The nation paused to honor Jimmy Carter for his service as a naval officer, governor and president, and his four decades of humanitarian work after leaving the White House.

SAYING GOODBYE — “Character, character, character,” President JOE BIDEN said today in summing up former President JIMMY CARTER’s legacy on the national and international stage. That was the theme of the day at the state funeral for America’s 39th president,

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter was honored with the pageantry of a funeral in the nation’s capital before a second service in his tiny Georgia hometown that launched a Depression-era farm boy to t