Essential WEST – A forum featuring descendants of 5 previous United States presidents, together with grandsons of Jimmy Carter and Harry Truman, highlighted Presidents Day weekend at the Harry S. Truman Minor White House in Important West.
James Earl Carter IV, Clifton Truman Daniel and other descendants mentioned the affect of the presidency during the forum at the Minimal White Home, now Florida’s only presidential museum. The sprawling residence was Truman’s refuge for 11 doing the job holidays throughout his 1945-53 administration – and later welcomed Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter and their loved ones.
For Carter, the Saturday afternoon discussion board supplied an option to explore his grandfather’s legacy – both of those as a president and as a man he described as “just a wonderful person.”
“I believe my grandfather’s best legacy is that he injected the notion of human legal rights into the foreign policy of the United States, wherever that hadn’t been a focus in advance of,” Carter said. “And I assume that which is the way he wants to be remembered, as well as a humanitarian – as a man or woman who cared about all people throughout the full entire world.”
President Carter entered hospice care in Plains, Ga., just one calendar year ago Sunday right after deciding upon not to keep on everyday living-prolonging therapy.
In addition to Carter IV and Daniel, the discussion board also featured Mary Jean Eisenhower, granddaughter of Dwight D. Eisenhower Patricia Taft, good-granddaughter of William Howard Taft and Massee McKinley, wonderful-wonderful-grandson of Grover Cleveland.
Presented in portion by the not-for-revenue Key West Harry S. Truman Foundation, Presidential Households Weekend functions continue on by means of Monday with two performances of the just one-gentleman enjoy “Give ‘Em Hell, Harry,” starring Daniel as his grandfather.
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