Biden Says Jimmy Carter Has Asked Him To Deliver His Eulogy

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    In this April 30, 2021, photo released by The White House, former President Jimmy Carter and former first lady Rosalynn Carter pose for a photo with President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden at the home of the Carter's in Plains, Georgia.(Adam Schultz | Adam Schultz, The White House via AP)

    ATLANTA (AP) — President Joe Biden says he plans to deliver the eulogy at the funeral of former President Jimmy Carter, who remains under hospice care at his home in south Georgia.

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    Biden told donors at a California fundraiser Monday evening about his “recent” visit to see the 39th president, whom he has known since he was a young Delaware senator supporting Carter’s 1976 presidential campaign.

    “He asked me to do his eulogy,” Biden said, before stopping himself from saying more. “Excuse me, I shouldn’t say that.”

    Carter, who at 98 is the longest-lived U.S. president, announced Feb. 18 that he would spend his remaining days at home receiving end-of-life care, forgoing further medical intervention after a series of short hospital stays. The Carter Center in Atlanta and the former president’s family members have not disclosed details of his condition, though Biden alluded to Carter’s 2015 cancer diagnosis and subsequent recovery.

    “I spent time with Jimmy Carter and it’s finally caught up with him, but they found a way to keep him going for a lot longer than they anticipated because they found a breakthrough,” Biden said in Rancho Sante Fe, California.

    Biden, 80, and first lady Jill Biden visited Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, who is now 95, at their home in Plains, Georgia, a few months after Biden took office in 2021. Biden was the first U.S. senator to endorse Carter’s 1976 presidential bid, breaking from the Washington establishment that Carter — then a former one-time Georgia governor — shocked by winning the Democratic nomination.

    Biden’s presidency represents a turnabout, of sorts, for Carter’s political standing. He served just one term and lost in a landslide to Republican Ronald Reagan in 1980, prompting top Democrats to keep their distance, at least publicly, for decades after he left the White House.

    Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama did not have close relationships with Carter. And the longshot presidential candidates who sometimes ventured to Plains over the years typically did so privately.

    But as the Carters’ global humanitarian work and advocacy of democracy via The Carter Center garnered new respect, Democratic politicians began publicly circulating back to south Georgia ahead of the 2020 election cycle. And with Biden’s election, Carter again found a genuine friend and ally in the Oval Office.

    Some Carter family members have confirmed that the former president will have a state funeral in Washington, D.C., along with a private funeral and burial in Plains. Former and sitting presidents often speak at the state funerals of their predecessors, sometimes even crossing the political aisle. Clinton spoke at Republican Richard Nixon’s funeral in 1994. Carter eulogized Republican Gerald Ford, the man he defeated to win the presidency, in 2007. The two men had become close friends after their presidencies and had agreed that the surviving president would pay tribute at the other’s funeral. When George H.W. Bush died in 2018, fellow Republican Donald Trump attended as sitting president but the only former president to speak at Washington National Cathedral was the elder Bush’s son, George W. Bush.


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    Mikey
    Mikey
    8 months ago

    Biden has been speaking to Carter every day for many years, still has long conversations with him and will continue to do so for the next 180 years.

    yosher
    yosher
    8 months ago

    Thanks to Biden’s presidency, Carter is now second worst all time president.

    chanan grossman
    chanan grossman
    8 months ago

    Someone said, that HKBH was very kind to the peanut farmer from GA, by granting him such arichas yamim, so that he can peyger knowing that he wasn’t the s****est president this country ever knew, it is in fact Brandon….

    XYZ
    XYZ
    8 months ago

    The jokes/comments about this story can write themselves

    GMalka
    GMalka
    8 months ago

    The picture: Which one is Biden?

    Kvetch
    Kvetch
    8 months ago

    Ol Jimmy planned his funeral as well as the Iran hostage rescue.

    anonymous
    anonymous
    8 months ago

    Tzwei mishigoim, einer gresser wie der tzweiter !!!

    Biden is an evil child mutilator supporter.
    Biden is an evil child mutilator supporter.
    8 months ago

    He will eulogize the Jew hating terrorist supporter. Democrats are the party of Jew haters.

    hard at work yeshiva grad
    hard at work yeshiva grad
    8 months ago

    Can mbc sing mr carter by the levaya?

    yosher
    yosher
    8 months ago

    במהרה בימינו אמן

    Joseph
    Joseph
    8 months ago

    Both are senile -I wonder what they say to each other?

    Kvetch
    Kvetch
    8 months ago

    So fitting! Plus, it’s someone who has peanuts to say.

    A Jew
    A Jew
    8 months ago

    What’s with this picture? Bad photoshop?

    Paul Near Philadelphia
    Paul Near Philadelphia
    8 months ago

    The only man to use the presidency on his way to even greater things.

    Educated_Archy
    Educated_Archy
    8 months ago

    Jimmy has 9 lives and seems sharper than Biden! Lets see who outlives who