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Washington Whispers by Paul Bedard

Duty Calls, Spoiling Carter's Hunt

September 23, 2007 09:32 AM ET | Paul Bedard | Permanent Link

Here's proof that former President Jimmy Carter takes his retirement job as an election observer very seriously. Breaking with a 12-year tradition of joining former White House Press Secretary Jody Powell on a late November hunting trip on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, the ex-prez and others with his Carter Center international election observation mission will be traveling to Nepal for the November 22 elections. "Nepal scheduled their elections in conflict with our hunting trip," sniffs Powell. "We're going to miss them," he says of Carter and wife Rosalynn.

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