前總統吉米·卡特(Jimmy Carter)的孫子說，卡特在家中接受臨終關懷三個月後精神依然很好，他接受家人的探望，聽取公眾對他的遺產的討論，並且還在了解卡特中心在世界各地的人道主義工作的最新情況。他甚至經常享用冰淇淋。
傑森·卡特(Jason Carter)談到現年分別98歲和95歲的吉米·卡特和羅莎琳·卡特(Rosalynn Carter)時說：“他們現在隻是與家人見麵，但他們正在以最好的方式進行這些會麵：他們兩個一起在家裏。”
傑森·卡特周二(5月23日)在一次簡短的采訪中說：“他們已經在一起70多年了。他們也知道他們失去了掌控。他們的信念在這一刻真正紮根。這樣就已經很好了。”
最長壽的美國總統吉米·卡特在2月宣布，在經曆了一係列短暫的住院治療後，他將放棄進一步的醫療幹預，並在自己1962年首次當選為州參議員曾經於普萊恩斯居住的同一棟樸素的單層小屋中度過餘生。他沒有透露任何疾病相關的信息。
臨終關懷的聲明引發了源源不斷的致敬，媒體也進一步關注他1977-1981年的總統任期以及這對夫婦1982年共同創立卡特中心以來所做的全球人道主義工作。
傑森·卡特(Jason Carter)周二在致敬他祖父的活動上發表講話後說：“這是過去幾個月以來的好事之一。他當然會看到這麽多人的心意，這肯定讓他感到欣慰。”
這位前總統還獲得了卡特中心根除麥地那龍線蟲計劃的最新消息，該計劃於1980年代中期啟動，當時數百萬人受到不潔飲用水傳播的寄生蟲的影響。去年，全球隻有不到30個病例。
他的孫子說，在狀況良好的時候，他還繼續享用他喜歡的花生醬冰淇淋，很符合他作為花生農的政治形象。
曾擔任卡特的聯合國大使的安德魯·楊(Andrew Young)告訴美聯社，他也在“幾周前”拜訪了卡特一家，並且“很高興我們可以開懷大笑和開玩笑”。
星期二，揚、傑森·卡特與其他朋友以及卡特總統的仰慕者一起在亞特蘭大東北部諾克羅斯郊區的吉米·卡特大道上為這位前總統舉行了慶祝活動。楊說，在美國種族和民族最多樣化的郊區之一，慶祝活動所在的地點反映了這位追求和平、解決衝突和種族平等的前總統的更廣泛遺產。
當格威內特縣這條近16公裏的高速公路於1976年(卡特當選總統的那一年)重新命名時，亞特蘭大大都市邊緣的小鎮和市郊社區才剛剛開始繁榮。現在，僅格威內特就有大約100萬人口，吉米·卡特大道正在蓬勃發展，許多黑人業主、移民或第一代美國人在這裏做生意。
楊是民權運動期間馬丁·路德·金的高級助手，他說卡特在吉姆·克勞(Jim Crow)種族隔離時代作為喬治亞州南部的一名白人政治家進入政壇，但他證明了自己的價值觀是不同的。
楊說，作為州長和總統，卡特相信“全世界可以來到佐治亞州，向每個人展示如何共同生活。”
91歲的楊說，現在，佐治亞州“看起來就像全世界。”
妮可·洛夫·亨德裏克森(Nicole Love Hendrickson)於2020年當選為格威內特縣委員會的第一位黑人主席，她稱讚卡特是“一個非常尊重他人的人”。
提到卡特的連任失敗，揚表示，他個人很高興看到曆史學家和其他人在重新評估卡特的總統任期時發掘了一些成功的故事——放棄對巴拿馬運河的控製，製定國家能源戰略，比任何一位美國總統都更多地參與非洲事務。這些成就要麽在當時不受歡迎，要麽因卡特未能在1980年大選前遏製通貨膨脹、緩解能源危機或釋放在伊朗的美國人質而黯然失色。
楊說：“我告訴他，‘你知道，他們花了50多年的時間才能欣賞(亞伯拉罕·)林肯總統。可能也需要這麽長時間才能欣賞你。”
楊說：“沒有人想著巴拿馬運河。沒有人會想著讓埃及和以色列和平共處。我的意思是，我在想著嚐試在非洲做點什麽，但華盛頓沒有其他人在想，而他做到了。他對所有事情都有想法。”
不過，傑森·卡特周二向他祖父母的仰慕者發表講話時說他反對將他們視為國際名人。
他說：“他們就像你們所有人的祖父母一樣——我的意思是，如果你們的祖父母都是來自喬治亞州南部的農村人的話。如果你今天去那裏，他們的水槽旁邊有一個小架子，用來晾幹食品保鮮袋。”
傑森·卡特說，最令人印象深刻的是，這樣的聚會發生在他的祖父還健在的時候。
他告訴與會者：“當他進入臨終關懷時，我們當時確實認為他將不久於人世。現在，我隻想告訴你們，他將在10月迎來99歲生日。”
（本文依據了美聯社的報道。）
Jimmy Carter, 3 months into hospice, is aware of tributes, enjoying ice cream
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/jimmy-carter-3-months-hospice-aware-tributes-enjoying-99548692
Jimmy Carter's grandson says the former president remains in good spirits three months after entering end-of-life care at home
“They’re just meeting with family right now, but they’re doing it in the best possible way: the two of them together at home,” Jason Carter said of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter, now 98 and 95 years old.
