a freelance diplomat who irked more than one administration.

    But never irrelevant.


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  • mickeyratmickeyrat Posts: 38,826

     
    The Carters: What you know may be wrong (or not quite right)
    By BILL BARROW
    Today

    PLAINS, Ga. (AP) — Exaggeration, misinformation and myth have always infected politics – even before social media took it to the extreme.

    Misconceptions take especially strong hold where U.S. presidents are concerned: sometimes to their advantage, sometimes not. Some claims relate to policy, others to their biographies and personal traits.

    That George Washington story about the cherry tree? Apocryphal. And his teeth weren’t actually made of wood. (At least some of his “false teeth” were taken from the mouths of enslaved persons.) There’s no evidence that William Howard Taft ever got stuck in a bathtub. (He was the heaviest president on record, though, at more than 300 pounds.)

    James Monroe wasn’t the principal force behind the Monroe Doctrine. (That would be his secretary of state and future president John Quincy Adams.) And Richard Nixon wasn’t actually impeached. (He resigned before the full House could vote on the matter.)

    As former President Jimmy Carter receives home hospice care at the age of 98, misconceptions about his life are coming into focus as well. Most are rooted in some truth but need more context:

    MISCONCEPTION: Ronald Reagan freed the American hostages in Iran.

    MORE ACCURATE: Carter and his administration negotiated their release, but Tehran wouldn’t free them until after Reagan’s inauguration on Jan. 20, 1981.

    THE DETAILS: Iranian revolutionaries stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran on Nov. 4, 1979. They would hold 52 U.S. citizens for 444 days. From the outset, Carter resolved not to start a shooting war in response. He authorized a rescue mission in the spring of 1980, but mechanical problems forced the helicopter operation to abort and one crashed, killing eight servicemen.

    Carter, a Democrat, continued diplomatic efforts but suffered politically amid intense news coverage of the crisis. He lost in a Nov. 4 landslide to the Republican Reagan. A final round of negotiations began in Algeria after. The U.S. delegation was led by Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher. Iran and the U.S. finalized terms for the hostages’ release on Carter's final full day in office, Jan. 19, 1981, and Carter remained in the Oval Office the next morning, Inauguration Day, seeing through details. They were released shortly after Reagan was sworn in. Reagan then sent Carter to West Germany to greet the freed Americans.

    MISCONCEPTION: Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter founded Habitat for Humanity.

    MORE ACCURATE: The Carters have been Habitat’s most famous endorsers and volunteers. But the organization was established by wealthy businessman Millard Fuller and his wife, Linda, as an outgrowth a Georgia commune where the spent time in the 1960s.

    THE DETAILS: Habitat grew out of the housing ministry of Koinonia Farm, a multiracial commune in Carter’s home county that was ostracized in the days of Jim Crow segregation. In 1965, Fuller came to the farm for what he’d later describe as spiritual renewal.

    Carter biographer Jonathan Alter details that Martin Luther King Jr. befriended Koinonia's white founder, Clarence Jordan, during the civil rights movement. But the non-profit organization was accused in Georgia courts of being a communist front, and King’s inner circle considered it radical. Jordan was beaten on the streets of Americus, a short distance from Plains. Against this backdrop, Alter writes, Jimmy Carter kept his distance. Jordan’s nephew, Hamilton Jordan, would become Carter’s White House chief of staff. Alter records the younger Jordan, who died in 2008, saying his uncle viewed Carter as “just a politician.”

    Koinonia’s local housing programs were formalized as the “Fund for Humanity” in the late 1960s. Carter was running for governor then. The Fullers established Habitat for Humanity in 1976, the year Carter won the presidency. The Carters’ first volunteer Habitat build was in New York City in 1984. That became the annual Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work Project, which would eventually build, renovate or repair 4,400 homes in 14 countries. The Carters worked alongside more than 104,000 volunteers, by The Carter Center's count.

    MISCONEPTION: Jimmy Carter was an unabashed liberal.

    MORE ACCURATE: Carter was a moderate politician, campaigned deliberately and, once in office, pursued policies that don't fit easily under one label.

    THE DETAILS: Carter sought the presidency in 1976 as an outsider in a party largely controlled in Washington by New Deal liberals and Kennedy loyalists. Carter was a “Southern Democrat” who never gelled with Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy, who challenged him in a damaging 1980 primary. Carter had described himself in Georgia as both “conservative” and “progressive,” depending on the issue, the audience and the campaign. Sometimes he even used those words together.

    He was a good-government policy wonk who spent considerable political capital reorganizing government in Atlanta and then Washington. He pushed windfall taxes on big oil (unsuccessfully) but frustrated fellow Democrats on spending priorities and added little to the national debt compared to all his successors (less than $300 billion in four years). The deregulatory era often associated with Reagan actually began with Carter loosening regulations on airlines, trains and trucking.

