Former President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, were married for 77 years, but the pair first met when they were infants.
Carter first met his wife when he was just three years old, with Rosalynn, three years his junior, being an infant at the time. The former president’s mother was working as a nurse, taking care of Rosalynn’s mother in Plains, Georgia.
In 1927, Carter’s mother brought him to see little Rosalynn for the first time when she was a newborn. The pair married in 1946.
Carter, who recently passed away at the age of 100, will be buried next to his wife by a willow tree on the property of their home, where she is currently laid to rest after passing away in November 2023.
Funeral services will be held throughout the week for the former president, and on Thursday, Carter will be buried next his longtime love.
Fox News’ David Spunt contributed to this report.
Former President Jimmy Carter will Lay in State at the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, where his casket will enter through the side of the building where he was inaugurated in the late 1970s.
Carter was lying in repose at the Carter Center in Georgia, but was transported to Washington, D.C. on Tuesday afternoon for memorials in the nation’s capitol.
Upon arrival at the Capitol building, Carter’s casket will enter from the East Portico, where he was inaugurated in January, 1977. His inauguration marked the last to take place on the East Front of the Capitol rather than the West Front, which began in 1981 for former President Ronald Reagan.
Carter, who passed away at the age of 100, will become the 13th to lie in state at the Capitol. Vice President Harris will deliver the eulogy for the late former president during Tuesday’s memorial ceremony.
Fox News’ Chad Pergram contributed to this report.
Rep. Debbie Dingell, D-Mich., a friend of former President Jimmy Carter, said that he “showed the world how a former president should be.”
“I’m sitting here watching, feeling sad,” Dingell told Fox News’ “America Reports” moments after Carter’s casket landed in Washington D.C. from Georgia.
“I think that rituals and traditions are very important. And you’re watching one of the important ones of our democracy, where we pay tribute to those who have loved their country, have given public service, and say a final goodbye,” the congresswoman said of the ceremony.
“This is a man who loved his country. And Jimmy Carter’s gone home to be with Rosalynn, who I loved and did a lot of work with during the last decade of her life as well,” she told Fox.
Dingell said that Carter’s legacy will be that he was “a good, good man.”
“He does not get enough credit for his legacy as president and the issues he worked on,” she said. “Jimmy Carter, and Rosalynn, are responsible for the eradication of disease. How many homes did they help build for habitat for humanity and make homelessness an issue that we all had to talk about.”
“He was a Christian that walked every single day of his life. A person who knew what his responsibility was to be a member of the community,” Dingell said on Tuesday.
President Joe Biden declared last month that Jan. 9 would mark a National Day of Mourning for former president Jimmy Carter – the same day as the late president’s official state funeral at the Washington National Cathedral.
“I call on the American people to assemble on that day in their respective places of worship, there to pay homage to the memory of President James Earl Carter, Jr.,” Biden said in a proclamation Dec. 29. “I invite the people of the world who share our grief to join us in this solemn observance.”
National days of mourning have been declared for every former president who has died since 2000. Those former presidents are Ronald Reagan in 2004, Gerald Ford in 2007, and George H.W. Bush in 2018, according to the American Presidency Project.
Other former presidents who have received such honors also include John F. Kennedy in 1963, Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1969, and Richard Nixon in 1994.
Additionally, Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy also received national days of mourning in 1968 following their assassinations, according to Hofstra University.
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Artists and public figures expressed their condolences for the late former President Jimmy Carter, a video shared by the Carter Center shows.
“I got to know Jimmy and Rosalynn well during the 90s when they would come fish on Ted Turner’s western ranches,” Jane Fonda said. “They were powerful, resilient people with deep faith and bawdy humor and I loved them.”
Actress Jamie Lee Curtis said, “thank you for teaching us all how to be human, Mr. President.”
“President Jimmy Carter was a truly extraordinary man and a rare politician who always stood up and spoke out for idealism, compassion, and human rights and particularly for the rights of women and those who suffered real oppression,” wrote singer and songwriter Peter Gabriel.
The Carter Center thanked those who shared messages following the former president’s passing.
“Thank you, @trishayearwood, @Janefonda, and all the other notable figures who gave special condolence messages for President Carter,” the center wrote in a post on X.
Former President Jimmy Carter’s funeral procession in mirroring his inaugural parade from 1977 from the U.S. Capitol to the White House.
Carter’s remains arrived in Washington D.C. from Georgia ahead of his lying in repose at the Capitol later today.
