Now he is working to make it to the 15th, when early voting opens in Georgia.
Pretty cool story, @MrAtoz .
Anyone with his kind of will to survive will surely succeed for at least two more weeks.
Does his vote even count if he dies before election day? Would Trump call it out as voter fraud if he did? (We already know the answer to that!)
In Georgia it counts as soon as it is out of the envelope.
A sweet article about Carter. With some poignant moments. (Gift link)
“Jimmy Carter turns 100 and his hometown is ringing in the milestone”
[Why aren’t my article previews showing up anymore?]
Do you still have it?
Jimmy Carter entered the US Naval Academy in 1943, at the height of WWII. He didn’t graduate until June 1946 so missed actual wartime service by 9 months or so. I know nothing about military training but apparently he was a midshipman in the academy, and if that means he was commissioned during that time (I kind of doubt it, but I don’t really know how this works) then he’s the last living US politician to have been an active member of the US military during WWII. But maybe his service began after he graduated? I don’t know.
Whoops. Apparently he isn’t the last living politician and WWII-era vet. According to this list there are several still living U.S politicians (long retired, of course) who served in WWII.
Damn few left, of course. The youngest WWII vets are today 96 years old, assuming 17 year olds were allowed to enlist in 1945.
Send him a biirthday card.
“Hi, it’s me again…”
We framed it, and for a long time it hung on the wall of my bedroom. I’ve very much afraid, however, that it’s been lost or misplaced amidst various moves since then.
The occasion of his birthday should give me an impetus to do a thorough search of all my stuff to see if I can locate it. Sounds like a good project for this weekend.
Well worth a listen:
Re. Herbert Hoover, he died in October 1964, age 90, 11 months after JFK. I remember hearing on a TV special about JFK’s funeral that everything was well prepared because Hoover was expected to die soon–he had had major illnesses in 1962 and 1963, and in fact was too frail to attend the Nov. 1963 funeral.
@Bullitt how were the Plains peanuts?
Photos I took in Youngstown, OH during his 1980 campaign:
Fans looking on the motorcade:
Serving as midshipman at the Academy counts as active duty, but they are only commissioned upon graduation. Midshipman is an “appointment” as opposed to a warrant or a commission. (Carter and his classmates got the 3-year accelerated wartime curriculum.)
Huzzah for the first presidential centenarian!
Great shots, @beowulff !
Sitting on the roof of his limousine? That couldn’t have been planned, his security guys look accordingly pissed.
And it was only 48 years ago that he was doused with radiation and became
THE AMAZING COLOSSAL PRESIDENT
This picture will illustrate how large the president has become.
Looks like Spanish redskin (not really Spanish origin) and general runners? Virginia peanuts have a beautiful flavor profile but they’re troubling to eat because they’re so dense. I believe they are commonly boiled and consumed that way. The ones I buy are from Costco, fancy Virginia peanuts with sea salt. I tend to buy them to make my own peanut butter in a food processor. Even going as far to dry roast them further to caramelize any of the starches and sugars present in the peanuts.
A store close to where I used to live used to have Valencia (also not from Spain) breed peanuts roasted in the shells. So, so, so good.
Here he is today watching a military fly over.
My favorite Jimmy Carter story has to be the killer rabbit attack.