President Carter's Cancer Has Spread to His Brain

At the age of 90, former President Jimmy Carter announced today that cancer has been found on his brain. He addressed reporters at a news conference in Atlanta where he planned to begin radiation treatment. "I was surprisingly at ease. I've had a wonderful life, thousands of friends, and I've had an exciting, adventurous, gratifying existence."

Richard Reeves is a presidential historian. He's a senior lecturer at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism in Los Angeles.