[ti:Supporters Remember Former President Carter's Accomplishments]
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[00:00.04]Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter's family recently announced
[00:05.16]that he is receiving special care
[00:08.24]and is preparing for the end of his life.
[00:11.96]Carter is under hospice care.
[00:14.64]Hospice care means the former president is being looked after
[00:19.08]so he can live his remaining days comfortably.
[00:22.64]But he will not seek medical treatment to extend his life.
[00:27.84]In some cases, people under hospice care
[00:32.04]receive drugs so they can live their final days without pain.
[00:37.84]Carter is 98 years old.
[00:40.56]He has lived longer than any president in American history.
[00:46.24]Carter won his election in 1976 and took office in 1977.
[00:52.68]He lost the next election, however,
[00:56.20]in 1980 to President Ronald Reagan.
[01:00.88]After his term in office, Carter continued to work in public
[01:06.00]and for charitable causes.
[01:09.32]In 1982, he started the Carter Center,
[01:13.48]which supports democracy, public health and human rights.
[01:18.00]He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002.
[01:23.36]He also worked often with the charity organization
[01:27.16]Habitat for Humanity.
[01:29.56]The group, which was started by Millard and Linda Fuller in 1976,
[01:36.60]helps build homes for people who need a place to live.
[01:41.44]VOA spoke with Suzanne Taylor of Buffalo, New York,
[01:45.96]who gave her time to Habitat for Humanity and worked with Carter.
[01:50.76]She helped build homes from 2006 to 2019.
[01:56.84]Taylor said she cried when she heard the news
[02:00.56]that Carter was preparing for the end of his life.
[02:04.56]"So many people really appreciate him," she said.
[02:08.64]Jonathan Alter wrote a book about Carter called His Very Best.
[02:14.44]Alter said he "led such an epic American life."
[02:19.48]When talking about Carter, both as a politician
[02:23.56]and being married to his wife Rosalynn for almost 77 years,
[02:29.40]Alter said: "He won at life."
[02:34.16]Alter went on to say that Carter was born in a hospital,
[02:37.68]but he does not want to die in one.
[02:40.76]Instead, he will live his final days in the home he and his wife built
[02:46.16]in the small town of Plains, Georgia.
[02:49.88]After living a long life,
[02:52.24]Carter aims to die in the same place where he was born.
[02:57.44]"I think it is fitting," Alter said,
[02:59.76]"that Jimmy Carter is ending his journey on his own terms."
[03:05.40]Carter lost the 1980 presidential election
[03:09.36]but kept working in public.
[03:11.64]Alter said Carter's popularity today
[03:15.80]is based on what he did after he was president.
[03:19.60]That included working to end diseases
[03:22.68]in poor countries through the Carter Center,
[03:25.60]his work with Habitat for Humanity
[03:28.80]and as an "elder statesman" in world and American politics.
[03:35.96]"Historians...need to look at how a president changed the world,
[03:40.60]changed people's lives...and that takes longer
[03:45.40]and is not really directly connected to his popularity as president," Alter said.
[03:52.96]Carter also wrote a number of books
[03:55.64]and traveled the U.S. speaking about them.
[03:59.88]During a church service recently, Carter's niece,
[04:03.40]Kim Fuller, talked about her uncle.
[04:06.64]She said: "maybe it is time to pass the baton,"
[04:11.00]when speaking about the former president.
[04:13.64]"Who will pick it up, I have no clue," she added.
[04:18.40]A baton is a short stick passed between runners in a race.
[04:25.04]Taylor, the Habitat for Humanity volunteer,
[04:29.16]discussed a reason why Carter will be missed.
[04:32.24]She said people feel more connected to him
[04:36.32]than to other former presidents.
[04:39.64]"I think his accessibility has created a bond
[04:43.40]with a lot of Americans that most presidents don't have," she said.
[04:49.00]I'm Dan Friedell. 更多听力请访问21VOA.COM
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