There was a flyover of jets in his hometown, and 100 people became US citizens at a naturalisation ceremony in his honour.

Jimmy Carter celebrates his 100th birthday on Tuesday, making him the first US president to reach the milestone.

Carter, a Democrat who served in the White House from 1977 to 1981, has spent the past 19 months in hospice care in his home state of Georgia.

But the former peanut farmer, who first entered politics in the 1960s as a state senator, is “emotionally engaged and still having experiences and laughing, loving,” his grandson, Jason, said in September.

And the centenarian still has political ambitions: “I’m only trying to make it to vote for Kamala Harris” in November’s election, the humanitarian and Nobel Prize recipient said, according to his grandson.

  • boonhet@lemm.ee
    1·
    3 months ago

    That was just a bad ordering of words in that sentence. He failed to get re-elected and then a few years later he and his wife started building houses for the needy.

    • MehBlah@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      3 months ago

      I did mangle that bit. Its how it was ordered in my head and well english has no real reliable structure anyway.

      • foshoEnglish
        11·
        3 months ago

        “After leaving office he spent decades building houses for the needy.”

        Totally reliable. You didn’t have to make an excuse for a poorly executed rush job after admitting the mangle.