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Military News -- Dozens of Troops Suspected of Advocating Overthrow of US Government, New Pentagon Extremism Report Says
Carrying shields, covering their faces, and holding upside down U.S. flags, marchers with the Alt-Right Neo-Nazi group "Reclaim America," chant the phrase "reclaim America," while marching near the Capitol, Saturday, May 13, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Military.com | By Konstantin Toropin
Published December 01, 2023 at 5:16pm ET
An annual Pentagon report on extremism within the ranks reveals that 78 service members were suspected of advocating for the overthrow of the U.S. government and another 44 were suspected of engaging or supporting terrorism.
The report released Thursday ... https://media.defense.gov/2023/Nov/30/2003349553/-1/-1/1/DODIG-2024-034_SECURED.PDF .. by the Defense Department inspector general revealed that in fiscal 2023 there were 183 allegations of extremism across all the branches of military, broken down not only into efforts to overthrow the government and terrorism but also advocating for widespread discrimination or violence to achieve political goals.
The statistics indicate the military continues to grapple with extremism following its public denunciations and a stand-down across the services ordered by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin in 2021. .. https://www.military.com/daily-news/2023/11/01/what-pentagon-has-hasnt-and-could-do-stop-veterans-and-troops-joining-extremist-groups.html .. Furthermore, the numbers do not make it clear whether the military's approach is working.
In 2021, the year the data was first released to Congress, there were 270 allegations of extremist activities. .. https://media.defense.gov/2021/Dec/02/2002902153/-1/-1/1/DODIG-2022-042.PDF In 2022, that figure dropped to 146 before rebounding over the past year.
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The Army had the most allegations in fiscal 2023 with 130 soldiers suspected of participation in extremist activity.
The Air Force suspected 29 airmen; the Navy and Marine Corps reported 10 service members each.
For the first time, the inspector general also reported numbers for the Space Force as a separate entity from the other services -- it suspected four Guardians of extremism.
Remaining links...
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2023/12/01/dozens-of-troops-suspected-of-advocating-overthrow-of-us-government-new-pentagon-extremism-report.html?ESRC=mr_231204.nl&utm_medium=email&utm_source=mr&utm_campaign=20231204
The IG report also included instances of alleged criminal gang activity: There were 58 allegations of gang activity across the military.
However, the report did note that, out of all the suspected extremism and criminal gang activity, 68 of the total cases were investigated and cleared or deemed unsubstantiated.
In the U.S., extremist activity, including neo-Nazi, white supremacist and anti-government movements, has been growing, and numerous violent plots by veterans and even active-duty troops have been thwarted in recent years. Experts on extremist movements have warned about the growing potential of more violence and future attacks, similar to the Oklahoma City federal building bombing in 1995 that killed 168 and was carried out by an Army veteran.
In February, a former National Guardsman, Brandon Russell, who founded the Atomwaffen Division, a neo-Nazi hate group, was charged with plotting to blow up Baltimore's electrical grid and cause as much suffering as possible. Russell, who allegedly kept a framed photo of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, was sentenced to five years in prison in 2018 after an arrest in Florida for possessing explosives.
In the wake of the Jan. 6 siege of the U.S. Capitol building, the Pentagon tried to make a show of dealing with the problem of extremism among troops after it became clear that veterans as well as some active-duty troops were among the mob that stormed the halls of Congress in an effort to halt the certification of the 2020 election.
Military.com has reported that many of those efforts -- including the military-wide extremism training stand-down ordered by Austin -- were largely symbolic and were widely considered as just another box for commanders to check.
One active-duty noncommissioned officer said that, aside from the fact that no one was paying attention at the stand-down briefing he attended, the commander giving the lecture was "talking about what he thought were radical groups like Black Lives Matter."
The idea that far-left groups are just as problematic as far-right ones is a popular talking point among conservatives and Republican lawmakers. However, law enforcement officials and experts who study the topic have consistently noted that far-right groups espousing anti-government and white supremacist views are the biggest threat to the U.S. today.
The report also revealed that other efforts such as screening prospective recruits before enlistment are not working as well as intended.
Some recruiters did not complete all of the screening steps and "as a result, military service recruiters may not have identified all applications with extremist or criminal gang associations," according to the inspector general report.
"Further, the audit found that one military service entered data indicating applicants disclosed extremist or gang associations even though the applicants had not made such disclosures," the IG said, but it did not reveal which of the services falsely accused some of its recruits of having extremist ties.
What the report does make clear, however, is that when allegations are made, they are being referred for investigation, and when allegations are substantiated, some action is taken.
Of all the extremist and gang activity allegations, 135 were reported to military or civilian law enforcement, and 109 of the allegations were reported to another DoD organization or official.
Furthermore, 69 of all the allegations were substantiated at the time the report was written and the vast majority of those -- 50 -- were handled through administrative actions. That included involuntary discharge for 19 and counseling in three instances, while 17 more were handled by nonjudicial punishment and two went to court-martial.
There were no substantiated cases of extremism or gang activity where no action was taken.
While these figures, compared with the overall size of the services, are small, research and experts say that military service members and veterans pose an outsized danger to communities when they go down the path of extremism, given their increased familiarity with firearms and ability to organize and plan effectively.
In 2020, an Air Force sergeant at Travis Air Force Base in California pulled up to a federal courthouse in Oakland, California, in a white van and opened fire on security guards, killing one before going on the run and murdering a county sheriff's deputy a week later as part of a larger plan to incite a civil war.
Also in 2020, members of a group that included two Marines and styled itself as a "modern day SS" were arrested on allegations that they were plotting to destroy the power grid in the northwest. U.S. court records in that case say members discussed recruiting other veterans, stole military equipment, asked others to buy explosives, and discussed plans to manufacture firearms.
-- Konstantin Toropin can be reached at konstantin.toropin@military.com. Follow him on X at @ktoropin.
Related: What the Pentagon Has, Hasn't and Could Do to Stop Veterans and Troops from Joining Extremist Groups
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2023/11/01/what-pentagon-has-hasnt-and-could-do-stop-veterans-and-troops-joining-extremist-groups.html
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2023/12/01/dozens-of-troops-suspected-of-advocating-overthrow-of-us-government-new-pentagon-extremism-report.html?ESRC=mr_231204.nl&utm_medium=email&utm_source=mr&utm_campaign=20231204
Military News -- Dozens of Troops Suspected of Advocating Overthrow of US Government, New Pentagon Extremism Report Says
Carrying shields, covering their faces, and holding upside down U.S. flags, marchers with the Alt-Right Neo-Nazi group "Reclaim America," chant the phrase "reclaim America," while marching near the Capitol, Saturday, May 13, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Military.com | By Konstantin Toropin
Published December 01, 2023 at 5:16pm ET
An annual Pentagon report on extremism within the ranks reveals that 78 service members were suspected of advocating for the overthrow of the U.S. government and another 44 were suspected of engaging or supporting terrorism.
The report released Thursday ... https://media.defense.gov/2023/Nov/30/2003349553/-1/-1/1/DODIG-2024-034_SECURED.PDF .. by the Defense Department inspector general revealed that in fiscal 2023 there were 183 allegations of extremism across all the branches of military, broken down not only into efforts to overthrow the government and terrorism but also advocating for widespread discrimination or violence to achieve political goals.
The statistics indicate the military continues to grapple with extremism following its public denunciations and a stand-down across the services ordered by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin in 2021. .. https://www.military.com/daily-news/2023/11/01/what-pentagon-has-hasnt-and-could-do-stop-veterans-and-troops-joining-extremist-groups.html .. Furthermore, the numbers do not make it clear whether the military's approach is working.
In 2021, the year the data was first released to Congress, there were 270 allegations of extremist activities. .. https://media.defense.gov/2021/Dec/02/2002902153/-1/-1/1/DODIG-2022-042.PDF In 2022, that figure dropped to 146 before rebounding over the past year.
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The Army had the most allegations in fiscal 2023 with 130 soldiers suspected of participation in extremist activity.
The Air Force suspected 29 airmen; the Navy and Marine Corps reported 10 service members each. For the first time, the inspector general also reported numbers for the Space Force as a separate entity from the other services -- it suspected four Guardians of extremism.
Remaining links...
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2023/12/01/dozens-of-troops-suspected-of-advocating-overthrow-of-us-government-new-pentagon-extremism-report.html?ESRC=mr_231204.nl&utm_medium=email&utm_source=mr&utm_campaign=20231204
The IG report also included instances of alleged criminal gang activity: There were 58 allegations of gang activity across the military.
However, the report did note that, out of all the suspected extremism and criminal gang activity, 68 of the total cases were investigated and cleared or deemed unsubstantiated.
In the U.S., extremist activity, including neo-Nazi, white supremacist and anti-government movements, has been growing, and numerous violent plots by veterans and even active-duty troops have been thwarted in recent years. Experts on extremist movements have warned about the growing potential of more violence and future attacks, similar to the Oklahoma City federal building bombing in 1995 that killed 168 and was carried out by an Army veteran.
