President Joe Biden, former presidents and other dignitaries are gathering at Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., to honor former President Jimmy Carter.
Family, friends and former political colleagues of U.S. President Jimmy Carter, including current President Joe Biden, spoke on Thursday at his state funeral in Washington.
A state funeral for the 39th president brought together all five living presidents and featured a eulogy from President Biden.
Jason Carter said that his grandfather Jimmy Carter’s “life is a love story” during a eulogy at the late president's state funeral
Jimmy Carter has been remembered at his funeral as a man of “character” and “something of a miracle” with “prophetic” vision.
Former White House aide Stu Eizenstat used his eulogy to make an effort to reframe the Carter presidency as more successful than voters appreciated at the time. “He may not be a candidate for Mount Rushmore,
The state funeral of former President Jimmy Carter was held at Washington National Cathedral Thursday on what President Biden proclaimed a national day of mourning.
The state funeral for former President Jimmy Carter has begun with services in Washington, D.C. and his hometown of Plains, Georgia. The ceremonies celebrating Carter in D.C. will include a departure ceremony at the Capitol, the National Funeral Service at Washington National Cathedral and a final departure from Joint Base Andrews.
Jimmy Carter, first former American president to live to 100, was eulogized at Washington National Cathedral on Thursday and will be remembered before a second service and burial back in his Georgia hometown of Plains.
The Georgia native and U.S. Navy veteran was a man committed to civil and human rights who led a courageous life of faith and service.
All of Carter's living successors were in attendance, with President Biden, the first sitting senator to endorse his 1976 run for the White House, delivering the eulogy.