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Immediately after President Joe Biden accidentally revealed a previously unknown detail about former President Jimmy Carter’s health towards the end of a speech Monday evening, before admitting he “should not have said that.”
Carter, whose health is waning and has been placed on hospice care at his home, instructed Biden to deliver his eulogy, the president revealed during a Democratic National Committee fundraiser in Rancho Santa Fe, California.
“He asked me to do his eulogy – excuse me I shouldn’t say that,” Biden remarked. “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.”
He also implied the former president’s cancer had returned. These remarks were not recorded as video was not allowed.
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Joe Biden and former president Jimmy Carter at the Pepsi Center August 26, 2008, in Denver, Colorado. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
The comments came as Biden was discussing breakthroughs in cancer treatment and urging the dozens of people in the room to increase funding for the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), an initiative Biden created last year to improve the government’s ability to speed biomedical and health research.
Last year, Biden introduced ARPA-H as an initiative that “will pursue ideas that break the mold on how we normally support fundamental research and commercial products in this country.”
It would pursue “ideas so bold no one else, not even the private sector, is willing to give them a chance or to sink a lot of money into trying to solve,” he said at the time, according to its website.
Presidential candidate Jimmy Carter accepts the support of Senator Joseph Biden, D-Del, at a news conference in the Sheraton Hotel in Madison. (Getty Images)
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