Former President Bill Clinton paid tribute to Jimmy Carter, who recently entered home hospice care, on President’s Day on Friday.
Clinton said he “thought” of the 39th president in a tweet, which included a photo of the two.
Carter “decided to spend his remaining time at home with his family and receive hospice care rather than additional medical intervention” after a short hospital stay, The Carter Center said in a statement. statement Saturday.
Carter, the longest-serving US president in history, turned 98 in October. He served one term in the White House before losing again to Republican Ronald Reagan in 1980.
His post-presidency was marked by his charitable work with Habitat for Humanity and The Carter Center, along with human rights and political advocacy. A deeply religious Baptist, Carter taught Sunday school every other week at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Georgia, decades after he left the White House.
Clinton and Carter both served as governors of Southern states before becoming president. In 1999, Clinton presented Carter and his wife, former First Lady Rosalynn Carter, with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.