The country’s five living presidents are poised to lead the nation as it says one last goodbye to its longest-living commander in chief, the late Jimmy Carter, who died last month at the age of 100.
President Joe Biden, the first sitting senator to endorse Carter’s one and only presidential campaign in 1976, will eulogize him at Wednesday’s state funeral. Carter had been receiving hospice care at his home in Plains, Georgia, since 2023 for an undisclosed illness.
On what Biden declared to be a National Day of Mourning, Carter’s body was driven from the U.S. Capitol, where he had been lying in state, to the Washington National Cathedral for the state service. Carter had previously laid in repose at the Carter Presidential Center in
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