In February, a former National Guardsman, Brandon Russell, who founded the Atomwaffen Division, a neo-Nazi hate group, was charged with plotting to blow up Baltimore's electrical grid and cause as much suffering as possible. Russell, who allegedly kept a framed photo of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, was sentenced to five years in prison in 2018 after an arrest in Florida for possessing explosives.
In the wake of the Jan. 6 siege of the U.S. Capitol building, the Pentagon tried to make a show of dealing with the problem of extremism among troops after it became clear that veterans as well as some active-duty troops were among the mob that stormed the halls of Congress in an effort to halt the certification of the 2020 election.
Military.com has reported that many of those efforts -- including the military-wide extremism training stand-down ordered by Austin -- were largely symbolic and were widely considered as just another box for commanders to check.
One active-duty noncommissioned officer said that, aside from the fact that no one was paying attention at the stand-down briefing he attended, the commander giving the lecture was "talking about what he thought were radical groups like Black Lives Matter."
The idea that far-left groups are just as problematic as far-right ones is a popular talking point among conservatives and Republican lawmakers. However, law enforcement officials and experts who study the topic have consistently noted that far-right groups espousing anti-government and white supremacist views are the biggest threat to the U.S. today.
The report also revealed that other efforts such as screening prospective recruits before enlistment are not working as well as intended.
Some recruiters did not complete all of the screening steps and "as a result, military service recruiters may not have identified all applications with extremist or criminal gang associations," according to the inspector general report.
"Further, the audit found that one military service entered data indicating applicants disclosed extremist or gang associations even though the applicants had not made such disclosures," the IG said, but it did not reveal which of the services falsely accused some of its recruits of having extremist ties.
What the report does make clear, however, is that when allegations are made, they are being referred for investigation, and when allegations are substantiated, some action is taken.
Of all the extremist and gang activity allegations, 135 were reported to military or civilian law enforcement, and 109 of the allegations were reported to another DoD organization or official.
Furthermore, 69 of all the allegations were substantiated at the time the report was written and the vast majority of those -- 50 -- were handled through administrative actions. That included involuntary discharge for 19 and counseling in three instances, while 17 more were handled by nonjudicial punishment and two went to court-martial.
There were no substantiated cases of extremism or gang activity where no action was taken.
While these figures, compared with the overall size of the services, are small, research and experts say that military service members and veterans pose an outsized danger to communities when they go down the path of extremism, given their increased familiarity with firearms and ability to organize and plan effectively.
In 2020, an Air Force sergeant at Travis Air Force Base in California pulled up to a federal courthouse in Oakland, California, in a white van and opened fire on security guards, killing one before going on the run and murdering a county sheriff's deputy a week later as part of a larger plan to incite a civil war.
Also in 2020, members of a group that included two Marines and styled itself as a "modern day SS" were arrested on allegations that they were plotting to destroy the power grid in the northwest. U.S. court records in that case say members discussed recruiting other veterans, stole military equipment, asked others to buy explosives, and discussed plans to manufacture firearms.
-- Konstantin Toropin can be reached at konstantin.toropin@military.com. Follow him on X at @ktoropin.
Related: What the Pentagon Has, Hasn't and Could Do to Stop Veterans and Troops from Joining Extremist Groups
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2023/11/01/what-pentagon-has-hasnt-and-could-do-stop-veterans-and-troops-joining-extremist-groups.html
Looking at that variety of photos is like viewing a stroll around the world.
This is CNN Digital’s “2023: Year in Pictures.” JANUARY - NOVEMBER 2023
Introduction by Bernadette Tuazon, CNN Digital’s Director of Photography
Published December 1, 2023
https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2023/specials/year-in-pictures/
This is CNN Digital’s “2023: Year in Pictures.” JANUARY - NOVEMBER 2023
Introduction by Bernadette Tuazon, CNN Digital’s Director of Photography
Published December 1, 2023
This year brought tragedy upon tragedy, with incomprehensible loss of lives: the war in Ukraine and the war between Israel and Hamas; devastating earthquakes in Afghanistan, Morocco, Syria and Turkey; and here in the United States, a fast-moving and devastating wildfire on Maui and record-setting mass shootings around the country.
Time and time again, we have seen all-too-familiar scenes of pain and suffering: parents mourning children and children mourning parents — and piercingly worse, children mourning children.
Interwoven in these tragedies are news events from the US Capitol as this country continues to grapple with our fragile democracy. We witnessed the chaotic and dizzying installation of Kevin McCarthy as House speaker. Then months later, we saw that rise to power upended in a dramatic revolt from McCarthy’s own party, the first of its kind in this nation’s history.
And in another historic first, we saw a former US president indicted on criminal charges, not once but four times over the year as Donald Trump now faces a total of 91 state and federal counts. In one of these indictments, the world saw a police mug shot of Trump, with his eyes furrowed and looking straight at a low-grade camera. It was the first mug shot taken of a former American president. He has pleaded not guilty in all the cases and accused Democrats of targeting him politically.
Amid all of this troubling news, there were welcome breaks. On the big screen, the “Barbie” movie captured people’s imagination. And two of the world’s biggest pop stars — Beyoncé and Taylor Swift — performed and sashayed their way on stage while adoring fans sang along with them and donned attire in glittering fashion. Fans even deepened their fixation on Swift as news broke of the “Eras Tour” star’s budding romance with the Kansas City Chiefs’ Travis Kelce.
Elsewhere in sports, there was a gritty and inspiring comeback this year worth noting. American gymnast Simone Biles, who took time off for her mental health following the last Olympic Games, punctuated her reemergence with record-breaking performances at the World Championships.
Year in and year out, news photography captures our eyes, hearts and hopefully our minds to help inform and educate us.
Behind these images is the dedicated work of photographers around the world who go out daily — and some have lost their lives — determined to capture photos that can shape our thinking on what is happening in our shared universe.
This is CNN Digital’s “2023: Year in Pictures.” JANUARY - NOVEMBER 2023
Editor’s note: “Barbie” was distributed by Warner Bros., which is owned by CNN’s parent company Warner Bros. Discovery.
Editor’s note: Some of these images are graphic. Viewer discretion is advised.
https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2023/specials/year-in-pictures/
The year in photos: AP’s most memorable photos of 2023
By TED ANTHONY
Updated 11:36 PM CST, November 30, 2023
The mission of photojournalism is to capture moments that represent — and, at their best, truly reveal — the endless spectrum of the human experience.
Associated Press photographers across the world have spent 2023 doing exactly that — sometimes at great risk or personal exertion, always with ethics and compassion and quality, and with an eye forever trained toward the memorable.
When those photographers encounter the world, though — from Israel and Gaza to Brazil, from Mongolia to the American heartland and beyond — often they have no idea what they’ll find until it is upon them.
Here is some of what they found in 2023, in all its contradictions:
Conflict. Ambition. Anger. Injustice. Striving. Merriment. Poverty. Blood. The quest for excellence, no matter the arena. The human body, in glorious and panicked motion and, too often, sadly stilled. Struggle — to protect loved ones, to navigate a warming planet, to escape strife and oppression, to survive nature’s capriciousness.
Death, life and more death — in all its unwelcome permutations. Bursts of joy in unexpected places. Tears upon tears upon tears. Wars that have just begun, wars that continue, wars already almost forgotten. The gamut of human existence.
Today, in a connected and absurdly complex world, a single year contains far more cataclysmic news than we can ever begin to process. Ways to make sense of it are rare. But using technology to freeze moments — capturing them in unforgettable photography — offers a small chance to pause and say: At this particular hour in our civilization, this is what happened to us.
some images may be disturbing to some viewers....
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https://apnews.com/article/photos-2023-yearend-photography-ap-0a62ee84672da7a03685c5f5f64f2c47
The year in photos: AP’s most memorable photos of 2023
By TED ANTHONY
Updated 11:36 PM CST, November 30, 2023
The mission of photojournalism is to capture moments that represent — and, at their best, truly reveal — the endless spectrum of the human experience.
Associated Press photographers across the world have spent 2023 doing exactly that — sometimes at great risk or personal exertion, always with ethics and compassion and quality, and with an eye forever trained toward the memorable.
When those photographers encounter the world, though — from Israel and Gaza to Brazil, from Mongolia to the American heartland and beyond — often they have no idea what they’ll find until it is upon them.
Here is some of what they found in 2023, in all its contradictions:
Conflict. Ambition. Anger. Injustice. Striving. Merriment. Poverty. Blood. The quest for excellence, no matter the arena. The human body, in glorious and panicked motion and, too often, sadly stilled. Struggle — to protect loved ones, to navigate a warming planet, to escape strife and oppression, to survive nature’s capriciousness.
Death, life and more death — in all its unwelcome permutations. Bursts of joy in unexpected places. Tears upon tears upon tears. Wars that have just begun, wars that continue, wars already almost forgotten. The gamut of human existence.
Today, in a connected and absurdly complex world, a single year contains far more cataclysmic news than we can ever begin to process. Ways to make sense of it are rare. But using technology to freeze moments — capturing them in unforgettable photography — offers a small chance to pause and say: At this particular hour in our civilization, this is what happened to us.
some images may be disturbing to some viewers....
