Ex-president Jimmy Carter breaks hip ahead of turkey hunt

By Alex Dobuzinskis

 

FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter sits after delivering a lecture at the House of Lords in London, Britain February 3, 2016. REUTERS/Neil Hall/File Photo

 

(Reuters) - Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter fell and broke his hip on Monday as he was preparing to leave his home in Georgia for a turkey-hunting trip, and underwent successful surgery to repair the injury, a representative said.

 

Carter, 94, a Democrat who was elected president in 1976, was accompanied by his wife, Rosalynn, 91, while recovering from the operation, which doctors said was successful, according to a statement from his nonprofit organization, the Carter Center.

 

"Wishing former President Jimmy Carter a speedy recovery from his hip surgery earlier today," President Donald Trump said on Twitter. "He was in such good spirits when we spoke last month - he will be fine!"

 

The surgery was performed at a medical center in Americus, Georgia, about 10 miles (16 km) east of the Carters' home in Plains.

 

"President Carter said his main concern is that turkey season ends this week, and he has not reached his limit," the Carter Center said in its statement. "He hopes the state of Georgia will allow him to roll over the unused limit to next year."

 

Carter, who was governor of Georgia from 1971 to 1975, served a single four-year term in the White House as the nation's 39th president. He was defeated in his re-election bid by Republican Ronald Reagan in 1980.

 

The former peanut farmer-turned-politician received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 for his humanitarian work. He disclosed in August 2015 that he had been diagnosed with a form of skin cancer called melanoma.

 

In 2017, Carter was briefly hospitalized after suffering dehydration during a trip to Canada.

 

Carter has lived longer after leaving the White House than any former president in U.S. history.

 

(Reporting by Alex Dobuzinskis in Los Angeles; Editing by Steve Gorman, Jonathan Oatis and Leslie Adler)

 

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Wishing you a speedy recovery sir

Bad news for Jimmy, good news for turkeys.

Always liked Jimmy Carter...good man...gave it his best shot...interest rates in double digits kept him from a second term...

3 hours ago, webfact said:

"President Carter said his main concern is that turkey season ends this week, and he has not reached his limit,"

If he can make the UK we have plenty...

 

Not a great President, but a decent human being.  Not obvious that the two things are entirely compatible in any case.

15 hours ago, Puchaiyank said:

Always liked Jimmy Carter...good man...gave it his best shot...interest rates in double digits kept him from a second term...

Also the Iran hostages situation. Funny that they were released the day after Reagan took office. Always thought something very suspicious in that.

Didn't George Bush Snr cut a deal with Iranians to detain the hostages until after the 1980 election. Reagan was elected with Bush as VP then  they released the puppets?

Presumably alot of pallets of US 100bills were flown to an undisclosed location at 4am .

Smokes and mirrors.

Turkeys 1, Carter 0.

Karma got him!

17 hours ago, Puchaiyank said:

Always liked Jimmy Carter...good man...gave it his best shot...interest rates in double digits kept him from a second term...

Good man, yes, good president, no. Should have gone in and dealt it to the Iranians the day they declared war on the US by invading US territory.

29 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Should have gone in and dealt it to the Iranians the day they declared war on the US by invading US territory.

He did, as I recall. But the post-Vietnam US army screwed up. Remember helicopters in the desert?

As an ex-game shooter from the UK (pheasant, partridge etc), it occurs to me that hunting/shooting a turkey (a fat bird that can hardly fly more than a few feet off the ground) is hardly sporting - more like shooting a sitting duck ????

I lub Jimmy Carter.

6 minutes ago, mfd101 said:

He did, as I recall. But the post-Vietnam US army screwed up. Remember helicopters in the desert?

LOL, LOL, LOL.

That wasn't "dealing it to them". That was an incompetent fiasco caused by a president too gutless to send in the B52s.

That's what they should have done to Iran, and stopped the world's largest sponsor of terrorism before it got started.

In other news, Recep Erdogan was seen in Georgia wiping grease off his hands, muttering something about a misunderstanding