Members phkrause Posted November 30, 2023 Author Members Posted November 30, 2023 🕯️ Farewell to a first lady Photo: Andrew Harnik/AP President Biden, First Lady Jill Biden, former President Clinton, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, former First Lady Laura Bush and former First Lady Michelle Obama attend a memorial service in Atlanta yesterday for former First Lady Rosalynn Carter, who died at 96. Former President Carter, 99, arrived in a wheelchair. Photo: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images Former President Clinton — along with Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama — flew to Georgia with President Biden and Jill Biden aboard Air Force One. Rosalynn Carter will be buried today in Plains, Ga. More photos. Quote phkrause Read Isaiah 10:1-13
Moderators Kevin H Posted November 30, 2023 Moderators Posted November 30, 2023 Sad, yet joyful. The Carters allowed themselves to be tools that God used for His work. The world is darker with her falling asleep, But how much brighter a world she leaves behind, as well as the blessed hope. She lives in our memory and even more important she lives in God's memory. If you think about it, living in God's memory is being more alive than our conscience existence. She sleeps, but Jesus remembers her and gave her life to start with and will give her life again. phkrause 1 Quote
Members phkrause Posted November 30, 2023 Author Members Posted November 30, 2023 1 hour ago, Kevin H said: Sad, yet joyful. The Carters allowed themselves to be tools that God used for His work. The world is darker with her falling asleep, But how much brighter a world she leaves behind, as well as the blessed hope. She lives in our memory and even more important she lives in God's memory. If you think about it, living in God's memory is being more alive than our conscience existence. She sleeps, but Jesus remembers her and gave her life to start with and will give her life again. A great loss for the world. What a pair they where, all through there life they definitely were used by God in how they dealt with others and especially after there service to the country!! Kevin H 1 Quote phkrause Read Isaiah 10:1-13
Members phkrause Posted November 30, 2023 Author Members Posted November 30, 2023 Rosalynn Carter is eulogized before family and friends as husband Jimmy bears silent witness PLAINS, Ga. (AP) — Her frail husband a silent witness, Rosalynn Carter was celebrated by her family and closest friends Wednesday in the same tiny town where she and Jimmy Carter were born, forever their home base as they climbed to the White House and traveled the world for humanitarian causes. https://apnews.com/article/rosalynn-carter-funeral-plains-7bfe185985105ed61eb69446819c6c26? Kevin H 1 Quote phkrause Read Isaiah 10:1-13
Members phkrause Posted February 18, 2024 Author Members Posted February 18, 2024 Jimmy Carter, America's longest living president, is marking 1 year in hospice care Sunday marks one year since former President Jimmy Carter, now 99, entered hospice care. https://local.newsbreak.com/georgia-state/3337606634070-jimmy-carter-americas-longest-living-president-is-marking-1-year-in-hospice-care? Quote phkrause Read Isaiah 10:1-13
Members phkrause Posted February 25, 2024 Author Members Posted February 25, 2024 Jimmy Carter’s Grandson Shares Update On Former President’s Spirit One Year Into Hospice Care Jimmy Carter’s grandson celebrated the former president’s strength, resolve, and unwavering faith as the 99 year old marked one year in hospice care on Sunday. https://www.southernliving.com/jimmy-carter-hospice-one-year-update-grandson-8599446 Quote phkrause Read Isaiah 10:1-13
Members phkrause Posted August 6, 2024 Author Members Posted August 6, 2024 🕯️ Jimmy Carter's last wish Jimmy Carter's 100th birthday is coming on Oct. 1. He's got one wish: "I'm only trying to make it to vote for Kamala Harris," he told his son Chip, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports from an interview with Jason Carter, the former president's grandson. Jason said his grandfather has been "more alert and interested in politics and the war in Gaza" in recent days. Quote phkrause Read Isaiah 10:1-13
Members phkrause Posted September 19, 2024 Author Members Posted September 19, 2024 Jimmy Carter, 99, Has 'Physically Diminished' and 'Can't Do Much on His Own' After Being in Hospice for Over 19 Months, Says Grandson Jimmy Carter 's grandson Jason Carter shared more details about how the ex-president is holding up just days before he turns 100 on October 1. https://www.newsbreak.com/news/3601058662871-jimmy-carter-99-has-physically-diminished-and-cant-do-much-on-his-own-after-being-in-hospice-for-over-19-months-says-grandson? Quote phkrause Read Isaiah 10:1-13
