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☆ Read this message about political differences delivered from beyond the presidential grave
▼ + stars: | 2025-01-09 | by ( Zachary B. Wolf | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

The first two pews at the funeral of former President Jimmy Carter should be a diagram of acrimony. Obama has said Trump is unfit to serve in the White House, and Trump has falsely and repeatedly questioned Obama’s US citizenship. “It was somewhere over the Atlantic that Jimmy and I forged a friendship that transcends politics,” Ford said. Carter and Ford, like Clinton, W. Bush and Obama, adhered to the philosophy of retreating from day-to-day politics after leaving the White House. Trump, so far the anomaly, never left the political fight and fought his way back to the White House.

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☆ Nation’s Leaders Will Gather to Honor Carter at Washington Cathedral
▼ + stars: | 2025-01-09 | by ( Peter Baker | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A weeklong series of tributes to former President Jimmy Carter culminates on Thursday with a solemn state funeral in Washington that will bring together all five of the nation’s living presidents, who will temporarily put down their partisan swords to bid farewell to one of their own. Mr. Carter, who has lain in state for the past two days at the Capitol, will be brought to Washington National Cathedral for a 10 a.m. service featuring all the rituals of a national send-off. President Biden will deliver a eulogy, as will Jason Carter, the former president’s grandson, and Stuart E. Eizenstat, a longtime friend and White House domestic adviser to Mr. Carter. Eulogies that former President Gerald R. Ford and former Vice President Walter F. Mondale wrote before their own deaths will be read by their sons, Steven Ford and Ted Mondale. Mr. Carter defeated Mr. Ford in the 1976 election but they later became friends, while Mr. Mondale was his close partner for four years in the White House.

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☆ Jimmy Carter’s funeral captures the American story at a fraught political moment
▼ + stars: | 2025-01-09 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +21 min

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Carter's casket is carried out of the cathedral after his funeral. Tristen Rouse/CNN After the funeral, Carter will be taken to his final resting spot in Plains, Georgia. Tristen Rouse/CNN Carter's casket is carried away after his funeral service. “He amazed me then as he has every year since.” Roberto Schmidt/AFP/Getty Images Carter's casket arrives at the cathedral. Andrew Young, who was with Martin Luther King Jr. when he was assassinated, sat beside Carter’s casket.

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☆ National Day of Mourning for Jimmy Carter: What It Means, and What’s Closed
▼ + stars: | 2025-01-06 | by ( Victor Mather | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

A national day of mourning will be observed on Thursday for Jimmy Carter, who died on Dec. 29 at 100 years old. In a proclamation after Mr. Carter’s death, President Biden called him “a man of character, courage, and compassion.”In announcing the day of mourning, he said: “I call on the American people to assemble on that day in their respective places of worship, there to pay homage to the memory of President James Earl Carter Jr. I invite the people of the world who share our grief to join us in this solemn observance.”What’s happeningThe day of mourning will be held on the same day as Mr. Carter’s funeral at Washington National Cathedral. President Biden will deliver a eulogy at the funeral, and a eulogy written by Gerald R. Ford, who died in 2006, will be read by his son Steven Ford.

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