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		You were in the city of Miami at that time, and I can tell you that the city of Miami became a battleground of gangster Maria Litos killing one another for months after Mr. Carter allowed that particular catastrophe to go on.
		So for those that want to believe that Jimmy Carter was a great man and a great president, I will conclude that he was not a bad man, but he was a terrible president.
		I won't even go into the hostage scenario.
		Part of the problem regarding the helicopters was due in part to the fact that Jimmy Carter did not give to the military all of the things that they needed in order to maintain a strong country.
		That's all I wanted to say, and thank you very much.
tammy thueringer ▲ ● ▼		That was Nelson in Florida.
		Luciano, also in Florida from Miami.
		Good morning, Luciano.
unidentified		Yes, good morning.
		First, I disagree 100% with what this guy says about the Cuban refugee from Mariel.
		I come to the United States in 1980, thanks to President Jimmy Caro, that opened the door of the United States to people like me.
		125,000 Cubans come to America, and less than 5% of this refugee were really troubled people, people that have some problem with the law here in the USA.
		But basically, the crime in Miami in the 70s and the 80s was because the big part of the Cuban-American community that were involved in the drugs, illegal drugs traffic, is the Colombian cartel.
		1987, I had a reporter, I had a new reporter, retired new reporter, and in 1987, I had the opportunity to visit the Carter Center and personally say thank you to President Carter and his wife Rosalind for the opportunity that he gave me and 120,000 Cubans to live in freedom and contribute to this great,
		great, great country.
		And forever, I don't have a word to say thank you to President Carter for the opportunity that the United States gave to my life.
		Thank you very much and resting please, President Carter.
tammy thueringer ▲ ● ▼		That was Luciano in Florida sharing his memory of meeting President Carter and what he did for him as a immigrant from Cuba.
		President Carter passed away on last Sunday at the age of 100.
		It was back in 1995.
		He was on C-SPAN.
		He sat down for an interview talking about his book, Always a Reckoning, and other poems.
		During that interview, he was asked about the plans for his eventual funeral.
		is a portion from that interview.
unidentified		You have a, I'm trying to find it here, a poem in here about, I'm probably too far in this, in the book, but it's a, it's a, I'll get you started on talking about it.
		It's a poem about the end of your life and a bunch of professors.
		Oh, yes, right.
		What's the point?
		There are two or three humorous poems, and that's one of them.
		Well, we were trying to analyze the impact on the Carter Center and its relationship with Emory University when I was dead.
		And we got a group of scholars at Emory to analyze how the university would treat the Carter Center after I was no longer there.
		And they couldn't bring themselves to use any sort of frank language about my being dead.
		So they finally derived the euphemism that my level of participation would be reduced.
		And did you hear them talking about this?
		No, they came out in a written report, a document to the president of the university.
		And they couldn't bring themselves to say when he passes away or when he's gone or anything like that.
		Well, at the end of the poem, you say here, I now dead have recently reduced my level of participation.
		That's it.
		That was a euphemism they used all the way through.
		Instead of saying when he's dead, they said when his level of participation is reduced.
		So just to kid them, I wrote the first version of this poem and just sent it to them as a funny thing.
		And then I decided, well, it's an interesting concept.
		I'll just make a poem on it.
brian lamb ▲ ● ▼		Well, and this sketch by your granddaughter right here, I assume, is the Carter family, who you leave standing around your gravesite.
jimmy carter ▲ ● ▼		Well, it's maybe a preacher, and with part of funeral ceremonies, you know, there are a lot of very nice things you could say pass on to the heavenly reward or gone to meet his maker or no longer with us or having passed away.
unidentified		But they couldn't, these professors couldn't even bring themselves to say that I was going to pass away or go to meet my heavenly reward or go to meet my maker.
unidentified		They just said my level of participation would be reduced.
brian lamb ▲ ● ▼		With you being a former president, do you have to think about your eventual departure more than most people would?
unidentified		Well, as a matter of fact, my wife and some of my staff do because they work out very complete funeral ceremony plans in advance.