[...]
https://apnews.com/article/photos-2023-yearend-photography-ap-0a62ee84672da7a03685c5f5f64f2c47
SANTOS, THE LIAR
"Santos's fraud against the American people is only surpassed by Trump's election lies."
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In four years, President Trump made 30,573 false or misleading claims
The Fact Checker’s database of the false or misleading claims made by President Trump while in office.
Updated Jan. 20, 2021
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-claims-database/?itid=lk_inline_manual_11
MORE: The House expels Rep. George Santos. An ethics report had accused him of breaking federal law
By KEVIN FREKING
Updated 1:56 PM CST, December 1, 2023
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House voted on Friday to expel Republican Rep. George Santos of New York after a blistering ethics report on his conduct heightened lawmakers’ concerns about the scandal-plagued freshman. Santos became just the sixth member in the chamber’s history to be ousted by colleagues, and the third since the Civil War.
The vote to expel was 311-114, easily clearing the two-thirds majority required.
House Republican leaders opposed removing Santos, whose departure leaves them with a razor-thin majority, but in the end 105 GOP lawmakers sided with nearly all Democrats to expel him.
The expulsion marked the final congressional chapter in a spectacular fall from grace for Santos. Celebrated as an up-and-comer after he flipped a district from Democrats last year, Santos’ life story began to unravel before he was even sworn into office. Reports emerged that he had lied about having Jewish ancestry, a career at top Wall Street firms and a college degree, among other things.
Then, in May, Santos was indicted by federal prosecutors on multiple charges, turning his presence in the House into a growing distraction and embarrassment to the party.
Santos joins a short list of lawmakers expelled from the House, and for reasons uniquely his own. Of the previous expulsions in the House, three were for siding with the Confederacy during the Civil War. The remaining two occurred after the lawmakers were convicted of crimes in federal court, the most recent in 2002.
Seeking to remain in office, Santos had appealed to colleagues to let the court process play out. He warned of the precedent they would set by expelling a member not yet convicted of a crime.
[...]
https://apnews.com/article/george-santos-expulsion-vote-ethics-investigation-fd0f1524065883c6b2fe3e6f9afd84db
The Fact Checker’s database of the false or misleading claims made by President Trump while in office.
In four years, President Trump made 30,573 false or misleading claims
Analysis Interpretation of the news based on evidence, including data, as well as anticipating how events might unfold based on past events.
Fact Checker Analysis
Updated Jan. 20, 2021
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-claims-database/?itid=lk_inline_manual_11
2023 through the lens of Reuters photographers
THE WIDER IMAGE
By Reuters Photographers
Filed November 28, 2023, 11:00 a.m. GMT
This year is one that will go down in history as being marked by two big wars - an ongoing conflict in Ukraine as it fights off a Russian invasion and a fresh outbreak of violence in the Middle East between Israel and Hamas militants.
Reuters photographers were on the ground to capture it all as it unfolded - and much more.
In February, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake in Turkey and Syria brought buildings down on their residents - including Abdulalim Muaini, who was eventually rescued, and his family, who were among the more than 54,000 people who lost their lives in the disaster. Another quake in September killed more than 2,900 people in Morocco.
It was a year when evidence that the Earth’s climate was changing seemed starker than ever. Wildfires in southern Europe and Canada in July destroyed homes and blanketed cities in a thick haze, while in Latin America water levels dropped, threatening livelihoods and leaving Amazon River dolphins high and dry. Storms brought heavy rains to California in March, almost completely swallowing one road - a sight best illustrated from the sky.
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https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/global-poy-2023/
TikTok ??? LOLOLOLOL
That strange picture was questioned before...
“Adam Schultz, the chief official White House photographer, declined to explain when reached by The New York Times. Adam Schultz/The White House”
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Rosalynn Carter honored by family, friends, first ladies and presidents, including husband Jimmy
01:59
https://apnews.com/article/rosalynn-carter-funeral-jimmy-joe-biden-def25a63701d39a1516da25015e48683
By BILL BARROW and ANDREW DeMILLO
Updated 5:11 PM CST, November 28, 2023
ATLANTA (AP) — Rosalynn Carter was remembered Tuesday as a former U.S. first lady who leveraged her fierce intellect and political power to put her deep Christian faith into action by always helping others, especially those who needed it most.
A gathering of first ladies and presidents — including her 99-year-old husband Jimmy Carter — joined other political figures in tribute. But a parade of speakers said her global stature wasn’t what defined her.
“She had met kings and queens, presidents, others in authority, powerful corporate leaders and celebrities,” her son James Earl “Chip” Carter III said. “She said the people that she felt the most comfortable with and the people she enjoyed being with the most were those that lived in absolute abject poverty, the ones without adequate housing, without a proper diet and without access to health care.”
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ROSALYNN CARTER DIES AGED 96
The Carter Center announced her death on November 19 after living with dementia and suffering many months of declining health.
* The statement on her death read that the former first lady “died peacefully, with family by her side.” Read more.
https://apnews.com/article/rosalynn-carter-dead-e4291133392444bc9ad9d1da461d95c1
* Carter was a force behind husband Jimmy Carter’s rise from peanut farmer to winner of the 1976 presidential election.
https://apnews.com/article/rosalynn-carter-dead-69fadff26354d26bdda94c5d52558a7f
* In her 96 years, Carter saw many landmarks and notable events in her life. Take a look at the key moments.
https://apnews.com/article/rosalynn-carter-dead-7b208f1b51fe0efd4fe8cf0ac0592fea
The service was held during three days of events celebrating the humanitarian who died Nov. 19 at home in Plains, Georgia, at the age of 96. Tributes began Monday in the Carters’ native Sumter County and continued at Glenn Memorial Church in Atlanta. Her funeral and burial are planned for Wednesday in her small hometown.
Jimmy Carter, who is 10 months into home hospice care, watched from his wheelchair, reclining and covered by a blanket featuring his wife’s face. Chip and his sister, Amy, held their father’s hands and were flanked by their brothers, Jeff and Jack.
Former President Jimmy Carter, arrives to attend a tribute service for his wife and former first lady Rosalynn Carter, at Glenn Memorial Church, Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden, the Carters’ longtime friends, joined them in the front row, along with former President Bill Clinton, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the other living former first ladies, Melania Trump, Michelle Obama and Laura Bush. Vice President Kamala Harris and second gentleman Doug Emhoff paid their respects, as did Georgia’s U.S. senators and Gov. Brian Kemp and his wife, Marty.
The casket of former first lady Rosalynn Carter, arrives inside Glenn Memorial Church, Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
More than 1,000 people, including a sizeable contingent of Secret Service agents, filled the sanctuary. Former Presidents Donald Trump, Barack Obama and George W. Bush were invited but did not attend.
“My mother was the glue that held our family together through the ups and downs and thicks and thins of our family’s politics,” Chip Carter said.
The pews filled with political power players, but front and center were her children and dozens of grandchildren and great-grandchildren — all surrounding Jimmy Carter, her partner of 77 years.
James “Chip” Carter kisses his father, former President Jimmy Carter, after speaking during a tribute service for his mother, former first lady Rosalynn Carter, at Glenn Memorial Church at Emory University on Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023, in Atlanta, as Amy Carter, left, looks on. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
“Their partnership and love story was a defining feature of her life,” said Amy Carter, who read a love note her father wrote to her mother 75 years ago.
Journalist Judy Woodruff recalled Rosalynn Carter lobbying lawmakers, campaigning separately from her husband, attending Cabinet meetings and playing key roles — including being the first presidential adviser to suggest Camp David as a negotiating place for Epypt’s Anwar Sadat and Israel’s Menachem Begin. Those negotiations led to historic peace accords between the two countries.
“Without Rosalynn Carter, I don’t believe there would have been a President Carter,” Woodruff said.
Judy Woodruff pauses at the casket after speaking at a tribute service for former first lady Rosalynn Carter at Glenn Memorial Church at Emory University on Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson, Pool)
It was Jimmy Carter’s first public appearance since he entered hospice care, other than a brief ride with Rosalynn in September’s Plains Peanut Festival parade, where they were visible only through the open windows of a Secret Service vehicle. He was with his wife during her final hours but did not appear publicly during earlier events at her alma mater, Georgia Southwestern State University in Americus, and at his presidential library.
https://apnews.com/article/rosalynn-carter-funeral-jimmy-joe-biden-def25a63701d39a1516da25015e48683
Rosalynn Carter honored by family, friends, first ladies and presidents, including husband Jimmy
01:59
https://apnews.com/article/rosalynn-carter-funeral-jimmy-joe-biden-def25a63701d39a1516da25015e48683
By BILL BARROW and ANDREW DeMILLO
Updated 5:11 PM CST, November 28, 2023
ATLANTA (AP) — Rosalynn Carter was remembered Tuesday as a former U.S. first lady who leveraged her fierce intellect and political power to put her deep Christian faith into action by always helping others, especially those who needed it most.
