A special service was held in the Capitol rotunda, with eulogies by Vice President Kamala Harris, Senate Republican leader John Thune and House Speaker Mike Johnson.
Nearly 44 years after Jimmy Carter left the nation's capital in humbling defeat, the 39th president returns to Washington for three days of state funeral rites starting on Tuesday.
ATLANTA, Ga. ( WANF /Gray News) – James Earl Carter, Jr., will make his final trip to Washington, D.C., Tuesday, a city where he served as the nation’s 39th president, after lying in repose in Atlanta ...
Carter and his family will then travel by motorcade at 12:15 p.m. to the U.S. Navy Memorial, where his remains will be transferred from the hearse to a horse-drawn caisson for a funeral procession ...
A partial building collapse occurred in the Gulistan-e-Johar area of Karachi, near Johar Morr, trapping multiple individuals inside. Fortunately, no fatalities have been reported. According to ...
“They are very much involved in the planning process, and the decisions that they make tell us a lot about ... down Pennsylvania Avenue on the same caisson that carried Abraham Lincoln after ...
Plans for the new caisson program are grand enough to make any savvy equestrian salivate — tens of millions of dollars in funding, training from Olympians, custom-fitted saddles for each horse ...
Once in office, Carter promised to make government “competent and compassionate,” but his presidency was dogged by a slow economy, an energy crisis and the Cold War. Despite being a one ...
Whereas lying in repose is when the casket of a former member of government lies in any other building to allow the ... of a casket using a horse-drawn caisson, which likely dates back to the ...