The president of the United States, Joe Biden, scheduled for Thursday, January 9, the state funeral of former president Jimmy Carter in Washingtonwho died this Sunday at the age of 100 after spending several months in palliative care.
Biden proclaimed that date as ‘National Day of Mourning throughout the United States’ and invited the American people to pay tribute to the memory of former President Carter. The funeral services will take place eleven days before President-elect Donald Trump takes office.
President Biden also ordered that the United States flag be displayed at half-staff at the White House and on all public buildings and grounds.
The 39th president of the United States, who was at home in palliative carehad been treated for an aggressive form of melanoma skin cancer, with tumors that had spread to the liver and brain.
In a brief televised message from St. Croix, in the US Virgin Islands, where President Biden is spending vacations with his family, the president praised his “dear friend” a few hours after his death. “Jimmy Carter is a model of what it means live a life with meaning and purpose“, and it is wrong to see it as a reflection of “a bygone era.”
“I see a man who is not only not from our time, but from all times,” he added. “We would all do well to be a little more like Jimmy Carter.”
The president described Carter, the 39th president and the longest-serving president in the country’s history, as a “notable leader” who led a life measured by actions and not by words.
