Jimmy Carter to begin receiving hospice care

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Source: CNN

By Aaron Pellish, Shawna Mizelle and Betsy Klein, CNN
Updated 6:31 PM EST, Sat February 18, 2023
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Former US President Jimmy Carter will begin receiving hospice care at his home in Georgia, according to a statement from The Carter Center on Saturday.

"After a series of short hospital stays, former US President Jimmy Carter today decided to spend his remaining time at home with his family and receive hospice care instead of additional medical intervention. He has the full support of his family and his medical team," the statement said.

Jason Carter, a onetime Democratic state senator in Georgia and the former president's grandson, said he visited Friday with his grandparents and that "they are at peace and - as always - their home is full of love."

Jimmy Carter, who turned 98 last year, became the oldest living US president in history after the passing of George H.W. Bush, who died in late 2018 at 94. The nation's 39th president has kept a low public profile in recent years due to the coronavirus pandemic but has continued to speak out about risks to democracy around the world, a longtime cause of his....

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Perhaps our most underrated President. Jimmy Carter brought a breath of fresh air with insisting on the highest ethical behavior from the USA. He was far-seeing in his promotion of solar energy, and he knowingly sacrificed his own career to appoint Volcker as Fed Chairman to tame stagflation, which eventually led to the low-inflation, economic growth of the 80's. He is a Nobel Peace prize winner who played a key role in the Camp David Accords. Ahead of his time, Carter began the deregulation of over-regulated industries like trucking.

[Bengus81]

1. Damn...sounds like just a matter of time

He is a great former President, I've never cared what the bashers said.

[PatSeg]

10. Best former President of my lifetime

Truly a remarkable human being.

[EmmaLee E]

66. Fantastic President and human being -

I've always said that J.C. got a bum rap.

[PatSeg]

67. He certainly did

But it didn't stop him from going on and serving humanity in so many ways.

It is so infuriating that he was treated so poorly and Reagan was treated like some kind of god.

[regnaD kciN]

38. Strictly speaking, it's "just a matter of time" for all of us...

[brer cat]

2. He knows best.

I'm glad his family is respecting his wishes. I wish President Carter and his family the best as they go through this time.

[yardwork]

3. May God go with you, Mr. President.

He dedicated his long life to public service. A true American hero.

[LiberalLovinLug]

4. I know this is so obvious, but I have to ask it

Can there be any more of a stark comparison of character in a President than comparing Donald Trump to Jimmy Carter?

[Aristus]

8. Or Ronald F*****g Reagan? Who should never, ever have beaten Carter in an election?

Oh shit, this is too fucking bitter to dwell on...

[barbtries]

32. and when you know how they did it.

the hostages. dirty tricks.

i hate republicans. they never end.

[Aristus]

34. Glad to hear it from North Carolina.

We can beat these monsters if we put our shoulders into it.

[barbtries]

36. I don't represent NC, I do live here but it isn't home

I'm from California. Been here for 15 years now and republicans are in a race to be worse than Alabama. They're as bad as republicans can be.

though I will say, I've been liberal my entire life. I suspect even if I'd been raised here I would be. They do exist around here.

[Aristus]

37. I was a hard-core right-winger in high school.

I was angry all the time. As an adult, I finally embraced my inner liberal. I'm so much happier as a result. Hate hurts so much. Love makes everything else bearable...

[barbtries]

39. I've watched people I know

grow in the opposite direction. I like yours much better. I always say my liberalism is nature not nurture. My earliest political memory is wanting Kennedy to win - I was 5 years old.

[Aristus]

41. I learned liberalism from my mother, who marched in JFK's inaugural parade.

But I fell for the right-wing 1980's 'the pride is back!' bullshit. It took me until the early 90's to realize that I'm a liberal, and that's the way it is. I've been so much happier ever since.

