ATLANTA (AP) — Former President Jimmy Carter will be honored next month, ahead of his 100th birthday, with a musical gala at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta, The Carter Center announced Thursday.
The Sept. 17 event — “Jimmy Carter 100: A Celebration in Song” — will feature musicians from a range of genres and celebrity guests. Carter’s birthday is Oct. 1.
Artists include Chuck Leavell, D-Nice, Drive-By Truckers, Eric Church, GROUPLOVE, Maren Morris and The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chamber Chorus. Notable guests include former Atlanta Braves star Dale Murphy, Atlanta rap artist Killer Mike and actor Sean Penn. Other guests will be announced before the event, organizers said.
The 39th president, who served from 1977 to 1981, remains at his home in Plains, Georgia, where he has been receiving hospice care since February 2023. He was last seen publicly at funeral services for former first lady Rosalynn Carter, who died in November. But those close to him say he remains in good spirits, sometimes receiving visitors, regularly watching Braves games on television and still enjoying music.
Maybe not the greatest president or politician.
However, he is the greatest ex-president by a landslide. There’s nobody else even close.
He’s truly a good man.
I suspect the commenter is emphasising that what makes Carter great are his activities after leaving office. Out of every president, his post-presidential activities are the greatest.
I don’t think that is the case, Trump is usually referred to as “Former President Trump” in the news since the end of his term.
That is because Trump is Trump, and the norms changed around him. Before he entered the scene, former presidents were always referred to as “President” unless the current president was there too and a distinction needed to be made.
Most people who would feel called to show respect towards a former president don’t feel that way towards Trump.
I like to remember it as he was supposed to be jailed and sentenced to life in prison for his crimes against the state, so media just uses it to slight him using it to defame his Presidency by calling him former President. Notice no one says former president Obama, Bush, Clinton, Carter etc.
I think there is “some” ambiguity about whether the two term limit is just consecutive terms or total…
But I’m too lazy to research.
congratulations to Jimmy Carter, It always warms my heart to see him, he is such a good and decent human being, IMO the best president USA ever had.
Certainly the best in terms of beliefs, ethics, etc. Unfortunately not as effective as he should have been. Played way too nice with Tip O’Neill and Reagan both because he’s a nice guy, but they played dirty.
He wasn’t too nice, the people just didn’t appreciate it.
Same mentality that causes Trump, an obvious malignant narcissist to have about 50% support among voters, despite most of his supporters will be harmed by his presidency.
Sounds a lot like Obama. High quality human, unwilling to get too dirty battling human sewage, bad faith tactics, delays, obstructions, etc. Gave up a supreme court nominee due to… “norms”. To be fair, nobody imagined a clown/wannabe-dictator and his three (!?) SCOTUS picks to quickly reshape the presidency into a monarchy with infinite powers.
Death flag. They tried to do this for Betty White and she died like two weeks before her bday.
Seems they took this into account. Celebration Sept 17, actual birthday Oct 1.
Honestly thought he was going to die soon after his wife with how long they were married
Didn’t his family say he was basically at death’s door a few months ago? I don’t recall the exact words, but I read it to mean possibly hospice.
Yes.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/jimmy-carter-year-hospice-care-reaches-milestone/story?id=108633415
It seems a bit dark to celebrate someone in this state. JMO. I don’t mean we can’t discuss it or appreciate it, but crossing the century mark in a state where he likely can’t appreciate it and people celebrating it seems off.
This post says he’s receiving hospice care. You don’t even have to open the article.
Shit, you’re right. I thought hospice lasts like a week or two. I didn’t realize it could last for so long. But I base that on my own father going into hospice, where he was gone in like five or six days. He died the night before I was to fly out to be there. My mistake was in thinking they’re mostly the same and so I didn’t read anything after the headline because of the internal conflict.
