His son confirmed the death but did not provide an immediate cause. In a statement in February 2023, the Carter Center said the former president, after a series of hospital stays, would stop further medical treatment and spend his remaining time at home under hospice care. He had been treated in recent years for an aggressive form of melanoma skin cancer, with tumors that spread to his liver and brain.
“I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over. The test of a government is not how popular it is with the powerful and privileged few, but how honestly and fairly it deals with the many who must depend upon it.”
We could use more of that today.
Immediate cause? The man was 100yo. Even without other circumstance that is cause.
Whatever the success of his presidency, he’s another one who gave a damn, unlike what we’re heading into in the next 3 weeks.
reminder that republicans conspired with iran to hold american hostages on foreign soil until after the election to harm president carter and elect ronald raygun and rewarded them with weapons which they used the profits of to arm terrorists in south america.
Truly the last of the great ones.
o7 mr. President, may you rest in peace.
