State funeral for President Carter Jan. 9
Washington, Dec 29 (EFE).-
United States President Joe Biden scheduled Sunday the state funeral of late President Jimmy Carter for Jan. 9 in Washington following his death aged 100, after he had spent several months in palliative care.
Biden proclaimed the date a “National Day of Mourning throughout the United States” and invited the American people to pay tribute to Carter’s memory.
President Biden also ordered the US flag to be flown at half-staff at the White House and on all public buildings and grounds.
The 39th US president, who was at home in hospice care, had been treated for an aggressive form of melanoma skin cancer, with tumors that had spread to his liver and brain.
In a brief televised address from St. Croix in the US Virgin Islands, where President Biden is vacationing with his family, the president praised his “dear friend” just hours after his death.
“Jimmy Carter is a model of what it means to live a life of meaning and purpose.”
“I see a man who is not only not of our time, but of all time,” he added. “We would all do well to be a little more like Jimmy Carter.”
The president called Carter a “remarkable leader” who led a life measured by actions and not words. EFE
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