		We've really kind of inherited what President Ford has done.
		And so there are some things that you have to decide before a president's demise, before the former president's level of participation is reduced, so that you can handle that in an orderly fashion.
		So there are a lot of plans that have to be made.
		Isn't that hard to do?
		I haven't been participating in it.
		I've let my wife be the ultimate judge on what should be done.
		And there is a professional staff associated, I think, with the Marine Corps who know the history of presidential funerals and processions and the display of the body and how much is done within the Capitol building and how much is done different places.
brian lamb ▲ ● ▼		Is your family, by the way, buried in Plains?
unidentified		Yes.
		My first ancestor buried there was born in 1798.
		And Rosen's first ancestor was born in 1787.
		And since then, almost all of us have been born and died in Plains.
tammy thueringer ▲ ● ▼		Today is the first day of several that will honor and memorialize President Jimmy Carter, the state funeral getting underway in Georgia before he makes his way to Washington, D.C.
		To give you a better idea of what we'll be seeing in just about 15 minutes or so, the Carter family is expected to arrive at the Phoebe Sumter Medical Center in Americus, Georgia at about 10.15.
		That's the building right there on your screen.
		Current and former special agents in charge from the U.S. Secret Service, Carter Protection Division, will carry President Carter's remains to the Hearst and walk alongside the Hearst as the motorcade departs from the medical center.
		The motorcade will travel to President Carter's hometown of Archery, Georgia.
		It's about a 15-minute drive and to his boyhood home for a brief pause in front of the family farm.
		That's expected to happen at about 10:50.
		That's the family farm right there on your screen.
		During that pause, the National Park Service is going to render a salute to the late president and ring the historic farm bell 39 times.
		Again, all of that is expected to happen, start happening in about the next 10 or 12 minutes.
		We're expecting to see the Carter family arrive there at the Phoebe Sumter Medical Center in Americus, Georgia.
		Back to your calls.
		Loretta, or I'm sorry, Loretta in Wilton, Connecticut.
		Good morning.
unidentified		Good morning, and thank you for having me on the line.
		Jimmy Carter was a great president.
		We've had some really great presidents.
		Ronald Reagan was very good, and the Bush family was great.
		And we have right now Joe Biden, who is a superman to handle everything he got when he came into office.
		We were blessed with these presidents.
		And I want people to think there's good and bad people in the world.
		And they're not gods, these presidents.
		They're just doing the best they can at the time they have.
		And we should be very grateful for what we've had.
		I am not looking forward to the future because when I vote, I vote for the person.
		I don't vote for a party.
		I pick out who's going to be the one to handle things the best for our country.
		I love this country.
		When I was a little girl, my grandmother asked me, Who are you?
		And I said, I'm an American Catholic, and I was very proud of where I come from, the United States of America.
		And I want people to know: let's stop putting people down and making mincemeat out of our country.
		We have the best country, and we don't want more trouble.
		Joe Biden is giving us peace and happiness, and we should be so grateful for Joe Biden and what he has done in the last four years.
		Thank you.
tammy thueringer ▲ ● ▼		That was Loretta in Connecticut.
		John in Pennsylvania.
		Good morning, John.
unidentified		Hello.
		I just wanted to remind people of a lesson-learned fact about Jimmy Carter: that he practically single-handedly eradicated a disease that caused blindness.
		There was like millions of cases, and I think it's down to 14 cases worldwide right now.
		That's all I wanted to say.
		Thank you.
tammy thueringer ▲ ● ▼		That's John in Pennsylvania.
		Edna in Chicago, Illinois.
		Good morning, Edna.
unidentified		Good morning.
		Thank you for having me on your show.
		I would like to say I have always admired President Carter.
		He went to Washington as a Christian.
		He left there as a Christian.
		There are two other people whom I very much admire.
		Mitt Romney went as a Mormon, and he still practiced his religion.
		President Biden, you see him cross his heart.
