2023-10-01 22:58:32
Former American president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Jimmy Carter celebrated his 99th birthday on Sunday, a few months after being taken into “palliative care” at home. He is the oldest living American president.
World leaders, celebrities and Americans rushed to send their wishes to the former Democratic leader, born October 1, 1924.
“I admire you because you have incredible integrity, strength of character and determination,” President Joe Biden said on the social network X (formerly Twitter). “God bless you, happy birthday my friend.”
Nobel Peace Prize in 2002
The White House, which Jimmy Carter occupied from 1977 to 1981, for the occasion installed in its enclosure a gigantic cardboard cake decorated with 39 candles, in honor of the man who was the 39th president of the United States. In February, his charitable foundation Carter Center announced that he was hospitalized “in palliative care” at his home in Plains, his hometown in the state of Georgia.
The former president was spotted at a festival in Plains the weekend before his birthday, alongside his wife Rosalynn, who has neurodegenerative disorders. Artisan of the Camp David agreements which led, in March 1979, to the signing of the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty, Jimmy Carter occupies a special place in the American political landscape, tarnished by the American hostage crisis in Iran in 1979- 1980.
After leaving the White House, he founded the Carter Center in 1982, to promote development, health and conflict resolution around the world. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002, notably for “his decades of tireless efforts to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts”.
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