A gathering of first ladies and presidents — including her 99-year-old husband Jimmy Carter — joined other political figures in tribute. But a parade of speakers said her global stature wasn’t what defined her.
“She had met kings and queens, presidents, others in authority, powerful corporate leaders and celebrities,” her son James Earl “Chip” Carter III said. “She said the people that she felt the most comfortable with and the people she enjoyed being with the most were those that lived in absolute abject poverty, the ones without adequate housing, without a proper diet and without access to health care.”
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ROSALYNN CARTER DIES AGED 96
The Carter Center announced her death on November 19 after living with dementia and suffering many months of declining health.
* The statement on her death read that the former first lady “died peacefully, with family by her side.” Read more.
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* Carter was a force behind husband Jimmy Carter’s rise from peanut farmer to winner of the 1976 presidential election.
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* In her 96 years, Carter saw many landmarks and notable events in her life. Take a look at the key moments.
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The service was held during three days of events celebrating the humanitarian who died Nov. 19 at home in Plains, Georgia, at the age of 96. Tributes began Monday in the Carters’ native Sumter County and continued at Glenn Memorial Church in Atlanta. Her funeral and burial are planned for Wednesday in her small hometown.
Jimmy Carter, who is 10 months into home hospice care, watched from his wheelchair, reclining and covered by a blanket featuring his wife’s face. Chip and his sister, Amy, held their father’s hands and were flanked by their brothers, Jeff and Jack.
Former President Jimmy Carter, arrives to attend a tribute service for his wife and former first lady Rosalynn Carter, at Glenn Memorial Church, Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden, the Carters’ longtime friends, joined them in the front row, along with former President Bill Clinton, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the other living former first ladies, Melania Trump, Michelle Obama and Laura Bush. Vice President Kamala Harris and second gentleman Doug Emhoff paid their respects, as did Georgia’s U.S. senators and Gov. Brian Kemp and his wife, Marty.
The casket of former first lady Rosalynn Carter, arrives inside Glenn Memorial Church, Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
More than 1,000 people, including a sizeable contingent of Secret Service agents, filled the sanctuary. Former Presidents Donald Trump, Barack Obama and George W. Bush were invited but did not attend.
“My mother was the glue that held our family together through the ups and downs and thicks and thins of our family’s politics,” Chip Carter said.
The pews filled with political power players, but front and center were her children and dozens of grandchildren and great-grandchildren — all surrounding Jimmy Carter, her partner of 77 years.
James “Chip” Carter kisses his father, former President Jimmy Carter, after speaking during a tribute service for his mother, former first lady Rosalynn Carter, at Glenn Memorial Church at Emory University on Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023, in Atlanta, as Amy Carter, left, looks on. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
“Their partnership and love story was a defining feature of her life,” said Amy Carter, who read a love note her father wrote to her mother 75 years ago.
Journalist Judy Woodruff recalled Rosalynn Carter lobbying lawmakers, campaigning separately from her husband, attending Cabinet meetings and playing key roles — including being the first presidential adviser to suggest Camp David as a negotiating place for Epypt’s Anwar Sadat and Israel’s Menachem Begin. Those negotiations led to historic peace accords between the two countries.
“Without Rosalynn Carter, I don’t believe there would have been a President Carter,” Woodruff said.
Judy Woodruff pauses at the casket after speaking at a tribute service for former first lady Rosalynn Carter at Glenn Memorial Church at Emory University on Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson, Pool)
It was Jimmy Carter’s first public appearance since he entered hospice care, other than a brief ride with Rosalynn in September’s Plains Peanut Festival parade, where they were visible only through the open windows of a Secret Service vehicle. He was with his wife during her final hours but did not appear publicly during earlier events at her alma mater, Georgia Southwestern State University in Americus, and at his presidential library.
https://apnews.com/article/rosalynn-carter-funeral-jimmy-joe-biden-def25a63701d39a1516da25015e48683
Pence told Jan. 6 special counsel harrowing details about 2020 aftermath, warnings to Trump: Sources
The former VP is the top official known to have spoken with investigators.
ByKatherine Faulders, Mike Levine, and Alexander Mallin
November 28, 2023, 4:08 AM
"...Trump didn’t just assemble and stoke the violent mob that day, the panel argued; he used it to keep pressure on lawmakers and then-Vice President Mike Pence to further derail the day’s constitutionally mandated proceedings...."
Speaking with special counsel Jack Smith's team earlier this year, former Vice President Mike Pence offered harrowing details about how, in the wake of the 2020 presidential election, then-President Donald Trump surrounded himself with "crank" attorneys, espoused "un-American" legal theories, and almost pushed the country toward a "constitutional crisis," according to sources familiar with what Pence told investigators.
The sources said Pence also told investigators he's "sure" that -- in the days before Jan. 6, 2021, when a violent mob tried to stop Congress from certifying the election -- he informed Trump he still hadn't seen evidence of significant election fraud, but Trump was unmoved, continuing to claim the election was "stolen" and acting "recklessly" on that "tragic day."
Pence is the highest-ranking current or former government official known to have spoken with the special counsel team investigating efforts to overturn the 2020 election. What he allegedly told investigators, described exclusively to ABC News, sheds further light on the evidence Smith's team has amassed as it prosecutes Trump for allegedly trying to unlawfully "remain in power" and "erode public faith" in democratic institutions.
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Pence could take the stand against Trump should Smith's election interference case go to trial, which is currently slated to occur in March.
As described to ABC News, much of what the former vice president told Smith's investigators mirrored -- and at times restated verbatim -- comments he has previously made publicly. Questions from Smith's team repeatedly focused on a book Pence published last year, with investigators apparently seeking to have Pence confirm -- under oath -- an array of post-election stories and opinions he included in the book.
But speaking with Smith's team behind closed doors, Pence also offered previously-undisclosed anecdotes and details showing how his longtime friendship with Trump unraveled in the final weeks of their time in the White House, including Pence's repeated warnings to Trump about the then-president's push to overturn the election results.
Sources said that in at least one interview with Pence, Smith's investigators pressed the former vice president on personal notes he took after meetings with Trump and others, which investigators obtained from the National Archives.
According to sources, one of Pence's notes obtained by Smith's team shows that, days before Pence was set to preside over Congress certifying the election results on Jan. 6, 2021, he momentarily decided that he would skip the proceedings altogether, writing in the note that there were "too many questions" and it would otherwise be "too hurtful to my friend." But he ultimately concluded he had a duty to show up.
Speaking with Smith's team, Pence insisted his loyalty to President Trump at the time never faltered -- "My only higher loyalty was to God and the Constitution," sources described Pence as telling them.
Sources said that investigators' questioning became so granular at times that they pressed Pence over the placement of a comma in his book: When recounting a phone call with Trump on Christmas Day 2020, Pence wrote in his book that he told Trump, "You know, I don't think I have the authority to change the outcome" of the election on Jan. 6.
But Pence allegedly told Smith's investigators that the comma should have never been placed there. According to sources, Pence told Smith's investigators that he actually meant to write in his book that he admonished Trump, "You know I don't think I have the authority to change the outcome," suggesting Trump was well aware of the limitations of Pence's authority days before Jan. 6 -- a line Smith includes in his indictment.
In April, ABC News reported that Pence had just testified before a federal grand jury in Washington. Two months later, in June, Pence launched a bid to challenge Trump as the Republican Party's next presidential candidate -- but Pence's campaign lasted only four months.
'Accept the results'
Sources said Pence acknowledged to Smith's team that even before Election Day on Nov. 3, 2020, he was aware that the Trump-Pence ticket was expected to take a big early lead in the polls that would then gradually fade as more mail-in ballots were counted.
Sources said Pence acknowledged to Smith's team that even before Election Day on Nov. 3, 2020, he was aware that the Trump-Pence ticket was expected to take a big early lead in the polls that would then gradually fade as more mail-in ballots were counted.
In the first few days after the election, Pence never saw any "significant allegations of fraud," according to what he told Smith's team, sources said. But Trump still declared victory -- and claimed there was "a major fraud in our nation" -- within hours of polls closing, though Pence allegedly told investigators he believes Trump was speaking "in very general terms," not about specific instances of fraud.
At the same time, Trump privately instructed Pence to dig into any potential fraud or "irregularities" in the election, telling Pence their campaign "was going to fight," in court and elsewhere, Pence allegedly told Smith's team.
However, sources told ABC News, Pence said he grew concerned when, within days of the election, Trump began ignoring the advice of credible and experienced attorneys inside the White House, instead relying on outside attorneys like Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell, who pushed notions of widespread election fraud and, as Pence allegedly told Smith's team, "did a great disservice to the president and a great disservice to the country."
There is "no doubt" that Trump "knew what I thought of those attorneys," but he still listened to them, Pence told Smith's investigators, according to sources.
In his interviews with Smith's team, Pence recalled a meeting he had alone with Trump inside the Oval Office on Dec. 21, 2020, as the campaign's legal challenges across the country were failing but Trump was continuing to claim the election was stolen and had begun urging supporters to gather in Washington, D.C., for a "big protest" on Jan. 6, 2021.
