Finally happy birthday tonight to Jimmy Carter on his hundredth birthday. Happy birthday to that 39th president of the United States in a small town in Georgia and as many sunsets as heaven allows on his hundredth trip around the sun Jimmy Carter is the longest living former US president and one of the world’s most renowned humanitarians. Seen from behind in private moments today, wearing a blue cat, watching this Air Force salute, his swearing in at the Carter Center in Atlanta and new citizens on this special occasion hundred now we’re actually looking at our I mean one hundred one I mean look we’re not in charge his grandson Jason Carter says what a lot of people are thinking when the former president needed hospice care at home early last year. There were very few people who believed he would live that long. Then whoever was in charge first took his wife Rosalynn.
Even in his critical condition he still refuses to miss his funeral. The world is better today than it was a hundred years ago. In many ways she has played a role in that. I think when we think about this moment about her it has been a remarkable century. President Jimmy Carter has been as passionate as any of his years and decades after leaving the White House. He and his wife spent time building homes for the poor and eliminating disease and traveling to remote places and in his last television interview, he told us it was their love that kept him strong President Carter you often say marrying Mrs. Carter was the pinnacle of your life. More than any presidency or you stuttering elders, the most wonderful thing in my life is the most wonderful thing in my life. President Carter is quietly celebrating tonight. In a small two bedroom house he says he knows the world is cheering him on today. He loves every minute of it.