Biden lets slip that he will deliver Jimmy Carter’s eulogy
Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy President Joe Biden let slip on Monday evening that former president Jimmy Carter asked him to deliver his eulogy, as the 39th president makes his end-of-life plans. Mr Carter announced recently that he would forego health treatment and instead enter hospice care rather than seek medical intevention after he had been hospitalised on multiple occasions. In 1976, Mr Biden endorsed the former governor of Georgia in his longshot presidential campaign in which Mr Carter beat incumbent president Gerald Ford. Mr Biden has eulogised numerous political luminaries from his 36 years as a Senator from Delaware and his eight years as president, including former Edward Kennedy, Mr Carter’s chief rival in the 1980 Democratic presidential primary; and the late Senator John McCain, with whom he served in the Senate and against whom he ran in 2008 when he served as Barack Obama’s running -mate.
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