When Trump privately asked Pence what they should do, Pence said he told the then-president that if nothing changed, "[you] should simply accept the results," "you should take a bow," travel the country to thank supporters, "and then run again if you want."
"And I'll never forget, he pointed at me ... as if to say, 'That's worth thinking about.' And he walked [away]," Pence recalled to investigators, sources said.
However, two days later -- as noted in Smith's election interference-related indictment against Trump -- Trump "re-tweeted a memo titled 'Operation PENCE CARD,' which falsely asserted that the Vice President could, among other things, unilaterally disqualify legitimate electors from six targeted states."
When Pence, on his way to Colorado for Christmas vacation, saw Trump's post, he turned to his wife and said, "Here we go," he recalled to Smith's investigators, sources said.
'No idea more un-American'
As Pence described it to investigators, according to sources, he understood by late December 2020 that the Trump campaign had run out of legal options in its fight to remain in power -- but he urged lawmakers to raise potentially credible allegations of fraud during the upcoming proceedings on Jan. 6, 2021, when Pence would be presiding over Congress to certify the election results and decide whether to reject any votes.
In a meeting at the White House in late December 2020, as many as 20 House Republicans erupted in applause after Pence told them to "get your evidence together" and assured them "we [will] get our day in Congress," with an opportunity for all of the evidence to be heard before the election would be certified, sources said he told Smith's team.
Pence told investigators he was then still "very open to the possibility that there was voter fraud" in the election, and he was focused on following the facts and the law, according to the sources.
At the same time, Trump was privately pressing Pence to reject certain votes at the Jan. 6 proceedings and block certification of the election -- and Trump even suggested to Pence that perhaps he should skip the session altogether, Pence allegedly told Smith's team. But, according to sources, Pence told investigators that he "clearly and repeatedly" emphasized to Trump that rejecting certain votes would violate the Constitution.
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"I told him I thought there was no idea more un-American than the idea that any one person could decide what electoral votes to count," Pence allegedly told Smith's team, echoing what he has said before in his book and other public forums. "I made it very plain to him that it was inconsistent with our history and tradition."
Pence insisted that in America, under the Constitution establishing three co-equal branches of government, election disputes are resolved by courts and elected lawmakers, sources said.
But, the sources said, with the pressure on Pence mounting, he concluded on Christmas Eve -- just for a moment -- that he would follow Trump's suggestion and let someone else preside over the proceedings on Jan. 6, writing in his notes that doing otherwise would be "too hurtful to my friend."
"Not feeling like I should attend electoral count," Pence wrote in his notes in late December. "Too many questions, too many doubts, too hurtful to my friend. Therefore I'm not going to participate in certification of election."
Then, sitting across the table from his son, a Marine, while on vacation in Colorado, his son said to him, "Dad, you took the same oath I took" -- it was "an oath to support and defend the Constitution," Pence recalled to Smith's investigators, sources said.
That's when Pence decided he would be at the Capitol on Jan. 6 after all, according to the sources.
Trump 'acted recklessly'
Smith's federal indictment against Trump, filed in August, repeatedly refers to Pence, including Trump's unsuccessful efforts "to enlist" him.
The indictment says Trump's claims of outcome-determinative fraud in the election "were false, and [Trump] knew that they were false," in part because Pence, "who personally stood to gain by remaining in office," already told Trump "he had seen no evidence of outcome-determinative fraud."
Senior White House attorneys, senior Justice Department officials, senior staffers on Trump's campaign, officials at the Department of Homeland Security, and state and federal courts across the country had offered similar assessments to Trump, the indictment notes.
But Trump repeated claims of widespread election fraud anyway to, among other things, "create an intense national atmosphere of mistrust and anger," according to the indictment. And in his public statements on the morning of Jan. 6, Trump "directed" supporters to the Capitol "to obstruct the certification proceeding and exert pressure" on Pence, the indictment alleges.
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"After it became public on the afternoon of January 6 that the Vice President would not fraudulently alter the election results, a large and angry crowd -- including many individuals whom the Defendant had deceived into believing the Vice President could and might change the election results -- violently attacked the Capitol and halted the proceeding," the indictment says.
According to sources, when Pence spoke with Smith's team earlier this year, he said Trump's words that morning "didn't help," and he said Trump "acted recklessly" as the Capitol was under siege. But Pence also said he will "never believe" Trump meant for Jan. 6 to become violent.
Trump has pleaded not guilty in the case and denied any wrongdoing. He recently accused Pence of "mak[ing] up stories about me, which are absolutely false."
"I never said for him to put me before the Constitution," Trump posted to his social media platform, Truth Social, in September. "Mike failed badly on calling out Voter Fraud in the 2020 Presidential Election."
A spokesperson for Trump told ABC News, "Tens of millions of Americans, including Vice President Pence, as he repeatedly stated himself, have had grave and serious concerns about the legitimacy of the rigged and stolen 2020 Presidential Election, further proving that the lawless indictment against President Trump should be summarily dismissed."
Pence has never described the election as "stolen," and in his public statements -- as well as what sources said he told Smith's investigators -- he has said he didn't have concerns about widespread fraud, but instead about "irregularities" in how elections were managed.
A spokesperson for Smith and a spokesperson for Pence both declined to comment to ABC News.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/pence-told-jan-6-special-counsel-harrowing-details/story?id=105183391
Former first lady Rosalynn Carter to be honored in private tribute service
Tuesday's service will be attended by former President Jimmy Carter, President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, first lady Jill Biden and former politicians and first ladies.
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https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/former-first-lady-rosalynn-carter-honored-private-tribute-service-rcna126879
Nov. 28, 2023, 6:00 AM CST
By Megan Lebowitz
Former first lady Rosalynn Carter will be remembered Tuesday with a tribute service attended by President Joe Biden and her husband, former President Jimmy Carter, as well as numerous current and former politicians and first ladies.
The service, which will take place at Glenn Memorial Church on the campus of Emory University in Atlanta, comes a little over a week after Carter died Nov. 19 at age 96 in Plains, Georgia.
On Monday, the first day of services, the former first lady lay in repose at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum in Atlanta. A private funeral service is scheduled for Wednesday in Plains.
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Three days of memorial events planned in Georgia for Roalyn
Notable guests for Tuesday's invitation-only service include the Bidens, Vice President Kamala Harris and second gentleman Doug Emhoff, former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and former first ladies Laura Bush, Michelle Obama and Melania Trump, among other politicians and officials, according to the Carter Center, the nonprofit organization founded by Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter.
"The president and the first lady certainly look forward to being there and to ... offering their condolences," White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said at Monday's briefing. She said the president would not be delivering remarks at the service.
Former President Jimmy Carter and former first lady Rosalynn Carter with President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden
at the Carters' home in Plains, Ga., on April 30, 2021.Adam Schultz / The White House via AP file
The service will include musical performances by Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood and members of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, according to the Carter Center. Rosalynn Carter's family members and friends will also have a hand throughout the service, with her children James Earl “Chip” Carter III welcoming guests and Amy Carter presenting a reading, the center said.
A grandson and great-grandchildren will read Scripture passages. A grandson will also deliver a tribute, along with Kathryn Cade, a friend and longtime aide and the vice chair at the Rosalynn Carter Institute for Caregivers, and PBS journalist Judy Woodruff.
"Time and time again, during the more than four decades of our friendship — through rigors of campaigns, through the darkness of deep and profound loss — we always felt the hope, warmth, and optimism of Rosalynn Carter," Biden said in a statement Nov. 19 about the death of the former first lady. "She will always be in our hearts."
Rosalynn Carter spent much of her life advocating for mental health care. In 1987, she founded the caregivers institute, building on her "belief that everyone is a caregiver now, has been a caregiver, or will either be or need a caregiver in the future," according to the organization's website.
“Rosalynn was my equal partner in everything I ever accomplished,” Jimmy Carter said in a statement Nov. 19. “She gave me wise guidance and encouragement when I needed it. As long as Rosalynn was in the world, I always knew somebody loved and supported me.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/former-first-lady-rosalynn-carter-honored-private-tribute-service-rcna126879
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By BILL BARROW
Updated 10:21 AM CST, November 28, 2023
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Former first lady Rosalynn Carter to be honored in private tribute service
Tuesday's service will be attended by former President Jimmy Carter, President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, first lady Jill Biden and former politicians and first ladies.
02:13
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/former-first-lady-rosalynn-carter-honored-private-tribute-service-rcna126879
Nov. 28, 2023, 6:00 AM CST
By Megan Lebowitz
Former first lady Rosalynn Carter will be remembered Tuesday with a tribute service attended by President Joe Biden and her husband, former President Jimmy Carter, as well as numerous current and former politicians and first ladies.
The service, which will take place at Glenn Memorial Church on the campus of Emory University in Atlanta, comes a little over a week after Carter died Nov. 19 at age 96 in Plains, Georgia.
On Monday, the first day of services, the former first lady lay in repose at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum in Atlanta. A private funeral service is scheduled for Wednesday in Plains.
