Biden says Jimmy Carter asked him to deliver his tribute

ATLANTA - (AP) - President Joe Biden said he plans to deliver a tribute at the funeral of former President Jimmy Carter, who remains in hospice care at his home in South Georgia. Telling donors at a California fundraiser about his "new" visit to the 39th president, whom he's known since he was a young Delaware senator who endorsed Carter's presidential campaign in 1976.

"He asked me to give a tribute," said Biden, then stopped saying more. "I'm sorry, but I shouldn't say that." A series of short hospital stays would forgo further medical intervention. The Carter Center in Atlanta and the former president's family have not released details of his condition, but Biden has hinted that Carter was diagnosed with cancer in 2015 and has since recovered.

“I spent some time with Jimmy Carter and finally caught up with him, but I found a breakthrough and they found a way to keep him around much longer than expected,” Biden said in Rancho, Calif.

Mr. Biden, 80, and First Lady Jill Biden announced that they would move Mr. Carter and his now 95-year-old wife, Rosalyn, to the state of Georgia just months after Mr. Biden took office in 2021. I visited Plains' house. Biden became the first U.S. Senator to endorse Carter's 1976 presidential run, shocking Carter (then former Governor of Georgia) with the Democratic nomination. We broke up.

Biden's presidency was a turning point in Carter's political standing. He served just one term, and in the decades since he left the White House after a landslide loss to Republican Ronald Reagan in 1980, leading Democrats have kept their distance, at least publicly.

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Presidents Bill Clinton and President Barack Obama had no close relationship with Carter. And the long-shot presidential candidate, who has stepped into the Plains from time to time over the years, usually did so in private.

But as Carter's global humanitarian work and advocacy for democracy gains new respect through the Carter Center, the Democratic politician will openly return to South Georgia ahead of his 2020 election cycle. started. And with Biden's election, Carter has once again found his true friend and ally in the Oval Office.

Some of the Carter family have confirmed that the former president will hold a state funeral in Washington, D.C., along with a private funeral and burial on the plains. Former and current presidents often give speeches at their predecessors' state funerals and even discuss the political process.