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Jimmy Carter, who considered himself an outsider even as he sat in the Oval Office as the聽, 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.

President Joe Biden, who was聽聽to endorse Carter鈥檚 1976 campaign, will eulogize his fellow Democrat 11 days before he leaves office. All of Carter鈥檚 living successors are expected to attend the Washington funeral, including President-elect Donald Trump, who聽聽before Carter鈥檚 casket Wednesday in the Capitol Rotunda.

The rare gathering of commanders in chief offers an unusual moment of comity for the nation in a factionalized, hyper-partisan era. Days of formal ceremonies and remembrances from political leaders, business titans and rank-and-file citizens have honored Carter, who聽聽at the age of 100, for decency and using a prodigious work ethic to聽.

“He set a very high bar for presidents, how you can use voice and leadership for causes,” said Bill Gates, the Microsoft co-founder 聽to eliminate treatable diseases like the Guinea worm. Gates spoke to The Associated Press on Wednesday shortly before flying to Washington for the funeral.

“Whatever prestige and resources you are lucky enough to have, ideally you can take those and take a even broader societal view in your post private sector career,” Gates said.

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Bernice King, daughter of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., compared the two Georgians and Nobel Peace Prize winners.

“Both President Jimmy Carter and my father showed us what is possible when your faith compels you to live and lead from a love-centered place,” said King, who also is planning to attend the Washington service.

At the cathedral, Ted Mondale, son of Walter Mondale, Carter鈥檚 vice president, is expected to read a eulogy his father wrote for Carter before his own death in 2021. Steve Ford, the grandson of President Gerald Ford, will read a tribute from his grandfather, who died in 2006. Carter defeated Ford in 1976 but the pair, and their first ladies, became close friends, and Carter eulogized Ford at his funeral.

Mourners also will hear from Stu Eizenstat, who was a top White House staffer for Carter, and 92-year-old Andrew Young, a former Atlanta mayor, congressman and U.N. ambassador during the Carter administration. Carter outlived much of his Cabinet and inner circle, but remained especially close to Young 鈥� a friendship that brought together a white Georgian and Black Georgian who grew up in the era of Jim Crow segregation.

罢丑耻谤蝉诲补测听聽that began in Plains, Georgia, where Carter was born in 1924, lived most of his life and died after 22 months in聽. Ceremonies continued in Atlanta and Washington, where Carter, a former Naval officer, engineer and peanut farmer, has lain in state since Tuesday.

Long lines of mourners waited several hours in frigid temperatures to file past his flag-draped casket in the rotunda, as tributes focused as much on Carter鈥檚 humanitarian work after leaving the White House as what he did as president from 1977 to 1981.

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After the morning service in Washington, Carter鈥檚 remains, his four children and extended family will return to Georgia on a Boeing 747 that serves as Air Force One when the sitting president is aboard.

罢丑别听, who campaigned as a born-again Christian, will then be remembered in an afternoon funeral at Maranatha Baptist Church, the small edifice where he taught Sunday School for decades after leaving the White House and where his casket will sit beneath a wooden cross he fashioned in his own woodshop.

Music 鈥� sacred, patriotic and popular 鈥� will feature prominently throughout the day for the evangelical president who campaigned with the Allman Brothers Band, befriended Willie Nelson and quoted Bob Dylan in his 1977 inaugural address. In Washington, the U.S. Marine Orchestra and Armed Forces Chorus will sing 鈥淓ternal Father, Strong to Save,鈥� the Navy hymn, for the only U.S. Naval Academy graduate to become commander in chief. Country music stars Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood, who succeeded Jimmy and聽 as ambassadors for Habitat for Humanity, will perform John Lennon鈥檚 “Imagine,” reprising their role at the former first lady鈥檚 funeral in 2023.

Hymns include “All Hail the Power of Jesus鈥� Name” and, in Plains, “Let there be Peace on Earth.”

