Former President Jimmy Carter, who at 98 years old is the longest-lived American president, has entered home hospice care in Georgia.His name will forever be tied to politics in the U.S., a moderate Democrat who served the 39th presidency term as an "outsider" in the wake of the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal.
But his name is also synonymous for many with the nonprofit organization Habitat for Humanity. Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, have worked extensively with Habitat for decades.
In fact, his volunteering has become so enmeshed with the organization that many people believe he founded it. "One of the myths about Habitat is that President Carter started and runs Habitat, which is actually not true," Habitat’s CEO Jonathan Reckford told LiveNOW from FOX with a smile.
Former US president Jimmy Carter helps build a house as he visits the construction site of houses being built by Carter's Habitat for Humanity foundation for victims of the January 2010 earthquake in Leogane, 33km south of Port-au-Prince, on November Habitat was founded in 1976 — the same year Carter was elected president.