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I don't think a lot of people recognize that our relationships can have a physical impact as well as emotional
Dr Julianne Holt-Lunstad, a psychologist at BYU and co-author of the study, said Rosalynn was my equal partner in everything I ever accomplished
He said on behalf of the Carter Center when Rosalynn died What we know is exercise is the single biggest elixir for brain health
The best thing I ever did was marry Rosalynn
If he got to a new city that he had never been to before, whether there was Secret Service or not, he would say, “Hey, is there a bike?”
Mr Carter, a former Georgia state senator, told TIME I mean he's been in hospice for over 19 months now and he has really physically diminished and can't do much on his own, but he is emotionally engaged and still having experiences and laughing, loving.
You’re a voice of courage, conviction, compassion, and most of all, a beloved friend of Jill and me and our family,
The story I tell in my book is a surprising one,
He's done terrific work supervising elections in more than 100 countries. But former presidents don't have as much power as presidents, not nearly as much, and the list of his accomplishments as president that were ignored, minimized, or forgotten entirely was very long,
I think we'll remember President Carter as a president who served in very enormously difficult times who had to deal with circumstances that were far beyond his control,
says Emory University's first "Jimmy Carter Professor of History" Joseph Crespino Putting human rights front and center in American foreign policy — no president had done that in the way that Jimmy Carter had,
Crespino told VOA during a recent interview at his office on campus at Emory University Not just famously [the] Camp David accords and opening relations with China,
Alter told VOA in an interview in August at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago There's no place in the world I know where people don't have some good things to say about him,
Young told VOA as he spoke with reporters September 17 at Carter's 100th birthday concert at the Fox theater in Atlanta In office, he was a political failure. He lost overwhelming[ly] to Ronald Reagan. But he was a substantive and visionary success,
says author and historian Jonathan Alter, who recognizes what many know Carter for today — humanitarian work with his Carter Center, "waging peace, fighting disease and building hope" around the world that led to Jimmy Carter receiving the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize It’s a way to be together and I think that’s who he is fundamentally,
said Jason Carter, who said Seventy-seven-and-a-half years of marriage, to be without your partner, your soul mate you know it’s very, very tough times, ... It’s tough times on him, but on all of us that knew her, that loved her, the family members.”
It’s a 600-person village in the middle of nowhere, and all of his other work at the end of the road in Africa, Mali, South Sudan, has been in those same kinds of 600-person villages,
But the only reason he was born in a hospital was because his mother was working that day,
Jill Stuckey, a Carter family friend, told VOA After the hospice announcement nearly a year ago, I didn’t think we’d be at this point,
Stuckey said during an interview with VOA, standing next to a replica of the famous Resolute Desk from the White House Oval Office, now a big draw for tourists who visit Plains High School He definitely deserves a lot of fanfare, because he’s definitely the greatest person I’ve ever met in my life,