Following a final ride through his hometown, past the old train depot that served as his 1976 presidential campaign headquarters, he will be buried on family land in a plot next to Rosalynn, to whom Carter was married for more than 77 years of marriage.

Carter, who won the presidency promising good government and honest talk for an electorate disillusioned by the Vietnam War and Watergate, signed significant legislation and negotiated a landmark peace agreement between Israel and Egypt. But Carter also presided over inflation, rising interest rates and international crises and lost a landslide to Republican Ronald Reagan in 1980.

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Two years later he and Rosalynn established The Carter Center in Atlanta as a nongovernmental organization that took them across the world fighting disease, mediating conflict, monitoring elections and advocating for racial and gender equity. The center, where Carter lay in repose before coming to Washington, currently has 3,000 employees and contractors globally.

Besides memorializing the longest-lived president, the day of national mourning highlights both the continuity and conflicts across U.S administrations. Carter normalized relations with China, building on Richard Nixon鈥檚 outreach to Beijing. Trump is proposing to ratchet up a trade war with the world鈥檚 most populous country. The Department of Education was created during Carter鈥檚 administration. Trump has proposed eliminating it.

Carter streamlined American energy research by creating the Department of Energy, implemented energy standards for home appliances and extended federal protections to substantial tracts of land, notably in Alaska. Trump is returning to office promising to “drill, baby, drill.”

The order of ceremony for Carter鈥檚 state funeral

This was the order of ceremony for Carter鈥檚 service, according to the White House.

• Joshua Carter reads the First Lesson (Romans 8:1-18, 38-39)
• Steven Ford delivers remarks
• Ted Mondale delivers remarks
• The Armed Forces Chorus, the U.S. Marine Chamber Orchestra, and the Cathedral Choir perform 鈥淓ternal Father, Strong to Save.鈥�
• Stuart Eizenstat delivers remarks
• Jason Carter delivers remarks
• Phyllis Adams and Leila Bolden perform “Song Rise to Thee.”
• The U.S. Marine Orchestra performs “Amazing The President”
• James Carter delivers the Gospel reading (Matthew 5:1-16)
• Reverend Andrew Young delivers the homily
• Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood perform “Imagine.”
• The Lord鈥檚 Prayer
• The Right Reverend Mariann Edgar Budde and Reverend Anthony Lowden deliver The Prayers
• The Most Reverend Sean Rowe, The Right Reverend Mariann Edgar Budde, and The Very Reverend Randolph Marshall Hollerith deliver
  the Commendation
• The Most Reverend Sean Rowe delivers the Blessing
• The Very Reverend Randolph Marshall Hollerith delivers the Dismissal
• Dismissal song “All Hail the Power of Jesus鈥� Name.”

Posthumous Ford eulogy notes Palestine and “ruffled feathers” in Washington

Steven Ford, son of Gerald Ford, noted Carter and his 1976 rival aligned in pushing the U.S. foreign policy establishment to take action on Israel and Palestine 鈥� a reference to the longtime U.S. policy advocating a “two-state solution” in the region.

Carter sometimes rankled his successors and the U.S. foreign policy establishment with his emphasis on the rights of Palestinians.

Nearly a half-century later, Israel remains at war with Hamas in Gaza.

Those close to Carter have said that the president, in his final months, was often agitated and bothered watching news coverage of the conflict in the region where he had brokered the Camp David Accords between Egypt and Israel.

Ford鈥檚 letter also mentioned Rosalynn, whom he referenced as a “true citizen of the world” who was a friend to his wife, Betty, and entire family.

World leaders attend Carter鈥檚 funeral

In addition to U.S. political leaders, there are also a number of foreign dignitaries in attendance, including Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau — who recently announced his resignation — Prince Edward, the Duke of Edinburgh, and United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres.

Seated together, Prince William and Trudeau were seen speaking at length as they awaited the start of the service.

Associated Press writers Michael Liedtke in Indian Wells, California, and Kate Brumback in Atlanta contributed to this report