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Former US President Jimmy Carter remembered for a life that rose above politics

10Jan

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Former US President Jimmy Carter remembered for a life that rose above politics

Carter remembered for humanitarian work and Egypt-Israel peace treaty 'The man had character,' Biden says Carter's remains return to Plains, Georgia for burial Jimmy Carter, the late U.S. president who served only one term in office and was widely admired for his humanitarian work after leaving the White House, was remembered during his state funeral on Thursday as a man who put honesty and kindness above partisan politics. Hundreds of mourners, including President Joe Biden and the four living former U.S. presidents, filed into the Washington National Cathedral, where a military guard deposited Carter's flag-draped coffin at the start of a roughly two-hour service that featured tributes to Carter's long life. Fellow Democrat Biden eulogized the 39th president, who died on ...

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