The casket was transferred from a hearse to a horse-drawn caisson. Following that is a funeral procession designed to mirror Carter’s inaugural parade where Carter and his family walked on foot from the U.S. Capitol to the White House on Jan. 20, 1977.
Members of the Carter Family will also walk behind the caisson as it makes it way from the U.S. Navy Memorial to the U.S. Capitol.
Carter died last month at 100. He will have a state funeral later this week.
As former President Jimmy Carter arrives in Washington D.C. Tuesday afternoon, he will be greeted by the U.S. Air Force Band playing “Abide with Me.”
Carter is moving from Georgia to Washington D.C. where he will lie in repose in the Capitol ahead of a state funeral later this week.
When he lands at Joint Base Andrews, the U.S. Air Force Band will play “Abide with Me.”
Then the casket will depart for the Navy Memorial in D.C., where Carter will be transferred to the caisson at the memorial.
Late former President Jimmy Carter previously feuded with multiple presidents after he left office, including former President’s Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.
Carter, who served as the 39th president of the United States and advocated for a “competent and compassionate” government, passed away at the age of 100.
Over the course of his lifetime, Carter reportedly had a difficult relationship with several presidents that followed his administration. On one occasion, Carter sparred with Clinton after celebrating a diplomatic achievement on CNN before first meeting with Clinton to share the news.
“Mr. Clinton sent Mr. Carter to Haiti along with two other emissaries who together forced a military junta to surrender power and accept American troops,” according to The New York Times. “But once again, when Mr. Carter returned to Washington he went on CNN before meeting Mr. Clinton for breakfast and a planned joint news conference. Mr. Clinton was furious and shouted. Mr. Carter shouted back.”
Carter also once criticized Clinton for sending his daughter, Chelsea Clinton, to Sidwell Friends School, while on another occasion came into conflict with President George W. Bush over the Iraq War.
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President-elect Trump said on Tuesday that negotiating away the Panama Canal was a “very big mistake” by former President Jimmy Carter — ahead of Carter’s state funeral later this week.
Trump said at a press conference that he believes the canal, which Trump wants to re-take, is why Carter lost the 1980 presidential election.
“It’s a bad part of of the Carter legacy,” Trump said.
“He was a good man. I knew him a little bit, and he was a very fine person. But that was a big mistake.”
“Giving the Panama Canal to Panama was a very big mistake. We lost 38,000 people. It cost us the equivalent of a trillion dollars, maybe more…They say it was the most expensive structure, if we call it a structure, which I guess you can ,ever built. And giving that away was a horrible thing. And I believe that’s why Jimmy Carter lost the election, even more so than the hostages,” he said.
President Biden last month shared his fondest memory of the late former President Jimmy Carter, going back to the 1970s to recall Carter requesting he help with his presidential bid.
Biden said last month that his fondest memory of Carter happened in the 1970s when the then-Georgia governor asked Biden for help with his presidential campaign.
“He grabbed me by the arm and said, ‘I need you to help with my campaign,'” Biden recalled. “I said, ‘I’ve only been around a couple of years, Mr. Governor.’
He said, ‘No, it’ll make a difference.'”
“I said, ‘I’m not sure it will,” Biden added. “When I endorsed him for president, I told him why [I] was endorsing him and that it was not only his policies but his character, his decency, the honor he communicated to everyone.”
When a reporter asked Biden what President-elect Trump should take from Carter’s legacy, Biden replied, “Decency.”
Carter will be honored at the Capitol later today ahead of a state funeral later this week. He died last month at the age of 100.
This is an excerpt of an article by Andrea Margolis.
Following the death of former President Jimmy Carter, President Biden signed an executive order closing all executive departments and agencies of the federal government on Jan. 9 – marking a National Day of Mourning for the former president.
The closures, which Biden described as a “mark of respect” for Carter, will be in effect on the day of the late former president’s funeral. The president also ordered all American flags to fly at half-staff for 30 days.
Carter will lie in state in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. and his funeral will take place at Washington National Cathedral, according to statements from the White House and Carter Center.
“I call on the American people to assemble on that day in their respective places of worship, there to pay homage to the memory of President James Earl Carter, Jr.,” Biden wrote in a statement. “I invite the people of the world who share our grief to join us in this solemn observance.”
Fox News’ Alexandra Koch contributed to this report.
Former President Jimmy Carter will be transferred to a horse-drawn caisson Tuesday afternoon after his arrival in Washington D.C. ahead of services at the U.S. Capitol and a state funeral later this week.
