Washington, D.C. – President Joe Biden is set to speak at the funeral of the late former President Jimmy Carter, which will foster the end of an era defined by Carter’s service, humility, and humanitarian efforts throughout the world. It is going to be celebrated in the next few days, expecting members of both political parties to come together and celebrate a leader who is not just the nation’s 39th president but whose legacy of compassion and integrity reached beyond America and the world.
Jimmy Carter, 99, began hospice care early this 2023 to settle his last days at home in Plains, Georgia, as is befitting for a man regarded as a president under whose banner human rights flourished and whose post-presidency globally lived for peace and disease eradication. Selfless service describes his life, which ends in what has been expected for a long. It is an emotive moment in American history.
President Biden will, as is expected, have warm words for Carter, perhaps mentioning the former president’s life-long commitment to others and how he always bore an unwavering moral compass. In that sense, Biden and Carter have a shared political bond dating back to the seventies when young senator Biden was just getting known on the national stage while Carter emerged into the limelight.
The funeral of Carter will most probably be dominated by some of his great achievements, such as the revolutionary Camp David Accords, his immense contribution to energy policy during a crisis, and his solid contribution toward humanitarian causes after leaving the presidency. The Carter Center, founded in 1982, has changed and expanded democracy, human rights, and health throughout the world.
Assuredly, beyond the political arena, Carter’s simple lifestyle and very strong faith connected well with Americans from all walks of life and quite patently. He sometimes swings a hammer with Habitat for Humanity.