[IbogaProject]

43. Don't forget the John Anderson scam

A republican who ran as an 'Independent' on a happy talk campaign really divided the progressive vote. https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/12/05/568489924/john-anderson-independent-for-president-in-1980-dies-at-95

[barbtries]

44. I actually had forgotten that entirely.

i was thinking about how Reagan's people made the hostages in Iran remain imprisoned until after he won. motherfuckers.

i guess when you enter any negotiation without any scruples or semblance of good faith it's easy to fuck with people, countries, ecosystems, you name it.

republicans should go away forever but it seems they never will and everything they do is designed to increase their power at the expense of people who don't have any.

[LiberalLovinLug]

49. Also, I really am suspect that Carter's attempt to rescue the hostages wasn't sabataged

By right wing forces in the US that knew if he was successful, he'd most likely be hailed a hero and reelected easily.

[NBachers]

50. Read this archived DU from 2003 and weep: Ollie North, Richard Secord, and a cast of shady spooks.

https://democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x629531

........The mission proved disastrous. At least two American helicopters crashed into each other in the desert long before they made it anywhere near Teheran. Eight Marines were killed. Carter looked ineffectual and frustration with the hostage crisis escalated.
Unfortunately, the operatives in charge of Desert Claw may not have been loyal to Carter -- or to the U.S. Carter held deeply alienated a broad range of CIA operatives by trying to clean up the Agency when he first came to power. Admiral Stansfield Turner, the tough but honest Navy man Carter put in charge at the CIA fired some 600 "spooks" soon after taking command. Many were deeply loyal to former Director George Bush and to the "Old Boy" network that serves as the Agency's true infrastructure.

That loyalty may have carried over to sabotage of Operation Eagle Claw. For the man who served as chief mission planner was none other than Richard Secord, who later surfaced as a major kingpin in the shady arms dealings between the Reagan White House and the contras of Nicaragua. A top staffer at a key base in Eagle Claw's catastrophic helicopter support operation was none other than the legendary Colonel Oliver North. Working closely with him as a logistical planner was Albert Hakkim, who later sat by Secord's side at the Congressional Iran-contra hearings and wept of his love for Oliver North.

As historian Donald Fried has put it "Precisely the people in the intelligence community commissioned to develop some kind of rescue for the hostages were those elements of covert action close to William Casey and hostile to Carter."

Casey, of course, later became Reagan's CIA chief. But higher up in the chain at the time of the failed rescue mission was Donald Gregg, a member of Carter's National Security Council who later surfaced as s high-level Bush operative. Gregg's close personal ties to Bush became a serious issue in light of his extensive dealings with key contra figures tied both to the Iran-contra scandal and illegal drug shipments coming from Central America.

[barbtries]

56. wouldn't surprise me at all.

what's a few dead bodies when the presidency is up for grabs?

[Polybius]

62. And Ted Kennedy's primary challenge

He had no business running in 1980.

[FoxNewsSucks]

46. Raygun cheated. Without his sleazy dealing with the ayatollahs, Carter would have been reelected.

[Aristus]

55. Without question.

Although if Teddy Kennedy hadn't issued a primary challenge that year, it might have gone better...

[Botany]

65. In 1980 HW Bush visited Paris and cut a deal with Iran...

... to hold onto the hostages until after the election/inauguration
and if they did so then America would ship them weapons and parts
to their American made military systems. And less the 2 weeks after
Reagan was sworn in American planes started landing in Tehran with
military supplies for the Ayatollah and Iran Contra was born.

BTW those days which HW was supposed to have been in Paris in
1980 his Secret Service detail hand wrote their time logs instead
of doing it by machine which they did all the rest of the time.

[not fooled]

54. ++++++++++++++++

That election was a sign America was starting to go off the rails.

[niyad]

60. I was off that particular election night, and watching with a friend. When it was

called for 20 mule team guy, I looked at the bottle of a French aperitiff that I had purchased earlier that day. My friend looked at me and said, perceptively, " there isn't enough alcohol in the world for this."

I wore a Victorian mourning band his whole first term.

[Aristus]

61. ...

[consider_this]

17. Please don't utter their names in the same breath.

in other words, yes, i agree with you.

[LiberalLovinLug]

28. I won't do it ever again, I promise

[Polly Hennessey]

5. We need more people like you, President Carter.

I admire you so much.