		He is still a religious man.
		Mike Johnson was the biggest disappointment in me that I had ever seen.
		He came to Washington like he was holding a Bible in his hand.
		He had only been there about six months or less when he turned into a true Trumpian.
		Good luck to him because he's going to need it.
		But I want to say, President Carter, rest in peace.
		We love you.
		Thank you.
tammy thueringer ▲ ● ▼		And it's Edna in Illinois.
		Sal in New Jersey.
		Good morning, Sal.
unidentified		Yes, good morning.
		I would just like to say, I think Jimmy Carter was a pathetic, lousy president.
		He blamed Donald Trump's election the first time on Russia Gates, on Russian involvement.
		He wrote a book entitled Palestine Peace, Non-Apartheid, which equated Israel with the Palestinians.
		He wanted to recognize Hamas.
		He met with Fidel Castro.
		He never condemned Castro and the communist system in Cuba.
		And in fact, he even praised Fidel Castro's health care system in Cuba.
		And he was a very naive man.
		He didn't know right from wrong.
		I mean, he was a good man.
		I'm not saying that he was bad.
		He was okay.
		He tried to do good, but he was very pathetically naive, and he was a lousy president.
tammy thueringer ▲ ● ▼		And Sal in New Jersey.
		Bob in Michigan.
		Good morning, Bob.
unidentified		Good morning.
		Good morning.
		You know, Jimmy Carter was a visionary.
		Much of what he espoused as his philosophy has sort of come to pass, particularly environmentally and some other areas.
		And in his attempt at trying to, you know, strike some kind of peaceful resolution in a region, the Middle East, where they've been trying to do that for 3,000 years, and nobody has had any luck with that.
		Like most visionaries, though, sometimes your vision doesn't come to pass until later on.
		And I will say that the first two years of Carter's presidency, I was working as a construction guy.
		I was a carpenter.
		And we were making great money.
		And all of a sudden, everything fell apart.
		And I'm not sure why at this point, and it lasted here for many years into Reagan's first term also.
		So I got to say, his vision was right on the money.
		He espoused a peaceable kingdom just like that painting, but was never able to really achieve it because of just human frailty.
		But we love Jimmy Carter, and I'm sorry to see him go.
tammy thueringer ▲ ● ▼		This is Bob in Michigan.
		John in Florida.
		Good morning, John.
unidentified		Good morning.
		I knew the Carters, good people.
		It's amazing that they didn't get enough coverage as far as their hopes and dreams to be fulfilled.
		And unfortunately, right now, the politics is overtaking our society with the partisanship.
		And we need to get back to our founding as far as democracy.
		Hello.
tammy thueringer ▲ ● ▼		John, how did you know the Carters?
unidentified		Well, it was where first, well, it wasn't intimate.
		I was hoping that we were going to carry it forward, but I had some issues I had to deal with.
		But anyway, with Ms. Carter, when she wrote her book on mental health, I spoke up at her kickoff for her book at Miami-Dade College.
		And I asked her a question about mental health, that we should have patient education to help anybody.
		And then there's also with Mr. Carter, with Jimmy, when he did his signing, and I gave him a ring that I had of a dolphin, and I told him that I'm also related to one of the founding families of the nation.
		So I spoke with him about that, and anyway, we had a really nice conversation and everything.
		So anyway, I just wanted to the one last thing I have to say is that we don't know our history, and that's part of the etymology for democracy.
		We have to know our history, and we don't know our history.
		So as well as we don't know about what happened, see, what we're dealing with now is an extension of the Civil War, uncivil war.
		And what we don't know is what happened at the end of the Civil War is that the Southern aristocrats, the scalawags, they didn't accept conceived defeat.
		So what they did is they got all their moles, their moles, and they put them up into the north, into all the various departments, agencies, military, finance, and they've been moles ever since.
		And that's what we got right now.
		And that's how they were able to put in the Justice Department their moles who delayed the prosecution of January 6th and kicked it down the road so they can delay, delay, delay.
