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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI wonder why President Carter isn't there?
I would think he would have been invited, along with the other living ex-Presidents. (I'm guessing GWHB's health prevented him from being there.)
lark
(23,166 posts)He may not be in good enough health?
Algernon Moncrieff
(5,794 posts)lark
(23,166 posts)He's given so much to so many who had so little, it just warms my heart. I've been worried for him. Guess I should know better than to believe things I see on FB. Sigh.
mountain grammy
(26,658 posts)and that's a relief. I feel he would have been there if he could, but Jimmy Carter could do nothing that would upset me.
DURHAM D
(32,611 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,898 posts)and maybe they didn't know each other well.
RockRaven
(15,026 posts)I could see either a lack of invitation, or a declined invitation, not causing offense to the other party if they were only casually acquainted. That would be especially true if Carter's health or travel schedule would have made it hard on him.
Rhiannon12866
(206,259 posts)He also went to Annapolis and had a very promising career until his father died in 1953 and he went home to run the family farm.
Boomerproud
(7,970 posts)Something the pubs almost never acknowledged.
Rhiannon12866
(206,259 posts)On behalf of the Clinton administration back in 1994. And he's also a diplomat. That agreement held until 2002 when George Bush* included North Korea in his "Axis of Evil" statements.
edbermac
(15,947 posts)Might also not be in good health
stonecutter357
(12,697 posts)KG
(28,753 posts)peekaloo
(22,977 posts)he was respectful and generous in his praise of McCain's military career.
can't help thinking though if this ceremony was invitation only perhaps JC's remarks about McCain, prior to the 2008 election, "milking" his time as a POW didn't sit well with the family.
stonecutter357
(12,697 posts)UTUSN
(70,762 posts)In photos of gatherings of ex-presidents, he is almost invariably off to one side while the others are chumily together. He puts McCAIN's maverick-ness in the shade.