Former US President Jimmy Carter is 100 years old

On Tuesday, former US President Jimmy Carter celebrated his 100th birthday, becoming the first American president to live to such an advanced age.

Coming from a family of peanut farmers, Carter entered politics in the 1960s, becoming a senator from the state of Georgia, and in 1976 he ran for president as a candidate of the Democratic Party – and won .

Carter occupied the Oval Office from 1977 to 1981. and tried to stay in the White House for a second term, but lost the election to Republican Ronald Reagan.

And while the former president has spent the last 19 months in hospice care in his native Georgia, according to his grandson Jason, the former president is still “responding to emotional” [на визиты]worries, laughter and love.”

Besides, at 100 years old, he hopes he will have time to vote for Kamala Harris in the November election.

To mark the anniversary, volunteers with the four-year-old charity Carter Habitat for Humanity pledged this week to build 30 low-income homes in Minnesota.

The former president’s hometown of Plains will host a naturalization ceremony for 100 new American citizens to celebrate his 100th birthday. Military planes fly in a parade formation in the sky overhead.

A little earlier, a concert dedicated to the anniversary was held in the state capital of Atlanta with the participation of dozens of popular American actors, and all the money – about $ 1.2 million – will be donated to the Carter Center’s charitable foundation.

The former president himself was unable to attend the event due to health reasons, but described it as “a wonderful evening full of good music and heartfelt confessions”.

A recording of the ceremony, which included congratulations to Carter from other presidents, will be shown Tuesday night by Georgia Public Television.

Among the TV viewers, according to his relatives, will be the former president himself, who plans to see the broadcast.

Jimmy Carter finally appeared in public in November 2023, at a memorial service for his wife Rosalyn, who had died shortly before at the age of 96.