[Faux pas]

6. ...

[peppertree]

7. He popped the OPEC price bubble - and made the "Reagan recovery" possible

But he's seldom acknowledged for that.

He also tried to clean up the CIA of the many criminals that infiltrated it over the years - and had he been able to finish the job, we wouldn't have had the many, hideous scandals that followed (drug trafficking, money laundering, assassinations, false-flag attacks, etc.).

The CIA became an international PR nightmare for the U.S. under Reagan/Bush - something Carter tried to prevent.

He had a lot of bad luck - but always faced the problems head-on, and with integrity.

We were fortunate to have him.

[KS Toronado]

13. Plus we wouldn't have had

Reagan's trickle down economics that have destroyed the middle class.

[peppertree]

22. He fought the good fight - and had a good team

But the problems overwhelmed him.

[COL Mustard]

9. When I was younger...

I didn’t think he was a good President. I think he’s been the best ex-President we’ve ever had, and time has changed my view of his term.

[PatSeg]

12. Same here

New perspective from a different era.

[rogerballard]

11. Bless you President Carter

[Mysterian]

14. The conscience of the USA

President Jimmy Carter.

[greatauntoftriplets]

15. Jimmy Carter is a genuinely decent man.

One of the best ever to hold the presidency, and anathema to MAGA. I wish him well.

[pazzyanne]

16. May Jimmy's remaining days be comfortable and pain free.

He and Rosalynn will be reunited in the love they shared in life. The world is poorer place without these two wonderful people. President Carter will always be one of my favorite Presidents.

[hibbing]

18. A great man n/t

[redstateblues]

40. Yes-without a doubt

[SpamWyzer]

19. President Carter

is among the greatest presidents of the USA. His life of service and hard work should be a beacon of dignity and respect. I have been moved by his work, words and the true love he has shown for the nation. I wish him an easy crossing when the time comes, but I hope the universe sees fit to let him hang around doing nothing for a while. He earned it.

[groundloop]

20. My wife met him once, he's an extremely gracious man

My wife was part of a group visiting the the Carter Center. As they were leaving up walked President Carter who stopped to find out where they were all from etc.

I attended the ceremony at Georgia Tech where he received his honorary degree, I've still got the program from that. I'd had the notion years ago to mail it to him and get him to sign it. I've been kicking myself in the ass for never following through.

I always knew the day would come when President Carter was no longer with us, but damn, it still sucks to hear this news.

[MuseRider]

21. This is truly sad news.

We were so lucky to have had him. He was, to me anyway, the last of the kindness movements of 60's and 70's. After Reagan came in our country became selfish, competitive in a dangerous way and we have never been able to get back enough to make a kind, inclusive society again. We really were not there but we were working toward it. Carter was not perfect but he was a good man and encouraged us all to be good too.

I will cry when he is gone. He gave us humanity in large quantities. I am not religious but I respect him and his religious ways because he walked the walk.

Go easy and peacefully and without pain. Your good works here will carry on and you will be remembered as a kind and good man. What else can anyone ask for?

[Journeyman]

24. Thank you. Precisely my thoughts . . .

A good and kind man who gave back more than he received.

What finer epitaph can a person wish?

[yonder]

23. This is tough news. He's lived and led by example and was very often mocked for it.

[P.C.L.D.]

25. This is so sad to hear

He will be one of the best presidents of my lifetime and the best governor of Georgia of my lifetime.😔

[highplainsdem]

26. Sad news. He's such a great man. Praying that however much time he has left,

it will be as free of pain and full of love and happiness as possible.

I'm keeping in mind, too, that sometimes patients who were believed to be dying have recovered in hospice, because of the peace and the time with loved ones.

[oldsoftie]

27. Best former president we ever had.

And imagine if we'd continued with the solar development that he pushed by putting solar panels on the WH roof

[LiberalLovinLug]

30. And the early models of the electric car?

America could have gotten way ahead of the rest of the industrialized world in alternative energy. Not to mention the benefit to the planet, and just pushing forward the mindset towards climate change action.

