{"id":2347425,"date":"2024-09-30T06:14:01","date_gmt":"2024-09-30T10:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/parades-and-peanuts-mark-jimmy-carters-100th-birthday-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-09-30T06:16:06","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T10:16:06","slug":"parades-and-peanuts-mark-jimmy-carters-100th-birthday-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/parades-and-peanuts-mark-jimmy-carters-100th-birthday-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Parades and peanuts mark Jimmy Carter&#8217;s 100th birthday &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fparades-and-peanuts-mark-jimmy-carters-100th-birthday-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2347425&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Former President \u200cJimmy Carter will celebrate his 100th birthday on Tuesday, making history as the first living U.S. \u2064president to reach this milestone. The event\u200b is particularly meaningful in Carter&#8217;s hometown of Plains, Georgia, where he\u200d has lived \u200dsince leaving office in 1981. The community\u2063 is planning festivities starting with a road race and a parade, \u2062culminating in\u200b a concert at his former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/despite-insistence-by-democrat-politicians-and-medical-elites-empirical-evidence-does-not-conclusively-show-that-masks-reduce-the-spread-of-covid\/\" title=\"Despite Insistence by Democrat Politicians and Medical Elites, Empirical Evidence DOES NOT Conclusively Show that Masks Reduce the Spread of COVID\">high school<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Carter&#8217;s \u2064legacy includes notable milestones, such as being the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-flotus-rosalynn-carter-diagnosed-with-dementia\/\" title=\"Rosalynn Carter, ex-First Lady, has dementia.\">longest-married presidential couple<\/a> and \u200dthe last surviving member of his high school <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-school-district-immediately-echoes-abbott-no-more-masks-required\/\" title=\"Texas School District Immediately Echoes Abbott: No More Masks Required\">graduating class<\/a>. Although \u2064he has been in hospice\u2064 care since early 2023, he has\u200d defied expectations regarding his health, bringing happiness to his supporters.<\/p>\n<p>Celebratory activities on his birthday will include \u2062a naturalization ceremony for new \u2062U.S. citizens, a military flyover, and a ribbon-cutting for new statues dedicated to constitutional rights. Carter led an active life post-presidency, engaging in charitable work and teaching Sunday school, but has been less active in recent years, especially after \u2063the passing of his wife, Rosalynn, in November 2023.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Parades and peanuts: Jimmy Carter&rsquo;s 100th birthday to be celebrated in Plains, Georgia<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1490396\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Former president <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/jimmy-carter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Jimmy Carter\">Jimmy Carter<\/a> will reach an unprecedented milestone Tuesday &mdash; the first living <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/president\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"U.S. president\">president<\/a> to reach age 100.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>The event will be an even bigger deal in Carter&rsquo;s 600-resident hometown of Plains, Georgia, where he has lived since leaving the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/white-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"White House\">White House<\/a> in early 1981. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The Carters have a lot of milestones,&rdquo; said Jill Stuckey, a Plains resident and superintendent of the Jimmy Carter National Historical Park. &ldquo;They were the longest-married presidential couple at 77 1\/2 years, and now he is the longest-living U.S. president.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Carter is also the last surviving member of his graduating class at Plains High School, from which he graduated in 11th grade in 1941 as there was no 12th-grade curriculum at the time. He was married to Rosalynn Carter from 1946 until her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/2453631\/rosalynn-carter-remembered-for-her-meaningful-legacy-and-servants-heart\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"death last year\">death last year<\/a> at age 96.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">President Jimmy Carter carries a peanut plant on Aug. 19, 1978, as he follows his wife Rosalynn from the field at their Webster County, Georgia, farm. (AP Photo\/Jim Wells)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The park Stuckey oversees includes Carter&rsquo;s boyhood farm, the now-closed high school, the railroad depot that served as his 1976 campaign headquarters, and the home where he still resides.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Everybody is really excited,&rdquo; Stuckey said. &ldquo;President Carter has been in hospice now for a year and seven months. In February, it will be two years that he has been in hospice. Most of us thought that when he went to hospice it would be a matter of days or maybe weeks. But the one thing that Jimmy Carter has failed at in his life is hospice, and we&rsquo;re pretty happy about that.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Democratic presidential nominee Jimmy Carter shakes hands with tourists as he takes an early morning walk on July 30, 1976, down the main street of Plains, Georgia. (AP Photo\/Peter Bregg)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Carter&rsquo;s hometown will go all-out for the occasion. <\/p>\n<p>Festivities will begin Saturday with a road race in the morning, followed by the Plains Peanut Festival parade at 11 a.m., then a street dance in the evening. Plains is part of the Georgia <a href=\"https:\/\/jimmycarter.info\/peanuts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"peanut belt\">peanut belt<\/a>, and Carter was a peanut farmer before entering politics.<\/p>\n<p>Wayne Johnson will be one of the parade participants. A longtime friend of Carter, he is running for Congress in Georgia&rsquo;s geographically massive 2nd Congressional District.