Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter says he thought he had only weeks to live after being diagnosed with brain cancer a year ago.
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Jimmy Carter might have gotten his death date wrong but he sure knows who to vote for this November.
Former U.S President Jimmy Carter and former first lady Rosalynn Carter will work Memphis families and other volunteers to build and improve home as part of Habitat for Humanity’s 33 Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work Project Sunday evening.
Carter said there’s no doubt that Clinton “is better qualified.”
Carter revealed in August 2015 that he had been diagnosed with melanoma that spread to his brain. On Monday, he told reporters he thought he would have been dead by now.
Carter, considered a worldwide ambassador for Habitat for Humanity, said he doesn’t like to advocate for particular issues because he works equally with Republicans, Democrats and people of many religious beliefs in his role with the home building charity.
“Habitat for Humanity is the best way I know to take whatever talents I have and invest them in the name of Christ for the benefit of others”, Carter, Habitat’s Volunteer-in-Chief, told volunteers in a morning devotional.
“Speaking in Memphis, Tenn., at the opening of the annual Habitat work project he sponsors with his wife, Rosalynn, Carter, 92, said that he feels “pretty certain about my cure” but that the doctors are still keeping an eye on me”.
At the same time, “I felt that I was thankful, because I’ve had a remarkably successful life”, he said.
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The months between August and November, however, were hard, said Carter, the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize victor who’s spent his post-presidential years as a highly visible advocate for the poor worldwide. “So, I just want to give that one premise for the question and answer period”. He still teaches Sunday school classes in his hometown of Plains, Georgia.
