Americans are paying respects this week to former President Jimmy Carter, who died last month at age 100.

Carter, the longest-living U.S. president, has been honored this week with memorial ceremonies in Georgia and the U.S. Capitol. He will be buried Thursday in his hometown of Plains, Georgia, after an official state funeral at the Washington National Cathedral.

PBS News special correspondent Judy Woodruff has covered the former president and his family since the 1970s, when Woodruff was a reporter covering politics in Carter’s home state of Georgia.

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In a eulogy for former first lady Rosalynn Carter, who died in November 2023 at the age of 96, Woodruff recalled covering the Carters as a young couple, and spoke of the former first lady’s work ethic.

“She did so much, worked so hard throughout her entire life, at the White House and in the many years before and since, championing the rights of the underserved, coming to the aid of the most vulnerable, doing whatever she could to improve the lives of others: So she wouldn’t have regrets that she hadn’t done everything in her power to do,” Woodruff said.

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When Woodruff sat down with the Carters in 2021, as they celebrated 75 years of marriage, she asked Carter what he was most proud of during his time as president.

“Well, we’re very proud of having been elected and having served as president. That’s the epitome of our lives, I think, in totality. And I would say that we did what we pledged to do in the campaign. We kept the peace, and we obeyed the law, and we told the truth, and we honored human rights. Those were things that were important to me,” Carter said.

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