clicks over to just dump on smith is with this morning as the presidential campaign headquarters. this is the spot where thousands of people would drop by to get a sense of how a peanut farmer wanted to become president of the united states. i also need to take a look at this video. florida coming after nuts as he liberated his 90th birthday. as we were looking at was the third we tend but before that throughout the annual peanut possible weaving of the crowd. this may have been one of the last couple appearances here and planes. this hospice music of coroner preparing for the quarter born of life. it is understandably rocky point. the fact that he won t be
days at home under hospice care tributes are pouring in on social media from president biden, may you continue your journey with grace and dignity and god grant you peace. to those who worked alongside carter, the secret service tweeting, rest easy, mr. president. we will forever be by your side. the carter center today launching an online board for people to send messages of love and support. it was here in this small town of plains, georgia where the 39th president was born and married his wife rosalynn, the love of his life the best thing i ever did was marrying rosalynn. he worked as a peanut farmer before landing at the white house. i jimmy carter do solemnly swear - reporter: after just one term carter returned to plains where he taught sunday school for more than 40 years today his fellow church members said a special prayer we do lift the carter family, lord, to you. reporter: many leaving service with a heavy heart. i m happy for him
tomorrow, was established to honor founding father george washington. tonight we end with some insights on the nation s 39th president. our bob schieffer covered jimmy carter almost 50 years ago, and looked back in time on face the nation. reporter: when the former governor of georgia decided to run for president in 1975, it was not as if america had been waiting for him with bated breath. jimmy who? jimmy carter? jimmy who? i don t know who he is. reporter: he was so unknown that his surprise win in the iowa caucuses brought headlines blaring the same question. carter tried to make a virtue of his lack of washington experience. the self-made peanut farmer from plains, georgia introduced us to an improbable cast of small town characters. but his best asset was always wife rosalynn. carter s campaign came down to one simple promise i ll never tell a lie, i ll never make a misleading
prayer and love. may you continue your journey with grace and dignity and god grant you peace. so, i am standing right now, very close to main street here in plains, in georgia, the hometown of jimmy carter where everywhere you look, there s a peace of history. carter history here. to my left, you can see beyond the trees behind me his high school where he learned about american history. and probably never thinking that one day he would become mr. 39. the 39th president of the united states. and actually, as we look down this way, beyond the train tracks leshgs than a mile away, a couple blocks is the home that he built in 1961. the home that they still lives in today with his wife. and over to your left right here, this building that s now a museum, that is the presidential campaign headquarters for his 1976 presidential bid. this is the spot where thousands of people would drop by to get a sense of how a peanut farmer
carter receiving hospice care at his home in plains, georgia. the 98-year-old is foregoing to medical intervention. correspondent william la jeunesse is in plains tonight. i have had exciting and gratifying existence. for five decades after leaving washington, former president jimmy carter fought for peace, human rights and democracy instead of giving speeches, he built affordable homes. sometimes that work is very hot and hard. but we always feel like we get more out of it than we put in it. much of that time spent in plains, georgia where he grew up. jimmy carter knows what it s like to work for a living. baptist, peanut farmer and one term governor carter came out of nowhere in 1976 to defeat then president gerald ford becoming america s 39th president. i jimmy carter do solemnly swear. carter had high hopes, high unemployment, the hostage crisis in iran, the soviet invasion of afghanistan frustrated his agenda. reagan beat him four years later in a landslide.