Carter Says Stature Aids Relief Efforts
He speaks to scientists, potential donors at UCSD
06/24/2006
Mark Sauer,
San Diego Union Tribune
LA JOLLA – It was in a village of 500 in Ghana, about the size of his hometown of Plains, Ga., that Jimmy Carter first saw the debilitating effects of Guinea worms.
“I saw this beautiful young woman, 19 or 20 years old,” he said. “I thought she was holding a baby in her arms. When I got closer, I saw it was her right breast, terribly swollen” from the worms.
Unafraid to use frank anecdotes and graphic images, the globe-roaming Carter stopped off at the University of California San Diego yesterday to tell stories of how he has spent the past quarter-century since “involuntarily leaving the White House.”
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