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ATLANTA — Former President Jimmy Carter’s remains are expected to arrive in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, where he will be honored in a ceremony at the U.S. Capitol before lying in state until Thursday morning.
The casket carrying the 39th president will leave the Carter Presidential Center in Atlanta, where thousands of mourners paid their respects this weekend, and travel to Dobbins Air Reserve Base before boarding the air mission Special 39 to Joint Base Andrews.
Carter died on December 29 at the age of 100.
While Carter’s four decades of absence were marked by humanitarian efforts around monitoring elections and addressing global public health issues, his time in Washington was marked by a tumultuous economy and international conflict, which left him unpopular with an American public distrustful of the government. federal government.
Carter’s casket will leave Joint Base Andrews and travel to the US Navy Memorial, honoring his service as a lieutenant who worked on nuclear submarines, before a horse-drawn caisson leads a procession to the Capitol.
A service in the Capitol rotunda with members of Congress is scheduled to begin at 3 p.m., and members of the public are invited to pay their respects until 7 a.m. Thursday, when Carter’s remains will travel to the cathedral National Museum of Washington for his state funeral.
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Thursday afternoon, Carter’s remains will return to Georgia for a private service at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, where Carter taught Sunday school until age 90, before being buried in the family home next to his wife, Rosalynn Carter.
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