Biden lauds former President Jimmy Carter's decency and character in remarks
President Joe Biden mourned the death of former President Jimmy Carter in an address to the the nation Sunday night from St. Croix.
President Joe Biden mourned the death of former President Jimmy Carter in an address to the nation Sunday night from St. Croix, where he is spending his final New Year’s as president.
Carter died Sunday at age 100, months after he became the first U.S. president to reach the milestone. He had been in hospice care at his home in Plains, Georgia, since February 2023.
Biden called Carter “a statesman and humanitarian” and said he and his wife, first lady Jill Biden, had lost “a dear friend.”
Biden, who said he was the first national figure to endorse Carter when he ran for president in 1976, lauded the former president’s character. Biden said his memories of Carter boiled down to “decency, decency, decency” and Carter's belief that everybody “deserved a shot.”
“Can you imagine Jimmy Carter walking by someone who needs something and just keep walking? Can you imagine referring to someone by the way they look or the way they talk? I can’t,” Biden said.
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