Former President Jimmy Carter
The White House announced Monday that former President Jimmy Carter’s official state funeral will take place in Washington, D.C., on January 9.
The late former president will lie in state in the U.S. Capitol’s Rotunda, according to the Carter Centre. Dates weren’t accessible right away.
Hours after Carter’s death at the age of 100, President Joe Biden issued a proclamation on Sunday designating January 9 as a National Day of Mourning.
He laboured to end disease, create peace, develop human and civil rights, support free and fair elections, provide housing for the homeless, and always stand up for the weakest among us with his compassion and moral clarity. People all throughout the world were saved, uplifted, and had their lives transformed by him.
According to The Carter Centre, Carter will be buried privately in his hometown of Plains, Georgia, after public memorial services in Atlanta and Washington, D.C.
The ceremonies will eventually be led by the Department of Defense’s Joint Task Force-National Capital Region.
In his moving statement on Sunday, Biden talked about his own experiences with Carter and how their families supported one another during their joint fight against cancer.
Biden took time out of his St. Croix vacation to make the previously unplanned remark, saying, “This is a sad day, but it brings back an incredible amount of good memories.” I believe that the world and America lost a great leader. He was a statesman and humanitarian, and Jill and I lost a dear friend
Carter “lived a life measured not by words, but by his deeds,” according to the president, who claimed to have been “hanging out with Jimmy Carter for more than 50 years.”
He claimed that in order to understand his essence, one must be aware that he continued to teach Sunday school at the Baptist school in Plains, Georgia.
Biden discussed how the disease had affected both of their lives and referred to Carter as “just as courageous in his battle against cancer as he was in everything in his life.”
As with many other families, Biden stated, “Cancer was a common bond between our two families, and when our son, Beau, died, Jimmy and Rosalynn were there to help us heal.”
He claimed that after Carter’s diagnosis, he and the first lady “did our best to comfort him.”
Biden stated, “We spoke, and he shared our conviction that we have the ability and the means as a country to one day eradicate cancer as we know it.”
Biden informed reporters that his team was “working with his family and others to see to it that he’s remembered appropriately” and that he had spoken with each of Carter’s children.
As people celebrated Carter’s life as a politician, religion leader, humanitarian, and Navy veteran, love poured forth from all around the world. Many of them emphasised his moral compass and sense of decency. World leaders, nonprofit organisations, military personnel, and politicians from both sides of the aisle, particularly in his home state of Georgia, honoured his work in eradicating disease, promoting civil rights, facilitating peace in the Middle East, and supervising free and fair elections worldwide.
In addition, Carter was the first president to name several women to Cabinet positions. However, he claims that his career was born out of chauvinism in the Carters’ early marriage: He didn’t ask Rosalynn for her opinion before opting to return to Plains in 1953 or before running for the state Senate ten years later.
Years later, he said it was “inconceivable” that he didn’t consult with the lady he referred to as his “full partner” at The Carter Centre, in government, and at home.
“When we were working in the farm supply business, we formed a partnership, and it continued when Jimmy entered politics,” Rosalynn Carter told AP in 2021.