“We’ll know what the positive effects are later on”, he told an audience of 450 in the chapel of Atlanta’s Carter Center, the same location he used to announce his cancer treatment a month ago.
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In this Thursday, November 20, 2014 photo, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter speaks during a forum in Boston.
Taking his first name and middle initial from the current university president, Dooley is represented on campus by a student – whose identity is kept secret – dressed as a skeleton with a black cape, a black top hat, and white gloves.
“I would not, at least publicly, favor sending ground troops in (to Syria)”, he said.
Carter, who was president from 1977 to 1981, said that so far, he had experienced no adverse effects caused by the treatment he was receiving to eradicate four small spots of cancer that doctors found in his brain in August. “I’m prepared for anything that comes”.
“I’m getting treated for it very well”. As usual, students’ questions sought Carter’s solutions to global conflicts, advice about college and insight about family.
On Wednesday, Carter took questions from students at Emory University in Atlanta during the 34th town hall he has led.
Gulbronson sat with freshmen classmates Amy Matthews and Eunice Lee in the front row.
Carter’s briefest response of the night came when asked whether he had any thoughts about the Republican presidential primary debate happening simultaneously.
Other recipients include the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet, Rosa Parks and Congressman John Lewis.
Mrs. Carter got emotional as she took a moment to say thank you for the prayers and the well wishes. That doesn’t happen every day’.
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“No”, he said, sparking loud laughter in the gym.
