Joe Biden sends ‘prayers and love’ to Jimmy Carter as the former president is moved into hospice care

President Joe Biden has sent ‘love’ and prayers to Jimmy Carter, a day after the 98-year-old former president entered hospice care.

‘To our friends Jimmy and Rosalynn and their family: Jill and I are with you in prayer and our love. We admire you for the strength and humility that you have shown in difficult times. May you continue on your way with grace and dignity, and may God grant you peace.’

After several hospital stays, Carter, who led the United States from 1977 to 1981, decided to spend the “remaining time” at home, his nonprofit foundation announced Saturday.

Carter, the oldest living former president and Nobel peace laureate, lives in Plains, Georgia, with his wife Rosalynn.

Fellow Democratic President Joe Biden said he and his wife, Jill, were with Carter and his family “in prayer and we send our love to them.”

The Carter Foundation tweeted a message of thanks to the Bidens

The Carter Library posted a photo of former President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn visiting President Joe Biden in May 2021, in Georgia, with a rather bizarre perspective that seemed to make the Bidens tower over their White House predecessors. .

Joe Biden had a good relationship since he became a senator. The couple appears at the 2008 Democratic National Convention:

The Carter Foundation tweeted a message of thanks to the Bidens.

In April 2021, Biden and his wife met the Carters at their Plains home.

The White House later released a photo showing the couples smiling together, though the press only saw Rosalynn outside, waving goodbye to the Bidens while using a walker.

Biden’s tweet follows a flurry of tributes and words of comfort for the former leader and his family.

Carter, the longest-serving US president, had a recent series of short hospital stays. The Carter Center said in a statement Saturday that she has now “decided to spend her remaining time at home with her family and receive palliative care rather than further medical intervention.”

His foundation, The Carter Center, founded in 1982 to pursue his vision of global diplomacy, tweeted: “We truly appreciate all the kind words we have received from President Carter’s admirers.”

US Senator from Delaware, Joseph Biden, points to a friend in the crowd of President Jimmy Carter during a fundraiser in 1978, when Biden was running for a second term as senator.

President Jimmy Carter and then Senator Joseph R. Biden seen in 1978. Biden was the first US Senator to endorse Carter’s presidential bid in 1976.

In this June 14, 1977 photo, Senator Joe Biden (left) is seen with President Carter.

Jimmy Carter (pictured) waves to the crowd on the floor of the 1980 Democratic Convention

President Jimmy Carter seated with his feet up on the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office of the White House

Carter was a little-known Georgia governor when he began his run for president before the 1976 election. He then defeated Ford, capitalizing as an outsider to Washington in the wake of the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal that ousted Richard Nixon. from his position in 1974.

During his presidency, Carter was committed to human rights and social justice, enjoying a strong first two years.

The last two years were tumultuous and he was finally defeated by Republican Ronald Reagan in 1980 in a landslide defeat that ultimately paved the way for his decades of worldwide advocacy for democracy, public health, and human rights through the Carter Center.

In recent years, Carter has received various hospital treatments, including when he revealed in August 2015 that he had brain cancer and was undergoing radiation treatment, an illness from which he recovered, seemingly against the odds.

The former president and his wife, Rosalynn, 95, opened the center in 1982. His work there earned him the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002.

Carter said basic Christian principles like justice and love served as the foundation of his presidency, and he taught Sunday school at Maranatha Baptist, his church in Plains, well into his 90s.

Carter pictured here in 2018 with his wife Rosalynn, to whom he has been married for 77 years.