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I first met him between 20 and 25 years ago,&rdquo; Johnson said. &ldquo;Knowing President Carter has been an important part of my development from the standpoint of making me want to be in public service.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Johnson is running against longtime incumbent Sanford Bishop (D-GA) with a message of &ldquo;stop the stupid in Washington.&rdquo; Though he is a Republican, he says he has always gotten along well with Carter, in part because they usually do not talk politics. The <em>Washington Examiner <\/em>has contacted Bishop&rsquo;s office seeking comment.<\/p>\n<p>Carter&rsquo;s actual birthday is not until Tuesday, which will come with its own slate of events. The first will be the naturalization of 100 new U.S. citizens, a military flyover with four F-18 Navy jets, and then a host of World War II-era planes that will fly over downtown Plains.<\/p>\n<p>At 4:30 p.m., the city will host a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gov-desantis-touts-fla-economic-boom-in-grand-opening-speech\/\" title=\"Gov. DeSantis touts Fla. Economic boom in grand opening speech\">ribbon-cutting ceremony<\/a> for new statues dedicated to the Bill of Rights, the Constitution, and legislation signed during the Civil Rights era. The final event will be a concert at the old high school.<\/p>\n<p>Another concert was filmed at Atlanta&rsquo;s Fox Theatre on Sept. 17. Featuring Georgia-based acts such as the Drive-By Truckers, India Arie, the B-52&rsquo;s, and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, it will air on local public television that night.<\/p>\n<p>Carter has led one of the most active postpresidency lives since returning home following his 1980 defeat to Ronald Reagan. He was 56 at the time, and he spent the next decades building charities such as Habitat for Humanity and the Carter Center, the latter of which helped him win the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002.<\/p>\n<p>For decades, Carter also taught an adult Sunday school class at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains. Nelle Ariail, wife of the late Maranatha pastor Dan Ariail, has known Carter since 1982 and watched his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/delingpole-uk-home-office-is-a-chocolate-fireguard-freedom-of-info-request-confirms\/\" title=\"Delingpole: UK Home Office Is a Chocolate Fireguard, Freedom of Info Request Confirms\">class grow<\/a> from the church&rsquo;s fellowship hall into the sanctuary.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I remember one Sunday, Dan just about had to step over people at the pulpit to preach,&rdquo; she said. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Former President Jimmy Carter teaches Sunday school class on Aug. 23, 2015, at the Maranatha Baptist Church in his hometown of Plains, Georgia. (AP Photo\/David Goldman)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Visitors came from all over the world to see him, sometimes from as many as 15 different countries in a single week. <\/p>\n<p>Ariail got to travel with Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter on Habitat for Humanity &ldquo;work weeks&rdquo; to places such as New York and Chicago, and to farther places such as Tijuana, Mexico. On the Mexico trip, they all slept in tents, and she could hear the Carters reading one chapter of the Bible every night in Spanish to practice the language.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The last night, when we presented the keys to the people who were getting the houses, we had a big closing-out ceremony, President Carter delivered his speech in Spanish,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;That was quite a feat.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Carter has been much less active in recent years. He entered hospice in early 2023 and his wife, Rosalynn, died in November of that year.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">In this photo released by the White House, former President Jimmy Carter, center left, and former first lady Rosalynn Carter, center right, pose for a photo with President Joe Biden, right, and first lady Jill Biden on April 30, 2021, at the Carters&rsquo; home in Plains Georgia. (Adam Schultz, The White House via AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>While Carter is no longer awake every day, according to his grandson Jason Carter, his family members still <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3037020\/jimmy-carter-experiencing-world-best-he-can-spends-most-days-not-awake\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"cherishes\">cherish<\/a> their time with him.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Not only that, Jimmy Carter is hoping to hang on long enough to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3109795\/jimmy-carter-family-former-president-hanging-vote-harris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"cast a vote\">cast a vote<\/a> for Vice President Kamala Harris in this fall&rsquo;s election. <\/p>\n<p>Early voting in Georgia, a state President Joe Biden won over former President&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a>&nbsp;by about 12,000 votes in 2020, starts on Oct. 15.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1490396\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1490396\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jimmy Carter&#8217;s 100th birthday will be celebrated in Plains, Georgia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2635,"featured_media":2347426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Plains-Georgia-Jimmy-Carter.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[18291,41978,35907,21973],"class_list":["post-2347425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-peanuts","tag-100th-birthday","tag-jimmy-carter","tag-parades"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Plains-Georgia-Jimmy-Carter.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2347425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2635"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2347425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2347425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2347426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2347425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2347425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2347425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}