		That's all I got to say.
tammy thueringer ▲ ● ▼		That was John in Florida.
		President Carter sat down with C-SPAN several times over the years for interviews talking about books and other topics.
		It was in 1999 that he was asked during one of those interviews about his views of the Office of Presidency.
		Here's his remarks.
brian lamb ▲ ● ▼		MoMA, talk about the American presidency, the office of the president.
brian lamb ▲ ● ▼		Would you change anything if you could?
unidentified		And is it as powerful as it should be?
		Well, the American Presidency is extremely powerful in the arena of foreign policy.
		For instance, when I decided to normalize diplomatic relations with China, the Constitution gave me unilateral right to do so.
		The Congress had no role to play in that decision.
		If I had wanted to send troops into battle, I could have done so, as has been done many times since I left office without consultation with or getting permission from the Congress in advance.
		So in foreign policy, the President is it.
		In domestic legislation, almost all the legislation that was passed during my four years originated in the White House.
		I can't remember a single major bill that originated in the Congress.
		The Congress expected me to present to them, this is what I want you to do about these subjects.
		And we had a very good batting average, as I said.
jimmy carter ▲ ● ▼		The thing that the President has practically no control over is the economics of the nation.
unidentified		He has an equal role to play with the Congress in taxation.
		But the Federal Reserve Board, you know, really determines the rate of inflation and the tightness of money, which results in the growth of the economy.
		Even greater than that, though, is the free enterprise system of our country.
		What the conglomerate mass of major corporations do, General Motors and IBM and so forth.
		I need not name the others.
		And the other factor over which the president has no control is the international situation.
		You know, if a war erupts or if you have a so-called Asia crisis, which we've had lately, the President of the United States has nothing to say about that.
		When Nixon was in office as president, I was governor, and we had the formation of OPEC and the oil embargo against anyone who traded with Israel.
		And we had long guest lines, and the price of oil went sky high.
		That was not Nixon's fault.
		He didn't have anything to do with it.
		So the President gets blamed for economic changes if they're bad.
		He takes credit for them if they're good.
		But for all practical purposes, I would say the president plays maybe a 10 or 15 percent role in the nation's economy.
		So foreign policy, the president is it.
		Domestic policy, 50-50.
		Economy, very little.
tammy thueringer ▲ ● ▼		The state funeral for President Jimmy Carter begins today.
		This is a live look at the Phoebe Sumter Medical Center in Americus, Georgia.
		Right now, you can see that motorcade pulling up.
		That is the Carter family.
		They are expected to be there for a few minutes before traveling to President Carter's hometown of Archery, Georgia.
		We will see shortly the family getting out of that motorcade and current and former special agents in charge from the U.S. Secret Service Carter Protection Division will be taking President Carter's remain to the hearse and walk alongside the hearse as the motorcade departs that center.
		Back to your calls while we wait for the family, the Carter family, to arrive.
		Christopher in New Jersey.
		Good morning, Christopher.
unidentified		Good morning.
		Thanks for taking my call and thank you, C-SPAN, as always, for bringing us historical significance of events like this.
		Jimmy Carter was a man who showed all young people how to indeed do public service, to do good for all humanity and to change the world for the better of society.
		I know because as an advocate for people with special needs and as someone who is fighting to make a difference, I can understand that Jimmy Carter and I both have that in common.
		And I do believe that if we can learn a great deal from Jimmy Carter's life, is to be able to go above and beyond the malaise of what's happening in the world today and that we could rise above all the darkness and divisiveness and everything else to be a world of humanity and a world of good, so that young people can show the world what good can do by serving in public places and doing public service,
		to go to places like soup kitchens or help build homes and stuff.
		And I encourage every young person to follow the example of the great Jimmy Carter to not only help overcome the crisis of confidence and the crisis of consciousness that we are seeing now in our world, but to also be a global citadel of change and justice and being able to have greater good overcome the great evil that we're seeing around the world.
