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President Jimmy Carter #1178586

NBC Evening News for Monday, Aug 22, 2016
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A stunning admission today from former President Jimmy Carter, a year after revealing his cancer diagnosis. He now says at the time he put on, quote, a false optimistic face for months after he was diagnosed with skin cancer that had spread to his brain. He says he actually thought he only had a few weeks to live after undergoing treatment with a new drug, astonishingly, the cancer had disappeared. And he's still going strong today at age 92....
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