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ATLANTA (AP) — Former President Jimmy Carter will be honored next month, ahead of his 100th birthday, with a musical gala at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta, The Carter Center announced Thursday.

The Sept. 17 event — “Jimmy Carter 100: A Celebration in Song” — will feature musicians from a range of genres and celebrity guests. Carter’s birthday is Oct. 1.

Artists include Chuck Leavell, D-Nice, Drive-By Truckers, Eric Church, GROUPLOVE, Maren Morris and The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chamber Chorus. Notable guests include former Atlanta Braves star Dale Murphy, Atlanta rap artist Killer Mike and actor Sean Penn. Other guests will be announced before the event, organizers said.

The 39th president, who served from 1977 to 1981, remains at his home in Plains, Georgia, where he has been receiving hospice care since February 2023. He was last seen publicly at funeral services for former first lady Rosalynn Carter, who died in November. But those close to him say he remains in good spirits, sometimes receiving visitors, regularly watching Braves games on television and still enjoying music.

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 29 points 4 months ago

Certainly the best in terms of beliefs, ethics, etc. Unfortunately not as effective as he should have been. Played way too nice with Tip O'Neill and Reagan both because he's a nice guy, but they played dirty.

[-] Buffalox@lemmy.world 19 points 4 months ago

He wasn't too nice, the people just didn't appreciate it.
Same mentality that causes Trump, an obvious malignant narcissist to have about 50% support among voters, despite most of his supporters will be harmed by his presidency.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago

Too nice in those specific cases, not overall.

He did not get down in the dirt with O'Neill or Reagan and that was to his detriment unfortunately.

[-] vanontom@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Sounds a lot like Obama. High quality human, unwilling to get too dirty battling human sewage, bad faith tactics, delays, obstructions, etc. Gave up a supreme court nominee due to... "norms". To be fair, nobody imagined a clown/wannabe-dictator and his three (!?) SCOTUS picks to quickly reshape the presidency into a monarchy with infinite powers.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

Yes, except O'Neill was supposed to be on Carter's side. But he slowly soured against Carter and he was a real force of will that Carter was just not prepared to go up against.

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