Jimmy Carter, the first former American president to live to 100, arrived back in his hometown of Plains, Georgia. Before the trip home, the former president was memorialized at Washington National Ca
Jason Carter was funny and sincere when giving the eulogy at his grandfather's funeral on Thursday. Check out the speech and some of his best quotes.
The late president is lying in state through Thursday morning, giving the public a chance to pay respect in person.
Carter, at 100 the nation’s longest living president, died Dec. 29 at his home in Plains. The scene this week in Washington, at the National Cathedral Thursday and as he was lying in state for three days at the Capitol, was unlike anything the country had seen in years.
Jimmy Carter—the 39th president of the United States, who died on Dec. 29 at 100—was laid to rest at the Georgia home he shared with wife Rosalynn Carter.
Former President Jimmy Carter will lie here in repose under ceremonial guard 24 hours a day until 6 a.m. on Tuesday, so you can come at any time on Monday, day or night.
President Jimmy Carter has been lying in repose at the Carter Center since Saturday evening. ATLANTA — More than 10,000 people have come through the doors of the Carter Center in Atlanta to pay tribute to President Jimmy Carter since he began lying in repose Saturday evening, the organization said.
Amy Carter, the only daughter of 39th president of the United States Jimmy Carter, will be back in the spotlight today for her father's national funeral at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., after years of leading a largely private life. But, her college years in New England were anything but private.
Carter’s state funeral is a six-day series of events allowing Georgians and the nation to pay their respects to the 39th U.S. president.
The last president to declare an energy emergency was Jimmy Carter, who in 1977 called U.S. efforts to confront a domestic energy crisis the “moral equivalent of war.” Carter famously wore a sweater in another 1977 speech in which he stressed conservation to combat energy shortages.
In 1986, the World Health Assembly called for the eradication of Guinea worm. At the start of the Carter Center-led program in 1986, the disease was endemic in 20 African and Asian countries, with approximately 3.