Remembering the night former President Jimmy Carter spent in Clinton, Massachusetts

CLINTON – Tributes have poured in for former President Jimmy Carter, who entered hospice care over the weekend after a sequence of brief hospital stays. 

Because the nation now displays on the 98-year-old’s legacy of service, Dan Tenore marvels over the night the president rested proper right here in Clinton, Massachusetts. Tenore is the third proprietor of a greater than 130-year-old home introduced from the Thompson household, who humbly hosted Carter throughout his first “meet the individuals” tour in 1977. 

“The Thompsons, what they discuss, is President Carter did not wish to disrupt household life. They picked this home realizing there was a wall right here; the Secret Service might arrange right here. He might sit on the eating room, in the lounge and discuss with the household with out throwing their lives out of kilter. He would not take the main bedroom. He slept in a visitor room,” Tenore mentioned. 

The in a single day keep on Chestnut Road got here after a packed city corridor model assembly, with a number of hundred seated inside and even greater crowds lining the sidewalks. All the joy led to some tardiness for the Thompson children the following morning; the president in search of their pardon. 

“To trainer, from Jimmy Carter. Please excuse Jane for being late. She had a visitor in her residence. 3/17/77,” Tenore learn from a newspaper clipping. 

Carter by no means forgot the household’s hospitality, and even despatched a letter of sympathy to the Thompson kids when their mother and father later handed away.

“There’s an terrible lot to be mentioned for President Carter,” Tenore mentioned.