Former President Jimmy Carter smiles as he is presented with the Manuel Amador Guerrero Medal by Panamanian President Juan Carlos Varela during a ceremony at the Carter Center, January 14, 2016, in Atlanta.
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Former President Jimmy Carter smiles as he is presented with the Manuel Amador Guerrero Medal by Panamanian President Juan Carlos Varela during a ceremony at the Carter Center, January 14, 2016, in Atlanta.
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Online tributes were sent to former President Jimmy Carter, after it was announced that the 98-year-old statesman would be receiving hospice care following a recent series of short-term hospital stays.
Politicians, celebrities, organizations, etc. have heaped praise on the one-term Democratic leader, who has continued to serve the community for a long time after leaving the White House.
“Jimmy Carter is one of the kindest and most caring people I’ve ever had the honor of meeting,” comedian and writer Jon Stewart speak. “He’s the best of us.”
Former senator turned comedian Al Franken was simply speak Carter is “the greatest former president. By far.”
Some current politicians – both Jacobinic And Republic – also honors Carter’s accomplishments.
Texas Representative Sheila Jackson Lee called Carter an “American treasure and symbol” and said he was one of the country’s most conscientious presidents.
“From the very beginning of his service in the United States military and throughout his presidency, he demonstrated a sense of concern,” said Jackson Lee.
Carter became the 39th president of the United States after he defeated incumbent Republican Gerald Ford in the 1976 election.
Over the weekend, presidential historian Michael Beschloss shared a series of photos of Carter on social media, including one from his presidency. Carter in the Oval Office with Joe Biden.
Harvard history professor Annette Gordon-Reed, who wrote The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family, speak she was too young to vote for Carter but supported his campaign by helping run the group Youth for Carter.
Gordon-Reed added: “I went door-to-door handing out flyers, made phone calls. Glad he won. Know all of his cabinet, watch all of his press conferences. Devastated when he lost,” Gordon-Reed added.
Carter did not win a second term as president, but his defeat to Republican Ronald Reagan in 1980 did not knock him out of public life.
In 1982, he and his wife Rosalynn founded the nonprofit Carter Center, and the one-time president also helped build a home for the housing organization, Habitat for Humanity – even in his late 90s.
“All of us at Habitat for Humanity are supporting the President and Mrs. Carter in prayer as he enters hospice care. We pray for his comfort and their peace.” this organization speak.
Outside of work, Carter and his wife are dedicated birdwatchers, a hobby the family arose after a trip to Tanzania in 1988. speak National Wildlife Federation.
Magazine Bird watching speak it is “wishings of peace and love to President Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, birdwatchers since the late 1980s.”