“They’ve been together 70-plus years. They also know that they’re not in charge,” the younger Carter said Tuesday in a brief interview. “Their faith is really grounding in this moment. In that way, it’s as good as it can be.”
The longest-lived U.S. president, Jimmy Carter announced in February that after a series of brief hospital stays, he would forgo further medical intervention and spend the remainder of his life in the same modest, one-story house in Plains where they lived when he was first elected to the state Senate in 1962. No illness was disclosed.
The hospice care announcement prompted ongoing tributes and media attention on his 1977-81 presidency and the global humanitarian work the couple has done since co-founding The Carter Center in 1982.
“That’s been one of the blessings of the last couple of months,” Jason Carter said after speaking Tuesday at an event honoring his grandfather. “He is certainly getting to see the outpouring and it’s been gratifying to him for sure.”
The former president also gets updates on The Carter Center's Guinea worm eradication program, launched in the mid-1980s when millions of people suffered from the parasite spread by unclean drinking water. Last year, there were fewer than two dozen cases worldwide.
And in less serious moments, he also continues to enjoy peanut butter ice cream, his preferred flavor, in keeping with his political brand as a peanut farmer, his grandson said.
Andrew Young, who served as Carter's U.N. Ambassador, told the AP that he too visited the Carters “a few weeks back” and was “very pleased we could laugh and joke about old times.”
Young and Jason Carter joined other friends and admirers Tuesday at a celebration of the former president along Jimmy Carter Boulevard in suburban Norcross, just northeast of Atlanta. Young said the setting — in one of the most racially and ethnically diverse suburban swaths in America — reflected the former president’s broader legacy as someone who pursued peace, conflict resolution and racial equity.
When the almost 10-mile stretch of highway in Gwinnett County was renamed in 1976 — the year he was elected president — the small towns and bedroom communities on the edge of metropolitan Atlanta were only beginning to boom. Now, Gwinnett alone has a population of about 1 million people, and Jimmy Carter Boulevard is thriving, with many businesses owned by Black proprietors, immigrants or first-generation Americans.
Young, a top aide to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. during the Civil Rights Movement, said Carter began as a white politician from south Georgia in the days of Jim Crow segregation, but he proved his values were different.
As governor and president, Carter believed “that the world can come to Georgia and show everybody how to live together,” Young said.
Now, Georgia “looks like the whole world,” said Young, 91.
Nicole Love Hendrickson, elected in 2020 as the first Black chair of the Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners, praised Carter as “a man with an exceptional regard for the humanity of others.”
Alluding to Carter’s landslide re-election defeat, Young said he has personally relished seeing historians and others finding success stories as they reassess Carter’s presidency — ceding control of the Panama Canal, developing a national energy strategy, engaging more in Africa than any U.S. president had. Such achievements were either unpopular at the time or overshadowed by Carter’s inability to corral inflation, tame energy crises or free the American hostages in Iran before the 1980 election.
“I told him, ‘you know, it took them over 50 years to appreciate President Lincoln. It may take that long to appreciate you,’" Young said.
"Nobody was thinking about the Panama Canal. Nobody would have thought about bringing Egypt and Israel together. I mean, I was thinking about trying to do something in Africa, but nobody else in Washington was, and he did. He’s always had an idea about everything.”
Still, when Jason Carter addressed his grandparents’ admirers Tuesday, he argued against thinking about them like global celebrities.
“They’re just like all of y’all’s grandparents — I mean, to the extent y’all’s grandparents are rednecks from south Georgia,” he said to laughter. “If you go down there even today, next to their sink they have a little rack where they dry Ziplock bags.”
Most remarkable, Jason Carter said, is the fact such a gathering occurred with his grandfather still living.
“We did think that when he went into hospice it was very close to the end,” he told attendees. “Now, I’m just going to tell you, he’s going to be 99 in October.”
