President Jimmy Carter, seen here last month, was hospitalized Tuesday.
[Updated at 2:03 p.m.] Josesph-Beth Booksellers has told about 400 attendees that President Jimmy Carter will not be attending the scheduled Tuesday book signing.
The event has not yet been rescheduled, but a Carter Center statement said earlier that the president would resume his book tour next week.
[Updated at 1:48 p.m.] An employee at Joseph-Beth Booksellers in Lyndhurst, Ohio, says about 400 people are still waiting at the bookstore to see President Jimmy Carter.
Some have been there since 9 a.m. ET, the employee said.
Carter was initially scheduled to be at the bookstore at 1 p.m., but his staff moved it up to noon prior to the president's hospitalization.
The employee, who declined to identify himself, said there were still Secret Service agents at the store, and there has been no official announcement that Carter is not showing.
[Updated at 1:21 p.m.] Jimmy Carter is "resting comfortably" after being rushed from the airport to a hospital upon his arrival in Cleveland on Thursday morning, according to the ex-president's nonprofit organization.
"While on a flight to Cleveland, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter developed an upset stomach, and, upon arrival, was taken to Metro Health Hospital for observation," said a statement from Carter Center spokeswoman Deanna Congileo. "He is resting comfortably and is expected to resume his book tour this week."
[Updated at 1:10 p.m.] President Jimmy Carter has been transferred to Metro Health Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio, after experiencing an unknown health issue on a flight to the city, an airport spokesperson said.
Jackie Mayo, the public information officer for Cleveland Hopkins International Airport, said the 39th president was transferred to the hospital at approximately 11:30 a.m. ET after paramedics met Carter's plane upon its arrival.
Carter, who will turn 86 on Friday, was reportedly in Ohio to autograph copies of his new book, "White House Diary," at Joseph-Beth Booksellers in the suburb of Lyndhurst, according to the bookstore.
Since leaving the Oval Office in 1981, Carter has devoted his time to the Carter Center in Atlanta, which monitors elections, fights disease in developing nations and seeks to strike peace deals internationally.
In addition to some controversial comments made in his book, which was released this month, Carter made headlines recently when he negotiated the release of U.S. citizen Aijalon Mahli Gomes, who had been jailed in North Korea.
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gees, nuff said already; even by me.
The hostages were released when they because those
Crooks senile ronny and heartless bush made a back
Door deal with the Iranians. God bless you
Mr Carter, what has an exrebumlican prez ever done
For the good of mankind?
Let's see, Nixon=crock, Ford=recession, Reagon=iran contra
Bush1=1st gulf war, Bush2=911 there has not been a great GOP prez
Since Ike.
Ironic that you would choose to make that post on an article about what many consider to be the worst Democratic president of all time!!
Let's see Obama=Gunrunner+Solyndra+Bailouts
Can do the same thing with Democrat presidents. Clinton, Carter, etc...
13 months from now Carter will be the 2nd worst president of all time!
Senile ronnienomics ruined the early 90's good thing Clinton came along and saves things
Then prez bonzo came along a wreaked things again. Obama can't fix 8 years of total screw ups
in just a year and a half. Yes it is all the GOP's fault!
respect for someone that pushed us as a nation over the cliff? I suppose you are in favor of rewarding pedophiles who do not kill their victims .............................
you like Carter rare part of the problem
RitZoRatZo
So your saying we should invaded Iran 30 years ago?
Iran had and still has a real army. A war would have
disastrous for the USA. Why do you gopers always think
WAR is the answer. Have you ever been to WAR I have
and I will never been the same.
I too am a vet but I do not wear it on my sleeve or use it as an excuse to talk like a typical one party braindead moron!
RitZoRatZo
Tipical for a write wingnut. I bet you wouldn't say it
to my face?
he is a great man
For those of you who place even the slightests blame on one man for middle-eastern turmoil...get a clue. Pay attention now. You have been told over and over, and shown on tv over and over, that the USA needs mid-east oil. Never has the US ever purchased more than 7% of her oiil from the mid-east. If I recall, that figure is exactly 6.25%. And so we have all been led to believe that we are at the whim of those eastern countries.Naturally fewer of US would resist the government wanting to protect those "interests" A very subtle pretext to war(s) that are planned years in advance. To lay this on Jimmy Carter, whom I believe to be a good man, is one of the few who got to see how ugly things really are, and got caught up in it. It's hard to go thru mud w/o getting muddy.
Quote 172 John. Does that then make Fox news lame for having news alert when Barbara Bush had surgery?
Quote 244 Mom2js. They were released due to the efforts of the Carter white house and Reagan acknoledged the fact by sending Carter to pick them up.
Best wishes to you Jimmy Carter. I pray it is nothing serious
Hello, I am new here, please be kind
During the Iranian takeover of the US Embassy, Jimmy Carter used diplomacy in manycreative ways to AVOID war; I, too, believe there was a secret deal by Reagan folks to release them on the day of RR's inauguration. We have a Rambo mentality, where people think bombing others is the way to solve problems. Sorry-sorrier that some of you younger people do not look behind the sound bites and learn a bit of history; Jimmy Carter, in my book, was a good pres; our national debt quadrupled under Reagan–and the Soviet Union fell not because of Reagan but because of communism's failures, and Mikael Gorbachev's efforts to abandon it. Learn a bit of history before sounding off!
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