    Carter advocated for a national health program but his top health care bill failed because it didn’t go far enough for party liberals, including Kennedy. Carter grew more openly progressive as a former president, voting for Bernie Sanders in the 2016 presidential primaries. But he also warned his party ahead of 2020 not to move too far left if they hoped to defeat then-President Donald Trump.

    MISCONCEPTION: Jimmy Carter is married to “RAHZ-lyn,” and he was there when she was born.

    MORE ACCURATE: It’s “ROSE-lyn,” and he met her as a newborn – but not immediately.

    THE DETAILS: Eleanor Rosalynn (again, “ROSE-lyn”) Smith was born in Plains on Aug. 18, 1927. The nurse who delivered her was Lillian Carter, the future president’s mother. But Jimmy Carter, who was born Oct. 1, 1924, was back on the family farm in nearby Archery, outside Plains. “Miss Lillian” brought her her son back to the Smiths' house a few days later to see baby Rosalynn, who is now 95.

    As for the pronunciation, remember the flower. The former president's affectionate name for her might help, too. He often calls her “Rosie.”


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  • Gern BlanstenGern Blansten Mar-A-Lago Posts: 20,446
    Amazing people....and to both live to that age is just unreal.


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  • brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 42,130
    <3  Jimmy Carter!
    "A pessimist is simply an optimist in full possession of the facts."
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  • curmudgeonesscurmudgeoness Brigadoon, foodie capital Posts: 3,988
    Random snippets I've read somewhere recently:

    1) Pres. Carter chose hospice care over further treatment/ hospitalization because Rosalynn has dementia and he didn't want to leave her.

    2) President Biden calls regularly -- a few times a week, per the Carters' grandson -- to inquire after them and to let them know that they're in his prayers.

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  • brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 42,130
    Random snippets I've read somewhere recently:

    1) Pres. Carter chose hospice care over further treatment/ hospitalization because Rosalynn has dementia and he didn't want to leave her.

    2) President Biden calls regularly -- a few times a week, per the Carters' grandson -- to inquire after them and to let them know that they're in his prayers.


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  • mickeyratmickeyrat Posts: 38,826
    https://apnews.com/article/rosalynn-carter-dead-e4291133392444bc9ad9d1da461d95c1   Rosalynn Carter, outspoken former first lady, dead at 96

     
    Rosalynn Carter, outspoken former first lady, dead at 96
    By BILL BARROW and MICHAEL WARREN
    50 mins ago

    ATLANTA (AP) — Former first lady Rosalynn Carter, the closest adviser to Jimmy Carter during his one term as U.S. president and their four decades thereafter as global humanitarians, has died at the age of 96.

    The Carter Center said she died Sunday after living with dementia and suffering many months of declining health. The statement announcing her death said she “died peacefully, with family by her side" at 2:10 p.m. at her rural Georgia home of Plains.

    “Rosalynn was my equal partner in everything I ever accomplished,” Carter said in the statement. “She gave me wise guidance and encouragement when I needed it. As long as Rosalynn was in the world, I always knew somebody loved and supported me.”

    Jill Biden, appearing at an event at Naval Air Station in Norfolk, Virginia, said she had to “lead this off with a sad announcement” of Rosalynn Carter's death. “She was well-known for her efforts on mental health and caregiving and women's rights. So I hope that during the holidays, you'll ... include the Carter family in your prayers,” she said.

    She spoke in a hangar where she and President Joe Biden planned to attend an early Thanksgiving dinner with service members and their families.

    The Carters were married for more than 77 years, forging what they both described as a “full partnership.” Unlike many previous first ladies, Rosalynn sat in on Cabinet meetings, spoke out on controversial issues and represented her husband on foreign trips. Aides to President Carter sometimes referred to her — privately — as “co-president.”

    “Rosalynn is my best friend ... the perfect extension of me, probably the most influential person in my life,” Jimmy Carter told aides during their White House years, which spanned from 1977-1981.

    Fiercely loyal and compassionate as well as politically astute, Rosalynn Carter prided herself on being an activist first lady, and no one doubted her behind-the-scenes influence. When her role in a highly publicized Cabinet shakeup became known, she was forced to declare publicly, “I am not running the government.”

    Many presidential aides insisted that her political instincts were better than her husband’s — they often enlisted her support for a project before they discussed it with the president. Her iron will, contrasted with her outwardly shy demeanor and a soft Southern accent, inspired Washington reporters to call her “the Steel Magnolia.”

    Both Carters said in their later years that Rosalynn had always been the more political of the two. After Jimmy Carter’s landslide defeat in 1980, it was she, not the former president, who contemplated an implausible comeback, and years later she confessed to missing their life in Washington.

    Jimmy Carter trusted her so much that in 1977, only months into his term, he sent her on a mission to Latin America to tell dictators he meant what he said about denying military aid and other support to violators of human rights.

    She also had strong feelings about the style of the Carter White House. The Carters did not serve hard liquor at public functions, though Rosalynn did permit U.S. wine. There were fewer evenings of ballroom dancing and more square dancing and picnics.

