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Jan. 7, 2025, 2:59 p.m. ET President Jimmy Carter in 1980.Credit…Barton Silverman/The New York Times The elaborate series of ceremonies and services that follow the death of an American president stand in stark contrast to the humble, everyman persona of former President Jimmy Carter, whose body arrived in Washington on Tuesday. Coming to office after […]
WASHINGTON — Former President Jimmy Carter will lie in state at the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday afternoon after a memorial service attended by his family, Vice President Kamala Harris, members of Congress and other officials. Harris, Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., and House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., will deliver eulogies, and several members of […]
Sports teams in former U.S. President Jimmy Carter’s home state of Georgia expressed their condolences Sunday, honoring a former leader who also served as the state’s governor and had an extensive record as an athlete and sports fan. The Atlanta Falcons football team held a moment of silence before their game Sunday night. The team’s […]
By all accounts former President Jimmy Carter, who died on Sunday at age 100, was thrilled when he, as a former naval officer and submariner, found out in the late 1990s that the U.S. Navy would name its newest attack submarine in his honor. But until the submarine’s commander, Don Kelso, and a retired Navy […]
CNN — Former President Jimmy Carter, a Georgia peanut farmer who vowed to restore morality and truth to politics after an era of White House scandal and who redefined post-presidential service, died Sunday at the age of 100. The Carter Center said the 39th president died in Plains, Georgia, surrounded by his family. Carter had […]
The longest-lived president in United States’ history, Jimmy Carter’s voice will continue to extend “into the cosmos” beyond his death at 100. Carter, who died on Sunday (Dec. 29) at his home in Plains, Georgia, recorded the country’s official message that was launched in 1977 and now travels beyond our solar system on the Voyager […]
ATLANTA (AP) — Jimmy Carter, the peanut farmer who won the presidency in the wake of the Watergate scandal and Vietnam War, endured humbling defeat after one tumultuous term and then redefined life after the White House as a global humanitarian, has died. He was 100 years old. The longest-lived American president died on Sunday, […]
In 1979, former President Jimmy Carter did himself significant political damage in an extraordinary address to the nation on the energy crisis. Carter listed criticisms of his presidency, painting a picture of a listless nation trapped in a moral and spiritual funk. “It is a crisis of confidence. It is a crisis that strikes at […]
Source: Interim Archives / Getty PLAINS, Ga. — Former President Jimmy Carter is dead at the age of 100. His son said he died Sunday at his home in Plains, Georgia. He is the longest-lived former President in our nation’s history. His wife Rosalynn Carter passed away at the couple’s home in November 2023 at […]
FILE PHOTO – Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter takes questions from the media during a news conference at the Carter Center in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. August 20, 2015. REUTERS/John Amis/File Picture Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, who rose from a peanut farm in Georgia to the highest office in the nation […]