		May Jimmy Carter's legacy be that of helping inspire the next generation and being a light in this very dark time that we face.
		My heart goes to Jimmy Carter's family and his friends and all of Georgia.
		And we want to say thank you, Mr. President, for showing us the way by doing public service even after you served your country with the highest distinction.
		My grandfather was a military man himself, too.
		And that's what also touched me about Jimmy Carter because he and Christopher we for your call.
tammy thueringer ▲ ● ▼		We'll leave it right there.
		We want to be able to show you some of the sights and sounds that are happening.
		That is the Carter family.
		They are arriving at the Phoebe Sumter Medical Center in Americus, Georgia.
		And we will let you take in those sights and sounds for a few minutes.
unidentified		They're all kind of behind the Phoebe Sumter sign here.
		they come.
		Looking.
		Secret service is waiting for the family to get back on the larger correct.
		The secret service is waiting for the family to get back on the motorcade correctly.
tammy thueringer ▲ ● ▼		If you are just joining us, that is the hearse carrying former President Jimmy Carter.
		It's departing the Phoebe Sumter Medical Center in Americus, Georgia.
		It is en route to Archery, Georgia, where President Carter's boyhood home is.
		It's about a 15-minute drive.
		If you were watching the event here on C-SPAN, you saw former and current members of the Secret Service who were part of President Carter's protection division load that casket into their hearse.
		Again, it is now going to be making the 15-minute drive to his boyhood home.
		They will briefly pause in front of the family farm.
		That's expected to happen at 10:50 a.m.
		During that pause, the National Park Service will render a salute to the late president and ring the historic farm bell 39 times.
		That is a live look at President Carter's boyhood home there, where the family is expected to arrive in about 15 minutes.
		We will go back to your calls and hear more of your thoughts on the life and legacy of former President Jimmy Carter.
		Annie, East Point, Michigan.
		Annie, thank you for staying with us while we were able to show our viewers what was happening.
unidentified		Good morning.
tammy thueringer ▲ ● ▼		Hi, Annie.
unidentified		Hi.
unidentified		Are you still there?
tammy thueringer ▲ ● ▼		Yep, go ahead, Annie.
unidentified		I just wanted to let everybody who's watching, please do not judge President Jimmy Carter only on the four years he was in office.
		He did a lot of miraculous things before he became president and afterward.
		One of the things he did was he assisted at the Chalk River nuclear plant in Canada in stopping a meltdown, which would have affected the United States and all of Canada, as well as Europe, depending on which way the wind's blow.
		He could only spend 90 seconds inside the tunnel to loosen one bolt, and there was a crew of men that went up to Canada to basically save us.
		And hardly anybody in the news programming said anything about this since he passed away, which is phenomenal to me because I knew this going back when I was in high school and we were talking about President Carter.
		And it just, it's just a shame that people did not do a more in-depth look at his life before and after he was president.
		I know a lot of people talked about afterwards, but you know, he did a lot of wonderful things.
		He was highly intelligent.
		He graduated from the Naval Academy.
		He was on the first second nuclear submarine, the Sea Wolf.
		I mean, it's just, I mean, he was a unique humanitarian who taught us morally all how to be better people.
		And I refuse to judge this man on the four years he was president.
		I will look at his entire life and try to emulate my life like his, because I don't see that type of moral integrity in politicians at all, but a good portion of them today.
		We need to get back to integrity and character, morals, ethics, principle, and values again.
		And that's all I want to say.
tammy thueringer ▲ ● ▼		That was Annie in Michigan.
		We will be live here on Washington Journal for about another 25 minutes or so as we remember President Jimmy Carter, his state funeral services beginning today in Georgia.
		And we will continue to show you events as they happen.
		If you would like to comment on President Carter's life and legacy, you can call in the lines if you are in the Eastern or Central time zone: 202-748-8000, Mountain or Pacific, 202-748-8001.
		Bernie in Benton City, Washington.
