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Jimmy Carter Had a Quiet Second Act as a Folk Painter

Christie's to auction late president's personal artworks to fund Georgia causes

(Newser) - Jimmy Carter didn't just oversee peace accords and peanut farms—he also spent decades quietly wrestling with oil paint and church steeples. Nearly 100 of the former president's paintings are now coming out of the Carter family orbit, with four headed to Christie's this month in a...

Jimmy Carter Getting His Own Stamp
Jimmy Carter
Getting His
Own Stamp
Aug 19, 2025 5:21 AM CDT

Jimmy Carter Getting His Own Stamp

Former president to be honored with a Forever stamp

(Newser) - The late President Jimmy Carter will be honored with a commemorative Forever stamp on what would have been his 101st birthday, the AP reports. The US Postal Service will release the stamp for purchase on Oct. 1 in Atlanta. The postage features a 1982 portrait of the nation's 39th...

Even California Will Raise Flags for Trump Inauguration

Other states have already said flags will be lowered again the next day for Jimmy Carter

(Newser) - Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom will join Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson and some GOP governors around the country in directing US flags be raised to full height on Inauguration Day, the AP reports. Newsom's spokesperson Izzy Gardon confirmed Wednesday that the governor would temporarily direct the raising of...

Johnson: Flags Will Be Raised During Trump Inauguration

He says they'll go back to half-staff the next day 'to continue honoring President Jimmy Carter'

(Newser) - Flags that were at half-staff to mourn the 39th president will be raised for the inauguration of the 47th. House Speaker Mike Johnson announced Tuesday that flags at the Capitol will fly at full-staff when President-elect Trump is inaugurated on Monday, Politico reports. They were lowered after Jimmy Carter's...

Biden Sums Up Carter in 3 Words
Biden Sums Up
Carter in 3 Words
Jan 9, 2025 12:15 PM CST

Biden Sums Up Carter in 3 Words

'Character, character, character'

(Newser) - President Biden delivered the eulogy for his predecessor Jimmy Carter on Thursday, one in which he praised Carter as a friend, mentor, and president. Highlights from the Hill , the AP , CNN , and the New York Times :
  • Biden laid out "what I believe is Jimmy Carter's enduring attribute: character,
...

Carter Funeral Brings a Rarity: 5 Living Presidents

All are present in DC

(Newser) - Jimmy Carter's state funeral is underway in DC on Thursday, and the ceremony has resulted in a rarity: the assemblage of five living presidents. President Biden will be delivering the eulogy, and in attendance are George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump. The New York Times ...

Capitol Police: Man in Line for Viewing Had a Machete

Arrest was made shortly before Trump arrived at building

(Newser) - Capitol Police arrested a man in line for the viewing of Jimmy Carter in the Capitol Rotunda on Wednesday who had a machete and three knives, officials said. The machete showed up as his bag went through the X-ray machine during a security screening at the Capitol Visitor Center, police...

Her Parents' Deaths Bring Amy Carter Back Into Spotlight

Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter's youngest child was a roller-skating 9-year-old when he became president

(Newser) - Amy Carter was 9 when she joined her parents in walking in Jimmy Carter's inaugural parade in 1977. She then lived in the national spotlight, becoming the first young child in the White House since Caroline and John Kennedy Jr—photographed roller-skating outside, dining with John Travota, and posing...

Harris Praises Carter's 'Modesty and Grace'

Trump in separate comments calls Carter's legacy on Panama Canal a 'disgrace'

(Newser) - Nearly 44 years after Jimmy Carter left the nation's capital in humbling defeat, the 39th president returned to Washington on Tuesday for state funeral rites that featured the kind of bipartisan praise and ceremonial pomp the Georgia Democrat rarely enjoyed at his political peak. The military honor guards, a...

Jimmy Carter's Casket Arrives at US Capitol

Former president will lie in state ahead of Thursday funeral

(Newser) - Nearly 44 years after Jimmy Carter left the nation's capital in defeat, the 39th president returned to Washington for three days of state funeral rites starting Tuesday. Carter's remains, which had been lying in repose at the Carter Presidential Center since Saturday, left the Atlanta campus Tuesday morning,...

