As Axios according to Jimmy Carter A series of events are planned in his honor in his hometown of Plains, Georgia. Georgia Public Radio Tonight “Jimmy Carter 100: A Celebration in Song” “Holiday in Song” will air a special edition commemorating the life and legacy of the former president, Georgia governor, human rights and humanitarian activist, and peanut farmer.
The Associated Press does it He writes, The 39th President of the United States has spent the past 19 months in hospice care at his home in his hometown. James Earl Carter Jr. was born on October 1, 1924, in Plains, where he lived for more than 80 of his 100 years. He is expected to celebrate his birthday in the same one-story house he and his wife, Rosalynn, built in the early 1960s — before he was elected to the Georgia State Senate.
Carter served his only term as president from 1977 to 1981, then headed the Carter Center for more than four decades. Which he founded in 1982 with his wife “to create peace, fight disease and build hope.” The former first lady, who was also born in Plains, died last November at the age of 96.
Happy 100th birthday, President Carter. Simply put: I like you very much. pic.twitter.com/09DUDUlz9d
– President (Biden) October 1, 2024
Joe Biden The US President, who was the first senator to support Carter's presidential campaign in 1976, praised his old friend on his social media page, which… “He had a firm belief in the power of human goodness.”
You have always given moral strength to our nation on the world stage
The 81-year-old president said at the White House, standing in front of Carter's presidential portrait.
Republican Ronald Reagan Because of his victory, the grandson of the Democratic president and the head of his foundation was limited to one term. Jason Carter He said that his 100-year-old grandfather follows politics and is passionate about it Kamala Harris Vote for Vice President in this year's presidential election. Coincidentally, Carter was born just four years after women won the right to vote in the United States, and four decades before Americans of color gained equal voting rights.
YouGov according to In the second quarter of 2024
Jimmy Carter is ranked as the third most popular public figure in the United States.
Martin Luther King and secondly. Elizabeth after. He is considered the ninth most popular of all former US presidents Carter is the most popular living politician in the United States. In second place Arnold Schwarzenegger The stands, and on the bottom step of the podium Barack Obama.
Front Page Image: Former US President George W. Bush greets fellow former Presidents Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, as well as former First Ladies Rosalynn Carter, Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama at the state funeral of his father, former President George H.W. Bush, at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., December 2018, on December 5. Cover image source: Getty Images