[Texaswitchy]

35. Yes.

We would be so much better off.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

29. President Carter is a truly great man

Link to tweet

[barbtries]

31. My opinion

Most unfairly underrated president of my lifetime. He's had a long and productive life and I hope his passing is peaceful and painless and full of love.

i usually don't get terribly sad when very old people pass on, especially knowing he kept his vitality and marbles all these years, but this news has me in tears.

A light's going out.

[Paladin]

33. Bracing myself for a a shitass remark from trump.

Lord bless and keep President Jimmy Carter. May his remaining days be good ones.

[redstateblues]

42. " Carter for President" was the first bumper sticker I ever put on a vehicle

Truly a great human being!

[Maeve]

45. The greatest ex-president we've ever had

He has done so much since he left office....more for humanity than most will ever do. The end must come for all, but it will always feel too soon for this. We shall not see his like again (and I hope people will let him know that before he's gone).

[wryter2000]

47. He's 98 and has had an amazing life, complete with a love that lasted for many decades

But, damn, I'm going to miss him.

[Politicub]

48. Heartbreaking

He is one of the greats, and has done so much good through his entire life.

[Nululu]

51. Sorry to hear A great man and President

Betrayed in office.

[Pepsidog]

52. Exemplifies the best of America.

[NBachers]

53. My son, working at a Habitat for Humanity orphanage in Bulgaria at 18, met a local girl

and they kept up an across-the-planet relationship for several years. They got married, are living an international life, and live in London with great jobs and have gifted me with a wonderful granddaughter.

I know there are thousands upon thousands of stories of lives affected by Jimmy Carter.

Jimmy's love for humanity will bear fruit for eternity.

[OneCrazyDiamond]

57. Godspeed Mr. President.

You have earned your peaceful rest.

[hamsterjill]

58. A life so well lived.

Go with honor, President Carter. Thank you for your service.

[snot]

59. Initial reaction:

If only we had more like him.

[jovibennett]

63. I was lucky to have met him

Long story- My dad grew up with Jimmy in Plains, GA. When he was campaigning we were living in Montana. Jimmy stayed at our home on that trip through Montana. I was 10. When he was elected president we made a trip to the White House. Boy was I excited!! Through out the years my dad would tell us stories of them playing baseball in the streets in Plains with a stick and ball and the trouble they use to get into. Jimmy and Rosalyn moved make to GA and eventually so did my parents to a small town about 50 miles away from Plains. They stayed in touch! I was a flight attendant by then and came home for a week to see my parents. I pull up in the driveway and there were men in dark glasses and guns in the driveway I was like what the hell? There on the porch were Jimmy and my father sitting drinking ice tea talking away. We sat and talked for a long time. When my father passed in 1998 Jimmy showed up at his funeral. When my mother passed in 2017 in Florida, I received a nice letter from them. He is truly one of the greatest men I have ever had the honor to sit and talk to! His grace, intelligence, and kindness will be missed. My dad will be waiting for him up there with a stick and ball and some ice tea- they can continue the chats

[kooth]

64. My First Vote for President

In 1976 I turned 21 and voted for Jimmy Carter for president. I am still proud of that vote. He is one of the best Americans I have ever known, and unfortunately there will be few like him. I hope that his remaining time is as painless as possible. He will be missed.

[andym]

68. Carter was perhaps one sandstorm from being considered one of the greatest Presidents in history

In 1980, Jimmy Carter attempted to rescue the American hostages in Iran during Operation Eagle Claw. The operation was canceled when the number of helicopters fell one short of the number the Pentagon believed needed to guarantee success. One of the helicopters was disabled during a sandstorm. Had the mission not been canceled, and the hostages rescued, Carter would have been feted and almost certainly defeated Reagan. When stagflation ended and the economy improved in 1983 because of the actions of Paul Volcker, appointed by Carter, the resulting strong economy would have been known as the Carter economic miracle, not Reagan's.
History often turns on singular seemingly random events, perhaps that sandstorm in April 1980 was one.