The U.S. Navy Memorial said that Carter will be transferred to the caisson at the memorial.
Carter, who passed away at the age of 100, will become the 13th president to lie in state at the Capitol on Tuesday.
That comes ahead of a state funeral Thursday for the former president, who died on Dec. 29.
A grand total of only 34 persons have ever been lain in state in the U.S Capitol Rotunda.
Those who have lain in state in the Capitol building include late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and late Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Maryland, who rested on the House side of the Capitol.
Of those who have had their remains lied in state in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda include 12 former presidents, with the latest being the late President George H.W. Bush in December 2018. The last person to lie in state was late Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada in January 2022.
Eight persons have lain in honor in the Capitol Rotunda – which is similar, but one step down from lying in state.
Former President Jimmy Carter, who passed away at the age of 100, will become the 13th to lie in state at the Capitol on Tuesday. Vice President Harris will deliver the eulogy for Carter during a memorial ceremony.
Fox News’ Chad Pergram contributed to this post.
Just 12 former presidents have had their remains lied in state in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda, the use of which is governed by concurrent action by the House and Senate. The practice has become more popular in the 21st century, however, as it allows mourners to publicly pay tribute to former presidents.
The first president accorded the honor in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda was President Abraham Lincoln, who died from an assassin’s bullet in 1865. The next president who received this tribute was James Garfield, who died of injuries inflicted by an assassin in 1881.
State funerals in the 20th century became more commonplace for U.S. presidents, with William McKinley, Warren Harding, and John F. Kennedy all among the presidents that were honored by a public viewing period in the Capitol Rotunda, with Kennedy’s viewing attracting hundreds of thousands of visitors.
All of those presidents died in office, but a number of ex-presidents have also been honored by lying in state: Herbert Hoover, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Lyndon B. Johnson, Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford, and most recently, George H.W. Bush, who died in November 2018.
Since 1865, nearly all services held in the Capitol Rotunda have used the catafalque that was constructed and used to hold up President Lincoln casket, according to the Architect of the Capitol.
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Former President Jimmy Carter is departing Georgia, with his casket heading to Washington D.C. where he will lie in state at the Capitol.
Carter has been lying in repose at the Carter Center in Georgia. He is now being moved to Washington, D.C. in a departure ceremony making its way to the airport.
Members of the public can watch the motorcade as it travels to the Capitol building in Washington, D.C. The Lying in State at the U.S. Capitol will also be open to the public.
That comes ahead of a state funeral Thursday for the former president, who died on Dec. 29.
There are several ways members of the public can participate in former President Carter’s funeral events on Tuesday, according to the Carter Center.
Since Saturday, visitors could pay their respects to the late president as he was lying in repose at the Carter Presidential Center in Georgia. The Carter Center provided a schedule of events of the memorial services, as well as a live stream on their website so that members of the public can follow along with the funeral.
The repose for Carter concluded at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library in Atlanta, Georgia in Tuesday morning, and a departure ceremony is set to be held as he is transported to the airport. Members of the public can watch the family motorcade processions in both Georgia and Washington D.C.
The former president will be transported from Georgia to D.C. on Tuesday afternoon. Members of the public can watch the motorcade as it travels to the Capitol building in D.C. The Lying in State at the U.S. Capitol will also be open to the public.
The Carter Center on Monday thanked “Georgia and beyond” for the tributes to former President Jimmy Carter, as the former president lay in repose in his home state.
“Thank you, Georgia and beyond,” the Carter Center said on X, posting images of mourners before Carter’s casket.
The former president will be transported to Washington D.C. in the afternoon for another phase of memorials on Capitol Hill. A departure ceremony will be held at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library, before he is transported to the airport.
Memorial services for former President Jimmy Carter will be held throughout the day on Tuesday.
The repose for Carter, who recently passed away at the age of 100 years old, concluded at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library in Atlanta, Georgia on Tuesday morning.
The former president will be transported to Washington D.C. in the afternoon for another phase of memorials on Capitol Hill. A departure ceremony will be held at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library, before he is transported to the airport.
There will be an arrival ceremony when Carter arrives in D.C., before the late former president is then transported to the U.S. Capitol for another memorial.
Vice President Harris will deliver a eulogy at the Lying in State Ceremony, where she and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff will present a wreath on behalf of the Executive Branch.
There will be a service inside the Captiol building, before the Lying in State is opened to the public.
