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By Caroline Linton
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Former President Jimmy Carter‘s casket arrived at the U.S. Capitol Tuesday afternoon for a military tribute and to lie in state in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda.
The streets of Washington, D.C., with the ground covered in snow from a recent storm, were quiet as his casket passed.
Members of Congress, Vice President Kamala Harris, Cabinet members and Carter’s family members are paying their respects during a service in the Rotunda.
The state funeral is set for Thursday. President Biden will be delivering a eulogy at Thursday’s service, along with several others. President-elect Donald Trump said he will attend.
Carter had been lying in repose in Atlanta, as part of six days of observances that began Saturday with a service at his boyhood home in Plains, Georgia. The Carter Center said Tuesday morning that more than 23,000 people came to pay their respects to the former president.
“This is somebody from a small town in south Georgia who was a peanut farmer who ultimately became the president of the United States,” said Carter’s grandson, Jason Carter, at the Plains service on Saturday. “It’s a pretty remarkable American story.”
Carter, the 39th president, died on Dec. 29 at the age of 100 — living longer than any president in U.S. history. His beloved wife of 77 years, Rosalynn, died in November 2023.
On Tuesday, Carter’s body was flown Atlanta to Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, where his casket was transferred with ceremony to a hearse. From there, a motorcade traveled to the U.S. Navy Memorial, where his casket was transferred from a hearse to a horse-drawn caisson with ceremony.
Carter will lie in state in the Capitol Rotunda until Thursday, and members of the public will be able to pay their respects. His funeral service Thursday will be held at the National Cathedral before his remains are flown back to Georgia.
There will be a final private service in Plains, and Carter will be buried next to Rosalynn Carter at his family’s peanut farm.
Caroline Linton is an associate managing editor on the political team for CBSNews.com. She has previously written for The Daily Beast, Newsweek and amNewYork.
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