Former President Jimmy Carter will lie in state in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda next week, and President Joe Biden will be among the speakers delivering eulogies at the National Cathedral about the nation’s 39th president.
Because of the New Year’s holiday, the eight-day plan that organizers created will not begin until this weekend, The New York Times reported. Carter will be brought to Atlanta by motorcade from his hometown of Plains, Georgia, and lie in repose on Saturday and Sunday at the Carter Center, which was the home of his post-presidential humanitarian work.
Carter’s body will then be flown on Tuesday to Washington, where he will lie in state at the Capitol on the Lincoln catafalque in the Rotunda, according to The Associated Press.
Special Air Mission 39 arrives at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, at 12:45 p.m. ET, where Carter’s remains will be transferred to a hearse, according to the news organization. Carter and his family …