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🕯️ Farewell to a first lady
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President Biden, First Lady Jill Biden, former President Clinton, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, former First Lady Laura Bush and former First Lady Michelle Obama attend a memorial service in Atlanta yesterday for former First Lady Rosalynn Carter, who died at 96.

  • Former President Carter, 99, arrived in a wheelchair.
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Former President Clinton — along with Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama — flew to Georgia with President Biden and Jill Biden aboard Air Force One.

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Sad, yet joyful. The Carters allowed themselves to be tools that God used for His work. The world is darker with her falling asleep, But how much brighter a world she leaves behind, as well as the blessed hope. She lives in our memory and even more important she lives in God's memory. If you think about it, living in God's memory is being more alive than our conscience existence. She sleeps, but Jesus remembers her and gave her life to start with and will give her life again.

 

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1 hour ago, Kevin H said:

Sad, yet joyful. The Carters allowed themselves to be tools that God used for His work. The world is darker with her falling asleep, But how much brighter a world she leaves behind, as well as the blessed hope. She lives in our memory and even more important she lives in God's memory. If you think about it, living in God's memory is being more alive than our conscience existence. She sleeps, but Jesus remembers her and gave her life to start with and will give her life again.

A great loss for the world. What a pair they where, all through there life they definitely were used by God in how they dealt with others and especially after there service to the country!!

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Rosalynn Carter is eulogized before family and friends as husband Jimmy bears silent witness

PLAINS, Ga. (AP) — Her frail husband a silent witness, Rosalynn Carter was celebrated by her family and closest friends Wednesday in the same tiny town where she and Jimmy Carter were born, forever their home base as they climbed to the White House and traveled the world for humanitarian causes.

https://apnews.com/article/rosalynn-carter-funeral-plains-7bfe185985105ed61eb69446819c6c26?

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Jimmy Carter’s Grandson Shares Update On Former President’s Spirit One Year Into Hospice Care

Jimmy Carter’s grandson celebrated the former president’s strength, resolve, and unwavering faith as the 99 year old marked one year in hospice care on Sunday.

https://www.southernliving.com/jimmy-carter-hospice-one-year-update-grandson-8599446

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🕯️ Jimmy Carter's last wish

Jimmy Carter's 100th birthday is coming on Oct. 1. He's got one wish:

  • "I'm only trying to make it to vote for Kamala Harris," he told his son Chip, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports from an interview with Jason Carter, the former president's grandson.

Jason said his grandfather has been "more alert and interested in politics and the war in Gaza" in recent days.

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Jimmy Carter, 99, Has 'Physically Diminished' and 'Can't Do Much on His Own' After Being in Hospice for Over 19 Months, Says Grandson

Jimmy Carter 's grandson Jason Carter shared more details about how the ex-president is holding up just days before he turns 100 on October 1.

https://www.newsbreak.com/news/3601058662871-jimmy-carter-99-has-physically-diminished-and-cant-do-much-on-his-own-after-being-in-hospice-for-over-19-months-says-grandson?

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Jimmy Carter at 100: A century of changes for a president, the US and the world since 1924

Already the longest-lived of the 45 men to serve as U.S. president, Jimmy Carter is about to reach the century mark.

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Jimmy Carter and his hometown of Plains celebrate the 39th president’s 100th birthday

PLAINS, Ga. (AP) — Longtime friends, family and fans of Jimmy Carter milled around his hometown of Plains to celebrate his 100th birthday on Tuesday, the first time an American president has lived a full century and the latest milestone in a life that took the Depression-era farmer’s son to the White House and across the world as a Nobel Peace Prize-winning humanitarian and advocate for democracy.

https://apnews.com/article/jimmy-carter-100th-birthday-1e540c277dea07bd84242d290b4ebcdc?

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Jimmy Carter

Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, died Sunday at the age of 100. Carter was "surrounded by his family" at his home in Plains, Georgia, in his final moments, the Carter Center said. Tributes are pouring in for the former farmer, lawmaker, humanitarian and Georgia governor who served one term as president from 1977 to 1981. President Joe Biden said Carter "stands as a model of what it means to live a life of meaning and purpose," and remembered Carter as a "dear friend." President-elect Donald Trump said Americans owe the former president "a debt of gratitude." Carter's wife of more than 75 years, Rosalynn, died in November 2023 at age 96. The Carters were the longest-married presidential couple in US history.

 

Carter's long game & long life

The Carter Center's announcement: "Jimmy Carter, 39th president of the United States and winner of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, died peacefully Sunday, Dec. 29, at his home in Plains, Georgia, surrounded by his family. He was 100, the longest-lived president in U.S. history."

A former peanut farmer and U.S. Navy nuclear physicist, James Earl Carter Jr. led a life of service that started well before his first elected office on the Sumter County, Ga., Board of Education — and endured long after his presidency.

  • Carter, the nation's first president to reach triple digits, began receiving hospice care at home in February 2023 after a series of short hospital stays.

🗳️ Just 74 days before his death, and two weeks after turning 100, Carter in mid-October cast his presidential ballot by mail.

