1/5: Face the Nation – CBS News Watch CBS News This week on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune joins to discuss the GOP’s priorities with President-elect Donald Trump coming into the White House, while House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi discusses the legacy of the Jan. 6, 2021 attack with…
Atlanta — Dr. Meredith Evans was just 4 years old when she wrote a letter to President Jimmy Carter. “Dear Jimmy Carter…here’s some money to help you be president,” Evans wrote at the time, sending a dollar and a penny. Evans eventually got her money back and much more. She now serves as director of…
Six days of events honoring former President Jimmy Carter began Saturday with a procession stopping in his hometown of Plains, Georgia, tributes at the state Capitol, and then a private service at the Carter Center in Atlanta, where his body will lie in repose until Tuesday. Carter died on Dec. 29 at the age of…
Former President Jimmy Carter, who died Sunday at the age of 100, led an extraordinary life that began at a peanut farm in Plains, Georgia, and went on to include four years in the world’s most powerful office, travels around the globe and a Nobel Peace Prize. President Biden declared a National Day of Mourning for Jan. 9, when…
Former President Jimmy Carter to be honored over 6-day funeral schedule – CBS News Watch CBS News Preparations have started for the funeral of former President Jimmy Carter, who died Sunday at age 100. Events are set in Carter’s hometown of Plains, Georgia, and in Washington, D.C. Mark Strassman has more. Be the first to…
The state funeral for former President Jimmy Carter will be held on Jan. 9 in Washington, D.C, according to a presidential declaration by President Biden. Mr. Biden also said that day will be a National Day of Mourning for Carter, who died Sunday, Dec. 29, at the age of 100. “I call on the American people…
Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, died Sunday at the age of 100. Though he served only one term in office, he went on to a distinguished second act of humanitarian work, and he lived long enough to become the oldest former president in U.S. history. Carter “died peacefully Sunday, Dec. 29,…
The death on Sunday of former President Jimmy Carter, the nation’s oldest former president in history, quickly prompted tributes from the U.S. and abroad, with responses coming in from world leaders and ordinary citizens, celebrities and politicians and people whose lives he affected. Here are some of the reactions to Carter’s death at age 100….
President Biden on Sunday evening praised the late President Jimmy Carter as an example of “simple decency” in brief remarks, hours after Carter’s death at the age of 100 was announced. The president, in a brief but warm tribute, said of Carter that he had “lived a life measured not by words, but by his deeds.” Carter,…