Members phkrause Posted September 28, 2024 Author Members Posted September 28, 2024 Jimmy Carter at 100: A century of changes for a president, the US and the world since 1924 Already the longest-lived of the 45 men to serve as U.S. president, Jimmy Carter is about to reach the century mark. https://local.newsbreak.com/georgia-state/3612191337460-jimmy-carter-at-100-a-century-of-changes-for-a-president-the-us-and-the-world-since-1924? Jimmy Carter and his hometown of Plains celebrate the 39th president’s 100th birthday PLAINS, Ga. (AP) — Longtime friends, family and fans of Jimmy Carter milled around his hometown of Plains to celebrate his 100th birthday on Tuesday, the first time an American president has lived a full century and the latest milestone in a life that took the Depression-era farmer’s son to the White House and across the world as a Nobel Peace Prize-winning humanitarian and advocate for democracy. https://apnews.com/article/jimmy-carter-100th-birthday-1e540c277dea07bd84242d290b4ebcdc? Quote phkrause Read Isaiah 10:1-13
Members phkrause Posted December 30, 2024 Author Members Posted December 30, 2024 Jimmy Carter, the 39th US president, has died at 100 Jimmy Carter, the peanut farmer who won the presidency in the wake of the Watergate scandal and Vietnam War, endured humbling defeat after one tumultuous term and then redefined life after the White House as a global humanitarian, has died. Carter forged a path that still challenges political assumptions and stands out among the 45 men who reached the nation’s highest office. Read more. Key points: As reactions poured in from around the world, President Joe Biden mourned Carter’s death, saying the world lost an “extraordinary leader, statesman and humanitarian.” Biden cited Carter’s work to eradicate disease, forge peace, advance civil and human rights, promote free and fair elections and house the homeless as an example for others. Biden scheduled a state funeral in Washington, D.C. for Carter on Jan. 9. Biden also declared Jan. 9 as a National Day of Mourning and ordered U.S. flags to fly at half-staff for 30 days from Sunday. Carter governed amid Cold War pressures, turbulent oil markets and social upheaval over racism, women’s rights and America’s global role. His most acclaimed achievement in office was a Mideast peace deal that he brokered by keeping Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin at the bargaining table for 13 days in 1978. That Camp David experience inspired the post-presidential center where Carter would establish so much of his legacy. RELATED COVERAGE ➤ Carter’s life and career, in photos Significant milestones in Carter’s life and career Notable quotes by Jimmy Carter Quote phkrause Read Isaiah 10:1-13
Members phkrause Posted December 30, 2024 Author Members Posted December 30, 2024 Jimmy Carter Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, died Sunday at the age of 100. Carter was "surrounded by his family" at his home in Plains, Georgia, in his final moments, the Carter Center said. Tributes are pouring in for the former farmer, lawmaker, humanitarian and Georgia governor who served one term as president from 1977 to 1981. President Joe Biden said Carter "stands as a model of what it means to live a life of meaning and purpose," and remembered Carter as a "dear friend." President-elect Donald Trump said Americans owe the former president "a debt of gratitude." Carter's wife of more than 75 years, Rosalynn, died in November 2023 at age 96. The Carters were the longest-married presidential couple in US history. Carter's long game & long life The Carter Center's announcement: "Jimmy Carter, 39th president of the United States and winner of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, died peacefully Sunday, Dec. 29, at his home in Plains, Georgia, surrounded by his family. He was 100, the longest-lived president in U.S. history." A former peanut farmer and U.S. Navy nuclear physicist, James Earl Carter Jr. led a life of service that started well before his first elected office on the Sumter County, Ga., Board of Education — and endured long after his presidency. Carter, the nation's first president to reach triple digits, began receiving hospice care at home in February 2023 after a series of short hospital stays. 🗳️ Just 74 days before his death, and two weeks after turning 100, Carter in mid-October cast his presidential ballot by mail. His son Chip Carter said at the time: "I asked him two months ago if he was trying to live to be 100, and he said, 'No, I'm trying to live to vote for Kamala Harris.'" The White House last night. U.S. flags will fly at half-staff for 30 days. Photo: Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP Carter was born on Oct. 1, 1924, in the small farming town of Plains at a hospital where his mother worked as a nurse. He was the first future president born in a hospital, Axios' Emma Hurt, Jacob Knutson and Erin Doherty write. Carter, the oldest of four, grew up picking peanuts on his family's farm. He earned a bachelor of science degree from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1946, becoming the first future president to graduate from the academy. That same year, he married Rosalynn Smith, a fellow Plains native who had known Carter her entire life. After 77 years of marriage, Rosalynn Carter died in November 2023 at the age of 96. The former first lady, a