President Biden, who was the first sitting senator to endorse Carter's 1976 presidential campaign, will eulogize his fellow Democrat 11 days before he leaves office.
President Joe Biden honored former President Jimmy Carter as “an extraordinary leader, statesman and humanitarian” after the nation's 39th commander-in-chief died on Sunday.
President Joe Biden praised his 'dear friend' Jimmy Carter after the former president died at the age of 100 at his Georgia home on Sunday.
After Jimmy Carter died at age 100 on Dec. 29, 2024, politicians and world leaders including Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Bill Clinton and King Charles paid tribute to the former president with heartfelt statements.
Members of the public will be able to come pay their respects in Washington ahead of the former president's funeral on Thursday.
President Joe Biden, President-Elect Donald Trump and more high-profile elected officials on Sunday paid tribute to former President Jimmy Carter, who died earlier in the day at age 100. Biden said the world lost an “extraordinary leader, statesman and humanitarian” and that he lost a dear friend.
Nearly 44 years after Jimmy Carter left the nation’s capital in humbling defeat, the 39th president returned to Washington on Tuesday for state funeral rites that featured the kind of bipartisan praise and ceremonial pomp the Georgia Democrat rarely enjoyed at his political peak.
Jimmy Carter, who considered himself an outsider even while serving as the 39th U.S. president, will be honoured on Thursday with a funeral at Washington National Cathedral before a second service and burial in his small Georgia hometown.
President Jimmy Carter ‘s legacy of giving back endures in several nonprofits he and his wife, Rosalynn Carter, supported for the almost 50 years after they left the White House. In Los Angeles on Monday,