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He began by remarking on how he visited Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter shortly after taking office.
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Jimmy Carter beat Republican President Gerald Ford in the 1976 election, but the two political rivals later became friends, and agreed to deliver eulogies at each other’s funerals.
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Carter followed through on that promise after Ford died in 2006, and today, the Republican’s duty has fallen to his son, Steven Ford. “I can just see my dad getting his yellow legal pad out with his pen and writing this for his beloved friend,” Ford said as he began.
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By fate of a brief season, Jimmy Carter and I were rivals, but for the many wonderful years that followed, friendship bonded us as no two presidents since John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. It is said that president Adams’s last words were “Thomas Jefferson still survives”.
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Now, since Jimmy has a good decade on me, I’m hedging my bets by entrusting my remembrances of Jimmy to my son, Steve. According to a map, it’s a long way between Grand Rapids, Michigan and Plains, Georgia, but distances have a way of vanishing when measured in values rather than miles. And it was because of our shared values that Jimmy and I respected each other as adversaries even before we cherished one another as dear friends.
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Now, this is not to say that Jimmy never got under my skin, but has there ever been a group of politicians that didn’t do that to one another? During our 1976 contest, Jimmy knew my political vulnerabilities and he successfully pointed them out. Now, I didn’t like it, but little could I know that the outcome of that 1976 election would bring about one of my deepest and most enduring friendships.
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Joe Biden has arrived for Jimmy Carter’s memorial service, alongside first lady Jill Biden, meaning all living US presidents are now together.
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The last time such a gathering occurred was in 2018, at the memorial service for George HW Bush.
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The president is set to deliver a eulogy for Carter. Biden did not appear to acknowledge the former presidents behind him as he took his seat.
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Kamala Harris has taken her seat for Jimmy Carter’s memorial service, alongside Doug Emhoff.
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The vice-president is in a row in front of the former presidents, a group that includes Bill and Hillary Clinton, George W Bush and Laura Bush, Barack Obama and Donald Trump.
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Harris did not appear to acknowledge any of them as she took her seat. Behind her, Trump and Obama continued to chat.
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Donald and Melania Trump have taken their seats at the National Cathedral for Jimmy Carter’s memorial service, as has Barack Obama.
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Before taking their seats, both men shook hands with Al Gore and Mike Pence, who are seated just behind them. Trump has had a pretty poor relationship with his former vice-president.
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Obama is seated next to Trump, and the two chatted as the Democrat perused what looked to be a program for the service.
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Jimmy Carter’s casket has arrived at the National Cathedral, where a memorial service for the former president will be held.
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Joe Biden will eulogize Carter, in a ceremony that Donald Trump, Barack Obama and Bill Clinton are also expected to attend. JD Vance has also been spotted, sitting with his wife, Usha Vance.
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The cathedral is on a hillside in Washington DC, and is being whipped by what must be a very chilly wind.
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The hearse carrying Jimmy Carter’s casket is rolling out of the US Capitol to the National Cathedral, where a memorial service that will bring together all living US presidents will take place.
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The cathedral is about five miles away from the Capitol. Cameras inside the building have captured dignitaries gathering for the service, including former secretary of state John Kerry.
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7am: Public visitation of Carter’s lying in state ends.
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9am: Carter’s casket departs the US Capitol. The funeral motorcade travels to Washington national cathedral, passing by the White House.
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9.30am: Carter’s motorcade arrives at Washington national cathedral.
10am: The Washington funeral begins.
11.15am: Carter’s remains and his family depart the cathedral for Joint Base Andrews.
11.45am: They board Special Air Mission 39.
2pm: Special Air Mission 39 arrives at Lawson Army airfield at Fort Moore, Georgia. Carter’s remains will be transferred with ceremony to the hearse. Carter and his family then travel to Plains by motorcade.
3.30pm: Motorcade arrives at Maranatha baptist church in Plains.
3.45pm: An invitation-only funeral at the church begins.
4.45pm: A motorcade takes participants from the church to the Carter residence, with the funeral procession passing through Plains so the community can pay respects.
5.20pm: A US Navy missing man formation conducts a flyover in honor of Carter’s naval service and time as commander in chief, followed by a private graveside ceremony and interment.
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Good morning. Thousands of mourners and living former US presidents will gather at Washington’s national cathedral today for the state funeral of Jimmy Carter, the 39th president.
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Joe Biden will deliver the eulogy for his fellow Democrat, with Bill Clinton, George W Bush, Barack Obama and president-elect Donald Trump expected to join about 3,000 mourners at the service. Thursday has been designated a day of national mourning, with federal offices closed.
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Biden said in an interview on Wednesday that Carter had asked him to do the honors when the pair met for the last time four years ago. He added: “Carter was a decent man. I think Carter looked at the world not from here but from here, where everybody else lives,” as he gestured from above his head towards his heart.
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The service comes after a week of mourning that has seen people pay their respects to Carter as he lay in state in the US capitol after he died on 29 December, aged 100, in his home state of Georgia. His funeral procession began in Georgia before reaching Atlanta and finally being transported to Washington DC.