		Good morning, Bernie.
unidentified		Good morning.
unidentified		Good morning.
tammy thueringer ▲ ● ▼		Hi, Bernie.
unidentified		Hi.
		I just wanted to say a little bit about the president, former President Carter.
		I'm an American Indian from Fort Belnap, Montana, born in Grovont, what they call white people.
		We called ourselves people of the white clay.
		In 1976, President Carter signed into law American Indian Religious Freedom Act, allowing American Indians across the nation to practice their religions again.
		It was banned in the 1880s by the federal government.
		So I just wanted to thank for allowing the American Indian people again their freedom of religion, which is this country's foundation.
		I just wanted to thank him and appreciate everything he did for the people of all color, four nations, black, red, yellow, white.
		And Mitakuyasi, that means we're all related.
		Thank you, President Carter.
tammy thueringer ▲ ● ▼		A whole that was Bernie in Washington State.
		Michael in New York.
		Good morning, Michael.
unidentified		Good morning, Harry Dan.
tammy thueringer ▲ ● ▼		Doing well, Michael.
unidentified		I grew up in President Carter time as a young child, and I think that people should a lot of people in the United States should really see President Carter as if we had all the leaders in the world like President Carter.
		To me, we would not have been a situation leading the war.
		We don't have lots of revolution.
		We don't have all this fighting back and forth.
		I just understand that President Carter did a lot for the world, not only for America, because America, the world is full of we America, go.
		And wherever America goes to Wargo.
		So people should understand that this man did a lot and they should always talk President Carter.
		Wish all the presidents who come up to President Carter should do that way.
		That's all I have to say.
tammy thueringer ▲ ● ▼		Michael in New York.
		Jan in Columbus, Ohio.
		Good morning, Jan.
unidentified		Hi.
		I'd like to thank President Carter for his dignity that he showed in any debate with Gerald Ford.
		He always called him his distinguished opponent, and he always did wonderful things about not disparaging anybody's character.
		And I think that would be a wonderful thing for all of us to emulate.
		He called what we have now a theocracy, not a democracy, where everybody's divided.
		And I'd like to get back to the non-divided.
		Thank you.
tammy thueringer ▲ ● ▼		That was Jan in Columbus, Ohio.
		This is a live look at Archery, Georgia, where it's President Carter's hometown, where his boyhood home is.
		His family is expected to arrive at that location in about 10 minutes.
		During that stop, the National Park Service will render a salute to the late president.
		They'll ring a historic farm bell 39 times in his honor.
		Judy in South Beach, Oregon.
		Good morning, Judy.
unidentified		I just want to say Jimmy Carter was the first president I voted for.
		I'm proud to say that.
		He was what decency looks like.
		He spent his whole life.
		He spent his whole life doing good things.
		He didn't, everything he did was out of the love of people, of all different types of people.
		Just really proud to say I voted for him and I followed him.
		And I just, I can't think of anything bad to say about him.
		Thank you, Jimmy Carter.
		Thank you.
tammy thueringer ▲ ● ▼		That was Judy in Oregon.
		It was in 2008 that President Carter spoke about his hopes for the future at a commencement address at Liberty University.
		It's one of his last appearances on the network.
		Here's a portion of his remarks.
unidentified		When I became president and before I was inaugurated, when I was elected, I was given a brief by the military leaders of our country.
		And I learned really for the first time that if I permitted a nuclear war, the use of atomic weapons,
		that the arsenals of the Soviet Union and the United States alone, if they were used in that kind of war, might would end the ability of all human beings and animals to survive because of the direct explosions,
		the atomic fallout, and the covering of the skies by dark clouds of smoke and debris from the nuclear devices.
		No human being and no animals could survive a nuclear war.
		We now still have a great responsibility and threat.
		And we have to share it with seven or eight other countries, which you know Russia, China, Great Britain, France, England, Israel, Pakistan, and India.
		And maybe, we don't know for sure, North Korea.
		With this threat to human existence, what then can you and I do about it?
