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Presidents' Day
20 February 2023
This weekend the Carter Center announced Jimmy Carter, who served as the 39th president of the United States, has "decided to spend his remaining time at home with his family and receive hospice care instead of additional medical intervention." Carter, who is 98, has recently been hospitalized several times.
On Sunday President Biden sent him a gracious message that spoke for the nation:
To our friends Jimmy and Rosalynn and to their family -- Jill and I are with you in prayer and send you our love.
We admire you for the strength and humility you have shown in difficult times. May you continue your journey with grace and dignity, and God grant you peace.
Biden and Carter's friendship goes back to their first days in Washington. Biden was a first-time Delaware senator in 1976 when he endorsed the governor of Georgia for the presidency.
A couple of years ago, the Bidens visited the Carters at the Carter Center. The photograph by Adam Schultz of the two couples caused a bit of a stir. The Bidens, both kneeling beside the seated Carters seemed a lot larger than the Carters.
BBC picture editor Phil Coomes attributed the distortion to the use of wide-angle lens. Figures on the edges of the image appear enlarged while those in the middle are smaller.
President Obama's White House photographer Pete Souza confirmed the diagnosis at the time, pointing out the apparent size of Carter's shoes. "That to me is an indication that the foreground was distorted by a super-wide-angle lens."
In the Corrected version about, we've used Camera Raw to counter the wide-angle distortion a bit.
But that kind of edit "would be completely forbidden," Doug Mills, a photographer assigned to the Washington bureau of The New York Times, pointed out at the time.
