Joe Biden says Jimmy Carter asked him to send a tribute

Jimmy Carter, who entered home hospice care in February, asked Democratic President Joe Biden to praise him after his death, Biden said Monday. At a fundraiser held in Washington, DC, the 98-year-old ex-president said he recently visited Carter after his health "finally caught up with him," according to multiple reports of the remarks.

"He asked me to give his condolences," the president also said of Carter. Biden then suggested that he may have unintentionally provided this information, saying after announcing it on Feb. 18, "I'm sorry, I shouldn't say that. I've found that it keeps him around much longer than he did." He chose to seek hospice care at his home in Plains, Ga. after a series of hospital visits.

Death often occurs relatively quickly after choosing hospice care, but it is always Not necessarily.

Carter chose home hospice after years of deteriorating health. In 2015, he was diagnosed with skin cancer that had spread to his liver and brain.He underwent treatment and was declared in cancer remission at the end of the year.

Then, after a series of falls in 2019, Carter underwent surgery to relieve pressure from a cerebral hemorrhage.

Carter reportedly paid tribute to his 80-year-old Biden after the two politicians had a personal relationship that spanned decades . Biden is one of Delaware's U.S. Senators and backed Carter when the former Georgia governor ran for president in 1976 and defeated incumbent Gerald Ford.

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When Biden ran for president in his 2020 and defeated Republican incumbent Donald Trump, Carter and his wife Rosalyn supported him. Carter's endorsement came in the form of a video shown at the Democratic National Convention in which he described Biden as his "first and most effective" Senate supporter. The oldest president in history, he served one term in the Oval Office. Republican challenger Ronald Reagan defeated Carter in 1980 during the Iranian hostage crisis.

After taking office, Carter, a devout Baptist, was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2002 for his work in seeking peaceful solutions to global conflicts, promoting human rights and democracy, and promoting economic and social development. Received the Peace Prize.

In Monday's remarks, Biden also spoke about his administration's goal of halving cancer death rates in the United States over the next 25 years, according to The Washington Post. To that end, Biden campaigned for funds to benefit the Advanced Research Projects Agency, which aims to advance treatments for diseases such as cancer and Alzheimer's and diabetes, the Post reported.