		For a long time, humans had to contend with animals, and we depended on our just for survival.
		And we depended on our speed, our agility, our strength to survive in competition with animals.
		We know that for several generations now, human intelligence and the weapons that we have developed will permit us to prevail over other animals.
		So, what is that left to do?
		How can we prevail?
		How can we, as human beings?
		One of the things we have to learn is how to get along, to do good for one another, and to get along with our potential enemies instead of how we can prevail in combat.
		In other words, just follow the mandates of the Prince of Peace, just learning how to live even with our enemies in peace is what Jesus taught.
		And that will be our only sense for survival in the future.
tammy thueringer ▲ ● ▼		This is a live look at President Carter's boyhood home in the town of Archery, Georgia.
		You can see National Park Service workers have gathered there.
		The family of President Carter is expected to arrive in just about five or six minutes.
		There will be a brief pause in front of the family's farm, and they will render a salute to the late president and ring the historic farm bell 39 times.
		After the pause, the late president will begin his final journey to Atlanta.
		President Carter's hearse will stop at the Georgia State Capitol later today for a moment of silence and then be transported to the Carter Presidential Center for an arrival ceremony and service.
		President Carter will lie in repose at the Carter Center for mourners to pay their respects Sunday night until Tuesday.
		He will then depart the Presidential Center on Tuesday for Washington, where he will lie in state at the Capitol Rotunda Tuesday night through Thursday morning.
		Thursday morning, the national funeral service will be held at the Washington Cathedral.
		After that, President Carter will head back to Georgia aboard Special Air Mission 39 to Plains, Georgia for a private funeral service and internment at the Carter residence.
		We will continue to show you these live pictures this morning and taking your calls until we see the Carter family arrive.
		Up next, Jason, San Diego, California.
		Good morning, Jason.
unidentified		Good morning.
		I would like to say there is a slight contrast between President-elect and President Jimmy Carter.
		There's one thing that I realize that they have in common.
		They both have in common with that.
		They both were one-term president.
		One-term president.
		And I look at that as a good and evil.
		That's all I need to say.
		And thank you.
tammy thueringer ▲ ● ▼		It's Jason in California.
		Jim in Parsons, West Virginia.
		Good morning, Jim.
unidentified		Good morning, C-SPAN.
		Yeah, I had a lot of different reflections and listened to people, their opinions and views.
		And to me, it's a reflection more of truth and reality when people look back accurately at real history.
		I think there's too much of a political tendency from the right to blame, blame, blame, and dig and pick and be sarcastic and cynical.
tax slave in pennsylvania ▲ ● ▼		And you could tell that every time you watch Fox News, Jimmy Carter did a lot of things.
unidentified		He was, as they say, way ahead of his time, with the solar panels on the White House roof and stuff like that.
		You know, he was looking forward and saying we can't be dependent on old dirty energy forever.
		But people didn't want to listen.
		You know, and I'm just saying this.
tax slave in pennsylvania ▲ ● ▼		If we look at, for example, President Trump and things that happened while he was president, you know, a lot of not great things.
unidentified		There was that big mass shooting in Las Vegas at that concert where lots of people died and the COVID pandemic hit.
		And he didn't do such brilliant negotiation on trade with his tariffs he slapped on China.
		The USMCA cut off supplies of building materials and agriculture coming from Canada.
		So I'm saying to Republicans, look at your own people, your own leaders, and what they do or don't do and things that just don't work out great and be as quick to criticize them as you are, you know, a good, decent Democrat like Jimmy Carter, who was always trying in a bipartisan way, and he respected the military.
		He was part of the military.
		People need to remember that, you know, to consider all of humanity, all of mankind, and everybody else's point of view, and to come to some good compromises to have a peaceful, decent future.
tammy thueringer ▲ ● ▼		That was Jim in West Virginia.
		You can see there on your screen, the motorcade is traveling to President Carter's hometown of Archery, Georgia, to his boyhood farm.
		They are arriving.
