Jimmy Carter funeral: Former U.S. president honoured in Washington [Video]

WASHINGTON –

Jimmy Carter was celebrated Thursday for his personal humility and public service before, during and after his presidency in a funeral at Washington National Cathedral featuring the kind of pageantry the 39th U.S. president typically eschewed. It was followed by an intimate hometown funeral near where he was born a century ago.

All of Carter’s living successors attended in Washington, with President Joe Biden, who was the first sitting senator to endorse his 1976 run for the White House, eulogizing his longtime friend. Biden and others took turns in the morning praising Carter’s record — which many historians have appraised more favourably since he lost his bid for a second term in 1980 — and extolling his character.

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The dual ceremonies in Washington and Plains, Georgia, provided a moment of national comity in a …