Oldest living US president opted to spend his ‘remaining time’ at home, says Carter Center
Former US President Jimmy Carter, during a visit to Ireland in 2021. Photograph: Brenda FitzsimonsTributes continue to be made to the former US president Jimmy Carter after the announcement that the 98-year-old has entered hospice care at his home in Plains, Georgia, instead of receiving “additional” medical treatment.
The former peanut farmer, Georgia governor and 39th president from 1977 to 1981 has been in ill health for several years, suffering falls and skin cancer melanoma which spread to his liver and brain.“I, obviously, prayed about it,” he said in 2019, about his cancer diagnosis four years before. “I didn’t ask God to let me live, but I just asked God to give me a proper attitude toward death. And I found that I was absolutely and completely at ease with death.
“While bedevilled by myriad problems during his years in office, Carter has had one of the greatest second acts in American history,” Shirley also told Fox News. Beyond his presidential pension, Carter’s post-White House income came from writing books on topics ranging from his life and career to faith, Middle East peace, women’s rights, ageing, fishing and woodworking.
Carter’s single term as president, between Gerald Ford and Reagan, was in some ways predicated on a need for political and social stability after the Watergate scandal and defeat in Vietnam. His grandson said that last October, when he turned 98 and was celebrated with a parade in his hometown, Carter was “still 100% with it, even though daily life things are a lot harder now”. Jason Carter cited Rosalynn Carter as a source of strength.
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