		They should be arriving just momentarily.
		It was at about 10.15, the Carter family and that motorcade departed the Phoebe Sumter Medical Center in Americus, Georgia.
		We'll hear from Norman in Pennsylvania.
		Good morning, Norman.
unidentified		Yes, good morning, C-SPAN in the U.S.
		I think a lot of people miss the fact that Jimmy Carter, I mean, well, a lot of people know that he was probably one of the most honest, decent people that ever filled the White House.
		But a lot of people don't realize that he was a one-term president because there were people in Washington on both sides that really didn't want a guy that was going to come in and do everything he could for capital letters F-O-R, for the people, rather than just, you know, taking bribes and lobby money from lobbyists.
		If Jimmy Carter had become a second-term president, we, you know, he would have ended the gravy train for a lot of the people in Washington.
		And he was a good, decent, honest person.
		And you look at his whole entire life, and there's nothing nefarious about it.
		He just did everything he could to help the people.
		And big money didn't want that on either side.
		When we had the gas shortage, and I live in Pennsylvania, at the time when we had the gas shortage and people were waiting in lines, there were nine oil tankers sitting in the Delaware Bay waiting to refine their oil, and they weren't allowed to do it.
		And that same thing happened in Louisiana and Oklahoma and Texas.
		They didn't want a good man in there.
		And it's just a shame.
		And we have gone so far from that example in today's world.
		So, well, he was a good man.
		Thank you.
tammy thueringer ▲ ● ▼		That was Norman in Pennsylvania.
		Jim in Ohio.
		Good morning, Jim.
unidentified		Oh, good morning.
		Well, I was a science teacher for 30 years, and everybody might forget, or a lot of people, that Jimmy Carter was a nuclear engineer.
		I think you'll have to go back pretty far in the history of our country to find any kind of president with credentials of that nature and what that means in terms of their innate intelligence.
		And the story that the man just related about the oil tankers sitting out there, assuming that that's correct, sounds a little like how the hostages just happened to get released, what, five minutes after I believe Ronald Reagan was installed as president.
		So I just went when I wanted to get down there a number of times to meet Jimmy Carter, but you know what?
		I put it off a few years too long, I'm afraid.
		And I did order a nice 8x10 to hang in my house to remember him.
tammy thueringer ▲ ● ▼		That was Jim in Ohio.
		Christopher in Michigan.
		Good morning, Christopher.
unidentified		Good morning.
		Thank you all for C-SPAM and all that you all do.
		Such a beautiful host.
		It's great to watch, but I just have to say I am thankful, very thankful for President Jimmy Carter.
		I was in middle school when he was elected, so I wasn't able to vote for him.
		But such a decent, God-fearing, loving man.
		Roslyn Carter and his family.
		Boy, I wish we had that kind of decency upcoming in the White House.
		God bless.
		Thank you all.
		Have a good time.
tammy thueringer ▲ ● ▼		That was Christopher in Michigan.
		You can see on your screen, this is the motorcade arriving.
		It's carrying the Carter family.
		And also, part of that motorcade is carrying former President Jimmy Carter.
		They had left the Phoebe Sumpner Medical Center in Americus, Georgia, and should be arriving at President Carter's boyhood farm in Archery, Georgia.
		We should see them there on the screen in just a few minutes.
		You could see earlier it was a group of National Park Service workers who had gathered to greet the family.
		Here you can see the motorcade coming down the road.
		Now, that motorcade will stop, and there will be a salute to the late president.
		They are going to ring a historic bell at the farm 39 times in honor of the 39th president.
		We'll let you take a listen to the sights and sounds we're seeing right now.
unidentified		Present arms.
tammy thueringer ▲ ● ▼		This is a live look at Jimmy Carter's motorcade for his state funeral services that started today in Georgia.
tammy thueringer ▲ ● ▼		They are leaving President Carter's boyhood home, Archery, Georgia, his boyhood farm, where they paused for a 39-bell salute to the former president.

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