Carter talked about his progression with the treatment at the same chapel where he revealed about his condition in a news conference about a month ago.
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Three weeks after sharing the details of his cancer diagnosis, former President Jimmy Carter held a town hall event at the Carter Center on Tuesday, but he didn’t let his health take center stage.
The crowd roared as he walked instead to a waiting podium. My wife is a little less prepared than I’ve been, but she’s getting on fine’.
Cancer treatment aside, Jimmy Carter is keeping busy.
Students from Emory, which is affliated with the center, were encouraged to attend Carter’s question session, despite fears it may be called off due to his illness.
“There’s not an easy answer to it”, Carter said. As usual, students’ questions sought Carter’s solutions to global conflicts, advice about college and insight about family.
Gulbronson sat with freshmen classmates Amy Matthews and Eunice Lee in the front row.
The former Democratic president said he still has to wait to see the effects of the drug he was taking to help his immune system destroy the cancerous cells. That doesn’t happen every day’.
Other recipients include the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet, Rosa Parks and Congressman John Lewis.
James W. Dooley, a skeleton and the University’s unofficial mascot, made his first appearances at Emory in 1899 and 1909 by writing letters to the student publication the Emory Phoenix from his perch in a science lab.
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“No”, he said, sparking loud laughter in the gym.