  • His son Chip Carter said at the time: "I asked him two months ago if he was trying to live to be 100, and he said, 'No, I'm trying to live to vote for Kamala Harris.'"
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The White House last night. U.S. flags will fly at half-staff for 30 days. Photo: Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP

Carter was born on Oct. 1, 1924, in the small farming town of Plains at a hospital where his mother worked as a nurse. He was the first future president born in a hospital, Axios' Emma Hurt, Jacob Knutson and Erin Doherty write.

  • Carter, the oldest of four, grew up picking peanuts on his family's farm. He earned a bachelor of science degree from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1946, becoming the first future president to graduate from the academy.

That same year, he married Rosalynn Smith, a fellow Plains native who had known Carter her entire life. After 77 years of marriage, Rosalynn Carter died in November 2023 at the age of 96. The former first lady, a lifelong mental health advocate, had been diagnosed with dementia.

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Egypt's President Anwar el-Sadat (left), President Jimmy Carter and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin after the signing of the Egypt-Israel peace treaty at the White House on March 26, 1979. Photo: Neal Boenzi/The New York Times

🗞️ Read on: Here's a gift link to Carter's 10,000-word New York Times obituary by Peter Baker and Roy Reed, a Times national correspondent who covered the South, including the Civil Rights Movement, and died in 2017. They write:

 

While his presidency was remembered more for its failures than for its successes, his post-presidency was seen by many as a model for future chief executives. Rather than vanish from view or focus on moneymaking, he established the Carter Center to promote peace, combat disease and tackle social inequality. He transformed himself into a freelance diplomat traveling the globe, sometimes irritating his successors but earning the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002.

10 famous Carter quotes.

 

🥜 The Atlanta-Carter love story

Jimmy Carter sat behind home plate at Braves games, Axios Atlanta's Thomas Wheatley recalls.

  • He lived most of his life 160 miles away in tiny Plains, where he taught Sunday school at Maranatha Baptist for decades.
  • But Carter's connection to Atlanta only grew stronger after leaving the governor's mansion and White House.

🔨 Carter and the former first lady, Rosalynn, shopped for groceries at the old Kroger (now CVS) in Emory Village. He banged hammers at Habitat for Humanity worksites on Moreland Avenue.

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The Carter Presidential Center in Atlanta last night. Photo: Ron Harris/AP

Stretching back decades, Carter was close friends with Manuel Maloof, the owner of Manuel's Tavern, the legendary Democratic watering hole located just a block away from the Carter Center (and where Carter announced his gubernatorial campaign).

  • Before every Carter visit, the Secret Service would call to give a heads-up, Angelo Fuster, a local politico and Manuel's regular, told Axios. Carter became a regular and would often sit at a back corner table in the main dining room, after walking the main bar and shaking hands with patrons.

Worthy of your time: Axios' Michael Graff narrates Carter's life in photos.

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Carter's 6-day state funeral begins
 
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A motorcade carrying the casket of former President Carter pulls up to the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta yesterday. Photo: Megan Varner/Getty Images

Former President Carter's week-long state funeral began yesterday when a motorcade carrying his remains departed Americus, Ga., from Phoebe Sumter Medical Center, the large regional hospital near Plains, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.

  • That's where Carter made his final hospital visits before entering home hospice care in February 2023, and where the funeral procession for former First Lady Rosalynn Carter also began.
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The hearse bearing the casket of former President Carter heads towards his native Plains, Ga., in a motorcade yesterday. Photo: Alex Brandon/AP

National eulogist Jon Meacham writes for the AJC, in "Jimmy Carter was a big part of America's soul":

"Farmer, naval officer, nuclear engineer, Christian and politician, President Carter would prove both engineer and moral leader, and his understanding of the country was at once technical and theological — a reminder that presidents have both practical and pastoral roles to play in the life of the nation."

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🏛️ Jimmy Carter lies in state
 
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A military guard of honor stands next to the flag-draped casket of former President Jimmy Carter during a lying-in-state service in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda yesterday.

  • His State Funeral will be tomorrow at Washington National Cathedral. (Details)
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How you can go: The public is invited to pay respects from 7 a.m. today until 7 a.m. tomorrow as the 39th president lies in state.

  • "Lines may be long, and all individuals are subject to a security search," organizers say.

Updated schedule ... More photos.

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Carter funeral

Former President Jimmy Carter will be honored today in Washington, DC, at his official state funeral. Carter, the 39th president of the US, died at age 100 on December 29. President Joe Biden declared January 9 as a national day of mourning in an executive order and is expected to deliver a eulogy. President-elect Donald Trump told reporters that he plans to attend the service. Many businesses will be operating as usual but the US Postal Service will suspend regular operations. All federal departments and agencies will also be closed. As for the stock market, the New York Stock Exchange will not trade and the Nasdaq will close all of its equities and options markets

 

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From Carter’s funeral, an American snapshot: A singular image, 5 presidents, 379 years of history

Look at their faces — formal, etched with experience, laden with the weight of momentous decisions. Add up their years: 379 to be exact, enough time to take you back into the mid-1600s, when the notion of the American nation was still more than a century away.

https://apnews.com/article/carter-obama-bush-trump-biden-clinton-funeral-6c7e8c12019f2b83f3e30b3ecd1eb4ad?

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