Under hospice treatment for skin cancer… Last November, I left my wife first.
Preparing for a presidential election vote event… Grandson “One reason to hold on to life is to see Harris win.”
Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of the United States (in office from 1977 to 1981), will celebrate his 100th birthday on the 1st of next month.
Former President Carter, born October 1, 1924, cuts his 100th birthday cake at his home in Plains, Georgia. On the 17th, a concert celebrating his 100th birthday was held in advance at the Fox Theater in Atlanta.
Former President Carter, who suffered from skin cancer, stopped receiving life-sustaining treatment in February of last year and received hospice care (which provides care and treatment to people suffering from difficult-to-treat diseases to help them spend the last moments of their lives comfortably). come. On November 19th last year, he suffered the pain of losing his lifelong companion, Rosalyn (age 96), and is approaching his first birthday since then.
Former President Carter remains the longest-lived person to date among the highest-ranking U.S. leaders since the first President George Washington.
In addition to Carter, four previous U.S. presidents who lived longer than 90 years were the 2nd John Adams (passed away at the age of 90), the 38th Gerald Ford, the 40th Ronald Reagan, and the 41st George HW Bush (passed away at the age of 93). It’s just that.
Carter lived for more than 40% of the 248 years of American history since the Declaration of Independence in 1776. The Associated Press reported that the U.S. population, which was 114 million in 1924 when Carter was born, nearly doubled to 220 million in 1977 when he took office, and has now grown to 330 million.
Additionally, at the time of Carter’s birth, American male life expectancy was only 58 years, but has now risen to 75 years.
Carter’s activities after leaving the White House are evaluated as more dazzling than during his tenure, which ended in a single term as he failed to be re-elected due to the failure of the hostage rescue operation at the U.S. Embassy in Iran. A lifelong advocate for peace and human rights, he served as an envoy of peace in the Habitat House of Love movement, U.S.-North Korea relations, and the Bosnia crisis. In recognition of his contributions, he had the honor of being selected as the winner of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize.
Although he is a respected figure worldwide, there were twists and turns in his relationship with Korea.
When he was a presidential candidate in 1976, 40 years before former Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, he proposed the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Korea more formally and specifically than former President Trump.
While former President Trump only mentioned the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Korea to his staff while in office, former President Carter presented the gradual withdrawal of U.S. troops from Korea as a presidential election pledge and made it concrete after taking office. Although the pledge to withdraw U.S. troops from Korea was not fulfilled in the end, the ROK-U.S. alliance was severely strained during the Carter administration.
In addition, the Carter administration continued to pressure the Park Chung-hee government to improve human rights and democratize, but it was his government that effectively ‘connived’ the new military regime that bloody suppressed the May 18th democratization movement after former President Park was assassinated on October 26, 1979. Some point out that this is at odds with the principle of emphasizing human rights.
Former President Carter is about to cast what may be his last vote in the presidential election on November 5. Due to my health situation, I will be voting by mail.
Carter’s grandson, Jason Carter, said one of the reasons his grandfather has not given up on life is because Vice President Kamala Harris, the same Democratic candidate as Carter, became the first female president of the United States and the first president of Asian descent (her mother was from India). He told AP that it was because he wanted to see history being written.
