We know that U.S. vice presidents are often the objects of humorous jabs for their secondary role in the executive branch or their public mishaps.
The political establishment turned out in force for Thursday's ceremony, with former vice presidents Mike Pence, Al Gore and Dan Quayle chatting amiably as the elite leaders group was seated nearby.
For context, in 2016, then-Vice President Biden and his wife Jill hosted the Pences at their Northwest Washington residence shortly after the election. Harris postponed moving into the Naval Observatory residence until April 2021—approximately three months after her inauguration—because the property required repairs.
Nixon would have to wait eight years to be sworn in as president, while his losing Democratic opponent — outgoing Vice President Hubert Humphrey — looked on. He was inaugurated a second time after winning reelection in 1972, only to resign after the Watergate scandal.
“President Jimmy Carter loved our country,” Harris wrote in her post. “He lived his faith, served the people, and left the world better than he found it.” The potential snub of Trump drew immediate backlash on social media.
A year ago, a survey of presidential scholars put him in the top third of chief executives while Trump ranked last. But that was before the 2024 election and campaign.
Donald Trump returns to Washington, and the people he’s bringing with him don’t offer much assurance that, this time, there will be people around to tell him “no.”
With integrity. With character. As charming as the recollections offered by Carter’s two grandsons were, the most moving eulogy came from a one-time bitter rival of the former president. Carter, a Democrat, and Gerald Ford, a Republican, jousted in the 1976 presidential election, neither man giving nor asking for quarter in the contest.
Former President Jimmy Carter's funeral services were held at the National Cathedral, attended by former presidents and dignitaries.
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