    Throughout her husband's political career, she chose mental health and problems of the elderly as her signature policy emphasis. When the news media didn't cover those efforts as much as she believed was warranted, she criticized reporters for writing only about "sexy subjects."

    As honorary chairwoman of the President's Commission on Mental Health, she once testified before a Senate subcommittee, becoming the first first lady since Eleanor Roosevelt to address a congressional panel. She was back in Washington in 2007 to push Congress for improved mental health coverage, saying, "We've been working on this for so long, it finally seems to be in reach."

    She said she developed her interest in mental health during her husband's campaigns for Georgia governor.

    “I used to come home and say to Jimmy, 'Why are people telling me their problems?' And he said, 'Because you may be the only person they'll ever see who may be close to someone who can help them,'” she explained.

    After Ronald Reagan won the 1980 election, Rosalynn Carter seemed more visibly devastated than her husband. She initially had little interest in returning to the small town of Plains, Georgia, where they both were born, married and spent most of their lives.

    "I was hesitant, not at all sure that I could be happy here after the dazzle of the White House and the years of stimulating political battles," she wrote in her 1984 autobiography, "First Lady from Plains." But "we slowly rediscovered the satisfaction of a life we had left long before."

    After leaving Washington, Jimmy and Rosalynn co-founded The Carter Center in Atlanta to continue their work. She chaired the center's annual symposium on mental health issues and raised funds for efforts to aid the mentally ill and homeless. She also wrote "Helping Yourself Help Others," about the challenges of caring for elderly or ailing relatives, and a sequel, "Helping Someone With Mental Illness."

    Frequently, the Carters left home on humanitarian missions, building houses with Habitat for Humanity and promoting public health and democracy across the developing world.

    "I get tired," she said of her travels. "But something so wonderful always happens. To go to a village where they have Guinea worm and go back a year or two later and there's no Guinea worm, I mean the people dance and sing — it's so wonderful."

    In 2015, Jimmy Carter’s doctors discovered four small tumors on his brain. The Carters feared he had weeks to live. He was treated with a drug to boost his immune system, and later announced that doctors found no remaining signs of cancer. But when they first received the news, she said she didn't know what she was going to do.

    “I depend on him when I have questions, when I'm writing speeches, anything, I consult with him,” she said.

    She helped Carter recover several years later when he had hip replacement surgery at age 94 and had to learn to walk again. And she was with him earlier this year when he decided after a series of hospital stays that he would forgo further medical interventions and begin end-of-life care.

    Jimmy Carter is the longest-lived U.S. president. Rosalynn Carter was the second longest-lived of the nation's first ladies, trailing only Bess Truman, who died at age 97.

    Eleanor Rosalynn Smith was born in Plains on Aug. 18, 1927, the eldest of four children. Her father died when she was young, so she took on much of the responsibility of caring for her siblings when her mother went to work part time.

    She also contributed to the family income by working after school in a beauty parlor. "We were very poor and worked hard," she once said, but she kept up her studies, graduating from high school as class valedictorian.

    She soon fell in love with the brother of one of her best friends. Jimmy and Rosalynn had known each other all their lives — it was Jimmy's mother, nurse Lillian Carter, who delivered baby Rosalynn — but he left for the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, when she was still in high school.

    After a blind date, Jimmy told his mother: "That's the girl I want to marry." They wed in 1946, shortly after his graduation from Annapolis and Rosalynn's graduation from Georgia Southwestern College.

    Their sons were born where Jimmy Carter was stationed: John William (Jack) in Portsmouth, Virginia, in 1947; James Earl III (Chip) in Honolulu in 1950; and Donnel Jeffery (Jeff) in New London, Connecticut, in 1952. Amy was born in Plains in 1967. By then, Carter was a state senator.

    Navy life had provided Rosalynn her first chance to see the world. When Carter's father, James Earl Sr., died in 1953, Jimmy Carter decided, without consulting his wife, to move the family back to Plains, where he took over the family farm. She joined him there in the day-to-day operations, keeping the books and weighing fertilizer trucks.

    “We developed a partnership when we were working in the farm supply business,” Rosalynn Carter recalled with pride in a 2021 interview with The Associated Press. “I knew more on paper about the business than he did. He would take my advice about things.”

    At the height of the Carters' political power, Lillian Carter said of her daughter-in-law: “She can do anything in the world with Jimmy, and she's the only one. He listens to her.”


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    expect he will go soon......
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  • Gern BlanstenGern Blansten Mar-A-Lago Posts: 20,446
    mickeyrat said:
    expect he will go soon......
    Yeah...that's what I was thinking. It's really amazing how they both made it to this age and up until recently were still able to get around pretty well.
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  • mickeyrat said:
    expect he will go soon......
    Yeah...that's what I was thinking. It's really amazing how they both made it to this age and up until recently were still able to get around pretty well.
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  • gimmesometruth27gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 23,303
    mickeyrat said:
    expect he will go soon......
    yeah sad news. i thought she would outlive him. 
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