Jimmy Carter

But how would NBC be able to have synergistic programming?

 

You have a point, but boycotting the Olympics to make a political point was not something that had really been done up to that point.

The losing parties in World War I were not invited to Antwerp in 1920 or London in 1948 but the first boycotts were in 1956 by a handful of countries over the Suez Canal crisis and the Soviet invasion of Hungary. Several African nations boycotted Montreal 1976 because the IOC refused to ban New Zealand for sending a rugby team on a tour of apartheid South Africa regardless of the fact that rugby was not in the Olympic movement at the time.

As it was, an alternative "People's Olympics" was scheduled to take place in Barcelona in the summer of 1936, but the Spanish Civil War broke out the day before competition started.

 

For RV community, giant Carter peanut statue a beacon for home

 

This is a nice tribute to an obscured part of his legacy.

https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/environment/jimmy-carter-outdoors-president/

 

Interesting - for lack of a better word - that he was burned in effigie for protecting land in Alaska until I read deeper and figured it was developers who didn't like it.
Have I ever mentioned that I like most animals better than I do most people?

 

Former first lady Rosalynn Carter has dementia, Carter Center says | CNN Politics

 

Jimmy Carter has been in hospice for exactly 444 days.

It’s time.

 

That is insane to me. My dad was in hospice for exactly two days before he passed. Hospice care is supposed to be the end game.

 

He's a tough old bird. Wishing him a gentle passing.

He was my first Presidential vote.

 

My dad didn't last 36 hours in hospice. It was days or weeks when he entered.

 

My best friend (was completely paralyzed with ALS and then had a gall bladder infection and opted not to seek any kind of treatment at that point -- he was done) lasted about 4 days in hospice. Most depressing place i ever visited.

They sent my wife's grandfather to hospice when he was about 99 and then they kicked him out after a couple of weeks. He made it to 105. Born a few weeks before the start of WWI, died a few weeks before COVID arrived in the U.S. He got to run the gamut from Wilson to Trump. Maybe Jimmy's in a similar boat.

 

My dad was at home but transitioned from home health to hospice 3-4 months before he passed. When we made that decision, it wasn't that anything was eminent; it was just that we had made the decision it was time for comfort and not cure.
A friend of mine put his uncle in hospice care Friday. He passed way today.