Former President Jimmy Carter's remains arrived in Washington, D.C. for state funeral rites. He will lie in state at the Capitol until Thursday morning, when a state funeral will be held at Washington National Cathedral. After the funeral, Carter will be transported back to Georgia for a private burial.
Former President Carter made his final trip to the nation's capital. WASHINGTON — President Jimmy Carter will continue to lie in state Wednesday after his remains arrived in Washington a day earlier as part of state funeral rites.
Carter served as president from 1977-81, winning office as an outsider in the wake of the Vietnam War and Watergate. He endured a rocky four years of economic unrest and international crises that ended with his defeat to Republican Ronald Reagan. But he also lived long enough to see historians reassess his presidency more charitably than voters did in 1980.
Carter will remain at the Capitol until Thursday morning, when he is transported to Washington National Cathedral for a state funeral. PresidentAfter the funeral, the Boeing 747 that is Air Force One when a sitting president is aboard will carry Carter and his family back to Georgia. An invitation-only funeral will be held at Maranatha Baptist Church in tiny Plains, where Carter
FILE - Georgia State Sen. Jimmy Carter hugs his wife, Rosalynn, at his Atlanta campaign headquarters on Sept. 15, 1966. , in a plot near the home they built before his first state Senate campaign in 1962 and where they lived out their lives with the exception of four years in the Georgia Governor’s Mansion and four years in the White House.
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