The U.S. ambassador to China has paid tribute to former President Jimmy Carter, who played a key role in normalizing relations between the two countries.
Ambassador Nicholas Burns posted a picture to X of the U.S. flag at the embassy in Beijing at half mast.
“Our flag at half mast in the heart of Beijing in honor of President Jimmy Carter. Rest in Peace. @CarterCenter” he posted.
Carter led the push to normalize relations with the communist country in 1979, even as the Cold War continued. Relations had been severed after the establishment of the People’s Republic of China in 1949.
Former President Jimmy Carter’s grandson paid tribute to his “remarkable” grandfather, who he said put his faith into action, ahead of Carter’s state funeral later this week.
Jason Carter said that the former president, who died last week, was a “remarkable person” and described his life as a uniquely American story.
“There’s an American story there. He was a peanut farmer from a tiny 600-person village in Deep South Georgia, and became president of the United States,” he said on “Your World.”
“And then what he did do after that if he went back home to that same little town and I think their legacy really is a legacy of putting their faith into action and never forgetting who they were, and the remarkable things that come from that.”
Nearly 23k individuals visited and paid respects to former President Jimmy Carter as he was laying in repose in Georgia, according to the Carter Center.
Carter, the 39th president of America, passed away on December 29, 2024 at 100 years of age. He has been lying in repose in his hometown of Plains, Georgia since Saturday as part of the first phase of his memorial services this week.
“Thank you to the 22,950 visitors who paid their respects to President Carter in Atlanta,” the Carter center wrote in a post on X, alongside an image of the late president’s casket. “Repose closed this morning, but the online condolence book is still open.”
Carter’s body will be transferred to Washington D.C. for memorial services at the U.S. Capitol and National Cathedral. Following memorials in the nation’s capitol, the Carter family will travel back to the former president’s home state of Georgia for a private service.
Carter will be buried next to his late wife, Rosalynn Carter, by a willow tree on the property of their family home in Georgia.
Mourners paid their respects to former President Jimmy Carter on Monday as he lay in repose at the Carter Center in Atlanta, ahead of his state funeral later this week.
Carter died on Dec. 29 at the age of 100, making him the longest-living U.S. President in history.
HIs casket has been lying in repose at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum, and will move to the Capitol Rotunda on Tuesday afternoon.
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and other congressional leaders announced last month that Carter would lie in state, writing a letter to his son, James Carter III.
“In recognition of President Carter’s long and distinguished service to the nation, it is our intention to ask the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate to permit his remains lie in state in the Rotunda of the United States Capitol,” the leaders wrote.
Members of the public will be able to view Carter’s casket from early Wednesday through early morning Thursday.
Carter’s state funeral service will be held at the Washington National Cathedral on Thursday morning. The former president will then end his final journey with a private funeral service in Plains, before being interred in a private ceremony at the Carter family residence.
Fox News’ Liz Elkind contributed to this report.
Steven Weisman, the Peterson Institute senior editorial adviser, joined ‘MediaBuzz’ to discuss the life and legacy of the 39th president following his passing.
Weisman, a reporter during Carter’s presidency, recalled working closely with the former president over the years.
“It was a different time. It was much more casual. There was no fancy white house press room,” he said, adding that he was able to speak with the then-president a couple times on the phone.
Weisman was once invited to watch a movie with Carter, where they “talked about movies, we talked about substance…The access was sometimes a little harrowing.”
“It was a little unusual” to be invited, he added. “We watched Coal Miners Daughter. It was a lot of fun to do that.”
Weisman described Carter as a “micromanage,” but that “he eventually changed.”
“In person, he could be very friendly and casual,” he said, recalling a barbeque on the White House south lawn. “It’s quite interesting. He was friendly, he was affable, he said hello to everybody, and then I watched him turn to his wife and say ‘lets go to dinner.’ He didn’t want to have dinner with members,” of congress.
Weisman said that he was you could see that Carter was “a man of faith.”
Former President Jimmy Carter’s body will be brought to the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday afternoon where he will lie in state for three days before a state funeral in Washington, D.C.
Carter died last week on Dec. 29, at the age of 100. His death came just over a year after the passing of his wife of 77 years,
Rosalynn Carter.Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and other congressional leaders announced last month that Carter would lie in state, writing a letter to his son, James Carter III.
“In recognition of President Carter’s long and distinguished service to the nation, it is our intention to ask the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate to permit his remains lie in state in the Rotunda of the United States Capitol,” the leaders wrote.
