Joe Biden sends ‘prayers and love’ to Jimmy Carter, as former President is moved into hospice care

President Joe Biden has sent ‘love’ and prayers to Jimmy Carter, one day after the former president, 98, entered hospice care.

‘To our friends Jimmy and Rosalynn and to their family – Jill and I are with you in prayer and send you our love. We admire you for the strength and humility you have shown in difficult times. May you continue your journey with grace and dignity, and God grant you peace.’ 

After several hospital stays, Carter, who led the United States from 1977 to 1981, has decided to spend his ‘remaining time’ at home, his nonprofit foundation announced Saturday.

Carter, the oldest living former president and a Nobel peace laureate, lives in Plains, Georgia, with his wife Rosalynn.

Fellow Democratic President Joe Biden said he and his wife, Jill, were with Carter and his relatives ‘in prayer and send you our love.’

President Joe Biden has sent ‘love’ and prayers to Jimmy Carter, one day after the former president, 98, entered hospice care

The Carter foundation tweeted a thank-you message to the Bidens

The Carter Library posted a photo of former President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn’s visit with President Joe Biden in May 2021, in Georgia with a rather strange perspective that seemed to make the Bidens tower over their White House predecessors

Joe Biden had a good relationship back to when he first became a senator. The pair are pictured at the 2008 Democratic National Convention:

The Carter foundation tweeted a thank-you message to the Bidens.

In April 2021, Biden and his wife met with the Carters at their home in Plains.

The White House afterward released a photo showing the couples smiling together, although only Rosalynn was seen by the press outside, bidding the Bidens farewell while using a walker.

Biden’s tweet follows an outpouring of tributes and words of comfort for the former leader and his relatives.

Carter, the longest-lived American president, had a recent series of short hospital stays. The Carter Center said in a statement Saturday that he has now ‘decided to spend his remaining time at home with his family and receive hospice care instead of additional medical intervention.’

His foundation, The Carter Center, founded in 1982 to pursue his vision of world diplomacy, tweeted: ‘We really appreciate all the kind words we’ve received from President Carter’s admirers.’

Delaware’s U.S. Senator Joseph Biden points out a friend in the crowd to President Jimmy Carter during a fundraiser in 1978 – when Biden was running for a second term as senator

PresidenT Jimmy Carter and then Senator Joseph R. Biden seen in 1978. Biden was the first U.S. senator to endorse Carter’s presidential candidacy in 1976

In this picture from June 14, 1977, Senator Joe Biden (left) is seen with President Carter

Jimmy Carter (pictured) waves before the crowd on the floor of the Democratic Convention of 1980

President Jimmy Carter sitting with his feet on the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office at the White House 

Carter was a little-known Georgia governor when he began his bid for the presidency ahead of the 1976 election. He went on to defeat Ford, capitalizing as a Washington outsider in the wake of the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal that drove Richard Nixon from office in 1974.

During his presidency, Carter placed a commitment on human rights and social justice, enjoying a strong first two years. 

The the final two years were tumultuous and he was ultimately defeated by Republican Ronald Reagan in 1980 in a landslide loss that ultimately paved the way for his decades of global advocacy for democracy, public health and human rights via The Carter Center.

In recent years, Carter has received various hospital treatments, including when he revealed in August 2015 that he had brain cancer and was undergoing radiation treatment – an illness he recovered from, seemingly against the odds.

The former president and his wife, Rosalynn, 95, opened the center in 1982. His work there garnered a Nobel Peace Prize in 2002.

Carter said basic Christian tenets such as justice and love served as the bedrock of his presidency, and he taught Sunday school at Maranatha Baptist, his church in Plains, well into his 90s.

Carter pictured here in 2018 with wife Rosalynn, to whom he has been married for 77 years