Jimmy Carter's Journey Begins in Georgia

Motorcade carries former president's casket through Plains, past his homes, to Atlanta

(Newser) - The procession leading to the state funeral for Jimmy Carter began Saturday, with residents of his Georgia hometown turning out to pay their respects as the motorcade carrying the former president's casket passed on its way to Atlanta. The journey began at the Phoebe Sumter Medical Center in Americus,...

Trump Says He'll Attend Carter Funeral

'We were invited,' he tells reporters at Mar-a-Lago party

(Newser) - President-elect Trump confirmed to reporters outside his Mar-a-Lago New Year's Eve party that he will attend Jimmy Carter's funeral on Jan. 9. "I'll be there. We were invited," Trump said, per Reuters . He declined to say whether he had spoken to any Carter family members...

Jimmy Carter's Long War: Guinea Worm Disease

Former president waged a relentless campaign to eradicate debilitating disease over 4 decades

(Newser) - Jimmy Carter spent nearly four decades waging war to eliminate an ancient parasite plaguing the world's poorest people. Rarely fatal but searingly painful and debilitating, Guinea worm disease infects people who drink water tainted with larvae that grow inside the body into worms as long as 3 feet. The...

Carter Funeral Will Include Ford, Mondale Eulogies

Eulogies will be read by their sons at Jan. 9 service at Washington National Cathedral

(Newser) - The first funeral for a former Democratic president since Lyndon B. Johnson died in early 1973 will be held on Jan. 9, which President Biden has declared a national day of mourning . Jimmy Carter's state funeral will be held at Washington National Cathedral, ABC News reports. The former president...

Co-Authoring a Book Threatened the Carters' Idyllic Marriage

Jimmy and Rosalynn had to divvy up passages they disagreed on

(Newser) - No ex-president had a more prolific and diverse publishing career than Jimmy Carter. His more than two dozen books included nonfiction, poetry, fiction, religious meditations, and a children's story. His memoir An Hour Before Daylight was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2002, while his 2006 best-seller Palestine: Peace Not ...

5 Surprising Facts About Jimmy Carter
5 Surprising Facts
About Jimmy Carter
Dec 30, 2024 10:15 AM CST

5 Surprising Facts About Jimmy Carter

He was the first US president born in a hospital

(Newser) - The big highlights from Jimmy Carter's presidency and post-presidency are being thoroughly vetted in the wake of his death. But outlets also are providing some lesser-known facts about America's 39th president:
  • Historic birth: The Washington Post notes that Carter was the first president to have been born in
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What the Editorials Are Saying About Jimmy Carter

'In many ways,' he 'was the best American'

(Newser) - A sampling of editorials on the death of Jimmy Carters in major newspapers on Monday:
  • Wall Street Journal: "Carter brought good intentions and admirable character to the White House, but he was unable to address the main problems of his time," write the editors. "Democrats nominated him
...

US Will Fly Flags at Half-Staff for 30 Days in Carter's Honor

US flags on federal property are to fly at half-staff for 30 days in honor of late ex-President Jimmy Carter

(Newser) - President Biden has declared Jan. 9 a national day of mourning for Jimmy Carter, who died Sunday at the age of 100, per the AP . There's also another decree in honor of the late former president—American flags must be flown at half-staff for the month after Carter's...

What the 5 Living Presidents Said About Jimmy Carter

Biden says he lost a friend; Trump also praises him, while noting political differences

(Newser) - A moment of silence was held for Jimmy Carter at the Atlanta Falcons' game at the Washington Commanders Sunday night—a game with multiple links to the former president, a native of Georgia who led the country from 1977 to 1981 from the White House, less than eight miles from...

Jimmy Carter Built Legacy After Presidency
Jimmy Carter Built a
Legacy After Presidency
obituary
Dec 29, 2024 4:43 PM CST

Jimmy Carter Built a Legacy After Presidency

Georgia peanut farmer gained admiration for humanitarian work, efforts to preserve democracy

(Newser) - Former President Jimmy Carter, who was turned out of office by voters after one term and went on to build houses for the poor and champion democracy around the world, died Sunday. He was 100 and the longest-living US president. His son said Carter died at his home in Plains,...

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