After a family funeral, the 39th president will be buried beside his wife at their home in Plains, Ga. President Biden, one of the five living presidents who attended Mr. Carter’s state funeral earlier Thursday in Washington,
One of the speakers at the memorial was Ted Mondale. His late father was Carter’s vice president, Minnesotan Walter Mondale. Before Mondale’s death a few years ago, he wrote a tribute for Carter, which his son Ted read on Thursday.
Former President Jimmy Carter is making his final journey to his hometown of Plains, Georgia where his family will participate in a final service. He will then be buried next to his beloved wife, Rosalynn Carter. The National Funeral Service for former President Carter has ended in Washington, D.C.
President Joe Biden spoke of his friendship with Jimmy Carter that started in 1974 when Biden was the first sitting Democratic senator to endorse the late president.
But even though Mondale died first, in 2021, he left behind the eulogy he planned to deliver, which will be read at Carter’s memorial service at Washington National Cathedral on Jan. 9 by his son Ted Mondale. Former President Gerald Ford, who died in 2006, likewise left a eulogy that will be read by his son, Steven Ford.
Former President Gerald Ford and former Vice President Walter Mondale have passed away, but wrote eulogies for Carter's funeral before their deaths.
Official Washington suspended its partisan divide to honor the life of former President Jimmy Carter. Here’s three of the main themes from Joe Biden’s eulogy of his long-time friend and predecessor.
Former President Ford and former Vice President Mondale had their eulogies read at the state funeral of former President Carter years after passing away.
Bill Daley, who met Jimmy Carter in 1974, with his father, Mayor Richard J. Daley, an early Carter supporter, attended the Carter state funeral and said it “combined the pomp and circumstance that goes with a presidential funeral,
Throughout his life, he showed us what it means to be a practitioner of good works and a good and faithful servant of God and of the people,’ Biden said Thursday at a service attended by all living pr
All five living presidents were present to honor the late former President Jimmy Carter during his funeral service at the National Cathedral in Washington on Thursday morning.