Maybe he got the Cancer from all that radiation at Two Mile Island....
Rodney, just how big is The President?
Rodney Dangerfield: Oh, he’s a big guy, I’ll tell you that, he’s a big guy. I tell you he’s so big, I saw him sitting in the George Washington bridge dangling his feet in the water! He’s a big guy!
Rosalyn Carter: Oh my God! Jimmy! Oh God!
Rodney Dangerfield: Oh, he’s big, I’ll tell you that, boy. He’s so big that when two girls make love to him at the same time, they never meet each other! He’s a big guy, I’ll tell you!
Rosalyn Carter: Oh no! Oh Jimmy! My Jimmy!
Rodney Dangerfield: I don’t want to upset you lady, he’s big, you know what I mean? Why he could have an affair with the Lincoln Tunnel! I mean, he’s really high! He’s big, I’ll tell you! He’s a big guy!
Three Mile Island was an overhyped nothing burger. But Carter DID take significant radiation during the shutdown of the partial meltdown of the
NRX reactor in Canada in 1952 and its subsequent dismantling. Carter lead the US contingent helping Canada with that emergency and deserves a LOT of credit for a good resolution of a, shouldn't be, forgotten disaster. Another point on which he deserves significant credit, but which few remember, is his efforts to fight several tropical diseases, which the west had mostly ignored previously. He is close to eradicating Dracunculsis ('Guinea Worm disease.) There were 3 million human cases worldwide when he started, last year there were 13. There was a setback when 10 years ago the worms jumped to non-human species, but Carter Center has cut the non-human cases 2/3 over the past 3 - 4 years, down to 685 last year. I'd hoped he might last long enough to see the worms extinct, but this news makes that seem unlikely. Carter Center has also handed out loads of Ivermectin, for its approved human targets: Lymphatic Filariasis and Onchocerciasis, sparing millions from both. Like Hoover, Carter was a lousy President, but was a great humanitarian outside of his political career.