Video 1:52
Three days of memorial events planned in Georgia for Roalyn
Notable guests for Tuesday's invitation-only service include the Bidens, Vice President Kamala Harris and second gentleman Doug Emhoff, former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and former first ladies Laura Bush, Michelle Obama and Melania Trump, among other politicians and officials, according to the Carter Center, the nonprofit organization founded by Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter.
"The president and the first lady certainly look forward to being there and to ... offering their condolences," White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said at Monday's briefing. She said the president would not be delivering remarks at the service.
Former President Jimmy Carter and former first lady Rosalynn Carter with President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden
at the Carters' home in Plains, Ga., on April 30, 2021.Adam Schultz / The White House via AP file
The service will include musical performances by Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood and members of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, according to the Carter Center. Rosalynn Carter's family members and friends will also have a hand throughout the service, with her children James Earl “Chip” Carter III welcoming guests and Amy Carter presenting a reading, the center said.
A grandson and great-grandchildren will read Scripture passages. A grandson will also deliver a tribute, along with Kathryn Cade, a friend and longtime aide and the vice chair at the Rosalynn Carter Institute for Caregivers, and PBS journalist Judy Woodruff.
"Time and time again, during the more than four decades of our friendship — through rigors of campaigns, through the darkness of deep and profound loss — we always felt the hope, warmth, and optimism of Rosalynn Carter," Biden said in a statement Nov. 19 about the death of the former first lady. "She will always be in our hearts."
Rosalynn Carter spent much of her life advocating for mental health care. In 1987, she founded the caregivers institute, building on her "belief that everyone is a caregiver now, has been a caregiver, or will either be or need a caregiver in the future," according to the organization's website.
“Rosalynn was my equal partner in everything I ever accomplished,” Jimmy Carter said in a statement Nov. 19. “She gave me wise guidance and encouragement when I needed it. As long as Rosalynn was in the world, I always knew somebody loved and supported me.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/former-first-lady-rosalynn-carter-honored-private-tribute-service-rcna126879
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Jimmy Carter plans to attend Tuesday’s memorial for Rosalynn Carter
By BILL BARROW
Updated 10:21 AM CST, November 28, 2023
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A Proclamation on the Death of Rosalynn Carter
THE WHITE HOUSE
November 21, 2023
Briefing Room > Presidential Actions
Throughout her life as First Lady of Georgia and First Lady of the United States, Rosalynn Carter exemplified hope, warmth, and a steadfast commitment to doing all she could to address many of our society’s greatest needs. She was a champion for equal rights and opportunities for women and girls; an advocate for mental health and wellness for all; and a supporter of the often unseen and uncompensated caregivers of our children, aging loved ones, and people with disabilities. Above all, the deep love shared between Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter is the definition of partnership, and their humble leadership is the definition of patriotism.
As a mark of respect for the memory of Rosalynn Carter, by the authority vested in me as President of the United States by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, I hereby order that the flag of the United States shall be flown at half-staff at the White House and upon all public buildings and grounds, at all military posts and naval stations, and on all naval vessels of the Federal Government in the District of Columbia and throughout the United States and its Territories and possessions from November 25, 2023, until sunset, on the day of interment. I also direct that the flag shall be flown at half-staff for the same length of time at all United States embassies, legations, consular offices, and other facilities abroad, including all military facilities and naval vessels and stations.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty-first day of November, in the year of our Lord two thousand twenty-three, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and forty-eighth.
JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2023/11/21/a-proclamation-on-the-death-of-rosalynn-carter/
This Day In History: November 22, 1963 --
60 YEARS AGO -- President John F. Kennedy is assassinated
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, is assassinated in 1963 while traveling through Dallas, Texas, in an open-top convertible.
First lady Jacqueline Kennedy rarely accompanied her husband on political outings, but she was beside him, along with Texas Governor John Connally and his wife, for a 10-mile motorcade through the streets of downtown Dallas on November 22. Sitting in a Lincoln convertible, the Kennedys and Connallys waved at the large and enthusiastic crowds gathered along the parade route. As their vehicle passed the Texas School Book Depository Building at 12:30 p.m., Lee Harvey Oswald allegedly fired three shots from the sixth floor, fatally wounding President Kennedy and seriously injuring Governor Connally. Kennedy was pronounced dead 30 minutes later at Dallas’ Parkland Hospital. He was 46.
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Vice President Lyndon Johnson, who was three cars behind President Kennedy in the motorcade, was sworn in as the 36th president of the United States at 2:39 p.m. He took the presidential oath of office aboard Air Force One as it sat on the runway at Dallas Love Field airport. The swearing in was witnessed by some 30 people, including Jacqueline Kennedy, who was still wearing clothes stained with her husband’s blood. Seven minutes later, the presidential jet took off for Washington.
The next day, November 23, President Johnson issued his first proclamation, declaring November 25 to be a day of national mourning for the slain president. On that Monday, hundreds of thousands of people lined the streets of Washington to watch a horse-drawn caisson bear Kennedy’s body from the Capitol Rotunda to St. Matthew’s Catholic Cathedral for a requiem Mass. The solemn procession then continued on to Arlington National Cemetery, where leaders of 99 nations gathered for the state funeral. Kennedy was buried with full military honors on a slope below Arlington House, where an eternal flame was lit by his widow to forever mark the grave.
Lee Harvey Oswald, born in New Orleans in 1939, joined the U.S. Marines in 1956. He was discharged in 1959 and nine days later left for the Soviet Union, where he tried unsuccessfully to become a citizen. He worked in Minsk and married a Soviet woman and in 1962 was allowed to return to the United States with his wife and infant daughter.
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This Day In History: November 22, 1963 --
60 YEARS AGO -- President John F. Kennedy is assassinated
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, is assassinated in 1963 while traveling through Dallas, Texas, in an open-top convertible.
First lady Jacqueline Kennedy rarely accompanied her husband on political outings, but she was beside him, along with Texas Governor John Connally and his wife, for a 10-mile motorcade through the streets of downtown Dallas on November 22. Sitting in a Lincoln convertible, the Kennedys and Connallys waved at the large and enthusiastic crowds gathered along the parade route. As their vehicle passed the Texas School Book Depository Building at 12:30 p.m., Lee Harvey Oswald allegedly fired three shots from the sixth floor, fatally wounding President Kennedy and seriously injuring Governor Connally. Kennedy was pronounced dead 30 minutes later at Dallas’ Parkland Hospital. He was 46.
04:17
JFK Funeral Newsreel
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/john-f-kennedy-assassinated
Vice President Lyndon Johnson, who was three cars behind President Kennedy in the motorcade, was sworn in as the 36th president of the United States at 2:39 p.m. He took the presidential oath of office aboard Air Force One as it sat on the runway at Dallas Love Field airport. The swearing in was witnessed by some 30 people, including Jacqueline Kennedy, who was still wearing clothes stained with her husband’s blood. Seven minutes later, the presidential jet took off for Washington.
The next day, November 23, President Johnson issued his first proclamation, declaring November 25 to be a day of national mourning for the slain president. On that Monday, hundreds of thousands of people lined the streets of Washington to watch a horse-drawn caisson bear Kennedy’s body from the Capitol Rotunda to St. Matthew’s Catholic Cathedral for a requiem Mass. The solemn procession then continued on to Arlington National Cemetery, where leaders of 99 nations gathered for the state funeral. Kennedy was buried with full military honors on a slope below Arlington House, where an eternal flame was lit by his widow to forever mark the grave.
Lee Harvey Oswald, born in New Orleans in 1939, joined the U.S. Marines in 1956. He was discharged in 1959 and nine days later left for the Soviet Union, where he tried unsuccessfully to become a citizen. He worked in Minsk and married a Soviet woman and in 1962 was allowed to return to the United States with his wife and infant daughter.
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https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/john-f-kennedy-assassinated
Donald Trump May Have Crossed Into 'New Terrain,' Psychiatrist Warns
Story by Nick Mordowanec • 2h
Former President Donald Trump .. https://www.newsweek.com/topic/donald-trump .. has entered "new terrain" based on his authoritarian tendencies and rhetoric that has drawn comparisons by some to Adolf Hitler, argues a psychiatrist quoted in a New York Times op-ed.
Trump took issue with multiple groups during a Veterans Day speech .. https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-donald-trump-adolf-hitler-viral-quote-comparison-accurate-1843501 .. in Claremont, New Hampshire, saying: "On Veterans Day, we pledge to you that we will root out the communists, Marxists, fascists and the radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country that lie and steal and cheat on elections."
He repeated the phrasing and use of the word "vermin," almost verbatim in a Truth Social post following the speech, adding that such groups will "legally or illegally" attempt to "destroy America, and the American Dream." President Joe Biden's 2024 re-election team said Trump had embraced the language of Hitler by using the word "vermin."
Trump has also said: "I will take care of the 'threat from within'"; "Migrants are 'poisoning the blood of our country'"; and "One people, one family, one glorious nation.
