National mourning is declared as the United States bids farewell to Jimmy Carter, the 39th president, who passed away at the age of 100. Carter's legacy includes the Camp David Accords and humanitarian work, earning him the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002.
The 39th president of the United States, Jimmy Carter, is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. ET at the Washington National Cathedral for two days. A private interment is scheduled to begin at 5:20 p.m. ET at the Carter residence in Plains, Georgia. The departure ceremony from the Capitol included a band playing four Ruffles and Flourishes and “Hail to the Chief,” cannons firing a 21-gun salute, and the transfer of Carter’s casket to the motorcade hearse.
Carter and his family travel by motorcade to Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, where they will board Special Air Mission 39. Special Air Mission 39 arrives at Fort Moore, Georgia, where there will be a ceremony to transfer Carter’s remains to the hearse. The motorcade departs for the Carter residence, which is located about one mile from the church. The public is invited to line the motorcade route. Carter served as president from 1977 to 1981. He was a Democrat. He was the longest-lived president in U.S. history. He turned 100 on Oct. 1, 2024, and died about two months later on Dec. 29. Before serving as president, Carter — a U.S. Navy veteran — was the governor of Georgia and, prior to that, a member of the Georgia State Senate. Carter grew up on a peanut farm in Plains, Georgia — a small rural town roughly 150 miles south of Atlanta — and went on to manage the business after his father died in 1953. Carter and his wife, humanitarian Rosalynn Carter, were married in 1946. The former first lady died in November 2023 and is buried at the Carter residence in Plains, where the former president will be interned later today. The couple had four children together. His presidential legacy includes successes such as brokering the Camp David Accords in 1978 and helping bring about the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. However, he left office with a remarkably low approval rating. But he would spend the next four decades focusing on good works that made him an almost universally revered figure, sometimes called America’s greatest ex-president. Carter won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 for his work to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development
JIMMY CARTER PRESIDENTIAL LEGACY NOBEL PEACE PRIZE CAMP DAVID ACCORDS US POLITICS DEATH NATIONAL MOURNING
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