The funeral of former president Jimmy Carter featured a eulogy from the late former president Gerald Ford, the Republican he ousted from the presidency in a bitter 1976 race but went on to befriend in the kind of Washington relationship that now seems like a relic of a bygone era.
The late President Gerald Ford wrote a eulogy for his good friend President Jimmy Carter, which his youngest son Steven Ford read at the National Cathedral in a moving moment during Carter’s funeral.
The president-elect sat in the row directly ahead of Mike Pence, who was once the target of a violent mob bent on keeping Trump in power.
A state funeral is a gathering of the Washington clans, a convocation of the very establishment that Trump has pledged to destroy in his second term. Carter was not a clubbable man and his self-conscious piety was sometimes an irritant for his successors. He was the uneasiest member of the ex-president’s club apart from Trump.
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The state funeral of former President Jimmy Carter was held at Washington National Cathedral Thursday on what President Biden proclaimed a national day of mourning.
and folks could not get enough of the moment he shared with Barack Obama. As he entered the cathedral for the services, Bush—who was joined by wife Laura Bush—went to take his seat next to ...
It is unusual for five current and former presidents to gather at the same event, but when it happens, it is often at a funeral.
Jimmy Carter, first former American president to live to 100, was eulogized at Washington National Cathedral on Thursday morning and will be remembered before a second service and burial back in his Georgia hometown of Plains.
Follow live coverage of the state funeral of the 39th US president Jimmy Carter in Washington following his death at the age of 100.
Try to imagine this scenario: Donald Trump, Joe Biden and Barack Obama walking onto the ... and former president and long-time desert resident Gerald Ford did come together for about five hours ...