Hitler's statements were: "I will get rid of the 'communist' 'vermin'"; "I will take care of the 'enemy within'"; "Jews and migrants are poisoning Aryan blood"; and "One people, one realm, one leader."
A Newsweek Fact Check .. https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-donald-trump-adolf-hitler-viral-quote-comparison-accurate-1843501 .. found that the quotes, while not identical and separated by very different contexts, were similar. However, Trump's team said after the Veterans Day speech that his critics were suffering from "Trump Derangement Syndrome" and called the comparison with Hitler ridiculous.
In his New York Times column, opinion writer Thomas Edsall quotes a letter written to him by Leonard Glass, an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Glass wonders whether the Trump-Hitler comparison based on the usage of the word "vermin" has crossed into "new terrain."
"That terrain, driven by grandiosity and dread of exposure (e.g., at the [criminal] trials) could signal the emergence of an even less constrained, more overtly vicious and remorseless Trump who, should he regain the presidency, would, indeed act like the authoritarians he praises," Glass wrote.
"Absent conscientious aides who could contain him (as they barely did last time), this could lead to the literal shedding of American blood on American soil by a man who believes he is 'the only one' and the one, some believe, is a purifying agent of God and in whom they see no evil nor do they doubt."
Newsweek reached out to Glass and to the Trump campaign via email for comment.
Edsall argues that Trump used similar rhetoric prior to Veterans Day during a rally in Waco, Texas, in March where he said: "I am your warrior. I am your justice. And for those who have been wronged and betrayed, I am your retribution."
The Washington Post reported earlier this month that Trump wants the Department of Justice to investigate officials and allies who have criticized him or his presidency during his time in office, including former Chief of Staff John F. Kelly and former Attorney General Bill Barr.
Kelly, a retired four-star general, has been vocal about Trump's rhetoric and the potential of his reelection as the beginning of a "danger zone" for the U.S.
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-ex-chief-staff-john-kelly-critical-trump-support-1845296
"What's going on in the country that a single person thinks this guy would still be a good president when he's said the things he's said and done the things he's done?" Kelly said in a recent interview with the Post. "It's beyond my comprehension he has the support he has."
Following the Veterans Day speech, Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung told Newsweek: "Those who try to make that ridiculous assertion are clearly snowflakes grasping for anything because they are suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome and their sad, miserable existence will be crushed when President Trump returns to the White House."
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, a longtime ally of Trump and his former lawyer, fired back by accusing DOJ special counsel Jack Smith of imitating authoritarian regimes including Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union by expressing opposition to Trump's criminal trial being televised.
https://www.newsweek.com/topic/rudy-giuliani
https://www.newsweek.com/rudy-giuliani-jack-smith-election-interference-trial-nazi-germany-1843898
https://www.newsweek.com/topic/jack-smith
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THE WHITE HOUSE
Statement from President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden on the Passing of Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter
November 19, 2023
Briefing Room > Statements and Releases
First Lady Rosalynn Carter walked her own path, inspiring a nation and the world along the way.
Throughout her incredible life as First Lady of Georgia and the First Lady of the United States, Rosalynn did so much to address many of society’s greatest needs. She was a champion for equal rights and opportunities for women and girls; an advocate for mental health and wellness for every person; and a supporter of the often unseen and uncompensated caregivers of our children, aging loved ones, and people with disabilities.
Above all, the deep love shared between Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter is the definition of partnership, and their humble leadership is the definition of patriotism. She lived her life by her faith.
Time and time again, during the more than four decades of our friendship – through rigors of campaigns, through the darkness of deep and profound loss – we always felt the hope, warmth, and optimism of Rosalynn Carter. She will always be in our hearts.
On behalf of a grateful nation, we send our love to President Carter, the entire Carter family, and the countless people across our nation and the world whose lives are better, fuller, and brighter because of the life and legacy of Rosalynn Carter.
May God bless our dear friend.
May God bless a great American.
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https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/11/19/statement-from-president-joe-biden-and-first-lady-jill-biden-on-the-passing-of-former-first-lady-rosalynn-carter/
THE WHITE HOUSE
Statement from President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden on the Passing of Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter
November 19, 2023
Briefing Room > Statements and Releases
First Lady Rosalynn Carter walked her own path, inspiring a nation and the world along the way.
Throughout her incredible life as First Lady of Georgia and the First Lady of the United States, Rosalynn did so much to address many of society’s greatest needs. She was a champion for equal rights and opportunities for women and girls; an advocate for mental health and wellness for every person; and a supporter of the often unseen and uncompensated caregivers of our children, aging loved ones, and people with disabilities.
Above all, the deep love shared between Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter is the definition of partnership, and their humble leadership is the definition of patriotism. She lived her life by her faith.
Time and time again, during the more than four decades of our friendship – through rigors of campaigns, through the darkness of deep and profound loss – we always felt the hope, warmth, and optimism of Rosalynn Carter. She will always be in our hearts.
On behalf of a grateful nation, we send our love to President Carter, the entire Carter family, and the countless people across our nation and the world whose lives are better, fuller, and brighter because of the life and legacy of Rosalynn Carter.
May God bless our dear friend.
May God bless a great American.
###
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/11/19/statement-from-president-joe-biden-and-first-lady-jill-biden-on-the-passing-of-former-first-lady-rosalynn-carter/
Rosalynn Carter, outspoken former first lady, dead at 96
By BILL BARROW and MICHAEL WARREN
Updated 5:11 PM CST, November 19, 2023
02:10
https://apnews.com/article/rosalynn-carter-dead-e4291133392444bc9ad9d1da461d95c1
Former first lady Rosalynn Carter, the closest adviser to Jimmy Carter during his one term as U.S. president and their four decades thereafter as global humanitarians, has died at the age of 96 (Sunday, 19 Nov).
ATLANTA (AP) — Former first lady Rosalynn Carter, the closest adviser to Jimmy Carter during his one term as U.S. president and their four decades thereafter as global humanitarians, has died at the age of 96.
The Carter Center said she died Sunday after living with dementia and suffering many months of declining health.
The statement announcing her death said she “died peacefully, with family by her side” at 2:10 p.m. at her rural Georgia home of Plains.
“Rosalynn was my equal partner in everything I ever accomplished,” Carter said in the statement. “She gave me wise guidance and encouragement when I needed it. As long as Rosalynn was in the world, I always knew somebody loved and supported me.”
President Joe Biden called the Carters “an incredible family because they brought so much much grace to the office.” He also spoke of the couple’s “great integrity.”
“Imagine they were together for (77) years?” Biden said. “God bless them.”
Jill Biden, who made an appearance earlier Sunday with the president at Naval Air Station in Norfolk, Virginia, said of Rosalynn Carter that she “was well-known for her efforts on mental health and caregiving and women’s rights. So I hope that during the holidays, you’ll ... include the Carter family in your prayers.”
She spoke in a hangar where the Bidens planned to attend an early Thanksgiving dinner with service members and their families.
Reaction from world leaders poured in throughout the day.
https://apnews.com/article/rosalynn-carter-obit-death-reaction-6d13e96cc89924a08895b200c10090c2
The Carters were married for more than 77 years, forging what they both described as a “full partnership.” Unlike many previous first ladies, Rosalynn sat in on Cabinet meetings, spoke out on controversial issues and represented her husband on foreign trips. Aides to President Carter sometimes referred to her — privately — as “co-president.”
“Rosalynn is my best friend ... the perfect extension of me, probably the most influential person in my life,” Jimmy Carter told aides during their White House years, which spanned from 1977-1981.
The former president, now 99, remains at the couple’s home in Plains after entering hospice care himself in February.
Fiercely loyal and compassionate as well as politically astute, Rosalynn Carter prided herself on being an activist first lady, and no one doubted her behind-the-scenes influence. When her role in a highly publicized Cabinet shakeup became known, she was forced to declare publicly, “I am not running the government.”
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https://apnews.com/article/rosalynn-carter-dead-e4291133392444bc9ad9d1da461d95c1
Rosalynn Carter, outspoken former first lady, dead at 96
By BILL BARROW and MICHAEL WARREN
Updated 5:11 PM CST, November 19, 2023
02:10
https://apnews.com/article/rosalynn-carter-dead-e4291133392444bc9ad9d1da461d95c1
Former first lady Rosalynn Carter, the closest adviser to Jimmy Carter during his one term as U.S. president and their four decades thereafter as global humanitarians, has died at the age of 96 (Sunday, 19 Nov).
ATLANTA (AP) — Former first lady Rosalynn Carter, the closest adviser to Jimmy Carter during his one term as U.S. president and their four decades thereafter as global humanitarians, has died at the age of 96.
The Carter Center said she died Sunday after living with dementia and suffering many months of declining health.
The statement announcing her death said she “died peacefully, with family by her side” at 2:10 p.m. at her rural Georgia home of Plains.
“Rosalynn was my equal partner in everything I ever accomplished,” Carter said in the statement. “She gave me wise guidance and encouragement when I needed it. As long as Rosalynn was in the world, I always knew somebody loved and supported me.”