lifelong mental health advocate, had been diagnosed with dementia. Axios obituary, with lots of great photos. Egypt's President Anwar el-Sadat (left), President Jimmy Carter and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin after the signing of the Egypt-Israel peace treaty at the White House on March 26, 1979. Photo: Neal Boenzi/The New York Times 🗞️ Read on: Here's a gift link to Carter's 10,000-word New York Times obituary by Peter Baker and Roy Reed, a Times national correspondent who covered the South, including the Civil Rights Movement, and died in 2017. They write: While his presidency was remembered more for its failures than for its successes, his post-presidency was seen by many as a model for future chief executives. Rather than vanish from view or focus on moneymaking, he established the Carter Center to promote peace, combat disease and tackle social inequality. He transformed himself into a freelance diplomat traveling the globe, sometimes irritating his successors but earning the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002. 10 famous Carter quotes. 🥜 The Atlanta-Carter love story Jimmy Carter sat behind home plate at Braves games, Axios Atlanta's Thomas Wheatley recalls. He lived most of his life 160 miles away in tiny Plains, where he taught Sunday school at Maranatha Baptist for decades. But Carter's connection to Atlanta only grew stronger after leaving the governor's mansion and White House. 🔨 Carter and the former first lady, Rosalynn, shopped for groceries at the old Kroger (now CVS) in Emory Village. He banged hammers at Habitat for Humanity worksites on Moreland Avenue. The Carter Presidential Center in Atlanta last night. Photo: Ron Harris/AP Stretching back decades, Carter was close friends with Manuel Maloof, the owner of Manuel's Tavern, the legendary Democratic watering hole located just a block away from the Carter Center (and where Carter announced his gubernatorial campaign). Before every Carter visit, the Secret Service would call to give a heads-up, Angelo Fuster, a local politico and Manuel's regular, told Axios. Carter became a regular and would often sit at a back corner table in the main dining room, after walking the main bar and shaking hands with patrons. Worthy of your time: Axios' Michael Graff narrates Carter's life in photos. Quote phkrause Read Isaiah 10:1-13
Members phkrause Posted January 6 Author Members Posted January 6 Carter's 6-day state funeral begins A motorcade carrying the casket of former President Carter pulls up to the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta yesterday. Photo: Megan Varner/Getty Images Former President Carter's week-long state funeral began yesterday when a motorcade carrying his remains departed Americus, Ga., from Phoebe Sumter Medical Center, the large regional hospital near Plains, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. That's where Carter made his final hospital visits before entering home hospice care in February 2023, and where the funeral procession for former First Lady Rosalynn Carter also began. The hearse bearing the casket of former President Carter heads towards his native Plains, Ga., in a motorcade yesterday. Photo: Alex Brandon/AP National eulogist Jon Meacham writes for the AJC, in "Jimmy Carter was a big part of America's soul": "Farmer, naval officer, nuclear engineer, Christian and politician, President Carter would prove both engineer and moral leader, and his understanding of the country was at once technical and theological — a reminder that presidents have both practical and pastoral roles to play in the life of the nation." More photos ... Line-by-line schedule. Quote phkrause Read Isaiah 10:1-13
Members phkrause Posted January 6 Author Members Posted January 6 Sunday school class with Jimmy Carter: What it was like PLAINS, Ga. (AP) — It never got old. https://apnews.com/article/jimmy-carter-plains-georgia-maranatha-sunday-school-a1a692079be175cf2e882176fc343344? Quote phkrause Read Isaiah 10:1-13
Members phkrause Posted January 7 Author Members Posted January 7 How Jimmy Carter redefined evangelicalism in politics Jimmy Carter was widely known as a man of faith, especially after his long post-presidency became defined by images of the Baptist Sunday School teacher building homes for low-income people and fighting diseases across the developing world. Yet beyond piety and service, the Georgia Democrat stood out from his earliest days on the national stage with unusually prolific, nuanced explanations of his beliefs. Read more. What to know: Carter quoted Jesus and famous theologians and connected it all to his policy pursuits, living out his own definition of what it means to be a self-professed Christian in American politics. As a candidate in 1976, Carter described himself as a “born-again Christian.” The reference is routine for many Protestants in the South who believe following Jesus means adopting a new version of oneself. To national media and voters unfamiliar with evangelical lexicon, it made Carter a curiosity. “We saw ourselves as being very much cultural