Jimmy Carter, former US president, turns 100

Jimmy Carter celebrates his 100th day connected Tuesday, making him nan first US president to scope nan milestone.

Carter, a Democrat that person served successful nan White House from 1977 to 1981, has spent nan past 19 months successful hospice attraction successful his location authorities of Georgia.

But nan erstwhile peanut farmer, that person first entered authorities successful nan 1960s arsenic a authorities senator, is "emotionally engaged and still having experiences and laughing, loving," his grandson, Jason, said successful September.

And nan centenarian still has governmental ambitions: "I'm only trying to make it to ballot for Kamala Harris" successful November's election, nan humanitarian and Nobel Prize recipient said, according to his grandson.

To honour nan occasion, volunteers alongside Habitat for Humanity - nan lodging kindness Carter has worked alongside for 40 years - are building 30 homes successful Minnesota this week.

There intent besides beryllium events successful Plains, nan erstwhile Georgia governor's hometown, to observe nan juncture connected Tuesday. There intent beryllium a flyover of subject jets and 100 caller citizens intent person naturalisation ceremonies successful his honour.

It comes aft a star-studded performance was held successful Atlanta, Georgia, earlier this period to observe nan 39th president's milestone day and to raise costs for The Carter Center.

"It was an unthinkable evening, afloat of bully euphony and heartfelt tributes, and it made history arsenic nan first-ever 100th day ceremony for a surviving American president," Carter said astatine nan time.

The concert, that raised much than $1.2m (£900,000) and besides featured recorded messages from different presidents, intent aerial connected Georgia Public Broadcasting connected Tuesday. Dozens of philharmonic acts performed astatine nan arena and thousands attended.

The erstwhile president intent beryllium watching nan broadcast connected Tuesday, his family said.

Carter, that person was not capable to be nan performance successful person, made a rare nationalist quality successful November 2023 astatine that long he attended a memorial work for his spouse Rosalynn that person died aged 96 earlier that month.

Their 77-year matrimony remains nan longest of immoderate first couple.

When Carter first entered hospice attraction successful Plains, Georgia, successful February 2023, immoderate relatives reportedly felt he only had a matter of days near to live.

“It’s a gift,” Josh Carter, different of his grandsons, said of nan past fewer months successful a caller question and reply alongside nan New York Times. “It’s a gift that I didn’t cognize ourselves were going to get.”

Others opportunity Carter's communicative has besides raised consciousness of nan benefits of hospice care. "We are each rooting for Jimmy Carter," Barbara Pearce, nan CEO of Connecticut Hospice, told nan BBC's US partner CBS News.

"He has done much for ourselves than ourselves could ever do for ourselves by pointing retired that it's a reasonable prime to make," she said. "He's fixed everybody support to see [hospice care] arsenic a reasonable action that doesn't shorten their life, but does summation their comfortableness and fulfilment."