When you're closing in on 91, contemporaries can be scarce. Jimmy Carter's inner circle is mostly gone now. Jody Powell died in 2009. Hamilton Jordan passed the year before. Bert Lance died in 2013.
Former U.S. senator Sam Nunn, 76, arrived in Washington four years before Carter's presidency began, and stayed 17 years longer. This morning, Nunn offered these thoughts on the former president's announcement that he has cancer:
"Remarkable man – remarkable spirit – remarkable life – that is far from over. Cancer has never met a tougher foe than our friend Jimmy Carter. Colleen and I will have President Carter, Rosalynn and their family in our prayers as they confront this challenge."
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As it was when the Ebola crisis struck, and when Bobby Kristina was found nearly dead in north Fulton, Emory University Hospital has again become a media background – this time for reports of former President Jimmy Carter's bout with cancer.
Our AJC shutter colleague John Spink sent the photo above of NBC’s Hallie Jackson and crew.
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