Former President Jimmy Carter celebrates 96th birthday
Source: AP
ATLANTA (AP) — Former President Jimmy Carter marks his 96th birthday Thursday, the latest milestone for the longest lived of the 44 men to hold the highest American office.
Carter planned to celebrate at his home in Plains, Georgia, with his wife of 74 years, Rosalynn Carter, according to a spokeswoman for the Carter Center in Atlanta.
The 39th president, in office from 1977-81, has largely receded from public view amid the coronavirus pandemic and his own health challenges due to a series of falls in 2019. He previously survived a dire cancer diagnosis in 2015. Yet Carter remains a quiet force in politics at home and, through his post-presidential Center, in public health and human rights advocacy around the world.
Carter on Tuesday endorsed his fellow Democrat, the Rev. Raphael Warnock, in one of two competitive Georgia U.S. Senate races this fall. Carter’s announcement aligned him with another former president, Barack Obama, and other party power brokers in backing Warnock over Democrat Matt Lieberman, whose father was the party’s 2000 nominee for vice president.
FILE - In this Nov. 3, 2019, file photo, former President Jimmy Carter teaches Sunday school at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Ga. Carter marks his 96th birthday Thursday, Oct. 1., the latest milestone for the longest-lived of the 44 men to hold the highest American office. Carter planned to celebrate at his home in Plains, Ga., with his wife of 74 years, Rosalynn Carter, according to a spokeswoman for the Carter Center in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Amis, File)
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Probably no one I feel more "protective" of --given dangerous times, albeit with the inclusion of Betty White. 
This country was too rotten and stupid and sent a treasonous B-list actor to the White House.
The stupidity of the American people seems to be bottomless.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY PRESIDENT CARTER! WE LOVE YOU!
-Laelth
Thank you for being a kind, decent, moral role model in a time when when that is not the norm. You give me and the rest of the world a guiding light to show us the way to a better America!
You sir, have made this World a better place. You are beacon of Human Rights and Decency.
And you were a damn good President.
If only We as a Nation had embraced his efforts to moderate the damage we are doing to the environment 30 years ago.
"Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are it might have been." - Kurt Vonnegut, 'Cat's Cradle'
