Seven months after entering hospice, Jimmy Carter defied expectations with his 99th birthday on Sunday.
PLAINS, Ga. — The crowds gathered in Jimmy Carter’s tiny hometown last weekend knew the former president hadn’t been seen in public this year. After seven months in hospice, on the eve of his 99th birthday, they knew he could no longer climb the steps to a balcony overlooking the annual Plains Peanut Festival.
On Sunday, Carter plans to have a low-key birthday with Rosalynn at the Plains home they built in 1961 and where they spend most days sitting together. But publicity around his milestone is expected to draw more visitors to this tiny town and its National Park Service sites that include Carter’s boyhood home that had no running water or electricity when he was a child, and the train depot that served as Carter’s 1976 presidential campaign headquarters.
Godwin, 80, calls Carter “an honest man, a very intelligent man.” He said their differing political views never meant they couldn’t work together to improve the town. He has known Carter nearly all his life; the former president was his Boy Scout troop leader. After Carter served in the U.S. Navy, he came home in 1953 and Godwin remembers seeing him sell peanuts out of the back of his truck.
“Biden knows how much this means to him,” said his son James Earl “Chip” Carter III, who took the White House call. On Saturday, Carter looked frail as he rode past the festival crowd with Rosalynn. He held her hand in the back seat of the SUV as she waved to the crowd. 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.
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