Same day as the state funeral – that makes sense. USA Today doesn’t really specify.
Washington is going to be busy the next several weeks; January 1 is of course a holiday, followed by the counting of electoral college votes on January 6, the state funeral on January 9, MLK Day on January 15 and then Inauguration Day on January 20.
No attempted insurrections planned at the Capitol, fortunately. This time.
That we know of…
Any resurrections?
Just a correction, that was 2024, in 2025 it falls on the same day as the Inauguration January 20th.
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ETA: Being new year’s eve I changed it to show the years rather than last year and next year since that meaning will change in a few hours
Thanks for the correction. So slightly less complicated than I thought.
Jimmy certainty beat the odds by living to a 100.
Several close family members died in middle age from cancer. It seems unusual that it was pancreatic cancer. I didn’t realize the same kind of cancer could run through a family.
From Billy Carter Wikipedia
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We’re not talking about Reagan.
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Moderating:
No, keep this thread on Carter please.
Well, he and Thor both used a hammer a great deal…
We were all geared up in 2020 to enter the Habitat Care-A-Vanners program, which is basically a bunch of RV folks showing up at a construction site and contributing to the building of a home. We were really looking forward to it, and had a project assigned in Taos. Then Covid shut the whole program down and we never got to go. By the time things got rolling again, we had moved and sold our RV.
Reagan and Mondale was even more of a landslide. Only Minnesota, Mondale’s state, won.
BTW, Mondale was Carter’s vice president, and he selected a woman, Geraldine Ferraro, as his running mate. When McCain picked Sarah Palin to be his veep candidate, I was shocked and honestly a bit horrified at how few people didn’t know that she was NOT the first woman on a major party ticket. Shortly before this, Ms. Ferraro had made a little blip in the news because she said she was taking thalidomide for multiple myeloma, the disease that killed her a few years later.
FWIW, solar cells are thousands of times more efficient now than they were in the 1970s.
My first presidential election was 1984, and my staunchly Republican parents were horrified that they had raised a Democrat, when they found out I had attended a local Mondale rally. Make that two Democrats now, and one who probably votes third party on purpose so he won’t pick the winner (my sister and brother, respectively).
My understanding is that what Carter put on the roof of the White House wasn’t photovoltaic solar cells but instead panels to heat water. I don’t think that technology has advanced much in the decades since.
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The notion is that by having any solar tech on the roof of the white house, you’re insulting your donors in the petroleum and ethanol (corn) industry.
Trump will have them removed (oddly nothing about him doing so the first time around) and perhaps replace them with “clean coal” water heaters, Solar power and windmills are the cause of global warming as everyone knows.
Moderating:
This thread is not about Trump.
I’ll hide your inappropriate post.
Keep this thread about Carter.
In January 1980 I enlisted and shipped off to boot camp. I ended up serving 14 years, and Carter was the first of four Presidents I served under (Carter, Reagan, Bush senior, Clinton). Later in 1980 was the first election I ever voted in: Carter vs Reagan vs John B. Anderson. That was the second consecutive election in which an incumbent president was defeated: Carter had defeated Ford in 1976.
After the Nixon and Agnew debacles of 1973 and 1974, both Ford and Carter were refreshing leaders with integrity and moral backbone. It’s been 50 years (not quite to the day) and I still remember being a young paper boy and delivering this issue of the Hartford Courant. It was by far the largest headlines my young eyes had ever seen to that point.
Jimmy and Rosalynn came at a time when our nation needed them most. Let’s hope that his legacy of decency is an example to all future leaders to come.
I was in basic training in 1974. The only television we got to see was when the Commander in Chief resigned.
This is an interesting story told by the Secret Service agent Jerry Parr who famously shielded Reagan from the Hinckley gun shot.
In a way it sums up the misfortune of Carter’s presidency and the strength of Carter as a man at the same time.
