Posted on 10/07/2019 1:12:41 AM PDT by Enlightened1
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Former President Jimmy Carter had a black eye and 14 stitches after falling Sunday at his Georgia home, but made it to an evening concert in Tennessee to rally volunteers ahead of his 36th home building project for Habitat for Humanity.
The 39th president fell earlier in the day at his home in Plains, Georgia, and required the stitches above his brow. By Sunday evening, Carter was on stage at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville with his wife Rosalynn, 92, to talk to volunteers and supporters of the building project that runs through Friday.
Carter turned 95 last Tuesday, becoming the first U.S. president to reach that milestone.
He told the crowd Sunday evening that he had to go to the hospital and get 14 stitches, “but I had a No. 1 priority and that was to come to Nashville and build houses.”
Carter wore an Atlanta Braves baseball cap, but his left eye was swollen and bruised and he had a white bandage above his eye. The Carters were introduced by country stars Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood, who called the Carters the hardest working volunteers, and sang some duets during the concert and ceremony.
Rosalynn Carter praised the country music couple for volunteering at previous Habitat for Humanity building projects, saying she once saw Yearwood way up in the rafters of a home working hard during construction.
Former President Carter then joked, “While Garth just watched her,” drawing laughs from the crowd and from Yearwood. Carter seemed to be in good spirits and came out a short time later on stage to point to his baseball cap and mention that the Braves beat the St. Louis Cardinals that day as well.
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Tareytons were my brand back in the mid ‘60’s.
A little exercising accident Harry Reid.
Jimmy Carter, the Keith Richards of politics.
Exercising or battling bunnies?
Old peoplefall all the time.
Jimmy needed the 14 stitches to stop the shit flowing out of his eye.
What goes in and out of Roselyn 20 times a day? The DC subway. (You have a dirty mind.)
In other news, Ruth BG is allegedly still alive.
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