WH Display Celebrates Jimmy Carter’s 99th Birthday

October 1, 2023 Democrats, United States

The Associated Press reports:

Jimmy Carter has always been a man of discipline and habit. But the former president will break routine Sunday, putting off his practice of quietly watching church services online to instead celebrate his 99th birthday with his wife, Rosalynn, and their children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren in Plains. The gathering will take place in the same one-story structure where the Carters lived before he was first elected to the Georgia Senate in 1962. It comes amid tributes from around the world. But for Carter’s family, it’s an opportunity to honor a personal legacy.

The Washington Post reports:



In 2015, after doctors told him his melanoma had spread to his brain and liver, a usually fatal condition, Carter seemed unfazed. “I’m perfectly at ease with whatever comes,” he said at a news conference. Then he smiled and added, “I’m looking forward to a new adventure.” Yet eight years later, and after several falls and new ailments — and even after declaring he would no longer go to the hospital and was in hospice care — he keeps going. “He thinks about Rosalynn” and doesn’t want to leave her, said Becky Carter, Chip’s wife. She said the former president is keenly aware of his wife’s dementia, which was publicly announced earlier this year.

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