“With your approval, we will move forward with these arrangements so that the American people have the opportunity to pay their respects to President Carter before he is laid to rest.
“Carter’s ceremonial arrival to the Capitol Rotunda is expected on Tuesday afternoon, and will feature remarks from Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D.
This is an excerpt of an article by Elizabeth Elkind.
The late President Jimmy Carter paid close attention to the election cycle while in hospice care and grieving the loss of his wife, Rosalynn Carter, their son revealed in an interview over the summer.
“He does not believe Donald Trump should be president again,” James Earl “Chip” Carter III, the second child of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter, told the Washington Post in early September.
The 39th president watched the speakers of the DNC in August, who gathered in Chicago in support of Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s presidential campaign.
Carter’s son said the former president believed Harris’ speech was “great,” but noted another speaker stole the show.
“He thought Michelle Obama was the best, and he thought Kamala was great, too,” Chip Carter said.
Jimmy Carter frequently greeted each passenger on the airplanes he traveled on, Atlanta-based Delta Airlines reported following the 39th president’s passing.
“Every time Jimmy Carter flew Delta, he shook hands with each person on the plane. Because that’s who he was. Someone who treated people as people,” the post read, which included footage of Carter shaking the hands of passengers on a flight.
“Today we celebrate his life – a great friend, family man, Nobel Peace Prize winner and leader who showed us all how to properly treat those around us,” Delta’s post added.
Carter was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 for his efforts to find peaceful solutions when dealing with international conflicts, brokering peace between Israel and Egypt and humanitarian work.
One of President Jimmy Carter’s defining moments in office was serving as the president who managed to broker the first peace agreement in the Middle East, successfully ushering in peace between Israel and Egypt after 30 years of war.
With the Camp David Accords of 1978, Carter was able to stand out from his predecessors by notching a success in an area where they had failed.
The feat became particularly notable amid a presidency known for various economic and foreign affairs shortcomings, including the Iranian hostage crisis.
According to Martin Indyk, the Lowy Distinguished Fellow in U.S.-Middle East Diplomacy at the Council on Foreign Relations, “Arab-Israeli peace has always been the kind of Holy Grail for American diplomacy.”
Snowy weather has delayed the transfer of President Jimmy Carter’s body from Atlanta to Washington, D.C. on Tuesday.
Carter is set to lie in state at the U.S. Capitol beginning Tuesday and running through Thursday morning, but the weather has caused a 90-minute delay for all of Tuesday’s events.
Carter and his family had been scheduled to land at Joint Base Andrews outside D.C. at 12:45 ET, before transferring to a horse and buggy in D.C. for a funeral procession to the Capitol building at 2 p.m. ET.
That procession is now scheduled for 3:30 p.m. Members of Congress will be able to pay their respects at a formal service beginning at 4:30 p.m., after which members of the public will be able to visit Carter in the rotunda.
Vice President Kamala Harris, House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Leader John Thune are scheduled to deliver brief eulogies for Carter at the afternoon ceremony.
President Jimmy Carter’s time of repose at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library in Atlanta ended Tuesday morning, and he will now be transported to lie in state at the U.S. Capitol.
Carter had been in repose in Atlanta since a service on Saturday following the former president’s death on Dec. 29.
Carter and his family are now being flown to Joint Base Andrews outside of Washington, D.C., after which a funeral procession will enter the U.S. Capitol and deposit Carter in the rotunda for lawmakers to pay their respects.
Carter will lie in state with the public able to visit until Thursday morning, before a funeral service at the Washington National Cathedral and carter’s final return to Georgia for internment.
Late President Jimmy Carter’s funeral services will run a total of six days, having begun in his home state of Georgia before funeral ceremonies in Washington, D.C. before interment at his final resting place in Plains, Georgia.
Carter died on Dec. 29 at the age of 100, with funeral proceedings beginning on Saturday morning in Georgia when a motorcade traveled through Carter’s hometown of Plains.
Carter laid in repose at his presidential center in Atlanta from 7 p.m. Saturday to 6 a.m. Tuesday. The public was able to pay their respects to the former president during those days at all hours.
Carter’s funeral procession moves north on Tuesday. He will lie in state in the Capitol Rotunda in Washington, D.C., until his state funeral on Thursday at the National Cathedral. Members of the public are invited to pay their respects to Carter in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday.
All living former presidents have been invited to Carter’s funeral on Thursday at 10 a.m. President Biden is expected to eulogize Carter during the funeral.
