President Joe Biden will deliver the eulogy for his fellow Democrat after he was asked to do the honours when they last met four years ago

Former President Jimmy Carter's state funeral is Thursday at the Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. Carter, who died Sunday at the age of 100, was known for his views on human rights and philanthropy and for his avid support of music.

Even Republicans, who have used President Carter to attack Democrats for nearly 50 years, have had to reckon with revisionism.

The arc of his life stands in such stark contradiction to the brand of strong-armed, pugilistic leadership the nation has just embraced

Perhaps more than any single post-World War II president, Carter changed the way many saw the U.S. by attempting to inject American values of altruism, democracy and human rights into foreign policy.

Devoutness wasn't always an important feature in a presidential candidate. That all changed after Carter professed his “born again” Christianity.

I was waiting with others to board a morning flight from Los Angeles to San Francisco. The crowd of passengers was growing restless. We had seen the plane at the gate for some time. The crew had already boarded.

Let’s imagine that Franklin D. Roosevelt had possessed the same gift for longevity as Jimmy Carter and lived until he was 100. He would have died in1982, in Ronald Reagan’s second year in office.

Jimmy Carter redefined his legacy after his presidency. Other presidents, especially Hoover and Nixon, tried but failed to outrun or outwork their unhappy presidential legacies. Like John Quincy Adams before him, Carter will mostly be remembered for what came after his time in the White House rather than those four years in it—as he should be.

Jimmy Carter, who considered himself an outsider even as he sat in the Oval Office as the 39th U.S. president, will be honored Thursday with the pageantry of a funeral at Washington National Cathedral before a second service and burial in his tiny Georgia hometown.

The public views the flag-draped casket of former President Jimmy Carter at the US Capitol Rotunda in Washington, DC on Jan. 7, 2025. Carter, the 39th President of the United States, died at the age of 100 on Dec. 29, 2024, at his home in Plains, Georgia. (Allison Robbert/AFP/Getty Images/TNS) (Allison Robbert/Getty Images North America/TNS)

When Jimmy Carter chose branding designs for his presidential campaign, he passed on the usual red, white and blue. He wanted green. Emphasizing how much the Georgia Democrat enjoyed nature and prioritized environmental policy,