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Chuck Schumer, the leader of the Democrats in the Senate, described Carter as “one of the most decent and humble public servants we have ever seen”.
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“President Carter was a living embodiment of leadership through service, compassion, and a thirst for justice for all,” he said.
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Echoing the remarks of others who eulogized him, Biden described Jimmy Carter as a president who saw today’s challenges coming long before they arrived.
“Many think he was from a bygone era, but in reality, he saw a well into the future,” the president said.
“A white southern Baptist who led on civil rights, a decorated navy veteran who brokered peace, a brilliant nuclear engineer who led on nuclear nonproliferation, a hard-working farmer who championed conservation and clean energy, the president who redefined the relationship with the vice-president.”
“As we all know, Jimmy Carter also established a model post-presidency by making a powerful difference as a private citizen in America, and, I might add, as you all know, around the world. Through it all, he showed us how character and faith start with ourselves and then flows to others.”
Biden began by noting that he may have been the first senator to endorse Jimmy Carter’s candidacy for president in 1976, “based on what I believe is Jimmy Carter’s enduring attribute: character, character, character”.
“Character, I believe, is destiny. Destiny in our lives, and, quite frankly, destiny in the life of the nation. It’s an accumulation of a million things built on character that leads to a good life in a decent country,” Biden said.
“Jimmy Carter’s friendship taught me, and through his life, taught me, that strength of character is more than title or the power we hold. It’s the strength to understand that everyone should be treated with dignity, respect, that everyone, and I mean everyone, deserves an even shot.”
Biden delivers eulogy for Jimmy Carter
Joe Biden has stepped up to the podium to deliver a eulogy for Jimmy Carter at the National Cathedral.
He began by remarking on how he visited Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter shortly after taking office.
After leaving the presidency at the age of 56, Jimmy Carter dedicated himself to several causes, chief among them eradicating guinea worm.
The debilitating disease once affected millions of people each year in Asian and African countries, but thanks to efforts by Carter and other health organizations, has been almost entirely eradicated.
The former president’s grandson Jason Carter remarked on that in his just-concluded eulogy:
We’ve all heard a lot lately about guinea worm disease. It’s an ancient and debilitating disease of poverty, and that disease will have existed from the dawn of humanity until Jimmy Carter.
When he started working on this disease, there were three-and-a-half million cases in humans every year. Last year, there were 14. And the thing that’s remarkable is that this disease is not eliminated with medicine. It’s eliminated essentially by neighbors talking to neighbors about how to collect water in the poorest and most marginalized villages in the world, and those neighbors truly were my grandfather’s partners for the last 40 years.
And as this disease has been eliminated in every village in Nigeria, every village in Sudan or Uganda, what’s left behind in those tiny 600 person villages is an army of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter’s, who have demonstrated their own power to change their world.
Here’s more about the philanthropic work Carter undertook after leaving the White House:
In his eulogy, Jimmy Carter’s former White House domestic affairs adviser Stuart Eizenstat mounted a defense of his record as president.
Carter struggled to maintain his public support while in the White House, and overwhelmingly lost his bid for a second term in 1980 to Republican Ronald Reagan.
“As we lay our 39th president to rest, it’s time to redeem his presidency and also lay to rest the myth that his greatest achievements came only as a former president,” Eizenstat said.
He recounted how Carter, a southerner whose home state Georgia once practiced segregation, appointed people of color as judges and top administration officials. Eizenstat noted that the former president created the education department and Federal Emergency Management Agency, which remains “crucially important today, and we see it in Los Angeles”.
While crediting Carter with fighting climate change, Eizenstat added that “his energy bills were critical to move our country from dependence on foreign oil to energy security. We are now, as a result, the largest oil and gas producer in the world”.
“He may not be a candidate for Mount Rushmore, but he belongs in the foothills of making the US stronger and the world safer,” Eizenstat said in conclusion.
Here’s more about the political headwinds Carter faced during his presidency:
In a eulogy for Jimmy Carter delivered by his son, former vice-president Walter Mondale credited his boss with attempting to tackle climate change long before it became a global crisis.
“Carter was far-sighted. He put aside his short term political interests to tackle challenges that demanded sacrifice to protect our kids and grandkids from future harm. Very few people in the 1970s had heard the term climate change, yet Carter put his presidency on the line to pass laws to conserve energy, deregulate new oil and gas prices and invest in clean renewable alternatives to fossil fuels,” Mondale, who died in 2021, wrote in the eulogy being read by Ted Mondale, a former Minnesota state senator.
“It wasn’t a perfect program, but thanks to President Carter, US energy consumption declined by 10% between 1979 and 1983. In many ways, he laid the foundation for future presidents to come to grips with climate change. Some thought he was crazy to fight so hard to pass these laws, but he was dead right, and we know that now.”
At that last line, Ted Mondale appeared to look directly at the former presidents that are seated right in front of him. Among that group is Donald Trump and George W Bush, whose administrations did little to tackle the climate crisis.
