Mayor of Plains, Ga., resigns after 40 years in office
The mayor of Plains has resigned after serving 40 years in office. L.E. Boze Godwin III led the small Southwest Georgia town — home to former President Jimmy Carter and his late wife, Rosalynn — for terms lasting from 1979 through 1984 and 1998 through 2024. The 80-year-old announced at a council meeting last week that […]
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Biden withdraws from Alaskan road deal after pressure from Jimmy Carter | #alaska | #politics
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland said the agency will instead consider other land swaps that could provide more restricted road access to the area. Some local leaders had clamored for the road since the 1970s to gain a quicker route to emergency medical care, while environmentalists worried carving a path through a section of the refuge […]
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Former first lady Rosalynn Carter dies at 96 | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
Former first lady Rosalynn Carter died Sunday at age 96. She had gone onto home hospice Saturday, almost 10 months after her husband, former President Jimmy Carter, 99, had gone onto home hospice care. President Carter remains at his home in Plains, Ga. Arrangements for services have not been announced. The Carter Center had announced […]
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Former first lady Rosalynn Carter joins her husband Jimmy in at-home hospice | #elections | #alabama
Almost 10 months after former President Jimmy Carter, 99, went into at-home hospice care, his wife Rosalynn, 96, joined him. The Carter Center announced Friday that hospice staff had begun treating the former first lady in her Plains, Ga. home where her husband Jimmy was already receiving the “palliative care” regimen. Jimmy Carter had hospital […]
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