NPR News: 02-18-2023 6PM ET

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NPR News: 02-18-2023 6PM ET

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0:00.0	Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst.
0:05.0	Former President Jimmy Carter is going into hospice care.
0:08.8	Ampere's Franco Ordonia's reports Carter has chosen to spend his final days at home in
0:14.0	Plains, Georgia.
0:15.8	Carter is the oldest living former president, he turned 98 last year.
0:20.4	According to the Carter Center, the former president decided after a series of short hospital
0:24.4	stays not to receive any additional medical intervention.
0:28.8	The son of a peanut farmer Carter grew up to become the Democratic governor of Georgia.
0:33.3	He later defeated former president Gerald Ford to become the 39th president of the United
0:38.4	States.
0:39.4	He served one term from 1977 to 1981.
0:43.0	He was then defeated by former president Ronald Reagan.
0:46.3	Carter remained though very active following his presidency.
0:49.6	He founded the Carter Center with a goal of advancing world peace and health and he received
0:54.2	the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidential medal of freedom.
0:57.8	Franco Ordonia's NPR News.
1:00.9	Secretary of State Anthony Blinken met with China's top diplomat on the sidelines of
1:05.0	the Munich Security Conference today.
1:07.3	The first meeting of the two since the U.S. shot down the suspected Chinese spy balloon
1:11.6	off the coast of South Carolina.
1:13.8	Blinken says he told Wang Yi that the violation of American airspace by a Chinese balloon
1:19.0	can never happen again, but that Wang did not apologize for the incident.
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