outcasts” as evangelicals in the mid-1970s, said Dartmouth College professor Randall Balmer, who has written extensively on Carter’s faith. The evangelical movement had not yet become a political force mostly aligned with Republicans, and “to have someone use our language to describe himself and still be taken seriously as a presidential candidate,” Balmer said, “was startling, really.” Carter’s unabashed evangelism was an outlier in a Democratic Party that grew more secular and pluralistic during his public life. Yet Carter advocated “absolute and total separation of church and state” and opposed public money for religious schools. Carter further distinguished himself from many evangelicals by criticizing Israel’s treatment of Palestinians and taking liberal stances on race relations, women’s rights and, as he grew older, LGBTQ rights. RELATED COVERAGE ➤ US stock markets will close Jan. 9 in honor of Jimmy Carter on National Day of Mourning Jimmy Carter sought to expand democracy worldwide long after he left the White House Why are US flags being flown at half-staff on Inauguration Day? Quote phkrause Read Isaiah 10:1-13
Members phkrause Posted January 8 Author Members Posted January 8 🏛️ Jimmy Carter lies in state Photo: Andrew Harnik/AP A military guard of honor stands next to the flag-draped casket of former President Jimmy Carter during a lying-in-state service in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda yesterday. His State Funeral will be tomorrow at Washington National Cathedral. (Details) Photo: Andrew Harnik/AP How you can go: The public is invited to pay respects from 7 a.m. today until 7 a.m. tomorrow as the 39th president lies in state. "Lines may be long, and all individuals are subject to a security search," organizers say. Updated schedule ... More photos. Quote phkrause Read Isaiah 10:1-13
Members phkrause Posted January 10 Author Members Posted January 10 Carter funeral Former President Jimmy Carter will be honored today in Washington, DC, at his official state funeral. Carter, the 39th president of the US, died at age 100 on December 29. President Joe Biden declared January 9 as a national day of mourning in an executive order and is expected to deliver a eulogy. President-elect Donald Trump told reporters that he plans to attend the service. Many businesses will be operating as usual but the US Postal Service will suspend regular operations. All federal departments and agencies will also be closed. As for the stock market, the New York Stock Exchange will not trade and the Nasdaq will close all of its equities and options markets Jimmy Carter will be honored at Washington funeral before burial in Georgia Jimmy Carter, who considered himself an outsider even as he sat in the Oval Office as the 39th U.S. president, will be honored Thursday with the pageantry of a funeral at Washington National Cathedral before a second service and burial in his tiny Georgia hometown. Read more. What to know: President Joe Biden, the first sitting senator to endorse Carter’s 1976 presidential campaign, will eulogize his fellow Democrat 11 days before he leaves office. All of Carter’s living successors are expected to attend the Washington funeral. Thursday will conclude six days of national rites that began in Plains, Georgia, where Carter was born in 1924, lived most of his life, and died Dec. 29 at 100. Carter won the presidency promising good government and honest talk for an electorate disillusioned by the Vietnam War and Watergate, signed significant legislation, and negotiated a landmark peace agreement between Israel and Egypt. But he also presided over inflation and international crises, and lost a landslide to Republican Ronald Reagan in 1980. Two years later he and his wife Rosalynn established The Carter Center in Atlanta as a nongovernmental organization that fought disease, mediated conflict, monitored elections, and advocated for racial and gender equity worldwide. RELATED COVERAGE ➤ Live updates: Former President Jimmy Carter’s body will leave US Capitol for state funeral Jimmy Carter had little use for the presidents club but formed a friendship for the ages with Ford Carter reflected on 1980 Olympic boycott: ‘A bad decision’ Jimmy Carter’s life intersected with slavery’s legacy. His record on Civil Rights is complicated Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter left behind enduring nonprofits as part of their legacy of giving back Quote phkrause Read Isaiah 10:1-13
Members phkrause Posted January 11 Author Members Posted January 11 From Carter’s funeral, an American snapshot: A singular image, 5 presidents, 379 years of history Look at their faces — formal, etched with experience, laden with the weight of momentous decisions. Add up their years: 379 to be exact, enough time to take you back into the mid-1600s, when the notion of the American nation was still more than a century away. https://apnews.com/article/carter-obama-bush-trump-biden-clinton-funeral-6c7e8c12019f2b83f3e30b3ecd1eb4ad? Quote phkrause Read Isaiah 10:1-13
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