What we covered here
• Carter honored at the Capitol: Former President Jimmy Carter is lying in state at the US Capitol Rotunda as lawmakers and the public pay their respects. Vice President Kamala Harris, House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune delivered eulogies at a service Tuesday afternoon honoring his life, faith and accomplishments.
• Upcoming services: The US Capitol will be open tonight through Thursday, so members of the public can pay their respects to the late president. Carter’s funeral service will be held Thursday at the Washington National Cathedral, where President Joe Biden will deliver a eulogy.
• Carter’s legacy: The 39th president, who died last month in Georgia, was the oldest living former US president and the first to reach 100. He led enduring foreign policy initiatives, including a peace deal between Israel and Egypt, the normalization of relations with China and the treaties that gave Panama control of the Panama Canal from the US.
Watch the moment Jimmy Carter's casket was brought to the US Capitol
Former President Jimmy Carter will lie in state in the US Capitol ahead of a funeral at the Washington National Cathedral on Thursday.
The Capitol will be open to the public to pay their respects from 6 p.m. ET to midnight, the Joint Task Force said.
Watch the moment Tuesday afternoon when Carter’s casket was brought into the US Capitol:
Biden will deliver a eulogy at Carter's funeral on Thursday
Jimmy Carter lies in state at US Capitol as Washington honors the former president
What we covered here
• Carter honored at the Capitol: Former President Jimmy Carter is lying in state at the US Capitol Rotunda as lawmakers and the public pay their respects. Vice President Kamala Harris, House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune delivered eulogies at a service Tuesday afternoon honoring his life, faith and accomplishments.
• Upcoming services: The US Capitol will be open tonight through Thursday, so members of the public can pay their respects to the late president. Carter’s funeral service will be held Thursday at the Washington National Cathedral, where President Joe Biden will deliver a eulogy.
• Carter’s legacy: The 39th president, who died last month in Georgia, was the oldest living former US president and the first to reach 100. He led enduring foreign policy initiatives, including a peace deal between Israel and Egypt, the normalization of relations with China and the treaties that gave Panama control of the Panama Canal from the US.
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Watch the moment Jimmy Carter's casket was brought to the US Capitol
Former President Jimmy Carter will lie in state in the US Capitol ahead of a funeral at the Washington National Cathedral on Thursday.
The Capitol will be open to the public to pay their respects from 6 p.m. ET to midnight, the Joint Task Force said.
Watch the moment Tuesday afternoon when Carter’s casket was brought into the US Capitol:
Biden will deliver a eulogy at Carter's funeral on Thursday
President Joe Biden will deliver a eulogy at former President Jimmy Carter’s funeral service held at the Washington National Cathedral on Thursday, according to a White House official. It’s a marquee moment for the Democrat to pay tribute to his longtime friend in the waning days of his own presidency.
In October, Biden celebrated Carter, who he called a “beloved friend,” with a video marking his 100th birthday, and last Sunday when Carter died, the president delivered heartfelt remarks detailing how their families provided each other support in their shared battles against cancer.
The president, who said he’d been “hanging out with Jimmy Carter for more than 50 years,” said Carter “lived a life measured not by words, but by his deeds.”
“To know his core, you need to know he never stopped being a Sunday school teacher at that Baptist school in Plains, Georgia,” he said.
Biden called Carter “just as courageous in his battle against cancer as he was in everything in his life,” and talked about how the illness had impacted both of their lives.
“Cancer was a common bond between our two families, as in many other families, and our son, Beau, died — when he died, Jimmy and Rosalynn were there to help us heal,” Biden said.
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