Gerald Ford’s son delivers father’s eulogy for political rival Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter beat Republican President Gerald Ford in the 1976 election, but the two political rivals later became friends, and agreed to deliver eulogies at each other’s funerals.
Carter followed through on that promise after Ford died in 2006, and today, the Republican’s duty has fallen to his son, Steven Ford. “I can just see my dad getting his yellow legal pad out with his pen and writing this for his beloved friend,” Ford said as he began.
Here’s part of it:
By fate of a brief season, Jimmy Carter and I were rivals, but for the many wonderful years that followed, friendship bonded us as no two presidents since John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. It is said that president Adams’s last words were “Thomas Jefferson still survives”.
Now, since Jimmy has a good decade on me, I’m hedging my bets by entrusting my remembrances of Jimmy to my son, Steve. According to a map, it’s a long way between Grand Rapids, Michigan and Plains, Georgia, but distances have a way of vanishing when measured in values rather than miles. And it was because of our shared values that Jimmy and I respected each other as adversaries even before we cherished one another as dear friends.
Now, this is not to say that Jimmy never got under my skin, but has there ever been a group of politicians that didn’t do that to one another? During our 1976 contest, Jimmy knew my political vulnerabilities and he successfully pointed them out. Now, I didn’t like it, but little could I know that the outcome of that 1976 election would bring about one of my deepest and most enduring friendships.
Jimmy Carter’s casket is now situated before the altar of the National Cathedral, where his grandson, Josh Carter, just delivered a eulogy.
“My grandfather spent the entire time I’ve known him helping those in need. He built houses for people that needed homes. He eliminated diseases in forgotten places. He waged peace anywhere in the world, wherever he saw a chance,” Carter said.
The atmosphere in the cathedral is silent and somber as Jimmy Carter’s casket is carried in.
Earlier, the former presidents greeted each other and talked as they took their seats. One of the oddest pairings is Barack Obama and Donald Trump, who chatted cordially once they took their seats.
The former presidents were all accompanied by their spouses, with the exception of Obama, whose wife, Michelle Obama, is not in attendance.
Pallbearers are now slowly walking Jimmy Carter’s casket into the National Cathedral.
It’s draped in an American flag.
Bidens take seats at Carter memorial service, bringing together all living presidents
Joe Biden has arrived for Jimmy Carter’s memorial service, alongside first lady Jill Biden, meaning all living US presidents are now together.
The last time such a gathering occurred was in 2018, at the memorial service for George HW Bush.
The president is set to deliver a eulogy for Carter. Biden did not appear to acknowledge the former presidents behind him as he took his seat.
Harris arrives for Carter’s memorial service
Kamala Harris has taken her seat for Jimmy Carter’s memorial service, alongside Doug Emhoff.
The vice-president is in a row in front of the former presidents, a group that includes Bill and Hillary Clinton, George W Bush and Laura Bush, Barack Obama and Donald Trump.
Harris did not appear to acknowledge any of them as she took her seat. Behind her, Trump and Obama continued to chat.
Trump, Obama arrive at National Cathedral for Carter’s memorial
Donald and Melania Trump have taken their seats at the National Cathedral for Jimmy Carter’s memorial service, as has Barack Obama.
Before taking their seats, both men shook hands with Al Gore and Mike Pence, who are seated just behind them. Trump has had a pretty poor relationship with his former vice-president.
Obama is seated next to Trump, and the two chatted as the Democrat perused what looked to be a program for the service.
Carter’s casket arrives at National Cathedral for memorial service
Jimmy Carter’s casket has arrived at the National Cathedral, where a memorial service for the former president will be held.
Joe Biden will eulogize Carter, in a ceremony that Donald Trump, Barack Obama and Bill Clinton are also expected to attend. JD Vance has also been spotted, sitting with his wife, Usha Vance.
The cathedral is on a hillside in Washington DC, and is being whipped by what must be a very chilly wind.
Also spotted at the National Cathedral is Al Gore, the former vice-president, who is seated next to Mike Pence.
Earlier this week, Politico reported that Pence’s decision to certify Donald Trump’s election loss during the joint session of Congress in 2021 despite pressure from the then-president was partially inspired by Gore presiding over his own election loss in 2001.
Jimmy Carter’s hearse just drove down Pennsylvania Avenue and past the White House, where law enforcement officers lined up to salute as he passed.
It was difficult to see the building where Carter lived for four years. A large bandstand had been erected in front of it, in advance of Donald Trump’s inauguration on 20 January.
Cameras in the National Cathedral have meanwhile spotted Mike Pence, the former vice-president, and Brett Kavanaugh, the supreme court justice.
Jimmy Carter’s casket departs Capitol for memorial service
The hearse carrying Jimmy Carter’s casket is rolling out of the US Capitol to the National Cathedral, where a memorial service that will bring together all living US presidents will take place.
The cathedral is about five miles away from the Capitol. Cameras inside the building have captured dignitaries gathering for the service, including former secretary of state John Kerry.
