CLEVELAND — Former President Jimmy Car ter, on a trip promoting his new book, developed an upset stomach on a flight to Cleveland on Tuesday and was staying at a hospital overnight at his doctor’s recommendation.
Carter’s grandson, Georgia state Sen. Jason Carter, said his 85-year-old grandfather was doing fine.
“He’s definitely resting comfortably and expected to continue his book tour this week,” Jason Carter said. “I haven’t talked to him, but nobody in the family is concerned.”
The former president planned to stay the night at MetroHealth hospital in Cleveland, according to a statement from the Carter Center, an Atlanta-based nonprofit known for its international work on human rights and public health.
He planned to resume his book tour today in Washington, D.C.
In the book “White House Diary,” Carter said he pursued an overly aggressive agenda as president that may have confused voters and alienated lawmakers.
But he said the tipping points that cost him the 1980 election were the Iran hostage crisis and the Democratic primary challenge by U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy.
Carter, a former peanut farmer elected to the White House in 1976, has spent his recent years pursuing peace and human rights, efforts that won him the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002.
