Former US President Jimmy Carter has black eye, stitches after fall
Hindustan TimesFormer President Jimmy Carter had a black eye and 14 stitches after falling at his Georgia home on Sunday, but made it to an evening concert in Tennessee to rally volunteers ahead of his 36th home building project for Habitat for Humanity. Former President Jimmy Carter had a black eye and 14 stitches after falling at his Georgia home. And he also has occasionally weighed in on politics and policy, recently expressing hopes that his Carter Center will become a more forceful advocate against armed conflicts in the future, including “wars by the United States.” “I just want to keep the whole world at peace,” Carter had said as he presented his annual Carter Center report last month. We have been at peace for about 16 years” since the Declaration of Independence in 1776, he said, adding that every US military conflict from the Korean War onward has been a war of “choice.” Carter also has been accepting visits from several 2020 presidential candidates, but he’s held back on endorsing any of his fellow Democrats, offering few clues to his thinking.