President Joe Biden called the Carters “an incredible family because they brought so much much grace to the office.” He also spoke of the couple’s “great integrity.”
“Imagine they were together for (77) years?” Biden said. “God bless them.”
Jill Biden, who made an appearance earlier Sunday with the president at Naval Air Station in Norfolk, Virginia, said of Rosalynn Carter that she “was well-known for her efforts on mental health and caregiving and women’s rights. So I hope that during the holidays, you’ll ... include the Carter family in your prayers.”
She spoke in a hangar where the Bidens planned to attend an early Thanksgiving dinner with service members and their families.
Reaction from world leaders poured in throughout the day.
https://apnews.com/article/rosalynn-carter-obit-death-reaction-6d13e96cc89924a08895b200c10090c2
The Carters were married for more than 77 years, forging what they both described as a “full partnership.” Unlike many previous first ladies, Rosalynn sat in on Cabinet meetings, spoke out on controversial issues and represented her husband on foreign trips. Aides to President Carter sometimes referred to her — privately — as “co-president.”
“Rosalynn is my best friend ... the perfect extension of me, probably the most influential person in my life,” Jimmy Carter told aides during their White House years, which spanned from 1977-1981.
The former president, now 99, remains at the couple’s home in Plains after entering hospice care himself in February.
Fiercely loyal and compassionate as well as politically astute, Rosalynn Carter prided herself on being an activist first lady, and no one doubted her behind-the-scenes influence. When her role in a highly publicized Cabinet shakeup became known, she was forced to declare publicly, “I am not running the government.”
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https://apnews.com/article/rosalynn-carter-dead-e4291133392444bc9ad9d1da461d95c1
Judge Points Finger at Trump In Blistering Order Denying Trump’s Demand To Keep Jury From Hearing About Jan. 6 Riot
Story by Tommy Christopher • 10h
Federal District Judge Tanya Chutkan pointed the finger at former President Donald Trump in a blistering order denying a motion to strike mentions of January 6 from his election cromes trial.
Judge Chutkan is presiding in the election crimes case against Trump brought by Special Counsel Jack Smith, and issued an order Friday in which she denied Trump’s motion “to Strike Inflammatory Allegations From the Indictment.”
In concluding her order, Judge Chutkan threw in an aside about Trump’s own “inflammatory and unsupported accusations” against President Joe Biden, and referenced the potential for prejudice “generated by the defendant”:
Defendant’s sixteen-page Reply In Support of the Motion, despite making numerous inflammatory and unsupported accusations of its own, see, e.g., ECF No. 156 at 7 (“President Biden directed the Department of Justice to prosecute his leading opponent for the presidency through a calculated leak to the New York Times.”), devotes only a single paragraph to the prejudice requirement.
His sole argument is that even if the jury does not receive a copy of the indictment, “[v]oluminous evidence exists here that the jury pool has been, and continues to be, exposed to the Indictment and its inflammatory and prejudicial allegations, through media coverage relating to the case.” Id. at 16. But Defendant fails to cite even one example of that evidence. In any event, the voir dire process will allow the court to examine and address the effects that pretrial publicity, including any generated by Defendant, has had on the impartiality of potential jurors.
When trial begins, the court will also take steps to screen from the jury any irrelevant and prejudicial material that either party seeks to introduce. Moreover, before the jurors deliberate, the court will instruct them on the actual charges and the evidence they may consider in their deliberations. See United States v. Empire Bulkers Ltd., 583 F. Supp. 3d 746, 760 (E.D. La. 2022) (providing that jury instructions would “make clear to [jurors] what defendants are actually charged with” and “the verdict form will not ask the jury to consider issues for which defendants have not been charged”). This too will prevent “potential prejudice from the alleged surplusage.”
For these reasons, Defendant’s Motion to Strike Inflammatory Allegations from the Indictment, ECF No. 115, is hereby DENIED.
Trump faces four felony charges under Smith’s indictment against Trump for his attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election: conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding, and conspiracy against rights.
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Rosalynn Carter, 96-year-old former first lady, is in hospice care at home, the Carter Center says
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BY BILL BARROW
Updated 4:34 PM CST, November 17, 2023
Former first lady Rosalynn Carter is in hospice care at home in Plains, Georgia, joining former President Jimmy Carter, who has been receiving end-of-life care since February, their family announced Friday.
The Carter family said they are “grateful for the outpouring of love and support” but asked for privacy. The Carters have been married for 77 years and are the longest-married presidential couple in the U.S.
The family announced earlier this year that the 96-year-old former first lady is suffering from dementia. .. https://apnews.com/article/rosalynn-carter-dementia-4f939d0925d7f1eb0a882a543d184bfc
The former president, now 99, entered hospice care at home in February but remains alert, those close to him say. .. https://apnews.com/article/politics-united-states-government-gerald-ford-ronald-reagan-hospice-care-f4e26c10a7b366f14e62f690da403b0a
They have been together through Jimmy Carter’s rise from their Georgia farm to his election to the presidency in 1976. After his 1980 defeat, the couple established The Carter Center in Atlanta as a global center to advocate human rights, democracy and public health.
“I loved politics,” Rosalynn Carter told The Associated Press in 2021. She said she had “the best time” campaigning on her husband’s behalf in what they both described as “a full partnership.”
Long after leaving the White House, Jimmy Carter said, “The best thing I ever had happen in my life was when she said she’d marry me.”
The family’s announcement Friday brought a new round of tributes.
Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock called the former first lady “a remarkable woman of great faith” and said “her service to Georgia and our country is part of an incredible legacy.”
The couple’s grandson, Jason Carter, said in a recent interview that his grandparents have enjoyed spending their “last chapter” together at home, celebrating their longevity, family and love in the same tiny Georgia town where they both were born.
“That word love is really the one that defines certainly their personal relationship, but also the way they approach this world,” said Jason Carter, who is now chair of The Carter Center’s governing board.
Beyond her role as top presidential adviser, Rosalynn Carter became one of the world’s leading advocates for mental health care and elevating the role of caregivers in American life. She helped the Carter administration push through significant health care legislation during her husband’s term, and she continued her work after their White House years by establishing a fellowship for journalists to concentrate on more impactful ways to cover mental health issues.
She emphasized for years the need to reduce stigma attached to people who struggle with mental health conditions. Decades after leaving the White House, she testified on Capitol Hill urging Congress to put treatment and insurance for mental health conditions on par with other conditions in the U.S. health care system. She traveled the world helping developing nations confront their lack of mental health resources.
“I want people to know what I know — that today because of research and our knowledge of the brain, mental illnesses can be diagnosed and treated effectively, and the majority of those with these illnesses can recover and lead fulfilling lives … going to school, working, raising a family, and being productive citizens in their communities,” she said.
At the height of the Carters’ political power, the Washington press corps of the late 1970s dubbed Rosalynn Carter “the Steel Magnolia,” reflecting the quiet grace stereotypical of the era’s Southern political wives and a tough core that made her a force on her husband’s behalf and in her own right.
“She knew what she wanted to accomplish,” said Kathy Cade, a White House adviser to Rosalynn Carter.
Expanding the role of first lady, she worked in her own office in the East Wing with her own staff and on her own initiatives. She also huddled with the president’s advisers and sat in on top-level meetings, raising eyebrows in Washington power circles.
“She didn’t say anything in Cabinet meetings, but she wanted to be fully informed so she could give her husband good advice,” said Carter biographer Jonathan Alter.
https://apnews.com/article/rosalynn-carter-first-lady-jimmy-hospice-10ef9ab41d1a0376b1c4d7b1bd3aeca0
Iceland, Japan, Russia and Mexico: Why Every Volcano Is Erupting Right Now
Story by Carly Tennes • 18h
Iceland may want to look into changing its name to “Fireland” as officials warn that a volcanic eruption could be imminent on the Nordic island nation.
After experiencing upwards of 20,000 earthquakes since late last month — a rising total that includes the 700 earthquakes recorded between midnight and just before 8 a.m. local time on Tuesday, per CBS News — officials from the Icelandic Met Office warned that an eruption could come at any moment.
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In four years, LYIN' President Trump made 30,573 false or misleading claims
The Fact Checker’s database of the false or misleading claims made by President Trump while in office.
Updated Jan. 20, 2021
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Trump’s Truth Social ... LOLOL
Figure 1. Prevalence of COVID-19 misinformation on right-leaning vs. mainstream media (February 1–March 23, 2020).
From your link:
“Instead, I’d recommend Matt Motta, Dominik Stecula, and Christina Farhart’s interesting paper “How Right-Leaning Media Coverage of COVID-19 Facilitated the Spread of Misinformation in the Early Stages of the Pandemic in the U.S. .. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/canadian-journal-of-political-science-revue-canadienne-de-science-politique/article/how-rightleaning-media-coverage-of-covid19-facilitated-the-spread-of-misinformation-in-the-early-stages-of-the-pandemic-in-the-us/6B0EB93F6BA17608D82B4D23EDA75E50 ” They get at the topic directly and in a way with far better causal leverage than I’m able to get at here.”