Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of the United States, will be eulogized at a state funeral Thursday at the National Cathedral and later by private family services and interment in Plains, Georgia.

HAIL AND FAREWELL — For a fleeting moment today, official Washington’s muscle memory will override its fast-twitch, knee-jerk partisanship as a distinctly American tableau plays out for former President JIMMY CARTER’s funeral.

After Carter's death on Dec. 29, President Joe Biden declared Jan. 9 as a national day of mourning, closing all executive departments and agencies of the federal government on the same day. Biden also ordered U.