Jimmy Carter , the 39th American president and the oldest - at 98 years - former US head of state alive, is dying at his residence in Plains, Georgia , where he is receiving the last palliative care alongside his large family and especially to his beloved wife Rosalynn, married 77 years ago.
"After a series of short hospital stays, Carter has decided to spend his remaining time at home with his family and receive palliative care instead of undergoing further medical procedures," the Carter Center tweeted Saturday afternoon. created by the former president in 1982, after he left the White House.
His nephew , former Georgia governor Jason Carter, said on Twitter that he saw him on Friday with his wife. « They were serene, as always, their home is full of love ».
"Jill and I are standing by our friends Jimmy and Rosalynn and their family and sending them our love," President Joe Biden said on Twitter. “We admire you for the strength and humility you have shown in difficult times . May you continue your journey with grace and dignity," wrote the US president.
A story, the one between Jimmy and Rosalynn, celebrated two years ago with a party for 300 guests, for the 75th wedding anniversary which the former president did not want to give up despite his precarious health conditions. A survivor of liver, brain, and so far treated for melanoma, biographers describe him as a "fighter" and a "gentle force of nature."
THE PRESIDENCY YEARS – From peanut farmer on the family farm in the southern state to the highest echelons of Washington politics, he was president of the United States from 1977, after defeating Republican Gerald Ford, until 1981 , when he was beaten by Ronald Reagan, thus becoming one of the few American leaders to have led the country for a single term. Author of the Camp David agreements which led, in March 1979, to the signing of the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty, protagonist of the re-establishment of diplomatic relations with China and the signing of the agreement for the "limitation of strategic arms" with Russia, fatal for the democrat it was the hostage crisis in Iran, one of the events that most conditioned relations between Washington and Tehran.
