Jimmy Carter’s funeral set for Jan 9.; Biden declares national day of mourning: Live

Carter specifically requested that his body not be transported by train from Washington D.C. to Georgia, once telling a staffer, “if you take my cold, dead body across the U.S. by train, I’ll haunt you until the day you die.”

In the past, some presidents have traveled from Washington D.C. to their place of rest by train, allowing people all across the U.S. to pay their respects. George H.W. Bush’s family did this in 2018.

But Cater was adamant this not be his situation, according to the New York Times. Instead, his body will be transported by military flight.

Carter will be remembered for his commitment to humanitarian services and kindness toward people. Delta Airlines shared their fond memories of the former president with a video showing Carter shaking hands with each passenger on board.

“Every time Jimmy Carter flew Delta, he shook hands with each person on the plane. Because that’s who he was. Someone who treated people as people,” Delta wrote

Carter’s niece, Kim Fuller, said her uncle was “one of a kind” and that it’s unlikely the world will ever get another person like him, in an interview with ABC News.

“I think that Uncle Jimmy was one of a kind,” Fuller said.

Fuller said her uncle lived his life for others before himself.

“I have hopes that maybe one day somebody’s going to show up like him,” Fuller said.

President Joe Biden has officially signed the executive order that will effectively close the government on January 9, the day he has declared the national day of mourning for former president Jimmy Carter.

Departments related to national security, defense or other public needs can remain functioning.

A eulogy, written for Carter by former president Gerald R. Ford, will be read at Carter’s funeral, according to the New York Times.

Ford, who Carter defeated in the 1976 presidential election, became a close friend to Carter after the election. Ford died in 2006 at the age of 93. His son, Steven Ford, is expected to read his eulogy to Carter.

Another political, former vice president Walter F. Mondale – who served as VP for Carter – also wrote a eulogy for Carter. Mondale died in 2021 at the age of 93. His son, Ted Mondale, will read the eulogy for Carter.

For decades after he was crushed in the 1980 presidential election, Jimmy Carter was defined as a loser. But, by any standard, he won at life. He was the longest-living American president, the longest married (77 years, and happily), and – especially if you look at his whole career – among the most accomplished and productive figures of our era.

Now it’s time for the public to reassess this inspiring, complex, and confounding man. When I first began researching his epic American life in 2015, I was struck by the ubiquity of the easy shorthand on him – bad president; great former president. Even now, everyone from political scientists to the average person on the street will express this idea as if it’s an established fact. The problem is, the widespread conventional wisdom on Carter is mostly wrong.

Carter’s his biographer Jonathan Alter takes a look at the extraordinary life and achievements of the former president.

The New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq will be closed on January 9, 2025 after President Joe Biden declared a national day of mourning for Jimmy Carter after the former president died at the age of 100 on Sunday.

“Jimmy Carter, with humble roots as a farmer and family man, devoted his life to public service and defending our freedom,” Lynn Martin, President of NYSE Group, said in a statement on Monday.

“During his noteworthy post-presidential life, President Carter left an enduring legacy of humanitarianism. The NYSE will respectfully honor President Carter’s lifetime of service to our nation by closing our markets on the National Day of Mourning.”

Texas Governor Greg Abbott mistakenly sent his condolences to Jimmy Carter’s wife, Rosalynn, despite her being dead for over a year.

“Cecilia and I send our prayers and deepest condolences to First Lady Rosalynn Carter and the entire Carter family,” the GOP governor wrote in a statement released on Sunday.

However, Rosalynn Carter passed away on November 19, 2023 at the age of 96. The statement came just hours after Carter’s death at his Plains, Georgia, home on Sunday.

“Did anyone in the Governor’s Office Proof the Condolence note?,” the Democratic party of Collins county, Texas, teased on X after the mistake.