More than at any other time in my long life I feel the need to remind myself that there are people like Jimmy Carter: full of integrity, humility, and the desire to enrich the lives of others, rather than his own. People who don't constantly talk about themselves like so many loudmouths do, but who ACT, for the benefit of humanity and all beings.
Wonderful that Jimmy Carter will have a State Funeral. He was such a good human being who devoted his life to public service. We should hold his memory in our hearts and minds as we move forward into this next year of uncertainty.
Well, I made a quick check. Some yes, some no, some no due to circumstances. All US presidents are entitled to them by convention. Ford's family opted for speeches in the Rotunda but flew his body back home. Kennedy's body didn't lie in state: a destroyed Richard Cardinal Cushing, who had baptized him as a bishop and married him to Jackie, presided over his funeral at St. Michael's. Richard Nixon's family decorously declined the honor. FDR didn't have one due to the war. But Douglas McArthur had one. Admiral Chester A. Nimitz instructed that he should be quietly buried with a group of soldiers at Golden Gate Cemetery in San Francisco, and that's what his family did. No state funerals for John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, bitter rivals through most of their lives who became spectacular friends in late life: they died within an hour of each other, unbeknownst to the other, after having tried to out-breath the other for years: Adams was buried in Quincy, and Jefferson was buried, quietly, gently, without fanfare at Monticello. But I think this, having read a tiny bit: You are right that it would have been offered to Carter -- and I am so glad there will be these eight days of celebration and a state funeral for this man, if for no other reason that to evoke the memory of how good a person can be in office and as a Citizen in the waning days and dark nights before we begin the long haul to defend the Lady.
More than at any other time in my long life I feel the need to remind myself that there are people like Jimmy Carter: full of integrity, humility, and the desire to enrich the lives of others, rather than his own. People who don't constantly talk about themselves like so many loudmouths do, but who ACT, for the benefit of humanity and all beings.
Wonderful that Jimmy Carter will have a State Funeral. He was such a good human being who devoted his life to public service. We should hold his memory in our hearts and minds as we move forward into this next year of uncertainty.
Yes!!!!!!
This is good but was there ever any question that Carter wouldn't get this? It seems to be protocol for all past U.S. presidents.
Well, I made a quick check. Some yes, some no, some no due to circumstances. All US presidents are entitled to them by convention. Ford's family opted for speeches in the Rotunda but flew his body back home. Kennedy's body didn't lie in state: a destroyed Richard Cardinal Cushing, who had baptized him as a bishop and married him to Jackie, presided over his funeral at St. Michael's. Richard Nixon's family decorously declined the honor. FDR didn't have one due to the war. But Douglas McArthur had one. Admiral Chester A. Nimitz instructed that he should be quietly buried with a group of soldiers at Golden Gate Cemetery in San Francisco, and that's what his family did. No state funerals for John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, bitter rivals through most of their lives who became spectacular friends in late life: they died within an hour of each other, unbeknownst to the other, after having tried to out-breath the other for years: Adams was buried in Quincy, and Jefferson was buried, quietly, gently, without fanfare at Monticello. But I think this, having read a tiny bit: You are right that it would have been offered to Carter -- and I am so glad there will be these eight days of celebration and a state funeral for this man, if for no other reason that to evoke the memory of how good a person can be in office and as a Citizen in the waning days and dark nights before we begin the long haul to defend the Lady.
Good move, President Carter - you made it so Biden can give you the send off you deserve.