The Carter Center announced last month that the 98-year-old former president would enter hospice care at his home.
Biden accidentally says Jimmy Carter asked him to deliver eulogy
The Facts Inside Our Reporter’s Notebook
President Joe Biden on Monday accidentally told a fundraiser crowd Monday night that former President Jimmy Carter, who is currently under hospice care, asked him to deliver his eulogy.
"He asked me to do his eulogy – excuse me I shouldn’t say that," Biden at a private Democratic National Committee fundraiser in Rancho Santa Fe, California, according to the Associated Press.
The Carter Center announced last month that the 98-year-old former president would enter hospice care at his home in Georgia after a series of short hospital stays.
"I spent time with Jimmy Carter and it’s finally caught up with him. But they found a way to keep him going for a lot longer than they anticipated because they found a breakthrough," Biden also said, referring to Carter's cancer diagnosis and subsequent recovery in 2015.